• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Man. The lane that Democrats are leaving open by being so obscenely pro-Israel. Hope y’all are ready for Tucker/ Owens 2028.

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      23 hours ago

      I still maintain Tucker will tap MTG as veep, but yeah. Dems will stop at nothing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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        22 hours ago

        Oof. Ima be a real one fam and ruin your weekend… In your mind, I want you to imagine the following…

        Its 2027/28. On the TV, Its some version of a republican debate, but its Candice, Tucker and MTG on stage. They’re debating if sanctions are sufficient, or if the state of Israel should be dissolved.

        The magnetic fields generated by the high amplitude currents of schadenfreude are so great, the channel flips of its own accord. Its a debate between Newsom, Buttigieg, and Harris. Each of them is trying to out-do the other with regards of how much of the US GDP they’re going to commit to supporting the state of Israel.

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      23 hours ago

      As opposed to murdering people ob the streets, disappearing thousands on thousands of people, and declaring wars across the world as per the current regime? At the hands of a pedophile child murderer?

      Fuck off with the ‘buh Dems’ shit.

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    What a dumb fucking argument…

    The claim is: “The Israeli Prime Minister Minister has ancestral heritage linking him to this land”

    The argument against this argument isn’t “Can you prove it?”

    It’s “Who gives a fuck?”

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      23 hours ago

      Tucker pushes Huckabee on if he actually believes in the Zionist* “Biblical” narrative, or whether he is but a grifter, using the Zionist narrative despite knowing it is a lie.

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        This is more than just a “Biblical narrative”…it’s Israel’s core Zionist narrative. Their entire claim to the Holy Land, is that they are the direct descendants of the Jews who were exiled thousands of years ago.

        In the vast majority of cases though, this claim isn’t true. The majority of Israeli Jews are of European descent. Their ancestors never came from that region.

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          It’s about an even split between mozrahi/sephardi and ashkenazi actually. Aside from this nonsense being another example of mizrahi, sephardi, and other Jewish heritage erasure, it also is as revisionist of ashkenazi history as actual Israeli propaganda. Moreover, it belies a complete misunderstanding of how population genetics work and significant markers that very much distinguish European Jews from their non-Jewish counterparts.

          Worst of all, it doesn’t fucking matter. The crime against Palestine isn’t that the wrong ethnicity gets to be supremacist–its that it is ethnosupremacist in the first place.

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          In the vast majority of cases though, this claim isn’t true.

          It’s a moot point regardless - I could not give any fucks about whether their ancestors lived there a thousand years ago, or whether their genetics imply heritage.

          Genocide is inherently incidental (and occasionally explicit) to fulfilling this moronic prophecy. Zionism is a fucking cancer and it needs to stop.

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    While I generally agree with questioning the status of isnotreal and its “citizens” I don’t think Tucker is the mouthpiece for “progressive” talking points.

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        While it is from an obnoxiously xenophobic “America first” perspective, at least Tucker does seem to believe Israel should not be able to buy all American politicians and dictate what they do in office. It’s incredibly sad that this does position him better than most political pundits in the US. Calling this progressive is a stretch though, it’s just objective views on reality and what it means to be a sovereign nation.

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    22 hours ago

    I watched the video. I failed to hear the question referred to in the post title. Did he ask it before or after this segment?

    And what was the answer?

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        I know he dodges the answer to how we know whether the Jewish people have been living in that region.

        But he is never directly asked about DNA testing anyone. It would be an easy follow up, but Tucker never poses that question directly.

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        21 hours ago

        Are we watching the same video (2:43) because at what timestamp does he ask the ambassador if he would ‘he would DNA test Israelis and Palestinians to determine the true descendents of the Biblical people of Israel’.

        I know there is allusion to this in what I saw, but I didn’t see that particular question being asked directly.