Every now and then I wonder if Iran and crew made a mistake by having their trolls back Trump’s campaign, but then he and his stooges do shit like this.

I don’t know much about how they do things, but they have a pretty long project list

As all of human history shows, countries can in fact be cancer.

This has been going in for ages.

Yes, because America has America has had strategic interests (read: reasons to do imperialism) in the Middle East for ages.

The lobby and Moussad are powerful.

Yes, because they’re allowed to be powerful. There’s a reason no other country gets to manipulate American domestic politics this openly, not even longtime American allies in NATO. If money and a good intelligence agency were all you needed to control the strongest military power in the world everybody would be doing it. The fact of the matter American elites need a reliable thug in the region to do their dirty work for them and Israel does that job well enough that American elites feel the need to protect it from popular backlash. Compare how mainstream media talked/talks about Trump getting bribes from the Gulf States to how Israel’s antics get reported on and you’ll see what I mean; if Israel wasn’t valuable to the people running the show they’d have tossed it overboard a long time ago.

Gotta love it when evil assholes sabotage themselves.

Thinking that Israel controls America is like thinking the knife controls the serial killer because he spends money on sharpening it.

the israeli population is also a victim of the zionists.

The imperial boomerang works in mysterious ways, but still, “victims” is a strong word. They by and large back the choices of their political leaders.

Halal economic devastation.

No she just funded and intends to continue funding the famously non-rapist IDF.

I’d like y’all to direct some of that scrutiny at Janet Mills too.

Okay what would you consider “showing that he got better?” That a person became nicer doesn’t tend to make the news.

Is that such a high bar?

You’re forgetting “who can beat the establishment at the media game.” That’s the real bottleneck here, and either way grassroots campaigns take time to get going. Save for a major upset occurring, this is now a tossup between the libs and the fascists.

Uh… run for election on a platform of anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism?

There are plenty of interesting things about the world wars—hell about the Nazis themselves, but the symbolism just isn’t one of them. If anything it’s so utterly uninteresting that short of being shoved into one’s face (the way the swastika is) there’s no reason for anyone who doesn’t study Nazism for a living to know about SS-style skull and crossbones.

Oh God forbid people become better.

And why should interest in the military directly lead to Nazi symbols?

You think no investigation happened at all?

I, for on, don’t have a bottomless well of trust for pro-Israel establishment media.

Okay there are two problems here:

First the idea that Nazis get to monopolize skulls and crossbones is utterly ridiculous. The same kind of ridiculous as picking fights with Buddhists for using swastikas—and just in case, the idea that Nazi swastikas are oriented differently from religious ones is false; religious swastikas come in all orientations. Second the (very believable) story is that he didn’t know it was a Nazi symbol. At that point the burden of proof is on the accuser.

Minor nitpick: ISIS is explicitly not nationalist. Islamists in general think nationalism is bullshit because it contradicts Islam.

AFAIK the actual Jewish theologians of Israel and their followers tend to back the genocidal right.