It seems to me a whole lot of really smart, amazing jewish scholars over generations and generations of jews have established a pretty rigorous body of knowledge and wisdom about how to integrate as a potentially targeted minority into society and how to immunize that society against being manipulated into xenophobia and racism/religious discrimination.

What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank… and Lebanon… as confident as I am there are no words to describe what is happening, I am confident there is no god that would ever call for that in their name, I guess that is not a statement I can prove or disprove… but at the same time I feel entirely sure any god that would demand that would be an abomination… so what else can this genocide occurring be, other than first and foremost a betrayal of judaism at a basic level? An insult to god, whoever and whatever you identify god as?

If you think god is a many armed spaghetti ball floating in the ether and I think god is a giant spacecrab, we can disagree about a whole lot in how those two beliefs intersect in political and real world ways, but on the other hand it is pretty easy to establish that whether god is a many armed spaghetti ball or a giant spacecrab, god made the universe and thus doing something that feels needlessly violent and destructive clearly can’t be something god desires to be done, in general… Would the spaghetti ball really want you to do needless violence upon the spacecrab heretics even if they worship forbidden beliefs? Vice versa would the spacecrab desire their followers to obliterate followers of the flying spaghetti monster just because their path to worshiping god erred in the details?

What is happening now goes beyond any distinction between one human and another you can possibly draw, it goes beyond any single evil act anybody or anything could commit to deserve an equally evil response, it is an atrocity and it threatens to drag us into WW3 :(

The darkest irony is this all only puts jews more in danger sigh.

I am sorry I am just stalling for time because I realize you have won the argument, so now I am just bringing up tangential shocking things in order to try to distract from the more important point here that I have stuck my foot in my mouth.

Ughh…

Do you denounce Ted Bundy?

Put him in a little castle for prison, surround the castle with a moat guarded by well paid, trans, synchronized swimmers who get good quality healthcare and support for being employed to keep Merz at bay 24/7 in shifts while putting on beautiful routines for the crowd watching from the far embankment above.

Every square inch of the far embankment of the moat around Merz’s castle/prison must be covered with ethnic food stalls of every type imaginable, all wafting smells that as much as Merz wants to get a Xenophobic hard on from hating… kind of smell good… but Merz will only be fed a narrow diet of unseasoned boiled food in his prison. The prison will be self funding and be Merz’s most successful project as it transforms into a popular international tourist destination for people coming to “pay their respects” by laughing at the sad tiny man finally safe and supreme in his throne…

Herero say what?

Where the hell did I say anything about Hamas?

I understand why you project opinions on to others to argue with them, you clearly can’t really construct an argument connected to reality.

Yeah that is exactly what happens.

What I find exasperating is the fact that many rightwing movements harbor antisemitism quite explicitly, including the AfD, and when it becomes politically undeniable how awful and incomprehensibly evil the Palestinian Genocide is, what conservative Germans will inevitably do to avoid reckoning with their hypocrisy and willing blindness to pretend not to see something so massively atrociously bad, is blame the jews for backstabbing them.

It is the same dumbshit story over and over again, I don’t think this is a unique problem to Europe or Germany, it just feels more pathetic when this story is grafted onto a nation that literally already exterminated millions of jews.

I am sure there are plenty of centrist idiots in Germany who think they need to defend Israel because of Germany’s past, so as not to make “the same mistake again” and yet if that is how they really felt with conviction wouldn’t they step back and see that Germany is being set up along with the rest of Europe to recoil in horror at the Palestinian Genocide and then turn around and blame it on jews for making a conspiracy to bring to good, christian and righteous nations of Europe into doing evil?

I must reiterate, this story never fucking changes and I hate this story.

edit also lots of rightwing military personnel and leaders in Germany have ties with russians, so part of it is just you know, building up the military to “defend” against the people you actually just want to give all that military tech to…

Merz is a tiny little coward.

For many cases this is true, see this article on South America for example, but this is a much deeper of a problem I think for Germany.

Meh just accelerate with F-force and then switch to G-force when you are up to speed and vice versa when slowing down, problem solved!