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[–]JimAtEOI 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]mzyps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

  • RFKJR: Norman Finkelstein says the Palestinians have no rights in the occupied lands. He says they are equivalent to slaves. He says Israel is an ethno-supremacist state.
  • RFKJR, what has the scoreboard been like in the past 10 years, or the past 25 years, or the past 50 years? Palestinians destroy or push out residents from a bunch of Israeli-occupied houses, buildings? Casualties? Imprisonments?
  • U.N. peace-keepers?
  • I sense from you that someone has impressed on you that Palestinians deserve all the oppression, violence, and injustice they've gotten. As much as you or anyone can imagine. What say you?

[–]tsanazi2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for contributing a positive way forward instead of the stale Kennedy and Israel bashing mantras proliferating.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was dealing with this when JK3 made his mistakes.

sigh

History doesn't rhyme it echoes...

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good luck. RFKJr is wholly screwed and there is no out. MAYBE if he'd been for cutting off funding and arms to Israel from the start, but his hard tack to the right wing has left him in no man's land.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RFK is doing an Obama. A lot of lofty rhetoric, but absolutely no substance to speak of. He's deliberately choosing to be a blank slate, hoping the voters project their own politics onto him. Perhaps that's the only way to win a US election now, I don't fucking know, I think it's all a circus.

The problem for RFK is that when he does take a strong position, like he just did on Israel, people will project more than their politics. They will assume he holds all sorts of contrary views, if he openly espouses even one. So his stand may hurt him far more than he realizes, without gaining him much of anything except trying (and failing) to pre-empt the anti-Semitism charges they will eventually use against him like they did Corbyn.

[–]FThumbStay thirsty, my friends 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

His campaign should hire you!