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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽

@bluelion70.bsky.social

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History teacher, Yankee Fan, Board-gamer. Unapologetic Liberal, Environmentalist, Democratist, Zionist.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · Jul 10

The conclusions in this thread (which you should read all of) about the role that Cultural Christianity has to play in the perspectives of so many Westerners toward Jews and why theories like this are so popular on the left nowadays, are completely accurate and something I’ve struggled to describe.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’ve got a theory as to why the online left seems increasingly into the Khazar myth, which used to be the fringiest of far-right antisemitism (at least among white people—it was also popular among NOI/BHI, but I’m not touching that one).

For reference: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_...

Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 2m

Today I learned that Donald Trump definitely for sure can’t be racist, because Ben Carson, Hermain Cain, and Tim Scott exist.

Thank you, bigoted left wing extremists, for never failing to prove that you’re exactly the same as your MAGA compatriots.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 4m

Ah yes, the old “Look at all my [insert ethnic group here] friends, I’m definitely not a racist” argument. How compelling.

You know who thinks like that?

Racists.

You’re not a Nazi because you “disagree with Israeli policy” you’re a Nazi becsuse you’re upset that too few Jews have been killed.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 6m

lol it blocked me, as if screenshots don’t last forever

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 7m

No, you just rape, mutilate and murder them while they’re at a music festival, and then keep them enslaved and tortured in a bunker while you cower beneath the home of a civilian family who is forced to be your shield, right?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 10m

Yeah, and I corrected that person’s statement, since it was wrong. Some of them have been charged with crimes and some haven’t.

That doesn’t change the fact that they’re not hostages, by definition.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 16m

These people are so divorced from reality it honestly beggars belief.

I’m sorry that you thought you were asking a rhetorical question, and discovered to your chagrin that you have no clue what the fuck you’re talking about.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 18m

I couldn’t possibly care less about what gender Nazis identify as.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 19m

Yes, Israel has defense systems in place to actually protect the lives of its citizens when genocidal groups like Hezbollah decide to target them.

That’s your objection: that the Iron Dome exists to protect the lives of Israelis from Hezbollah, Hamas, or Houthi bombings.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 19m

“It is rude to say” that by their own admission, Hezbollah shot rockets at Israeli civilian homes for an entire year, starting on October 8th,until Israel forcibly stopped them.

You people are so clownishly disengaged from reality, and so wrapped in your own bigotry, that it’s beyond sad.

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 27m

Telling Black people we’ll be “next” if we don’t join whatever half-cocked movement you’ve cooked up this week, only reveals how much YOU don’t understand that we are PERPETUALLY on the firing line of white supremacy.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 31m

She isn’t 😂

They are giving it to a genuine fighter against facism, not a performative social media clicktivist.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 33m

I love how nakedly you guys state that your primary objection to this war is that not enough Jews have been killed.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 36m

That doesn’t make them “hostages”.

Does “doing your research” also include “learning what words mean”?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 37m

Not all of them have been charged with crimes. Many have been denied due process, and that is a serious issue.

That still doesn’t make them hostages, as this Nazi claims. He uses that word to try and “both sides” Hamas’s conduct, to whitewash I and make it seem more acceptable.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 39m

Israel was getting bombed every day for the first year of this war, until they destroyed Hezbollah’s capacity to continue doing so.

What you’re upset about is that not enough Israelis were killed by those bombs, right?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 41m

Oh man, I bet people are mad.

It’s amazing how the most simple and appropriate statements piss extremists off the most.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21h

My statement on Middle East peace

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Dennis Yedwab @dennisyedwab.bsky.social · 1h

I am celebrating the ceasefire & the release of hostages and Trump deserves credit but…I’m gonna need Israeli commentators not to tell Jewish Trump opponents in the US that “we have Trump all wrong”

No, we don’t. You see a slice of him, we see him whole. Appreciate your slice; don’t impose it on us

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 52m

They don’t learn how to organize or how to communicate coherently at length. They just learn how to make compelling sound bites and clips for social media. That’s what “activism” means in this context.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I hope to god that Michael Ironside has, at least once in his life, used the most perfect dad joke where someone asks him, “is that your real name” and he responds, “no, my first name is actually Frederick”

Wikipedia: Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. A prominent character actor with over 270 film and

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 12h

This part...

Every time I see them telling Hakeem to do something now, it reminds me of that South Park episode where Randy was on Wheel of Fortune.

This is the "Do Something Now" folks trying to solve the puzzle of "People Who Annoy Them"

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 13h

I'm gonna need white people to stop telling Hakeem Jeffries to do something when you all couldn't even confront your family and friends about not wanting to vote for MVP.

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Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

Ian Carroll claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

The only reason for Rep. Khanna to feature a vile Nazi like his is if he is in agreement with those beliefs.

@rokhanna.bsky.social is racist scum.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

Ian Carroll claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

The only reason for Rep. Khanna to feature vile Nazi like his is if he is in agreement with those beliefs.

@rokhanna.bsky.social is racist scum.

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

Do you know who Ian Carroll is?

Samuel ✡️ 🎗️🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 1h

That’s why the left loves it.