• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    This is going to sound callous, but when Ben Shapiro complains of bigotry it is worth bearing in mind that he only cares because it is mean words said against Jews (And specifically Zionist Jews). The man does not give a shit about any systematic disenfranchisement of any group in America, and he is only concerned with what he states is antisemitism (Which comes down to antizionism or engaging in personal antisemitic rhetoric) as long as it overlaps with opposition to his agenda.
    He has excused nazis goosestepping while brandishing swastikas before and will do so again, he does not care if someone openly calls themselves a fascist or a nazi as long as their goals align with his zionist neoconservatism.

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      He doesn’t even dislike “mean words said against Jews”, he has historically defended antisemites so long as they were zionists. He hates antisemitism directed at him and maybe his “colleagues” like Prager, but overwhelmingly he doesn’t care about antisemitism.

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      Wasn’t he writing for iirc Breitbart news at a time they were publishing literal antisemitic conspiracy slop? Or maybe another outlet? I swear they talked about it on Chapo. He is deeply pathetic.

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        Yes. Shapiro was at Breitbart during the heyday of Gamergate before he was on Fox. He left because he didn’t like how antisemitic the publication was getting. Ben was all “I can excuse making up racist conspiracy theories about brown and black people invading The West^tm to replace Whitey by seducing white women, but I draw a line at being blamed for it.”

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      Imo nothing you could say about Ben would be callous. You could wish for him to be slowly pushed into a wood chipper feet first and it wouldn’t be callous. This man is chiefly responsible for a ton of suffering and has said monstrous things, he would genuinely deserve it.

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    Fuck this guy and all the Zionist scum that were happy to leverage right wing hate for their Zionist agenda. I have zero fucks to give for anything that happens to any of them.

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    The neocons keep thinking they can return to the glory days of the 80’s through aughts when they had a dependable, fringe right base that they could keep under their thumb. And they keep getting burned by that delusion.

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      First as tragedy (Islamic fundamentalist insurgents trained and funded to fight the Soviets do 9/11) and then as farce (Feral white men fed a diet of 100% ragebait to keep them voting republican go too republican)

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    debate-me-debate-me

    No, leopard, you are not supposed to eat my face! Where did you get such a false idea? I know I haven’t been feeding you and keeping you in a cage, but there’s so many other faces out there for you to go eat.

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    If only the almighty creator had seen fit to gird Ben’s world with a history. Then, and only then, could poor Ben have been able to read from that history and avoid such a predictable pitfall.

    This extremely foreseeable problem is God’s fault.

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    ‘No to demoralization’ How the hell is that supposed to work? “Ben I’m starting to feel like our movement is a miserable, hate filled exercise in futility. Like we’ve abandoned any possibility of a better society because it would require us to admit fault in how we are now. Like maybe my kids and siblings and friends and coworkers and neighbors are right to resent and avoid me.” “No you’re not.”