• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    These beeper gifts are insane. How would Japan react if the US gave them a fake atomic bomb as a gift on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb drop?

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    “Here’s a symbolic reminder of our terror attack that killed lots of innocent people”

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      Even if it had hurt or killed only the intended targets (who were correctly identified and all), and no one else, you’d have to be some kind of sociopath to celebrate something like this.

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    So he’s given a free pass to wear a sloppy hoodie and no doubt shorts when meeting a head of state, but Zelenskyy gets shit for wearing tidy fatigues…

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      I agree Zelensky should be wearing whatever he wants, but he was meeting Trump not Netanyahu and came in as a representative of state and not as some influencer.

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      On brand for Israel though. There was a popular trend of making pancakes with Rachel Corrie’s face on them after she was killed with a bulldozer

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    I can’t believe it was this guy or Dr. Fucking Oz. There is something deeply wrong with Pennsylvania.

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    Haha, war crime momentos make such wholesome gifts. It can go on the shelf next to gold plated box cutters from 9/11 and a gold plated shower head from WWII.

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    Ladies and gentlemen: your new rotating villain and the excuse the Democrats will use for why they can’t do anything for the next several years.

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    Netanyahu previously gifted a golden pager to President Donald Trump in February during a meeting at the White House.

    Can’t wait for that one to go off

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    What’s the message? I would feel threatened if I received a pager as a gift in that context. Does it signal ‘Bro, we are friends, trust me’? How can this be seen in a positive way?

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      What’s the message?

      " Look at how little we care. We think so little of what you think that we’re going to commemorate the time that we blew up a whole bunch of people with communications devices and we’re going to give it as a victory trophy to this brownshirt shithead that pretends to be a working mans politician."

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    “That was a great operation,” replied Trump, who gave Netanyahu a signed photo of the two of them together in return.

    Joking about war crimes aside, it’s astounding that trumps return gift is a picture of himself.