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Guy on the left is an (ostensible) ally of Israel
Woman on the right is not.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
He cut off Iran’s supply to Hazsbulla in Lebanon, cut off Iran’s reach to Israel, gave Israel extra strategic lands, let Israel destroy all previous regime’s Russian/Iranian military equipments and now he has announced normalizing relations with Israel.
Then US immediately rewarded him by investment and aid contracts from the other dictatorship gulf countries, who are good dictatorships btw they say USA Good. They invest in the US, ONLY allowed to buy US defense contracts, tie their currencies to the US dollar ONLY and basically keep all their country resources under the exploitation of the US on the mere beautiful American/Western-values sponsored cost of emprovishing and beheading their citziens every fucking month for talking on twitterz and depriving them of their human rights :D
Couldn’t they frame this without the angry bearded Arab vs smiling white woman?
That’s just resting beard face.
That is a good beard though
He doesn’t really look angry to me. And he does have a beard and is Arab so those seem like things that will be in every picture of him.
I’m sure hos photo is from the wanted list and hers is from her bio somewhere, but the juxtaposition just serves to magnify the point.
This is not an image that just comes up if you search him. Oop chose to have this image instead of him in a suit with a kept beard.
Edit: also amplify which fucking point, that people with messy facial hair in headscarves are terrorists?
Edit 2: look at my bias with the messy part, sub in ‘longer’
I think they were attempting to imply he was more dangerous than her and more deserving of being on the list. Its probably true, but tactically chosen pictures make the differences between them more extreme, less than a mug shot of her and a wedding photo of him would, as an example.
I am surprised they didn’t find the classic terrorist photo (holding a weapon) they usually seek out for these headlines.
Compared to what I usually see, this is pretty mild.
No because the left image is what people have been sold as the stereotype of a terrorist.
I mean, that guy is a real literal terrorist. Who was he doing terrorism on behalf of? Please don’t probe that too deeply.
Just, you know… keep this in mind.
But the message is that we should be stereotyping the guy on the left because he’s more dangerous, and not the lady on the right.
And that’s wrong.
we should be stereotyping the guy on the left because he’s more dangerous
He is more dangerous, if you’re a Christian, Alawite, Shia or Druze. Just not if you’re an Israeli.
If you were aware this was stereotyping why did you post it here?
Because it shows that the stereotype were actually American plants.
I feel like we are having a conversation so I won’t just ignore, but I don’t understand at all what you mean by this.
ISIS and Al Qaeda are allies of America and Israel.
And that requires using stereotypes to communicate?
This is a perfect example of how the empire disguises spies, commits terrorist acts with them, launches a racist propaganda campaign against a people using their spy as example, and then it turns out to be their own guy.
This is not a stereotype. It’s literally the guy.
Sanctioning albanese is an abomination.
it’s not true to say al jolani was the founder of al qaeda. He was a part of jabhat al nusra which was affiliated with al qaeda. They split over disagreements and actually wiped al qaeda from Syria.
Whether he’s actually a terrorist is hard to say because the US designates any group it doesnt like as that.
They split over disagreements
“Listen, are we proxies of the CIA or not, guys?”
Whether he’s actually a terrorist is hard to say
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_al-Sharaa#War_crimes_of_al-Nusra_(2012–2016)
Under al-Shara’a’s leadership, al-Nusra Front and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham perpetrated a series of war crimes, suicide bombings, forced conversions, ethnic cleansing and sectarian massacres against Syria’s Christian, Alawite, Shia and Druze minorities. These included the January 2012 al-Midan bombing, which killed 26 people and wounded 63.
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Also, sometimes “terrorists” give up their armed struggle. That’s something that should be encouraged. If you go with the idea of “once a terrorist, always a terrorist” then there’s no incentive for so-called “terrorists” to ever change their ways.
And, from a more practical matter, he’s in charge of Syria now. If the international community wants Syrians to be free, happy and healthy they have to try to work with him. If they cut off all aid to Syria and refuse to work with him, then the only people who will work with him are all the various bad actors of the region. They shouldn’t necessarily fully trust him, but they should give him an opportunity to show he has the best interests of the Syrian people at heart.
Fuck america & tRump in particular
This one pisses me off.
I fixed it.
lmao I wish this meme you made was even an exaggeration
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Calling Iranians occupiers. This level of projection can only come from one type of people.
Not going to bother to respond to the rest of the falsehood in your comment.
