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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 12:55 last edited by
I don't know. If I lived that I might not find it nearly as funny.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 12:56 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 14:12 last edited by
Racist-Fluid… Nice
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 16:03 last edited by Aqua Letifer 11 Jun 2023, 16:04
@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.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 16:06 last edited by
The SNL writers' room is happy to do biting satire targeted at the right, but not so much at the left.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 16:25 last edited by
The Simpson's, for example, is satire, it's just not political satire. I haven't watched it in a long time, admittedly.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 16:54 last edited by
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wrote on 7 Nov 2023, 11:31 last edited by
I sense some discord within Pink Floyd.
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I sense some discord within Pink Floyd.
wrote on 7 Nov 2023, 11:35 last edited by@bachophile said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Pink Floyd.
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'
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 19:44 last edited by jon-nyc 11 Aug 2023, 19:44
In my town yesterday
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 21:41 last edited by
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?
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 21:48 last edited by
Israel is a powerful, “colonizing”, white-adjacent country.
That’s a lot of progressive strikes against it.
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 21:51 last edited by xenon 11 Aug 2023, 21:52
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..
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Israel is a powerful, “colonizing”, white-adjacent country.
That’s a lot of progressive strikes against it.
wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 22:14 last edited by George K 11 Aug 2023, 22:17@xenon said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Israel is a powerful, “colonizing”, white-adjacent country.
One can make the argument, as @jon-nyc did, that Israel is "occupying" the West Bank.
OTOH, from what I understand there are 2,000,000 Arabs living in Israel. There are no Jews living in Gaza. THat's not a colony.
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 22:14 last edited by
They still don't. The Yemenis can kill each other till the cows come home. So it is in Africa as well.
It's all the same tragedy that I hope will become even more of an anachronism.
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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..
wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 22:46 last edited by@xenon said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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..
So whose fault is it that Civilians are dying? Who blocked roads preventing Palestinians from fleeing Gaza city? Who put the bunkers and missile batteries in hospitals and children’s playgrounds? And thousands of the missiles that have landed amongst innocent Palestinians were launched by Hamas.
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wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 23:03 last edited by
Every Israeli citizen killed is a win for Hamas, and every Gaza civilian killed is a win for Hamas.
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@xenon said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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..
So whose fault is it that Civilians are dying? Who blocked roads preventing Palestinians from fleeing Gaza city? Who put the bunkers and missile batteries in hospitals and children’s playgrounds? And thousands of the missiles that have landed amongst innocent Palestinians were launched by Hamas.
wrote on 8 Nov 2023, 23:07 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@xenon said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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..
So whose fault is it that Civilians are dying? Who blocked roads preventing Palestinians from fleeing Gaza city? Who put the bunkers and missile batteries in hospitals and children’s playgrounds? And thousands of the missiles that have landed amongst innocent Palestinians were launched by Hamas.
We’re in agreement on the facts and responsibility - doesn’t make the results any less tragic when the human shields die.
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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?
wrote on 9 Nov 2023, 15:03 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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?
Let's not forget that Jews are mostly democrats, too.
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@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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?
Let's not forget that Jews are mostly democrats, too.
wrote on 9 Nov 2023, 15:22 last edited by@89th said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
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?
Let's not forget that Jews are mostly democrats, too.
It’s not just a right/left issue. There are plenty of American Alt-Right zealots supporting Hamas over Israel, too. This is a basic fundamental question. Either you support a country with democratic principles of a government that by necessity must be accountable to the people with freedom of religion, press, and speech. With basic protections to shelter the people from the abuses of the government or you support an autocratic regime that makes no such pretensions, that uses it’s citizens as human shields, and have no ultimate respect for human life or dignity.
The Israeli government may not be perfect, no institution made up of people ever will be, and it faces threats that bleeding hearts on both sides of the debate simply cannot comprehend, but at least they are trying to do the right things and it again is simply incomprehensible to me that the general public cannot see that.
