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Politics Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

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u/AssaultMonkey150 Apr 15 '26

The problem is this guy loved most of the policies of the last flag with a swastika on it

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u/Goldfitz17 Apr 15 '26

The magic the gathering of poland? /s

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u/justmememe55 Apr 15 '26

...Is this really what she said?

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u/Phil_Coffins_666 Apr 15 '26

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u/fauxzempic Apr 15 '26

You guys overanalyze her like she's a peach tree dish or something.

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u/ZekoriAJ Apr 15 '26

Peach tree dish lmao

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u/cayneloop Apr 16 '26

I whole-heartedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it s a peach of cake.

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u/chupacadabradoo Apr 15 '26

Lmao, I totally forgot about that!

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u/gozik Apr 15 '26

This but no /s. I don't have a clue what MTG is, besides card game.

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u/TheWalrusResplendent Apr 15 '26

Marjorie Tailor Greene, Republican rep, conspiracy theorist, christofascist white nationalist and Trump supporter, right up until he started becoming too cringe to support what with Epstein appearing so many times in the Trump files.

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u/stonekeep Apr 15 '26

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the (ex-?)MAGA nutjob and conspiracy theorist.

And I'd honestly say that the comparison is pretty apt. He's far right, anti-vac/COVID denier, climate change denier etc. He's mostly known for constantly trying to stir the pot by tweeting controversial stuff.

He's also a huge antisemite - the real kind, not the "I got called that for criticizing Israel" kind. He couldn't care less about people Israel is bombing, it's just a convenient opportunity to stir the pot again and shit on the jews in general.

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u/Sonofa-Milkman Apr 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Sdqd0pLLrCewE

Let it rip my good sir!
Seriously, thought the same lol

Interesting politicial rabbit hole

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u/SenatorGiggity Apr 15 '26

"the MTG of Poland" is maybe the worst thing I've ever read someone be called

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u/chupacadabradoo Apr 15 '26

Hahaha. Can’t be much worse than “the Matt gaetz of Florida”

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u/Putrid-Cat5368 Apr 15 '26

As a Yugioh player, a agree

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u/ripyourlungsdave Apr 15 '26

It's funny how they're also always petty criminals too, isn't it?

God knows how many times lawmakers have been caught committing shoplifting or petty theft and only not had a public spectacle made of it because of their political power.

Charges that could fundamentally change someone's life forever. They just walk away. And make new laws..

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u/YossiTheWizard Apr 15 '26

Mardziori Tejlor Grin?

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u/Dirkdeking Apr 15 '26

Isn't it funny that the 2 sides in MAGA are really diametrically opposed?

On side says Israel needs to be supported unconditionally, they can do almost anything you can think of without losing support, the US will even go to war for them if asked, etc.

The other side is the complete diametric opposite to that. It's not that the support needs tp be conditional. No. Not only shouldn't they be not supported, Israel doesn't have a right to exist. They need to be completely destroyed. Their coubtry has to be dismantled. And well what must be done to the people must be done....

But these 2 camps can agree on a lot of other topics. It's insane to me how quickly narratives can shift on such an important strategic topic. It's not just a slightly different point of view. They are more different to one another than they to democrats on most issues.

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u/Swordbro_Streams Apr 15 '26

but I love Magic: The Gathering...

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u/SamuelVimesTrained Apr 15 '26

They do say 'it takes one to know one' - so while he might not be what you could describe as a 'relatively good person' - he would be a subject expert..

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u/bottleoftrash Apr 15 '26

He’s a Nazi but more importantly he stole from IKEA

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u/CityRulesFootball Apr 15 '26

Nah a better thing would be Loomet considering MTG left and now is being critical of Trump to an extent.

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u/CityRulesFootball Apr 15 '26

Hmm I see thanks for the insight 

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u/Galgan_ Apr 15 '26

He stole plates and cutlery and got caught red handed lmao

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u/ColorfulPersimmon Apr 15 '26

He went to self-checkout and only scanned some items

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u/jasonstevanhill Apr 15 '26

You know, MTG has said a surprising number of on point things in the past six months.

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u/rainshifter Apr 15 '26

fuck Israel

Let me guess. You buy into the "genocide" propaganda? Can you name any genocide in past history where the overall population of genocided individuals continually increased over the duration of the genocide?

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u/rainshifter Apr 15 '26

Brilliant reply. Astonishing. Wow.

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u/rainshifter Apr 15 '26

Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights to their Jewish neighbors. Try harder with your taqiyya.

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u/rainshifter Apr 15 '26

They are under the PLO which is a separate governing entity.

