• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    She explains exactly this, the meme just cut it all out.

    youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1WEhO07Bw&t=759

    Immediately after “racism” she also says that it’s for short-term gains & geopolitical power (ie USA).

    Continuous racism is what allows such a system to even/still exist.

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      I mean, racism might make it easier for the US to push forward with less resistance, but the relationship with Israel has always seemed more steeped in religious/geopolitics than anything else. For the US they like having a strong tie to a nation centered in the middle east, and there are some weird Christians who believe that they can enable the second coming.

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        Geopolitical power is the only reason, especially for the initial decision (USA could have dumped Jews in Palestine & aided them in getting citizenships in the holy land, but that’s not how USA gets their marionettes - they instead pump cash intro local terrorist groups until one forms a government & takes over which nets them a sympathetic gov/county reliant on them … at a human cost we can’t even comprehend).

        The religious etc reasons are purely what has been used for 80 years by the USA for their purposes (and has since entered, via USAs political power, in the core belief system of their colonies).

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        Politicians’ religion is money and power. Other religions are just a way to manipulate mass opinion.

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          This is a very cynical take, but I’m going to be more cynical and say that, no, I still think that some politicians are religious wackadoodles. Power flows not to the just, and not even to the Machiavellian, but with a high degree of randomness. The world is chaos, and not even the most powerful can tame it.

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            It took six decades to get here, I’m hard-headed, you know? I didn’t want to believe it, but I can’t live in denial, anymore.

            The world is chaos,

            Sure

            and not even the most powerful can tame it.

            One side makes plans and can’t manage random variables; the other rides the lightening with audacity and wins. IDK how that works. If we’re doing cliché, fortune favors the bold, I guess? 🤷‍♀️