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Israel/Palestine

Uncle Joe

(62,840 posts)

12. Everyone uses their own interpretation as to what reality is.

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #8)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:38 PM

Tuesday

One can stare into and argue over what constitutes a knothole in a tree or you give the alarm that the entire forest is burning.

That someone; especially someone in power can even say such a thing, and attempt to justify or normalize this most heinous policy is a celebration of the act.

The acts cannot even exist without the policies or approval; whether tacit or otherwise by those in power and that's a concrete celebration.

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Goddessartist

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LEAKED AUDIO: Israeli Mil Head Celebrates Killing Kids [View all] Uncle Joe Tuesday OP

not exactly 'celebrating' - - - here is what NPR reports .... stopdiggin Tuesday #1

Perhaps, but I see this as a distinction without a difference. n/t Uncle Joe Tuesday #2

and I see no 'celebration' - (unless one chooses to embellish ..) stopdiggin Tuesday #3

I find it irrelevant if someone "celebrates" the murdering of children en masse or if their warped view of the world Uncle Joe Tuesday #5

OK. But then you chose to layer (and prefer?) your own 'interpretation' stopdiggin Tuesday #8

Everyone uses their own interpretation as to what reality is. Uncle Joe Tuesday #12

It's the celebration of having achieved a goal. AloeVera Tuesday #7

I agree with all that you say here stopdiggin Tuesday #10

Sometimes one needs to stopdiggin ... cliffside Tuesday #9

And - the hyperbolic title, is exactly what I am pointing to stopdiggin Tuesday #11

Exaggeration is needed sometimes to wake people up, pay attention and stop making excuses for all the killing ... cliffside Tuesday #13

Irony doesn't seem to exist for these genocide favoring a-holes. I mean how... brush Tuesday #4

OK, you humiliated, you slaughtered, you murdered, everything is true," said the former military chief. AloeVera Tuesday #6