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Moody’s is Hamas

“do you know that if everyone was Christian, there would be no more war?”

What a creepy fucking thing to say. Straight up blaming everyone else for the violence inflicted upon them by Christians.

I think you are trying too hard to conflate the colonial/genocidal mindset with monotheism when the evidence doesn’t really support it. Was Ancient Rome not colonial and genocidal? Greece? Egypt? They also had slaves. They conquered everyone they could. The exterminated whole swaths of peoples. They didn’t need monotheism to do that. You could argue that the legacy of those polytheistic societies (specifically Egypt for the ancient Jews, Rome for Christians) laid the groundwork for the same genocidal/colonial mindset. But the main point is that the colonial and genocidal mindset is easier to understand from a class/material analysis than one tied to any specific theology. The monotheist theologies were used as a tool to organize and mobilize populations because that was the easiest tool to grab and it was couched in a language that the populations already spoke, but polytheists and other non-monotheists are just as capable of using their theological tools to do the same. For a more modern example, see for example the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist sides over Sri Lanka. Neither are abrahamic monotheisms, yet the colonial and genocidal tendency and forces are still at work.

I mean, you just did it again. Wasn’t Simon De Montfort a Christian Crusader who persecuted the Jews? You are taking an antisemitic interpretation of “choseness” applied in a Christian framework that was then used to persecute Jews with a “they started it” argument. Which is exactly what the PEZ and MK did when they framed choseness. Rabbinic Judiasm (which is Judaism following the Roman conquest) deems “choseness” to be chosen NOT to control other populations. The Noahite laws, which apply to everyone whether Jewish or not (in the Jewish religion), specifically command the non Jews to create fair governments that the Jews could live under as 1 of 7 requirements. The Jews are “chosen” to follow the more stringent 613 commandments, which include following the laws of the just governments of non-Jews. Just saying that it creates categories of people is not unique to monotheism (or religion - see “America First”). And I don’t think it tracks that creating groups in any context necessarily leads to genocidal intent and practice.

I think you need to be careful with throwing around “choseness” in this way because this is the exact perversion of the Jewish concept of choseness set forth in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf. I’m not trying to let Judaism off the hook for its genuine reactionary and regressive components (particularly with respect to women and non-normative sexuality), but it really muddies the waters when you overlay it with full-throated anti-Jewish projection onto Judaism.

I do, but the culprit is the Christian religion, which is what Zionism is. The fact that they recruited Jewish foot soldiers for their crusades doesn’t give the excuse to parrot Protocols of the Elders of Zion characterizations of the Jewish religion devoid of 2,000 years of historical context. It’s also the reason that the American public supports the genocide, because American culture has been dominated by Christian crusaders whose theology is based on genocidal settler colonialism ever since the so-called Pilgrims (who were themselves Zionists) landed in Massachusetts.

Are you saying that Judaism is an inherently genocidal religion/culture?

An old teacher of mine posted something today along the lines of “Germans who chose to sit out the 1932 election didn’t get a chance to vote again until 1946” and I wanted to scream “you mean the election where they voted for the ‘lesser-evil’ Hindenburg and Hitler was soundly defeated but then Hindenburg just appointed hitler to take over anyway???”

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should have bought them from Mr. Burns if they wanted them to work

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I hate to say “it depends” but it sort of does on how you are defining it. Like, what do you consider what the US did to, say, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, etc? I think you could make the case that at least some, if not all of those, were genocides post-WWII but the US still survives (as does SK). On a long enough timeline, it may be true, but also defeats the meaning of the statement. I just don’t think it is a true description of objective reality unfortunately. It relies on a large enough resistance to the genocide to force the existential crisis of the state, which is not necessarily a given. You could argue that, in the case of Is***l, it does not have the defensive depth or bredth to survive this attempt in the face of its resistance, but that also discounts the role that the US and Western European powers play in this particular genocide. Is the US committing suicide by committing this genocide in Palestine? Again, the answer may just be

any regime that commits genocide also commits suicide"

This is one of those things that vibes hard and would be cool if true, but see the US, Canada, Australia, etc. etc.

I thought they shut that place down!

Amazing

I think Epstein was in Rikers which is in Queens

…after shooting him point-blank. It’s on the Cradle website.

Because Zionism is based on protestant theology.