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Post by 123-12277 »

yubblegum wrote: post #142
bambax wrote: post #64

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The US ambassador to France is a convicted felon, father of Jared Kushner. From Wikipedia: «In February 2026, French authorities restricted Kushner’s direct access to government ministers after he failed to attend a summons from Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, sending a senior embassy official in his place. The French foreign ministry cited an "apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial…

Speaking of Jared Kushner, what has happened to our nation that this grifter twit is fronting one of the most strategically consequential negotiations on behalf of this nation? Is there any precedent in our history for what is going on these days?

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Post by hsuduebc2 »

armada651 wrote: post #196
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Female circumcision is often more brutal, but I agree with the stance that any mutilation of children is bad. No matter what you think about circumcision, elective surgeries should simply not be performed on children until they're old enough to make an informed decision about their own body.

Absolutely. I'm kinda surprised that not mutiliation the kids is such a revolting idea that I'm getting down voted for that.

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Post by 8note »

burnte wrote: post #134
throwaw12 wrote: post #69

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> The American ambassador to Canada is also a complete clown Since we are talking about American ambassadors, Mike Huckabee, American ambassador to Israel, doesn't seem like to work for America, it feels like he is an ambassador for Israel

I can understand most of what our conservative party does but I do not understand their obsession with Israel. I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, but that they're doing a lot of inhumane things right now and saying that in the USA right now gets you called an antisemite incredibly fast.

you put it right here:

> I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist

this is to say, you believe that israel should be supported in what it does, and that the inhumane stuff deserves to happen.

you arent in conflict with the conservative party.

if you said the same about nazi germany - that the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, that would be a very explicit support for the genocide.

the government is doing the things you want it to

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Post by 123-12277 »

sequoia wrote: post #229
vrganj wrote: post #159

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* AIPAC is one of the biggest donors to US political campaigns. * Entanglement of tech industries * Israel serves as an outpost of US imperialism in the Middle East. * Shared understanding with fellow Settler-Colonialist state * On a related note, it's a country with a big white-reading population in a mostly brown neighborhood. * Evangelicals believe Israel is where the battle that rings in the Second Coming will ha…

People think AIPAC is some all powerful unique lobbying group, in fact they're not even in the top 10 major lobbyists. Did you know SpaceX gave 5x as much as AIPAC in 2024? AIPAC was also outspent by Coinbase, by Ripple, and several other companies[0]. And this "18th largest lobbyist" position is after a post-october-7 surge in spending. Pre-october-7 (2022) they were ranked forty sixth in terms of spending. Can you…

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Post by mmooss »

pelorat wrote: post #250
JSR_FDED wrote: post #123

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The former Trump US ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra, claimed there were “no go zones” in the Netherlands where politicians and cars were being set on fire. He called it “fake news” of course, then denied having ever called it fake news, and then eventually claimed it was a mix-up of countries. Only the best people!

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This discussion is a cesspool of hate and prejudice. Where are the mods?

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Post by onemoresoop »

mmooss wrote: post #249
hector124 wrote: post #185

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It's considered very anti-semitic in America to be against male genital mutilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Circumc... When Iceland tried to ban it, the ADL had some very choice words about the potential consequences. > Greenblatt sent Iceland's Parliament a letter regarding a proposed infant circumcision ban in that country, arguing that the ban should be rejected due to circumcision's r…

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Circumcision is fine I guess. What’s weird is when it’s not done in a proper setting (hospital) but in a ritual and by some person who is not a medically licensed. Another thing that we should all have a problem with is the non consenting age of 0. Ultimately, at least hire a doctor and do it in sanitary conditions.

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Post by tuna74 »

mmooss wrote: post #249
hector124 wrote: post #185

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It's considered very anti-semitic in America to be against male genital mutilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Circumc... When Iceland tried to ban it, the ADL had some very choice words about the potential consequences. > Greenblatt sent Iceland's Parliament a letter regarding a proposed infant circumcision ban in that country, arguing that the ban should be rejected due to circumcision's r…

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It is totally OK for an adult to choose to be circumcised. It is not OK to do that to babies.

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Post by watwut »

ralferoo wrote: post #198
watwut wrote: post #175

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1.) The journalists were invited. 2.) The ambassador told the cops the journalists are an active threat. That was straightforwardly a lie. This was not "trespassing" event at all.

I don't particularly want to argue, but even if they were invited, if they were asked to leave it would still be trespassing. We also only have their word for it that that's what they told the cops. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, there's no way of telling from what they've have chosen to present us. Personally, I think it's suspicious that the interviewer was clearly recording their conversation on his phone that's…

They were not asked to leave by organizers.

> We also only have their word for it that that's what they told the cops

This part is about what cops told to them. They cops were told they are active threat, the cops disagreed with that assessment and did not detained them.

There is nothing suspicious about anything here, except your intention to twist what was written in the article into something else.

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Post by antonvs »

hector124 wrote: post #191
elric wrote: post #189

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That isn't even the point though. The circumcision itself is perfectly legal in Belgium. The legal issue is with the lack of qualifications of the ones performing them in this case.

Certainly. The part I'm trying to draw light towards is American zionists' bizarre attitude towards circumcision and how eager they are to invoke claims of antisemitism when remotely challenged on it.

You may be overthinking it. Circumcision rates in the US have been as high as 85% historically, and even today are as high as 75% in the Midwest.

A perceived attack on circumcision is an attack on the fundamentalist religion that the Americans currently in power claim to follow.

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