The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something - ThreadSky

You see, a rival country doing this can be called ethnic cleansing. If America does it, it's a "brazen" or "outrageous" "strategy" to promote American "interests" abroad. 🤢

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cbennett89.bsky.social•17 days ago

"Provocative, intriguing, outlandish, outrageous"...it's not a modern art exhibition, guys.

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kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•17 days ago

Is the article about;
1) a US president planning ethnic cleansing to occupy land
2) fashions at the Grammys

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mcdyer.bsky.social•17 days ago

Ethnic cleansing, or exciting new Lena Dunham project? Tune in to find out!

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clov2030.bsky.social•17 days ago

😭

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lesleymac.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm sure the UK press will do the same

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mascodagama.bsky.social•17 days ago

Conscience-free capitalism in the best American tradition. Truth is incidental to the business of making money and currying favour with the regime.

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you-are-product.bsky.social•17 days ago

However disgusting it is that's just a stated plan at teh moment..meanwhile they are conducting racial profiling at home right now....
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/federal-health-workers-terrified-dei-website-publishes-list-targets-rcna190711

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apollymikatistrafi.bsky.social•17 days ago

Kissing ass to appease their orange overlord

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eve0m.bsky.social•17 days ago

Problematic: ya think?

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kschleiffer.bsky.social•17 days ago

Go ahead, annex the land and start construction. There will be competition for who can explode the largest number of medium range ballistic missile there. NATO's "appropriate response" under Article 5 will be to offer a supply of canteens.

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franklywatson.bsky.social•17 days ago

👆🏼

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policyg.bsky.social•17 days ago

Here’s an adjective for you in the press to use - free of charge:

“Hitlerian”

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wooble.geoffreyspear.com•17 days ago

I don't think even Hitler hoped to build a resort hotel in the Sudetenland.

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nickhobson25.bsky.social•17 days ago

Surprised he didn’t say Gazan’s could return and work at staff in the hotels, casinos and beachside properties

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aphexgwyn.bsky.social•17 days ago

They'd never be allow security clearance to return to their (former) homes. These places will be staffed by well paid Israelis.

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andrewkozma.net•17 days ago

"Intriguing" wtf

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ronague.bsky.social•17 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/dmccafferty49.bsky.social/post/3lhgcq7ndxk2i

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kankansi.bsky.social•17 days ago

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drsmutt.bsky.social•17 days ago

American press Corp sanewashing dementia Don.

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dburx.bsky.social•17 days ago

Perhaps they need to acustom some regiments to brutality: they need Franco's African troops

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cv-danes.com•17 days ago

The lengths to which the press has prostrated itself before Trump is quite something.

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alexbenyon.bsky.social•17 days ago

Just an awkward gesture

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eleanorsundwall.bsky.social•17 days ago

Something—anything but surprising

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daveevans56.bsky.social•17 days ago

Adam which papers are these from (clockwise?)

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cousincat.bsky.social•17 days ago

They’ve also neglected to report that Trump & Bibi are apparently considering the same plan for the West Bank

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simonwilliams1981.bsky.social•17 days ago

America is now a fascist country and the UK needs to recognise that. Unfortunately there is more chance that we join them in facism.

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ian-brown.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm reminded of a video of Trump's son-in-law from ten months ago.

"Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable."

https://youtube.com/shorts/4-KrK7NUMtw?si=_7OSRDw7xlVFj4s0

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idahogem.bsky.social•17 days ago

Netanyahu and trump planned for this. The war between Israel and Gaza was to continue until trump got into office.

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zoehearn.bsky.social•17 days ago

Another goon bereft of humanity..

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soderbrod.nafofellas.com•17 days ago

The US press appears to be as alive and well as the Norwegian Blue #beautifulplumage

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hrryan.bsky.social•17 days ago

"Intriguing" 🤔

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cps10001.bsky.social•17 days ago

Awful

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free10.bsky.social•17 days ago

#GazaEthnicCleansing

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loftusarch.bsky.social•17 days ago

As was the case with a certain Nazi salute.

