• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Tinfoil hat time!

    I’m starting to think there’s this big anti-Semetic conspiracy at play here. Not in the usual sense, the usual conspiracies are the conspiracy. The US and Israel seem to be trying to make sure that nazis can tick off all their boxes of accusations against Jewish people, they seem to be trying to behave exactly how the anti-Semite claims they behave. And now, like all good conspiracy theories, I’m going to avoid giving them clear motivation for why they do this and just kind of gesture vaguely in the direction of “social control.”

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      I’m going to avoid giving them clear motivation for why they do this

      I won’t pretend to understand the Zionist motivations at work here - except maybe that they think they can harness the Christian psychosis to achieve their own ends - but I can tell you exactly why a bunch of Christians support this shit. They, like Mike Flynn and this other guy subscribe to a wild, apocalyptic version of Christianity, and they literally believe that a world war based around events in Israel will herald the coming of Christ.

      So it’s actually good to support horrific war in that area, because it means that soon Jesus will come and fix everything.

      This is the actual stuff I was taught as a child. This is what my parents believe. War in the middle east is good because it could bring Jesus.

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        11 months ago

        Oh yeah, I’ve heard of the weird evangelical desire to support Israel because they believe it will bring about the rapture or whatever. I guess a lot of these people have their own reasons for doing this heinous shit. The left could only dream of the unity right wing shitheads have.

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      11 months ago

      So that Nazis go more hog wild and Jewish people don’t feel safe anywhere anymore, so they go to Israel, thus getting the diaspora back to Israel and furthering the settler-colonial project.

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      I dunno. I think the playbook for antisemitic conspiracy theories is a lot simpler than that. They’re just looking at the ways that capital and power tend to operate and saying “capital and power are actually good. this is all being done by one specific race of people who look white but actually aren’t.”

      In the US, capital and power are behind Israel, therefore their actions align with those described by antisemites. The antisemitic part is just ascribing these actions to the Jews.