It normalises them. It supports the narrative that Israel is just like us, which makes the genocide easier to sell to western electorates. Plus, the morrocan oil exposure has an obvious monetary benefit for pissrael. Companies wouldn’t advertise if it meant a net loss.

Have I enlightened your ignorant ass enough, or do you need me to spell it out even more?

“Hello my dear friend, your excessively muscular husband is outside asking for you. They won’t let him in on account of the firearms he is carrying. Oh hello fine sir, I did not see you there, pleased to make your acquaintance. I’m an heiress of the McDonald laminate empire (no relation hahaha), and have a black belt in karatay, charmed I’m sure. We know each other (pointing at the woman).”

I prefer this because it makes the physical threat more present and believable (and doubly so, bc of the inclusion of the black belt) while also establishing personal dominance.

This is blatant pinkwashing. Supporting a genocide is supporting a genocide, and folks watching Eurovision should be deeply ashamed.

It’s because it normalises them. A huge part of their identity and the way the ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide is sold or justified in the west is through this idea that pissrael is a “civilized” western nation. And a big part of that is them joining in fun stuff with other “civilized” western nations.

Pissrael is able to do what they do because their electorate largely believes that what they’re doing is the right thing, even now. There are plenty of polls to show this (aside from actual election results of course). Dispelling pissraelis of this notion plays an important role in ending the apartheid. And we have a historical example of ending apartheid this way. The exclusion from rugby games and cultural events were a consistent generator of “are we the baddies” moments for white South Africans when they had their apartheid. Avoiding those kinds of moments is very important to pissrael.

Anyway that’s how I see it.

Interacting with Eurovision at all is not ok imo. Aside from gleefully hosting and spreading propaganda (one of Israel’s entries the past two years had blatant genocidal rhetoric in it) for a nation committing a genocide, the main sponsor is an Israeli company. Or at least it was in previous years. I haven’t seen anything Eurovision related this year.

Ah ok I did misinterpret it! Thanks for the correction.

I don’t really understand what you’re saying, sorry.

Oh my bad. What does the meme mean then?

Am I reading this meme right when I think it’s implying that folks are getting over-diagnosed with mental disorders? Because that’s some RFK jr shit. Shame on you.

EDIT: I did misread it, I fully agree with OP.

Billionaires don’t make things

What? Context exists. Historically, we’ve enslaved peoples, we’ve genocided peoples, and so on. And yes, sometimes yhis entails different treatment of those peoples to right those wrongs. Pretending otherwise is some white lives matter shit.

It is worse to say the n word than it is to say cracker, and I will die on that hill.

I disagree. This same argument can be made for a minstrel style depiction of obama. It is precisely their historic use that makes them problematic.

I’m quite pro nuclear, I think the mass decomissioning of nuclear plants that’s been happening in Europe is the wrong move. But this is an incredibly reductive and dishonest meme.

Exactly, people are constantly bombarded with pro-imperialist propaganda from the entire MSM spectrum, and no one is immune to propaganda. The media still don’t call the genocide in Palestine a genocide, they wrote fuck all about East Timor compared to the similar violence in Cambodia that was committed by the “bad guys”, we’re inundated with “BuT aT wHaT coST”-style headlines about the designated enemy state du jour. How is anyone supposed to make heads or tails of any of this without spending a significant amount of time actually educating themselves on what is going on and unlearning the years and years of western propaganda they’ve had to endure?

Try forming a decent opinion while watching star wars with every scene interspersed with talking heads explaining to you exactly why the rebels are terrorists and that the empire is just defending itself. Also you don’t get to see any scene from the perspective of the rebels. Did you know the jedi put babies in ovens?

I don’t want to push back too much, but I disagree with the other poster. You deserve meaningful work, and you seem like an educated person, so probably society as a whole would benefit more if you did something more interesting than fixing the outcomes of poor process. The amount of of human potential flushed down the toilet because MBAs insist on an ill fitting Taylorist approach to managing software projects is, in my view, a great moral harm. It is your professional duty, and in your personal interest, to either push back or move.

That’s completely fair. Individuals did do a lot to change governments minds for the ozone layer. However, there are a lot of people who think that buying into oil companies’ propaganda and recycling or driving electric cars or whatever is the way to drive such systemic change, sadly. Instead of course (as the oil companies intended), all it does is make people feel good about themselves so they’re not motivated to do anything to actually solve the problem.

This exactly. It’s a room full of people wiping the floor with single tissue papers while one guy is spraying the floor with a fire hose. But hey, at least they get to feel good about themselves because they can tell themselves “I did my part”. What else could they do?

That’s all well and good, but relying on individual action to solve systemic problems still doesn’t work. Systemic problems require system-level solutions. We didn’t get rid of the hole in the ozon layer because everyone individually did their part; we got there through regulations, laws, and action on the level of governments.

So what I’m supposed to kiss your feet because the owning class is raking in bags of cash off of you driving up prices on pretty much everything, while we’re left with you getting shitfaced and acting like complete assholes? Thanks I guess.

Sure, but imagine him raping someone and yelling “take that you filthy <some slur for jew>”. The word antisemitic would be in every headline and there would be questions in parliament. And to be clear, that’s the appropriate reaction! It would be really nice if we could extend the privilege (apparently) to muslims as well.

And regarding the information being there when you read the article: Not everyone clicks through to read the article. In fact, I’ll wager that the vast majority doesn’t. As such, headlines have a huge impact on shaping people’s perceived reality. It’s why people have a problem with headlines voiced passively, like “bullet finds way into human’s body”. If you read the article you’ll find that the bullet was fired by an Israeli soldier, and that the human was a 5 year old Palestinian, and that the body part the bullet ended up in was their skull, so all the information is there, so no bias, no lying, right?