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suescishaw.bsky.social•17 days ago

👇 At least the BBC says it as it is. https://bsky.app/profile/iandunt.bsky.social/post/3lhg2gs3tf22c

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phantasmagician.bsky.social•17 days ago

I've been disgusted by our legacy media for a while, but this is Pravda territory.

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mikeyred.bsky.social•17 days ago

They'll be historical analysis on how the US media went along with facism for years to come.

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daviduknorthwest.bsky.social•17 days ago

It’s a distraction from Musk’s work; don’t fall for it.

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joanhenry1.bsky.social•17 days ago

🎯

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supereye.bsky.social•17 days ago

I cannot believe I've just watched a convicted felon sat there talking about developing Gaza like it's just a bit of real estate, with a guy who has been issued an arrest warrant by the ICC for war crimes for committing genocide. Totally normal. Wtaf!!! 🤯😵‍💫

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dramaticskye411.bsky.social•17 days ago

The Trump Crime Family has been planning it and talking about taking over Gaza and removing Palestinians for nearly a year.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

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supereye.bsky.social•17 days ago

Absolutely unbelievable. How much money do you need!??? 🤯

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kgm54.bsky.social•17 days ago

This. Bonus if US owns it, US must protect it.

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buzzybee3.bsky.social•17 days ago

Distraction.... from Musk dismantling the US government in front of our very eyes....Wake up people, it's later than you think.

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mlamb.bsky.social•17 days ago

They still can’t say lie or coup.

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's a country based on slavery and genocide.
They have never strayed far from those origins

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crackermack.bsky.social•17 days ago

Adrift, morally paralyzed.

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metrofire.bsky.social•17 days ago

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ala8.bsky.social•17 days ago

Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi, who first said those words in 1993,” responded (here) one user. Another commented, “This quote is actually from Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who pled guilty to possession of child pornography.” What a shame a Nazi said it

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mikeescapee.bsky.social•17 days ago

Not said by Voltaire.

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oldnorthroad.bsky.social•17 days ago

And in fact a quote from a Nazi. https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/to-learn-who-rules-over-you-quote-wrongly-attributed-to-voltaire-idUSL1N2UE2LM/

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metrofire.bsky.social•17 days ago

couldn't give a shit its a good quote

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0o-xero-o0.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is indeed a good quote, but if it is wrongly attributed its impact is diminished.

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mikeescapee.bsky.social•17 days ago

Great. Keep quoting Nazi's then.

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ala8.bsky.social•17 days ago

Who said it then, still relevant to what Trump wants to do with GAZA

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mikeescapee.bsky.social•17 days ago

This fella.

Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who pled guilty to possession of child pornography.

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ilikecaketoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yep, just said as much. Let’s face it ‘Gaza Plan’ sounds so much less innocuous. Honestly sickening.

https://bsky.app/profile/ilikecaketoo.bsky.social/post/3lhg7mrtvr225

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victoria1921.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is sickening to see how they try to spin the words and deeds of a psychopath.

How can there be "lessons learned", if the world stands back and allows a convicted felon to masquerade as President of USA?

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fatboy-biker.bsky.social•17 days ago

Scotland's govt and media have no such qualms https://www.thenational.scot/news/24910830.scotlands-first-minister-condemns-trumps-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-plan/?ref=li

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ada-l.bsky.social•17 days ago

They need to stop selling off Scotland to trump for golf courses before they can talk

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clatch.bsky.social•17 days ago

Comfort yourself that they have lost a shit ton of money. For years.

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tigermakers.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah, that's why he buys golf courses. They soak up losses so he doesn't pay taxes.

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shortbreadfairy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Play Nick Ferrari's show back and he's being quite flippant about Ethnic Cleansing. You might need a sick bucket 🪣

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policyg.bsky.social•17 days ago

Trump did have dinner with him.

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shortbreadfairy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh god. That's not even a picture l want to imagine.

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kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•17 days ago

If Netanyahu had said anything like this, the US press would call it ethnic cleansing.

