Way to go, Florida man

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because if they really were Palestinians, obviously that would’ve been perfectly A-OK?

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    I assume if he had shot Palestinians like he thought he did, DeSantis would have given him some sort of award.

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      It’ll be renamed to the “Holy Land of America” on Google maps any day now, so I guess they’ll all get called “Ameristinians” as a catch-all term.

      OBVIOUSLY /s

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        They’ll probably call themselves Patresortians to reflect how great patriots they are to be proud of making such a terrible place so beatiful (in their minds).

        Same way American emmigrants like to call expats instead of emmigrants

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      Israeli prime minister Golda Meir said she’s a Palestinian.

      The use of the word Palestinian changed over time. Before the establishment of Israel Palestinian was often used specifically to refer to Jews living in the holy land. Lots of Jewish founded institutions like airlines, newspapers, sports teams, orchestras were named Palestinian. They changed their names after Israel was founded.

      The Arabs used Palestinian as their national identity only after Israel was established. The Palestinian identity as we know it today coalesced in the 1960s.

      Before the British Mandate for Palestine, the Arabs in the region tended to identify as Syrian.

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      Somehow the takes responding to this post (tho satirical) just kept getting hotter

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    2 months ago

    Anyone left at the justice department for those hate crime charges? Seems like an open and shut case

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      He used 17 shots and the result:

      sent the two victims to the hospital for their wounds, with one reportedly shot in the shoulder and the other hit in the forearm

      So yes, that was lucky!

      the suspect, 27-year-old Mordechai Brafman, who shot them 17 times, was charged with attempted murder.

      So I guess the shooter was lucky too, he survived the arrest.

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    it will be the year 9999 and we will still be reading about the “Man in Florida”

    BTW Free Palestine

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    2 months ago

    Stand your ground? Anyway, the differences between the brothers, Isaac and Ishmael, are minimal.

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    I love that, no matter who we elect, there’s never any reasonable movement on gun control.

    (That’s sarcasm. I don’t love it.)

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      Biden was pretty shit on police accountability and gun control, but they did implement universal background checks for gun sales. Conversely, the previous Trump administration removed a portion of background checks for mental instability/incompetence.

      So there is a pretty large measurable difference between who we elect on gun control.

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        I’ve been reading about dems making progress on “gun control” through the minimal “background checks” path since Clinton’s brady bill passed in 1993 and supposedly gave us the same exact thing. But somehow here we are 32 years later celebrating it like its new and was ever going to make any dent in the real problem.

        Harris was talking lovingly about her glock on the campaign trail. What a fine example for children everywhere. The centrists have never led the party anywhere in terms of gun control, and never will. They dont care to solve the problem.