I am Iranian and the IRGC are terrorist occupiers. Educate yourself on how violent the regime is against their own people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_executions_in_Iran and the recent women life freedom protests in Iran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman,_Life,_Freedom that led the IRGC to hang nearly 1500 people.
The tweet author in the OP is a mouthpiece for the regime
Additionally I was not saying the author is wrong in this instance, a broken clock is right twice a day, however giving the author publicity is what I take issue with.
How are they occupiers when they’re at least as Iranian as you? Are they occupying themselves? And where is this 1,500 number coming from? Because it doesn’t seem to be coming from Wikipedia. The Western imperialist puppet regime installed after the CIA-led coup was no angel, either. Do want a repeat of that? Because they’ll come in and 1) take the oil and 2) set Iran up for a proxy war with Russia and/or China, just as they did with Ukraine.
Asablackman
Educate yourself on how violent the regime is
Calmly explaining how the Apache and Comanche tribes colonized the Mountain West until it was liberated by the anti-imperialist insurgency of General William Tecumseh Sherman
The tweet author in the OP is a mouthpiece for the regime
Thanks, for the catch, bro. Around here, we only believe news from sources we can trust, like Voice of America and The Times of Israel.
Additionally I was not saying the author is wrong
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You can be anti Israel and anti Islamic Republic you know. nuance
Sure. You can be a full on misanthrope. Just insist you hate everyone and pray for their collective grisly annihilation.
That appears to be the beating heart of the modern MAGA movement.
that kind of post always seem to me like “let me cherry-pick my context to complain about something without providing the real full context”
I wish the left could have gotten its shit together last November.
Sadly, they were under siege from the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” brigades and could not bring their full force to bare.
Hahaha
The Democratic party’s leadership makes that much more difficult than it needs to be and they will keep blowing winnable elections for the rest of us until they are removed from power
Well you got a year until midterms. I’ll ask again. Any plans?
. . . ?
Any plans?
We’re taking over NYC, bro.
Werd. But I meant nationally.
All DNC plants must be ousted ASAP.
So your “plan” as such is to oust DNC plants and . . . what.
So, like, vote to primary the DNC choices in all Democratic elections and vote in a non-DNC choice as a Democrat?
I mean, assuming that’s the idea, that’s not the worst plan I’ve ever heard, but since you’re relying on the Democratic voters and machinery to work for that plan, you’re defeating your own purpose by constantly shitting on them.
Democrats Suck! Vote Democrat! see - that’s, see how that doesn’t - it’s not gonna make it.
What does the left have to do with it?
Instead of taking responsibility for how fucking dumb the average American is, they’ll rather blame one side for everything.
“The left didn’t get their shit together, I’m voting for the right!”
Even if they know the extreme right leaning fascist Republican Party will fuck over everyone who isn’t white, straight, male and rich. How insanely evil and/or dumb do you have to be to think like that?
77 million fucktards still voted against their best interests
And 75 million voted to stop it. If only 2.5 million more could have voted to stop it.
But that gEnOsiDe JoE thing really got 'em good.
Establishment Democrats are currently fighting Zohram Mamdani.
Leftists know what is up. But keep going on about BLUE MAGA.
Leftists know what is up. But keep going on about BLUE MAGA.
Why did you say “Leftists know what is up” instead of “Leftists know what’s up”?
Also, I don’t know anyone who talks about BLUE MAGA except right-wing facebook people.
Establishment Democrats are currently fighting Zohram Mamdani.
Don’t you mean the “LIE-bruls”? Democrats voted for him. If you want to claim Debbie Wasserman-Shulz as the heartbeat of the Democratic party, sure, knock yourself out.
Why did you say “Leftists know what is up” instead of “Leftists know what’s up”?
Do you know about contractions?
It should say “Don’t Disturb” it’s been “Do Not Disturb” for too long. It’s time we embrace the contraction.
Seems like your efforts would be better spent focusing on the dozen or so Democratic campaign consultants and politicians who convinced those 2.5 million to stay home. Unless you’re willing to give up on the whole democracy thing and just impose the leadership you think we need on voters like Lenin or something.
Unless you’re willing to give up on the whole democracy thing
What, by not voting? No. That would be incredibly stupid.
They did and they didn’t vote for genocide.
Didn’t they?
lol
And just look what that protest vote did for those fucking morons. Now the USA is full mask-off fascist. Good job.
Always has been.
At least 75 million people disagree with that assessment.
No they endorse it.
