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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sparked outrage on Monday when he said: "Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don't return to acting like a sane country.

"A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of depopulating the population," he told Israeli public radio's popular morning news programme.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back, describing the comments as "blood libel".

Fuck Netanyahu and his cynical exploitation of "antisemitism" accusations for his own murderous ends. The thing that made the blood libel libellous, and the accusation antisemitic, was that the people accused weren't killing babies, and they were accused as Jews. It's not blood libel to point out the fact that the IDF, under Netanyahu, kills children without a second thought every day.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 hour ago

The Department of Homeland Security said it revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification because the private school’s leadership “has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment.”

“Many of these agitators are foreign students,” DHS said.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who ordered the revocation, said, “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

We know that's all a pack of lies. These fascists pick their enemies, then pick the lies to pursue them with.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Hyperrealist artists paint this kind of thing all the time. It's quite possible to paint this using actual paints.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30067678

... the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”

Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

More specifically, to hurt and kill those they judge to be weak.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 74 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Greenland is not a full member of the EU, since a referendum in 1985. But it's a territory of Denmark, which is a member, and citizens of Greenland are citizens of the EU. It seems complicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago

Before prostate cancer gets stage 12 Donald Trump, you mean.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Under Biden the USA wasn't just letting the genocide happen. It was providing the weaponry to enable it. Harris didn't distance herself from any of Biden's policies, so both candidates were active supporters of the genocide. That's not to say they were equally bad. The USA would still have been better off without gloves-off fascism at home and alienating all its allies through aggressive, nonsensical and incompetent foreign and economic policy.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 42 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Knowing how Israel operates, they probably just missed.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 58 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, this "white genocide" in South Africa is entirely fictitious. It's not even an exaggeration of some small trend. The rate at which white people are killed in South Africa is no higher than for other population groups.

And yet, on the basis of this racist fiction, Trump's regime is giving "asylum" to white South Africans.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Just fly him to a remote island and leave him there. Maybe the one with the penguins who pay tariffs.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I suspect Trudeau winning the handshake-wrestle is one reason Trump wants to crush Canada now.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There have been killings of white South Africans, but police statistics show they are not killed at a higher rate than other South Africans.

So either Trump's fascists are knowingly lying, or they're completely ignorant and didn't bother to check facts because they don't care about facts. Or they're incapable of noticing when bad things happen to non-white people because they don't care about those people.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29992296

Not military but with military weaponry. And do the states have to pay for this?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22391150

On April 29, after Amazon reportedly considered displaying an additional tariff charge next to the listed price on its Haul platform, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing held up a photo of Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos and called the move a “hostile and political act.” Trump, whom a senior official described as “pissed,” called Bezos to complain, saying the company’s founder “solved the problem very quickly.”

Amazon said that although it was considering displaying the tariff cost, the plan was ultimately not approved and “not going to happen.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers

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