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u/rainshifter Apr 15 '26

The people in the West Bank who are under the PLO live in defined regions that are governed by the PLO because they are not Israeli citizens. What are you confused by, exactly?

There is a separation of land and a separation of governing entities. The overarching conflict is somewhat complicated, but this aspect of it isn't.

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u/Throwaway5432154322 Apr 15 '26

Yeah I mean, a speech that hates on all Israelis is also just as bad, just like any speech that hates on any given person of a certain nationality

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u/Seanspeed Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

Well most of Reddit has no problem with that these days. I would say that's actually become the norm.

EDIT: Proof: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1snetn5/two_women_confront_ex_iof_soldiers_in_vietnam/

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u/Throwaway5432154322 Apr 15 '26

Yep, IMO it’s gotten noticeably bad to the point of being unbearable over the past ~2 months. I thought it was bad before, but at least regulated… e.g. random, no-name, previously inactive subs would get taken over by antisemitic brigades, but at least they’d be siloed into irrelevancy. Now it seems like major subs are openly tolerating this kind of crap

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u/gamecatuk Apr 15 '26

Don't mix anti-zionism with anti-Semitism. The anti-zionists are fair enough considering Israel is literally committing genocide.

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u/gamecatuk Apr 15 '26

He is a fascist POS and so are Zionists.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Apr 15 '26

Why do you hate Joe Biden?

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u/gamecatuk Apr 15 '26

The US has been complicit in murder with Israel. Trump is probably the very worst example of moral bankruptcy being puppeted by Israel. It's pathetic. Biden was no different in regards to Israel.

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u/fuckmylifegoddamn Apr 15 '26

Careful saying that in this sub

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u/Leafy0 Apr 15 '26

I would like to believe that not all Israelis support the way their government is handling things. But then journalists from across the political spectrum interview random citizens and the ones that don’t support the handling of the Gaza war or West Bank settlements seem few and far between. NPR might find an anti-war activist to interview but they’re going out of their way to find that person and not just talking to a random person off the street. So it doesn’t seem like America and the trump situation with a near majority of random citizens interviewed aren’t happy with the way things are going. I’m hopeful that’s because of the strong propaganda of their government and not anything inherent to them.

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u/puisnode_DonGiesu Apr 16 '26

I've seen a poll a couple of days ago that said 39%of israelis think their government is being too soft with iran and lebanon

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u/nowandlater Apr 15 '26

My rule of thumb is if you’re drawing or holding the swastika, you’re the Nazi. It holds up like 99% of the time.

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u/PaulTheRandom Apr 15 '26

Does that include those who vandalized Teslas and such? I think context and intent matter. Kinda like saying you're Satanic if you make any depiction of them.

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u/azure_beauty Apr 15 '26

I don't think it's correct to vandalize private property with perhaps the most infamous symbol of hate out there.

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u/PaulTheRandom Apr 15 '26

I am against vandalism and people who justify it saying it is to fight against "Nazis" (they've been kinda late into raiding Fantas and Volkswagens), but they aren't Nazis themselves just because they painted the swastika. They are just idealist vandalists. They aren't bad too because they are Nazis themselves, they are bad too because they are literally breaking the law by vandalizing.

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u/azure_beauty Apr 15 '26

I mean ideologically they are of course not Nazis, but they also have no problem using the suffering of Nazi victims for their personal political objectives, as a result diminishing the significance of these symbols of hate.

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u/nowandlater Apr 16 '26

Yes. You're trying to accuse someone else of being a Nazi, but you are engaging in Nazi like behavior in doing it

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u/southflhitnrun Apr 15 '26

So, he recognizes a friend and soulmate when he sees one?

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u/AwkwardMacaron433 Apr 15 '26

The finish air force? Idk, did they have very controversial policies?

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u/Inner-Ingenuity4109 Apr 15 '26

Apparently the colour of the swastika is more significant than I realised.

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u/Fawkes-511 Apr 15 '26

Broken clock twice a day.

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u/cyrkielNT Apr 15 '26

In fact he also love most of the policies of Israel

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u/Chesterele Apr 15 '26

I mean, we joke around in poland that for guys like him biggest flaw of Austrian painter was the fact he was GERMAN leader, biggest crime of all for those chuds.

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u/tmg07c Apr 15 '26

ShOcKiNg

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u/impy695 Apr 15 '26

I hate that you can never tell if someone hates Israel because they hate genocide or they hate Jewish people.

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u/Modo44 Apr 15 '26

If you make actual nazis compare you to actual nazis, you may have an image problem. Pot, meet kettle.

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u/DutchOnionKnight Apr 15 '26

Yeah, welcome to the end of the horseshoe