So you have no plans to support the Democratic party at all, and would only consider a national third party in extremely specific circumstances. I’m assuming you’re a US voter (ha), but sometimes that’s not the case.
full mask-off vs mask on …
Time for 9/11 on trump tower
Add to that ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan who has already been sanctioned by the US back in February for the crime of issuing an arrest warrant for a war criminal.
ISIS are the good guys now.
We have always been at war with the UN Special Rapporteur.
War is Peace.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum - The peaceful Roman Empire.
Wow, let’s top discrimination by being racist.
Both can be good or bad independent of their outward appearance.
This meme is what the average American discourse is like
It’s likesomething that could be satirized in Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Yeah the way that it’s positioned, as though through image alone she is self evidently less dangerous than he is, is definitely islamophobic & racist.
He’s projecting the same orientalism back at the empire to illustrate a point. It was never about wearing a beard. Or even about joining ISIS.
It was about not being a politically advantageous ally to the US empire.
There are better ways to make a point. The implication is that he is worse because is Muslim.
The implication is that all the nonsense people have been fed about people being labelled terrorists because they are Muslim or wear a beard was a massive sham. And that the actual ISIS terrorists, not the targets of Islamophobic smears, are getting off the terror list for obeying America and Israel.
You’re saying all oop wanted to do by picking an old photo where the man they label as a terrorist wears stereotypically terrorist clothes was to imply that looks don’t determine who you are?
Yes. I don’t think you know who Trita Parsi is.
I don’t. I did assume oop was a white guy and it seems I was wrong, but regardless of who posted you don’t break down stereotypes by reinforcing them. If he’s not being racist for the sake of it, then either he’s being casually racist because it helps his point or he didn’t double check if his genious takedown on stereotypes actually reinforces them.
Oh, I understand the point they are trying to make. They are just using racism to make it. If you asse everyone is racist toake your point, you’re promoting racism.
I don’t know: it’s inherently ambiguous. How do you know which is the man & which is the woman? Maybe they’re the same person.
Are you possibly misgendering & being racist? 🤨
(I thought the message had more to do with the words than the images.)
And why are the pictures relevant? Because Middle Eastern men are terrorists by default, and attractive women are pure of heart?
Jolani is literally an Al Qaeda commander who is now the dictator, sorry, President of Syria. His thugs are massacring Christians, Druze and Alawites in the same way as his ISIS brothers were doing.
But he is now the darling of the West because he isn’t pro Palestinian and kisses Trumps ring.
What your saying isn’t true.
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He was an al qaeda affiliate, he later wiped al qaeda from Syria with his group.
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There hasn’t been a massacre of Christians as you espouse. There was some aggressive incidents caused by a few but Jolani has been deploying his army to safe guard Christians and their church’s.
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There was 1 incident of an alawaite massacre after which he sent troops to calm things down. And promised to take those to account, we will see if he fulfills this promise.
Other fights with alwaites are with old regime hold outs.
No, he has not been going around massacring people ISIS as you espouse.
- Remains to be seen if he will be pro palestine or not. Israel seems to have been on edge since he’s taken power.
The truth is, it is too early to tell what type Jolani will be.
He was literally Al Qaeda in Syria. He founded and led Al Nusra front which pledged loyalty to Ayman Zawahiri. He split from Daesh and continued to align with Al Qaeda.
He is a Sunni fundamentalist and there have been repeated accounts if Alawites, Druze and Christians being massacred. This is being whitewashed as counter insurgency by Western propaganda.
According to the media he is about to sell out the Golan to Israel so it’s clear he’s a vassal to the US Empire.
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Excuse my ignorance but last I heard they were explicitly not massacarring anyone or taking a strong stance in any way as to not get deposed before they were internally stable? And is the dictator part a jab at coming to power with a coup or is there something else?
The massacres and targeting of minorities by ISiS is being under-reported by Corproate media, probably because Syria is now a vassal state of the US under Jolani.
Here is some information
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c307n9p43z9o
Yes the jab was that Jolani, who was literally the leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, took power and has set out no path to elections, which doesn’t seem to concern the West, provided he does Israel’s bidding.
It is funny how your comment reveals more about your own prejudices than anybody else.
try the meme without the photos- just bullet points and see how far it gets.
This is literally the ‘colorblind’ argument
I mean ISIS and Al Qaeda didn’t attack Israel once. I wonder who funds them. :-)
Joe Wilkinson and Chelsea Peretti.
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I was thinking Adam Scott
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Wtf
Can we please put Joe Wilkinson back on the terror list.
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