WayOfTheBern

WayOfTheBern

ageingrockstar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 6 months ago

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 6 months ago

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.