• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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        10 days ago

        Yeah I thought about pointing that out, there were a few other players in it but … yeah, hopefully the English get their shit together one day …

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          9 days ago

          No, not really. A) Zionism predates the Nazi party by quite a bit, and B) it’s pretty well documented that a large amount of European countries supported the establishment of Israel so that they could get rid of their Jewish populations, including England who controlled Palestine. The Nazis did not have a monopoly on antisemitism in Europe, I promise you that.

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            9 days ago

            Not to mention that Sykes Picot was the English and French carving up the MENA area with no regard as to who lived there, post WWI.

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      10 days ago

      Sure, but his American descendants kept the tradition and the excuse alive for centuries after that snazzy hat went out of style.

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        10 days ago

        Well that’s true, but there are a few other snazzy hats they could have used that would have aligned better with that flag or a flag similar to it … I find it odd that religious nutjobs always need a ridiculous hat

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          8 days ago

          The pilgrim fathers fled to the “new world” to escape persecution. They might have been English, but the English didn’t want them.