But our media has internalized an autocracy and anticipatory surrender

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ndixon.bsky.social•17 days ago

Eventually they'll end up on trial in The Hague, if they're lucky.

https://bsky.app/profile/ndixon.bsky.social/post/3lh6kklx6h22m

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brendanl2011.bsky.social•17 days ago

Don't forget the US "Hague invasion Act"

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bust3d00.bsky.social•17 days ago

Has there been some sort of switch thrown, where we are now inside the mirror ?

Why are there no proper adults anymore

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red-smog.bsky.social•17 days ago

They could learn from the english:

GENTRIFICATION (and anything else will be anti Semitism!!!)

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drcj.bsky.social•17 days ago

Today does feel like the day that other govts (Starmer included) need to stand up to Trump.

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lozzaslouch.bsky.social•17 days ago

No chance with Starmer.

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kristianravnkilde.bsky.social•17 days ago

As if!

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fisherandrew79.bsky.social•17 days ago

The UK press too

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gec236.bsky.social•17 days ago

TV pundits all clamouring to make the next reality series of Trumps Place In The Sun

It’s gonna be amazing

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assfarter.bsky.social•17 days ago

To be fair they did the same thing for Biden. This isn't a Dem v republicans thing, it's just America being a racist tyrant again, which is very much bipartisan

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johndalton1108.bsky.social•16 days ago

Is it because it rhymes with Israel?

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corruption47.bsky.social•17 days ago

Dude, this isn't going to happen. It is more Trump distraction. He wants journos like you to spend your time talking about a non-thing instead of focusing on the coup that is actually underway. FOCUS ON THE COUP

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stu31.bsky.social•17 days ago

And you wonder how a politician could become a dictator?

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mearcat1066.bsky.social•17 days ago

Pretty sure this was always the plan. Nothing like creating even more future terrorists but then again who could blame them!

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spiritmantis.bsky.social•17 days ago

A beachhead.

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callidusdominus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Fuck the press. They're treating the Gaza plan like a development deal. They are not treating it as... well, it's like Andrew Jackson! They really are determined to downplay everything that he does, treating it like a reality show. It's disgusting and a failure in their duty of informing the public.

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fimor.bsky.social•17 days ago

Australia is a little more up front. Headline posted by @redback.bsky.social

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solentrach.bsky.social•17 days ago

At least SOMEONE is calling him out. I despair at our media's lack of balanced reporting and eagerness to kiss the ring.

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justrelax70.bsky.social•17 days ago

Australia keeping it real.

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Australians are arguably the only people on earth just as racist as Americans

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lejuan.bsky.social•17 days ago

A very trendy observation - most typically made, seemingly, by white middle-class progressives - that is demonstrably and statistically wrong.

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Imagine thinking anything about Australia is "trendy"
It isn't.

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Learn to take a joke. I could have just as easily made the same crack about the serbs or the Scots or the various flavour of Russian.
It's partly because Australians are Anglos so they're more likely to be noticed by other Anglos. That's how these things work

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lejuan.bsky.social•17 days ago

“Australians are racist” said Wiley, who then reclined into the sofa as those in attendance fell about with laughter.

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clatch.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sideways glance in Afrikaans.

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Them too although personally I count them as Dutch

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mrblifil.bsky.social•17 days ago

The French and English would like a word…

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shmootoo.bsky.social•17 days ago

The English ? You mean the Scots right?

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clatch.bsky.social•17 days ago

Well sure, however human beings have been othering other human beings since we were wandering around wearing animal skins.

There are no clean hands.

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kdneedles.bsky.social•17 days ago

It was Australia that in 1987 rejected a Trump proposal to build a casino due to his "mafia connections."

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dramaticskye411.bsky.social•17 days ago

Cashing in on genocide in Gaza has been on the agenda of Trump's Crime Syndicate for some time.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

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guyver2095.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's your president, you must accept what he says to you.

Don't pretend that you are not wanting USA to invade Gaza or Greenland.

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slfingers.bsky.social•17 days ago

He's not American, you dick.

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guyver2095.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sick deluded pretending reality don't exists.

