appropriate username

i don’t get how it’s not an australian issue for an australian to shoot a bunch of people in australia

ignore evidence, respond with sarcasm….
weak sauce

Hillary and the DNC are responsible for “elevating” Trump.
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
there are more than two sides and both Clinton and Trump suck…

disengage

chatgpt do all your writing for you?

in America, that’s not a very common symbol…
we don’t actually see a lot of white supremacists on the street though (they would get murked)

quite a few christian nationalists have adopted other crusader symbolism so i see it as a horrible, christian nationalist, invader/colonizer symbol… but i’ve never seen it associated with white supremacism…

my argument isn’t that it’s never used by white supremacists, it’s that it’s not an outright white supremacist symbol.
i’d call it a dog whistle, though.

go back to reddit, troll

Even if it hadn’t been adopted by white supremacists (it has), it would still be abhorrent.

yes, it is abhorrent… it’s not, however, a white supremacist symbol.
“crusader” is a terrible term for the military to associate itself with… but definitely not as terrible as a white supremacist symbol.
white supremacists have also “adopted” wearing boots but i’m not going to call everyone wearing boots a white supremacist.

whoah what a valuable contribution

Adoption by white supremacists

Because of the connotations of the Jerusalem cross as a symbol of Christian invasion of Muslim lands, and of Christian evangelism, the symbol has gained popularity with white supremacists in recent years.

ok it’s whack to use religious symbols in military ads but just because it “gained popularity” with white supremacists doesn’t make it a white supremacist symbol.

oh no! i allowed them! it’s all my fault!
here let me just go stop the us military from running that twitter ad….
…
well shit, turns out they’ll just arrest me for that or shoot me as soon as i get within a mile of wherever they’re tweeting from.

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i don’t take wikipedia as gospel… especially on extremely polarizing issues

speak for your own heart

Israel is being unreasonable and bombing kids.
some of them are zionists, but many zionists are very against bombing innocent people.
There are frequent huge protests in Israel about this.
Zionism is not a form of nationalism. It has nothing to do with other nations or that nation’s superiority… it’s entirely about unifying the jewish people and giving them a homeland… committing genocide is an insane thing and not part of zionism….
surely it’s a force that helped them get there, but it’s not about that.

says people should criticise the Israeli government rather than Zionists

let’s see how many downvotes i get for this:
that’s actually reasonable, zionism is a religious belief that they should have a jewish homeland, they looked at many other places that were welcoming… the decision to recreate Israel was made by the Allied forces after WWII… specifically to bring about the Christian apocalypse….
Zionism is a separate thing from what Israel is doing…

that’s fine if you assume it’s just one single person and you’re still on the 1997 internet

Eraserhead isn’t a movie to be enjoyed, it’s a movie to be regretted, for the rest of your life….
fun fact: that’s a real horse embryo

i’m not offering an opinion on that, i’m talking only about the ineffectiveness of “blocking” on lemmy