• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    AND he got the American public to pay for fitting it out! The man is an equal opportunist ass fucker!

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      Yep. If you aren’t on his bad list or haven’t been screwed yet, there’s always tomorrow.

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      Zionist -> nationalist group

      stan -> place (of)

      Zionistan -> place of Zionists

      What’s the issue?

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      I get, and regret, that the gratuitous use of “stan” to hint/signify “backwards place” is a form of racism.

      What are the other 3 levels?

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        European definition of race. Race doesn’t have a language-transcendent meaning. It literally means “arbitrary group that I want to discriminate against”.

        That’s why in the US “race” roughly overlaps with “country of origin”, while in Europe before WW2 the word was used to mean e.g. “the English race”, “the French race” or “the German race”. And sometimes the word was used as in “the human race” to differentiate between humans and animals. It’s a purely meaningless “us-vs-them” term, nothing else. And depending on who the “us” is and who the “them” is, race means something different.

        In Europe the term “race” fell out of fashion after WW2 (for obvious reasons) but the meaning stuck around in derived terms like “racism”. That’s why in Europe if a German person hates all French people, that’s considered racist, while in the USA that wouldn’t be considered racist.


        Bonus fact: In many languages “race” is also used to describe “breeds” (e.g. dog breeds), and also there the term is incredibly vague. To create a new dog “race”/breed, you grab a bunch of animals, go to your kennel club and register it. Now you exclusively inbreed that group of animals. All animals that are descendent from exclusively only that original group of animals are now part of that race/breed.

        That’s not something that happens with humans, thus that kind of terminology doesn’t apply to humans.


        To get back to your question: If you apply the European definition of race/racism, this is racist against Jews and indoiranian people and people speaking Turkic languages.

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        Read the article? He didn’t green light anything. As usual, a world leader left him in the dark because the dipshit might say something.

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          Huh, looks like you might not have read it. He’s doing the double-speak shit.

          In a social media post earlier in the day, he tried to distance himself from the attack, while both chastising and praising Mr. Netanyahu for carrying it out.

          “This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.”

          He added: “However, eliminating Hamas, who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza, is a worthy goal.”

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      The first thing Trump (or rather his mouthpiece) said after the bombing was that both he and Qatar knew about it in advance.

      But because he is a stupid fuck he only then remembered that he had to deny knowing anything about it, so he issued that denial the following day.

      And of course the supreme sign of his endless stupidity is how he is letting himself get completely manipulated by Netanyahu.

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      This is like the decapitation strike in Iran. Trump jumped in front to take credit then when shit started going south he distances himself.