Latest news as Democratic presidential contender introduces Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at first joint rally as the pair now take on Donald Trump and JD Vance
now to be fair, and maybe shapiro doesn’t even DESERVE my charitability but i’m gonna spare it anyway… we’re all subject to propaganda in our youth and he’s no exception. Apparently his views were more militant back in the 90s when he was in college and he even tried to VOLUNTEER for the IDF.
But … like … back then, we didn’t KNOW the kind of shit we know today. It wasn’t common knowledge or easy to find out for college age (or in my case elementary school age) kids just how BARBARIC the colonizing state of israel was making shit for the indigenous population. Hell, before I KNEW better (to my great shame) I was a snot nosed little zionist when I was little. Because I was also still under the thrall of religion back then too and thought (erroneously) that “israel=always the good guys”.
It’s fairly likely he didn’t know back then the awful shit the IDF gets up to. It’s easy to look back on the past from today and think “oh yeah it’s obvious” but israeli defense force soldiers RAPING palestinian civilians and then israeli statist simps RIOTING to stop those rapists from facing punishment for their crimes was actually NEWS to me not too long ago.
I WANT TO BELIEVE that he didn’t try to sign up for the IDF with the intent of raping and pillaging trapped and marginalized victims of an apartheid police state like some kind of died in the wool mustache-twiddling villain. And I don’t want people pretending as though he was, either.
all in all, his history ain’t a good look, and looks significantly worse than walz’s, who, far from actively agitating for israeli aggression at any point in his life, was just kind of going with the flow possibly not even realizing what he was agreeing to just as many of us used to before we found out the truth.
i’m not gonna hold my breath hoping, but there’s still at least a chance that whoever gets picked might grow a better moral compass and come out against this abject fuckery the state of israel is perpetrating. It’s merely that, between the two of them, my perception is that walz is more likely to evolve his position to the better than shapiro.
now to be fair, and maybe shapiro doesn’t even DESERVE my charitability but i’m gonna spare it anyway… we’re all subject to propaganda in our youth and he’s no exception. Apparently his views were more militant back in the 90s when he was in college and he even tried to VOLUNTEER for the IDF.
But … like … back then, we didn’t KNOW the kind of shit we know today. It wasn’t common knowledge or easy to find out for college age (or in my case elementary school age) kids just how BARBARIC the colonizing state of israel was making shit for the indigenous population. Hell, before I KNEW better (to my great shame) I was a snot nosed little zionist when I was little. Because I was also still under the thrall of religion back then too and thought (erroneously) that “israel=always the good guys”.
It’s fairly likely he didn’t know back then the awful shit the IDF gets up to. It’s easy to look back on the past from today and think “oh yeah it’s obvious” but israeli defense force soldiers RAPING palestinian civilians and then israeli statist simps RIOTING to stop those rapists from facing punishment for their crimes was actually NEWS to me not too long ago.
I WANT TO BELIEVE that he didn’t try to sign up for the IDF with the intent of raping and pillaging trapped and marginalized victims of an apartheid police state like some kind of died in the wool mustache-twiddling villain. And I don’t want people pretending as though he was, either.
all in all, his history ain’t a good look, and looks significantly worse than walz’s, who, far from actively agitating for israeli aggression at any point in his life, was just kind of going with the flow possibly not even realizing what he was agreeing to just as many of us used to before we found out the truth.
i’m not gonna hold my breath hoping, but there’s still at least a chance that whoever gets picked might grow a better moral compass and come out against this abject fuckery the state of israel is perpetrating. It’s merely that, between the two of them, my perception is that walz is more likely to evolve his position to the better than shapiro.