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Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left.
The Free Press ^ | Oct. 13, 2023 | Ilan Benjamin

Posted on 10/14/2023 6:32:59 PM PDT by piytar

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In other news:
A federal judge in Texas ordered the commencement of the discovery phase of a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of knowingly providing funds to benefit Palestinian terrorist attacks.
Stolen elections have consequences.
41 posted on 10/14/2023 9:21:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: piytar

“... I continued to advocate for nuance regardless. I proudly supported Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA+, and feminist causes. I called myself a progressive Jew.”

I bet anything he still is.


42 posted on 10/14/2023 9:23:46 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: imabadboy99
Why is no one talking about the Christian Armenians being genocided right now?

Why is no one talking about the white farmers in South Africa being genocided right now?

43 posted on 10/14/2023 9:28:48 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Another excellent point.


44 posted on 10/14/2023 9:31:32 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: piytar

Bkmk


45 posted on 10/14/2023 10:24:07 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: piytar
More than 75 percent of Jews voted for Democrats in the midterm

Link

46 posted on 10/14/2023 10:26:07 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: jmacusa

Some news gal was interviewing a 13-year old girl that had survived with her grandma, mom and dad. But two uncles and some cousins were killed in the same small Kibbutz.

At the very end the reporter asked her “Do you want revenge for your family?” The girl said “I want peace.” Now granted, she may have been thinking “I want peace - so wipe them all out.”, but I don’t know. I doubt it.

An interview of an older woman whose daughter and grandchildren had been killed was REALLY angry and made it VERY clear how she felt after the years and years of attacks on Israel.


47 posted on 10/14/2023 10:38:06 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: piytar

It is good the author has seen the light when it comes to how progressive Democrats viewed Israel as the predator when it came to the Palestinians. But, bottom line, when it comes to climate change, abortion, gun control, etc he will still be pulling that D lever. Basically, apparently, he has seen the light enough to throw off the progressive label of progressive Democrat and go with just the Democrat label as I think many Democrats are now doing with the crazy extremities of progressivism.


48 posted on 10/15/2023 2:12:06 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: piytar

He’ll probably still vote Democrat and be part of the Kapo Caucus.


49 posted on 10/15/2023 3:36:28 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: piytar

He has a lot of blood on his hands.


50 posted on 10/15/2023 3:42:23 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: piytar
But when you killed my idealism

The sin of pride.

That's why they always think they know better than you rif raf.

51 posted on 10/15/2023 4:31:58 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: piytar
<[>Most of the Populist/Nationalist "Right" in the Anglo-Saxon world is:

- for the rights of the individual over the power of the state

- for decentralized power because centralized power quickly becomes oppressive

- for limited government

- Staunchly in favor of the right to self defense as the first and foremost of all individual rights - that means the right to keep and bear arms

- Staunchly in favor of freedom of speech and against government collusion with tech monopolies to censor free speech and ban any who say what those in authority disagree with. The same is true for college campuses.

- distrustful of unelected bureaucrats who think it their place to overrule the wishes of the voters and make policy for themselves rather than letting democratically elected leaders make policy the people voted for

- against constant foreign meddling and stupid wars

- staunchly in favor of borders, security and the rule of law for sovereign countries....y'know, like Israel for example

- for openness and transparency...in elections...in the actions of government agencies....in Congress....in school boards....in what teachers teach kids in the classroom, in everything.

- for fair rather than pure "free" trade because we recognize that there are massive cheaters like China and because we want to protect national security by maintaining a manufacturing base and because we've seen the devastation inflicted on communities when the factories closed down after the jobs were shipped overseas by corporations - and we don't think the increased stratification of society between a few very rich and many formerly middle class people now reduced to being poor is good for social harmony, political stability or good for anybody except perhaps those few who are ultra rich.

In short, the "Right" in the Anglo-Saxon world champions many things "Good Liberals" always said they favored. Well....did you mean it when you said you supported those things? If so, take a look at where the sides stand today. Do you really think you belong with Hamas terrorist supporting BLM?....or do you have much more in common with us?

52 posted on 10/15/2023 10:40:29 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: 21twelve

“Revenge is mine’’, sayeth The Lord. “I will repay’’.

Well I think the Lord needs to get his tush in gear or contract this out to the IDF.

Every military age Palestinian male has high tailed out of Gaza.

The Israelis had better get a move on or this s**t will never end.


53 posted on 10/15/2023 10:52:17 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Jumper

Maybe so, but I’m pretty sure that if he’s called back to Israel, this time around, he’s not going to worry about the welfare of the Palestinkians that he’s killing.


54 posted on 10/15/2023 10:53:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: reasonisfaith

“1. What’s really going on

2. Who’s really to blame”

I bet within 10 posts you’ll be blaming the West, the US and Christian gun owners. Whereas in real life it’s usually the perpetrators followed by their leadership and supporters.

Occam’s razor please. Life isn’t a spy novel.


55 posted on 10/15/2023 11:10:32 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: FLT-bird
Um, you used "you."

I just posted an article and thought is was of note that a hardcore leftist said, "To friends who dare justify what has happened, you are not friends. You are nothing but Nazi supporters dressed up in leftist intellectual language. To the Palestinians: you have lost all moral authority to claim victimhood."

56 posted on 10/15/2023 11:17:38 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: piytar

addressed to the author (and those like him).


57 posted on 10/15/2023 11:27:38 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

And in case you did mean me, let me clarify where I stand on most topics (which should be obvious to anyone who takes even a passing glance at my posting history):

I am a hardcore Constitutional conservative, pro-God, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, pro-fair trade, pro-real and fair elections, anti-Big Government, anti-Swamp, anti-Biden, anti-Obama (who obviously is running Biden), anti-Hamas, anti-terrorist (yes, redundant), but also anti-head-in-the-sand and thus anti-isolation person. I think Putin is a monster and Ukraine is almost if not more corrupt than Russia (quite an accomplishment).

I also can tell a lot is going on in the background that we are not being told about. Seen lots of theories on FR, some rational and some not.

That is a brief summary. Clarify things?


58 posted on 10/15/2023 11:33:01 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: FLT-bird

Oh, OK. No worries. I missed that. Sorry.

Gave my stand on most things anyway. Got a feeling we are on the same page on about all of them. /smile


59 posted on 10/15/2023 11:34:18 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: Justa

If you pay attention, you’ll see that the ones I blame are the elite cabal.

They have nothing to do with Christian gun owners or with those aspects of the West that made America great.

What’s funny is the cabal is doing this partly to take our eyes off MAGA. But what they’re actually doing is exposing themselves.


60 posted on 10/15/2023 3:23:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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