Pathetic.

https://youtu.be/-ive7OW8P8A?si=hMc9H9N2flQP7B1k

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zenlike.bsky.social•17 days ago

He’s literally not American though.

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bluememe.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sanewashing is itself too tame a term for this.

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prophecy-cat.bsky.social•17 days ago

Intriguing???

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patricknoonan.bsky.social•17 days ago

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dvdbutler.bsky.social•17 days ago

Diasporazation

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jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•17 days ago

Who wrote this? They should walk barefoot in Gaza

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0o-xero-o0.bsky.social•17 days ago

I will never understand why they suck up to that obvious cretin the way they do.

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mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•17 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social/post/3lhgs2jvdfc2v

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mikey32132.bsky.social•17 days ago

Presume they'll be discussing the previous and similar 'move Jews to Europe' suggestion.

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shelly0z.bsky.social•17 days ago

Craven as usual

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wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Not using the word 'genocide' is no lesser evil....

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carogonza.bsky.social•17 days ago

The American press is shit.

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athanklesstask.bsky.social•17 days ago

They accuse him of speaking like a Mafia Don - always in code etc.

But then when he talks plainly they do the work for him in concealing the truth.

Meanwhile Obama could correct someone misspeaking & get hauled over the coals for someone elses error.

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rosiedekat.bsky.social•17 days ago

Murdoch sux

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burnedthumb.bsky.social•17 days ago

Scotland knows that Trump hasn’t worked out the difference between ownership and sovereignty. He can’t believe if you own somewhere you aren’t the boss of it. He’s like a seven year old.

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pfroe.bsky.social•17 days ago

even the BBC!

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isailor56.bsky.social•17 days ago

For a country that couldn’t acknowledge that her wealth was gained on 400 years of free imported labor, the ethnic cleansing of her native population and believe in white supremacy in the end it can’t come as a surprise. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/trails-of-deception-what-palestinians-and-native-americans-share/

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varyaordo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Developing it. It's a new imperialist strategy! That's been done in the Americas for many decades prior, the middle east for oil, and they've even done it in Asia to create cheap labor run by children in sweat shops. Only difference here is mass ethnic cleansing and displacement.

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cylyn2024.bsky.social•17 days ago

Which is so weird, because I remember the Bosnian War, and the Rwandan Geonicide, and then of course we've been watching the destruction of Palestinian and Palestinians in real time. All I know today for sure is that Kamala would never have done this.

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murph612.bsky.social•17 days ago

Perhaps, but she sure didn’t lift a finger to stop Israel from doing it.

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cylyn2024.bsky.social•16 days ago

It wasn't her job at the time

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murph612.bsky.social•16 days ago

Respectfully, I think Dick Cheney proved that’s not necessarily true/ pre-ordained for a VP. And as a candidate for the most powerful job in the world - and the leader of the government that has funded a genocide - that was absolutely the morality section of the interview process.

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cylyn2024.bsky.social•16 days ago

We don't know what she did in the background - she was thrown into the race with 100 days to be everything to everyone. I wish Biden stopped sending bombs and weaponry to Israel once Bibi's goal of decimating Gaza was on full view. What's happening now was always the goal for Trump.

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boffdogg.bsky.social•17 days ago

Meanwhile, over at the Telegraph

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brendanl2011.bsky.social•17 days ago

Quelle Surprise.

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boffdogg.bsky.social•17 days ago

Where the US leads...

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barb99.bsky.social•17 days ago

They took the Jews to a nice fresh place

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mehero.bsky.social•17 days ago

The plan is based on believing that people can be deported and will submit quietly. History says they may remember their homeland for 2000 years, and kill and bomb and terrorise to get it back.

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sungura-mclever.bsky.social•16 days ago

In every other way but “genocide”

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jameswoodfield.bsky.social•17 days ago

How will Starmer describe it? https://bsky.app/profile/jameswoodfield.bsky.social/post/3lhgclacnr223

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ronague.bsky.social•17 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/dmccafferty49.bsky.social/post/3lhgcq7ndxk2i

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jameswoodfield.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thank you.

