For the country being a white supremacist settler-colonist state that’s doing a slow (now fast) genocide on Palestinians. It’s nice to be on the correct side for once, as I used to believe that Israel controlled the USA and not vice-versa, I’ve learned so much more about the world thanks to leftism. Being a reactionary I was seriously ignorant and in the dark, fueled by dumb ass racist thoughts and a baby’s understanding of the world.

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    I was conservative/libertarian, never antisemitic, always thought nazis were the bad guys, and it was hard for me to see Israel for what it is. I still hold back out of fear of being misinterpreted as antisemitic and I don’t want to encourage antisemitic ideas by accident, or give antisemites any ground to work with. Antisemitism has filled the gaps in so many conspiracy theories for hundreds of years.

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      Zionists worked hard to equate “jewish people” with “israel” and it’s fucked up how deeply they’ve managed to poison that well. It’s like this perverse, somehow-socially-acceptable version of racists screaming “go back to your own country” at poc who were born in ohio.