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alt text: A "xit" from user @ChrpngBrd in which he responds to another "xit" from @BlueBoxDave that says "If Israel falls then America falls. It's that simple." @ChrpngBrd's response is a thumbs up emoji, and two stills from The Simpsons S02E19 "Lisa's Substitute." In which, the first image is Martin Prince putting up a poster saying "A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!" and the second image is Bart Simpson putting up a poster that says "A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!"

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 141 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Deranged logic, Israel is not a strategic keystone to the survival of America.

Like, even if one has drunk the Flavoraid enough to think that what Israel is doing is ok and that it’s not an apartheid state that needs the South Africa treatment; in what fucking reality is Israel not eminently replaceable in the role it plays in US foreign policy? if anything, it is a net negative, a dead weight dragging down US relations with the rest of the region.

It routinely takes unilateral action to throw gas on the metaphorical fires of the region. Like, allies have their own goals and ambitions that diverge sometimes, but you’d expect them to converge occasionally and not actively attempt kneecap each others diplomacy.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You’re thinking of real-world geopolitics. These people tend to me more along the lines of “God only blesses the US because we’re helping to bring about the prerequisite conditions for the apocalypse”.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Religious fundamentalists are the greatest threat to modern civilization

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Quite possibly to civilization itself, full stop. Placing fiction before fact is not a sane way to run, well, anything.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate that you used the correct brand of drink mix rather than continuing the Kool-aid slander.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And they only used that because it was cheaper. The entire massacre was carried out with a total of about $16 worth of ingredients.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Israel isn't even America's most important playmate in the middle east.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Israel isn't even in danger of falling.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Bibi's government is though, thank God.