• archomrade [he/him]
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    27 days ago

    The joke only works if the reader holds the Islamophobic view that Palestinians were starving because their faith forbids them from eating, and not because Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.

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      27 days ago

      Nah, that’s the commentary. If “starving because of religion” is a silly fabrication, what’s the reality?

      Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.

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        26 days ago

        Israel wants them dead or gone so they can have their land.

        Religion is what they use justify their lack of humanity, but its simple greed and depravity that motivates them to abandon it.

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            25 days ago

            Strange way to evoke Israel’s motivation to starve Gazans by pointing to the religion of the victims.

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              25 days ago

              True! The absurd misdirect almost makes the joke clever, in an underwhelming kind of way. Bit of a groaner really

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                25 days ago

                lmao, the thing you’re insisting is the subject of this cartoon is literally not present in it.

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                    24 days ago

                    Go ahead and point to the character in the cartoon that’s meant to represent israel. I’ll wait.