More strange and/or foul reactions

[Renauda]

@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Hyperbole aside, if there is any, the Jacobins of the West are wholly ignorant of the reality of the Arab world. All they need to do is look. It’s quite plain to see.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-employee-accuses-biden-admin-being-complicit-israel-genocide

Maybe a soon to be ex-State Dept. employee.

If you are working for any Foreign Ministry, you follow the policy of the country, even if it differs from your personal view.

A woman identified as a State Department employee has used social media to accuse President Biden and his administration of being "complicit in genocide" toward the people in Gaza and warned that it could stifle his re-election chances in 2024.

Sylvia Yacoub, who has served for more than two years as a foreign affairs officer in the State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs, according to her LinkedIn page, has outspokenly shared her opinions on the matter through a variety of posts to X, formerly known as Twitter.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

The camera guy takes it too far but interesting to watch all the same.

That was hilarious. FAFO indeed. I don’t think the camera man took it too far, especially if he put up the flyer. Btw the main thing I took away is this is such an American (or woke?) thing…being so passionate about a topic that has likely ZERO impact on your life. Funny how politics and debate are central to so many people’s identity.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Hilarious.

I didn't read carefully (again).

This was NOT Saturday Night Live.

It was "Israel’s Saturday Night Live equivalent."

My hopes for a return of rationality to SNL have been dashed.

[89th]

Haha that “SNL” skit was actually hilarious. Imagine if they had a live audience to laugh.

[jon-nyc]

I sent that to my friend in leadership at Columbia. She’s at wits end but says things are improving there. We’ll see

[89th]

I’d imagine she’ll enjoy the laugh

[Mik]

I don't know. If I lived that I might not find it nearly as funny.

[jon-nyc]

I thought she’d laugh too because we jointly made fun of the student position when I was with her weekend before last. But when I sent it last night she was more exasperated than anything else.

[LuFins Dad]

Racist-Fluid… Nice

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

I don't know. If I lived that I might not find it nearly as funny.

It's closer to actual satire than our SNL has ever been.

We're pretty good at producing comedians, but Americans don't do true satire, which is funny in a justified emotions kind of a way, not funny ha-ha. And we never want to go there, we want the ha-ha.

The winners in my mind are Jewish and French media. They've always done the real stuff.

[Horace]

The SNL writers' room is happy to do biting satire targeted at the right, but not so much at the left.

[Doctor Phibes]

The Simpson's, for example, is satire, it's just not political satire. I haven't watched it in a long time, admittedly.

[George K]

[bachophile]

I sense some discord within Pink Floyd.

[George K]

@bachophile said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Pink Floyd.

https://newsrnd.com/tech/2023-11-07-roger-waters--"the-israelis-invented-stories-about-beheading-babies"---voila!-culture.r1b4bOw7a.html

Roger Waters: "The Israelis invented stories about beheading babies" Pink Floyd frontman doesn't miss an opportunity to attack Israel with outrageous nastiness. Waters: 'How the hell didn't the Israelis know this was going to happen?! Didn't the Israeli army hear the explosions at the bases when Hamas blew up the border fence?! There's something strange about that'

[jon-nyc]

In my town yesterday

[LuFins Dad]

I am just flabbergasted that there is any meaningful division in this….

Democratic Nation whose leadership must ultimately be responsive to the people it governs… Israel Yes, Palestine No.

Freedom of Press… Israel Yes, Palestine No

Civil Rights… do we even need to discuss this? Hamas still requires women to wear hijabs and be circumcised. They only just repealed their “Marry Your Rapist Law” and young girls are sold as brides. In the meantime, Israel has equal rights for all including their Palestinian Citizens. People ignore the fact that almost 20% of Israel’s population are Palestinian/Arab. There are Palestinian Knesset members serving in their government…

Hamas is being supported by Iran, Russia, North Korea… All bastions of freedom, liberty, and equality…. Not…

How are people being this idiotic?

[xenon]

Israel is a powerful, “colonizing”, white-adjacent country.

That’s a lot of progressive strikes against it.

[xenon]

All that said - it is beyond sad that civilians are dying. I don’t have a better solution to deal with Hamas - it does suck though.

I know people didn’t give much of a shit when it was brown on brown in other ME conflicts… still..