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[–] lowleekun@ani.social 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If any critique is called antisemitism than you really wash it down until real antisemitism gets swept under the rug. But whom am i kidding, they WANT more antisemitism as it will lead to more hate and that is literally what that fascist government thrives on.

[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

hey go easy on that nail buddy.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UK is Hamas. I knew it all along.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Way to spot the truth!

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is there a word in English that means "Labelling everything you don't like as [extreme negative word] and thus watering down the meaning of [extreme negative word]"?

[–] Uranhjort@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

To "cry wolf", raising a false alarm for attention. In the story the idiom references Peter's sheep are eventually devoured by wolves as he cries for help, which the villagers assume is yet another prank.

Time will tell if truth matches fiction.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

Being a gobshite?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

Reductio ad Hitlerum.

[–] Elkenders@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Semantic bleaching.

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess we need to find a word to capture the atrocities that are being done to people of a certain belief system in the world.

Or should be just call it 'g3n0c1d3'?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sir Keith Stammer has assured me that this isn't genocide. Said so in the House Of Commons. Why would he lie?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

In this particular case Netanyahu is calculating that Starmer is weak and making this accusation will get Starmer to back down in some way. He could actually be right.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does he stammer? And even if he did, it's not exactly a clever nickname. Then again, the "Keith" thing is pretty dumb

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

The name Keith Stammer is not meant to be taken literally 🤣🤣🤣

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are making such a joke of themselves.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Never go full Guiliani.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

Antizionism and antigenocide being called a different thing. I'm so sick of their playbook. It's old and tired and makes me sleepy.

[–] J52@piefed.social 9 points 1 year ago

Zionism uses Jewdaeism to disguise their Fascism.

[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's about time somebody called him a jewish supremacist to his face, live on TV.