• blazera@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

    Only thing this guy deserves to hear for the rest of his life.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Casually arguing for breaking the taboo on using nuclear weapons.

    Forget Gaza, this is how human civilization ends.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      We have been saying that Israel is a moral and legal hazard to the entire world as it rallied its allies to throw out all resemblance of a rule based international order recognizing such basic human rights like not being slaughtered and having access to basic food, water and medicine.

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        6 months ago

        So is Turkey.

        But the guilt for colonialism and belligerent Christianity apparently lies so heavy on Westerners, that they are ready to absolve it with the blood of Christians never involved in those.

        It’s an especially disgusting kind of virtue signalling to combine being against Israel, but for Turkey and Azerbaijan.

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          What are you talking about? Israel and Azerbaijan are allies. Azerbaijan sells its oil and gas to Israel and Israel granted it the “right” to exploit the gas fields in front of Gaza they want to steal. Israel supplied Azerbaijan with drones so it can slaughter Armenians.

          And Turkey did not put the UN Charta through a shredder or demanded the world to attack UN institutions. Also Turkey does not demand its allies to cheer it on for its crimes.

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            I know they are allied, Israel and Turkey are not really that hostile between themselves too.

            It’s about how optics of all this work on general Western audiences.

            I agree Turkey relies less on such corruption. Azerbaijan is pretty similar to Israel in that regard, though. They just don’t need loud approval when silent approval does the job.

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    6 months ago

    This appeared in my feed right next to a movie called “Cocaine Werewolf”. Seemed fitting.

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    6 months ago

    Israel wouldn’t do that. They want to give the beachfront property to American politicians as a “gift that’s totally not a bribe”

  • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Lindsey Graham will say whatever his sponsors want him to say. He shares like 2 of his opinions a year, and you can tell which ones they are because a week after saying it he’s already backtracking acting like he never said otherwise. He’ll dance any dance to suppress video of him and his prostitutes dick in his mouth. It’s a corner he’s painted himself in by courting the homegrown hate vote.

    My gut tells me that he’s a decent guy and I bet he’s quite capable at the state level, but he’s been in over his head in DC ever since he got there.