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brendanl2011.bsky.social•17 days ago

Typical BBC News normalisation of Trump. The "will be seen as" is totally unnecessary whitewash.

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jameswoodfield.bsky.social•17 days ago

At least they’re admitting that Trump will be perceived as condoning crimes.

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stevempars.bsky.social•17 days ago

The media has ALWAYS wanted this. The reporting there has ALWAYS supported the false hardline israeli right. They get to take the gloves off in their genocide support.

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mondosenzatetto.bsky.social•17 days ago

Complicit in the crime.

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execrable.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's not going to happen but Trump loves the idea that everyone is talking about it. Not for any specific reason other than vanity, mind.

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thinkitthrough.bsky.social•17 days ago

War crime.

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notjobloggs.bsky.social•17 days ago

It’s not just ethnic cleansing, although that’s bad enough. No, it’s a business opportunity for Trump.

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stevewelling.bsky.social•17 days ago

does need rebuilding though, and where is everyone going to live whilst this going on? In tents?

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milesbrasher.bsky.social•17 days ago

Where are you going to house them outside of Palestine, that isn't in some massive tent city though?
Nowhere has capacity

Except maybe China with their huge amount of empty real estate (joke)

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stevewelling.bsky.social•17 days ago

well yeah. It's totally unworkable, Palestinians and nearby Arab countries will never agree.
But, Gaza does need completely rebuilding and it's going to take years.

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marksheekey.bsky.social•17 days ago

I don't think this is a serious intention of Trump. He just makes things up as he goes along. Be forgotten in a couple of days.

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policyg.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh no, he’s planning on killing them all. It’s been out in the open for years.

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encantinada.bsky.social•17 days ago

The UK press too though. This was the BBC news site front page. Genocide enablers.

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callidusdominus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh god, what the fuck is the BBC news doing? This is just a classic example of them acting all we're so neutral by not reporting the right being terrible! I live in Britain, and I hate how bad the BBC has got at actually reporting the damn news!

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canislupus1365.bsky.social•17 days ago

Hey, remember how the Beeb was actually pretty darn progressive in the years before Brexit?

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justj1.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's ethnic cleansing

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peanco2025.bsky.social•17 days ago

A simple start for all journos would be to stop calling the Zionists 'settlers' and call them what they really are 'illegal occupiers'.

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micmackinaw.bsky.social•17 days ago

It’s fucking sick! It is an atrocity.

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samarbetmouni.bsky.social•17 days ago

The voluntary surrender of the press in what is supposed to be a democracy….

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daviddutton1969.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm afraid most of the media in the UK is the same.

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stevebasnett.bsky.social•17 days ago

We should and we must call this filth out right now. Not just from CNN, but wherever we encounter it. It absolutely must not become normalised. Challenge it.

For the moment I'm calling it

Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing

...until someone else comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.

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sallyinfrance.bsky.social•17 days ago

Horrendous. After everything Gaza has already been through…there are no words.

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billymac1964.bsky.social•17 days ago

To be fair, they probably went to the same lengths when they ethnically cleansed the native Americans.

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kieronmurphy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Just watch and see how the usual suspects in the UK media follow suit…

This is ethnic cleansing, it’s the greatest war crime since WW2 proposed by Israel and the US any attempt to “wash” it is complicity in that crime

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existential-joy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Right wing media is pretty clear that it's an ethnic cleansing. They're thrilled about it. The cruelty is always the point. https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wire-host-strategic-goal-gaza-now-and-has-always-been-ethnic-cleansing

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mrdissent.bsky.social•17 days ago

Maybe he wants all the Palestinians to move to Mar a Lago? Florida?

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glensidetwo2.bsky.social•17 days ago

Shameful

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kevshaw99.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm just shaking my head remembering the members of the Arab community in Philadelphia who were interviewed for Radio 4's Today programme during the Presidential campaign who said they were voting for Trump because of Biden's handling of the situation in Gaza.

🤷‍♂️

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malemet.bsky.social•17 days ago

I just didn't get it. What, going by past events, did they think was going to happen? There's no excuse for that level of stupid, on their heads be it.

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