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US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”

Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But don't disagree with killing her, or you'll be accused of being anti-Semitic.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Uh, yeah, because that would make you basically hitler. Saying we should protect blonde haired blue eyed youths? How far off the 14 words is that really, dude?

[–] pixelkitty@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Pretty on-brand for a bunch of fucking fascists

[–] M137@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I gotta say I've gotten scared a few times these past couple of days with so many posts about Greta reaching the front page. Hearing about the boat that she decided to not be on getting attacked, her going there with another boat and them threatening her. And then opening Lemmy and seeing several different posts with her face as the thumbnail just thinking "please, no, don't be bad news" and then being relieved she's not dead, been taken hostage, or anything else bad. We need her.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 20 hours ago

She was on a boat that got bombed, survived, and went back out. She has balls of steel, but I fear that she's setting herself up to be a martyr. There has to be some reasonable way for her to headline and lead resistance that doesn't end in her likely overlooked death. The people who her passing would activate are already mostly active.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 8 points 21 hours ago

I was asked why I got radicalised. This would've been another event to radicalise me if I wasn't already

Dude if I were in her position, I'd be shitting bricks. Big ups to her.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Antisemitism or not, that is just evil

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] Emergency3030@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

This is insane, please protect her. Hopefully she returns to her home for her own safety.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I thought the mask was already off, but they keep peeling off more layers to reveal something even less human

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Look what you made us do.”

The excuse of narcissists and nationalists everywhere.

[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 2 points 19 hours ago

And abusers in general.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's pretty funny that everyone's response to this is apathy and meming. We're so cooked

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh Greta Thurnberg. Don't you know you've committed the evil sin of bringing food to starving children? Woe unto you! This is aggravated by you daring to do so in opposition to our darling dream child: Isreal. For shame.

-The psychopaths

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

These aren't psychopaths. A psychopath would see how this was going, take the money, and disappear.

Psychopaths can be negotiated with.

Psychopaths would only take as much land as they could use.

Psychopaths wouldn't need to make an entire culture woven exclusively from fibers of genocidal hatred.

These are genocidal fanatical faschists.

They will not stop until they are physically incapable of continuing, and they do have nuclear weapons. The kids on the boat. I mean the kids on the boat, please dont ban me, i mean the kids on the boat.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

These aren’t psychopaths. A psychopath would see how this was going, take the money, and disappear.

I think you may be conflating psychopathy with sociopathy.

[–] Ithorian@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

“All the world's a stage”

[–] NextBread125@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is evil. We are witnessing evil.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 day ago

You are witnessing evil, and people around the globe cheering them on because they don't like a little girl and are sporting a fuck greta sticker on their shitty car.

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The US admin. and Israel gov. looking more and more like 1930‘s Germany is insane actually

Edit: and seeing how many people in both countries support this fascism makes me want to puke.

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[–] johnpmac@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of course. You remember when God admonished us to attack the harmless?

And keep our slaves in line, and not confuse women with people, yes.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, Canaanite babies, livestock, and children (except those sexy virgin girls). Also the Midianites. There’s plenty of precedent for God-commanded genocide in there. And even the most prominent apologists tend to respond with “yeah but it’s ok because God said.”

[–] fenpy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

When I see this cunt, Lindsay Graham, my BP rises up to 1000!

Hopefully, he'll get a stroke or something similar soon!

[–] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

Any time I hear his name, all I can think about are his ladybugs. 🤢

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[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely fucking unhinged. How can I unsubscribe from society pls

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She was already an accepted target of the right wing grifters.

The amount of people in conservative subs who wish sexual violence on her is astounding

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 82 points 2 days ago (17 children)

I'm getting real tired of mods defending Nazis and suppressing any comments about how to defend against them.

Americans are fucking pussies.

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