But it is a joke. The Führer throws these hand grenades so that everyone gets distracted with invading Greenland or taking over Gaza or renaming the Gulf of Merica, and we spend the next days puzzling him out while he quietly implements his more serious Fourth Reich fantasies.
It's really weird to make this argument by analogy to the Nazis. Were Hitler's threats to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland a distraction? Should everyone have ignored or joked about his militarism and plans for genocide? Why can't we fight back on both? How does taking it lightly help?
That's why I consistently refer to this new era as the Fourth Reich. We have to constantly warn ourselves about the path this man is modeling himself on, if we are to have a chance to derail it.
Do you think it is perceived as a joke by Palestinians in Gaza? And, even if you are correct that it's a distraction which does not come to pass, do you think it's good to tell jokes about the possibility of further harm being done to victims of a genocide?
I think it is intended as a joke, aimed at an inside audience. Do I think it's a good idea? That, I have to take as a joke, or I'd have to go stick my head in a 🚽. With the exception of a few things RFKjr says about nutrition, there have been zero good ideas from these jokers in this #shitsunami
I understand, my point is that a media figure “joking” about “condos in Gaza” is immoral in the extreme. I’m all for dark humor, but trying to think for two seconds about how that line “lands” for Palestinians who have lost most or all of their family should make it clear why Selter is a dickhead.
Pointing out that the Führer intended it as an inside joke does not mean that it was ever even slightly amusing. He thinks something is sex that a jury thinks is rape. Now, for a media figure to take the bait and keep pressing the "joke" - you're right, that's way wrong.
It’s a “joke” that can work in a 1 on 1 situation where both parties know it’s gallows humor. It does not work as a public news figure who shapes how people see the world
White supremacy, fascism, and the Nazi way of life is about to be normalized. Jokes about genocide after a year of watching a slaughter of an entire population of people 🤷🏿♀️
Stelter was ceremoniously tossed from CNN despite being a cooperating sycophant, only to then come crawling back to them a year later.
An unserious loser that deserves no grace
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An unserious loser that deserves no grace