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[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Very amusing. Someone makes the same point as the Bee article you applauded:

rortlieb

Maybe you’re living in the wrong land. Maybe you should offer your life for Hamas. Right?

And Ritter immediately goes into an electronic roid rage. I'M A WARRIOR AND A TOUGH GUY AND I SERVED THIS COUNTRY SO YOU SHUT UP!!! SOLDIERS ARE BETTER THAN CIVILIANS!!!

Scott Ritter

Randolph,

You graduated from Pomona in 1983, one year before I graduated from Franklin and Marshall.

You went to law school.

I was commissioned in the Marines.

You practiced family law.

I got rid of nuclear weapons and went to war.

I offered my life for my country.

You did jack shit for America.

So, kindly fuck off.

Or better yet, go fight for Israel. I heard they’re running short of infantry in Gaza.

But I'm sure you'll find a reason to excuse this attitude, which you'd mock in anyone else.

[–]ageingrockstar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not the 'same point'. Ritter is not calling for a (U.S.) 'attack on other countries', to directly quote the Bee headline. (And Israel is not an 'other country' for the Palestinian people; they are seen as the colonising occupiers of their land.)

Here's the first two paragraphs of the actual Bee piece :

U.S. - A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.

People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.

Quite clearly Ritter is not doing what the Bee is satirising above. So if you're going to attempt to call someone out, as you're trying to do with u/Maniak here, I suggest you check if your 'gotcha' actually has intellectual consistency. Because it didn't here.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, please. The point is analogous: Ritter is "bravely post[ing] about how" the side he favors needs to kill the side he hates. The Bee was mocking keyboard warriors who cheer from the sidelines as other people get killed, and that's exactly the same behavior Ritter is engaged in here.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Taken to the extreme so... yeah, zionists are straight-up nazis.

Which isn't new of course, it didn't start last month, but nice of them to make it so publicly apparent.

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

@BenzionSanders:

The rabbi of my former IDF unit said in a stirring speech that if it weren’t for the Israeli casualties this would be “the happiest month in his life” because we are realizing that:

“All the land is ours. Including Gaza. Including Lebanon.”