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Istvan Kash's avatar

How is there a difference between Nazism and Zionism? That one would lead to the other is counterintuitive. But the two now seem to be one and the same and the US is complicit in its support. So one might wonder if the US is still a democracy. A corporation with a CEO, the DNC decides who its candidates will be. Some states, such as Florida, didn’t even have a primary. And yet, Americans are told that to protect their own self interests they must align with the party enabling genocide. The irony is rich. Musk seems as adept running Tesla into the ground as he is propping up authoritarianism.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

There is no difference between Nazism and militant Zionism. The Zionism that was encouraged after WWII would not have been a problem if the people living in what was then Palestine -- the Palestinians -- had been taken into consideration and treated properly. Many of them were nomads, and they were given the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. If that had been honored, no one, including they, would have complained. I have said before that I was born Jewish, but I eventually gave it up because 1) there's no such thing as "god," so I don't have the entry criterion to identify with any religion, and the Jews are seemingly single-mindedly focused on the Holocaust and other remote (centuries and millennia ago) experiences of victimization. It is as if being Jewish means being a victim. A holiday called Passover is all about recognizing the mistreatment of other people, which the Jews then don't do (they don't recognize it or avoid doing it). The "Superbowl" of Jewish holidays -- Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement -- is their opportunity to recognize and try to correct their faults, which they also don't do.

The USA is not a democracy. It was envisioned to be one, but because of the peculiar campaigning ritual, that is protracted and requires extreme amounts of money, the USA is a plutocracy. The largest donors tell the candidates what they intend to be buying with their donations, and they expect to get it. Which they do. Even, as we have been seeing, when the government officials they buy are SCOTUS justices. They even write some of the bills their chattel pass for them. American government has little to do with the public/voters.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

I should add that the Nazis talked about the "final solution" to the Jewish problem, and decades of Israelis have talked about the "final solution" to the Palestinian problem. And the solutions are not quite identical, but they're close.

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Seva's avatar

I see nothing fascist about wanting secure borders and meritocracy. If we can’t even agree on things as basic and essential as this then how is it possible to have a country? We lack a common reality, have become incomprehensible to each other and can no longer communicate. Where is the common ground in such an infinitely wide divide? There obviously is none. We always just talk past each other. This can only get worse and is getting worse by the day.

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Please explain to me under which circumstances you think it is worth it to kill tens of thousands of children and civilians.

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SAM's avatar

this guy is a propagandist and a troll. ive already blocked him but i dont know why i can still see his comments. go down his feed and you'll see him blasting out the same misinformation on various threads that have nothing to do with one another. dont waste your time on him comrade.

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Seva's avatar

Open borders and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes are not “misinformation.” You’re a good example of why America is a failed state in rapid decline. And the world knows it since they see it online every day just as easily as we do.

“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”

“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”

“The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly.”

Real Clear Politics. Roger Cohen. Apr 2, 2024

https://tomklingenstein.com/the-end-of-merit-in-med-schools-will-be-deadly/

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Substack really needs to make some new tools to control whose comments you see.

There are a half dozen attention starved people on every substack that clog up the comments with nonsense.

I don't believe these comments should be censored by the government, but I also think I should be able to not have to wade through them to get to the things I want to read.

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Seva's avatar

I agree that Israel is engaging in genocide/ethnic cleansing. That’s why I subscribed to Ryan’s Substack. I follow people like John Mearsheimer, Glenn Greenwald and Jeffrey Sachs who do an excellent job of explaining the past history and present reality of Ukraine and Gaza. I do not agree with Ryan that Trump is a grave danger to democracy and that his supporters are racist white trash too stupid to realize they’re supporting a fascist dictator. I totally agree with Tulsi. Christopher Wray is an example of the intense hatred of Trump by many in our worthless government and it’s also an example of why Tulsi is now so deeply hated by the democrats and why they decided she needs to be put on a terrorist watchlist. In what sense does America even still exist as a country?

Tulsi Gabbard. Reacting to Donald Trump’s Attempted Assassination. (1 min)

Christopher Wray Was Trying To Make Light of Trump’s Attempted Assassination. Aug 15, 2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/0-UrUeVCo9Y?si=jBL5n5nMZVgm6oOk

Matt Taibbi: Tulsi Gabbard Harassed By TSA’s Creepy Quiet Skies Surveillance Program. (16 min)

The Hill. Rising. Aug 12, 2024

https://youtu.be/RJBygvtNfSY?si=6QPK_oTLhul7VOZL

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