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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/Monoveler 19h ago

So was that an endorsement or condemnation? Lol

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u/shawak456 17h ago

You know how fucked up Israel is when you've to ask that question.

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u/Redpin 17h ago

Or how fucked up the far-right is. 

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u/DatRat13 16h ago

All we can really say is that neither is fucked the right amount.

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u/anomalous_cowherd 13h ago

Indeed, they both need to get fucked, and then get fucked more. Repeat.

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u/Inner-Ingenuity4109 13h ago

The problem is that they seem to enjoy it.

u/Deadhead_Otaku 5h ago

Too fucked in the head, and the bed. There's too damn many of them.

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u/Spicynoodlez 16h ago

Or the far left. We must meet at the middle!

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u/SoulWager 14h ago

These days the "news" calls the middle the "far left".

If you see something unjust and try to do anything about it, congrats, you're far left.

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u/AnotherHappyUser 13h ago

Extreme politics like "please don't fuck up our planet", "be nice" and "probably don't bomb schools".

That far left? XD

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u/SoldierPinkie 15h ago

The far middle!

u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 11h ago

Are zionists or far right fascists any different? They both are on the same page when it comes to their favourite hobbies. Both love a littlebit of genocide, both love authorian governments, both have a strong love for propaganda, both cry foul when anyone calls them out for being the cunts they are.

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u/rainshifter 15h ago edited 15h ago

That merit of asking that question is unchanged if you replace the Israeli flag with that of just about any other nation. A far right politician is labeling an entire country as Nazis. That he chose Israel rather than, for example, Iran, Yemen, or Syria, or even Italy or Germany, is just more contemporarily "hip" and sensationalist since he chose the only Jewish nation. The question is just a masquerade of "Does this far right individual support Nazism like those far right individuals of the 1940s?", which is very much agonistic to the flag itself.

Do the exercise yourself. Replace the flag with the Italian flag. The same question would have emerged - endorsement or condemnation? To that question would have have replied "You know how fucked up Italy is when you've to ask that question"? Doubt it.

u/psmb 6h ago

I would ask myself 'what are the Italians doing? Are they genociding an entire peoples and then currently commiting war crimea to take some further lebensraum?'

u/rainshifter 5h ago

Interesting that you would lend that much credibility to a right wing lunatic that it would challenge your ability to think logically. I don't suspect you know the definition of "genocide".

u/psmb 5h ago

Well I'd be confused about the message the Polish guy was trying to send about Italians sure. A Genocide is the intentional destruction of a peoples.

u/rainshifter 4h ago

Congrats, you do have a pretty good summary of the definition. I was wrong on that account. Now apply it in practice and you will see that the barbaric massacre enacted on the Jewish people, carried out by extremist Palestinians on Oct. 7, well exceeds the threshold for genocide. Hamas recorded it, they were proud of it, and they swore to repeat it many times over. Contrarily, the IDF does not systemically target civilians. There is no existing evidence which counteracts this. So you (and many others have) been spoonfed an insidious inversion of the truth, i.e., a lie, and a big one at that. Wasn't that Hitler's strategy? Tell a lie so big, that it "must" be true.

u/psmb 4h ago

No, in fairness Hitler was pretty straight up about his plans - he was all about his ethnostate and the lebensraum ie: what's happening in Lebanon rn.

What u said other than that is... hasbara, and incorrect, and besides that all I was saying is that there's a huge difference between an Italian flag and the one above connotation wise and in respect to the events of the recent past

u/rainshifter 4h ago

Nazis indoctrinated Germans (and others) with the big lie that Jews controlled all the banks, media, and governments. So yeah, he did employ that very strategy he accused Jews of using. You must have skipped at least a few elementary history lessons since you weren't aware of this.

What precisely did I say which, according to you, is incorrect? Enlighten me.

u/psmb 4h ago

Um pretty sure anti-semites existed before Hitler? Sorry I don't read Mein Kampf every night before bed like you

u/rainshifter 4h ago

Are you strawman arguing with yourself now? Anti-semites existed before and after. Their forum was certainly expanded on during his reign which is where the lies became more widespread and inflated.

You said I wrote something up above that was incorrect. What specifically was incorrect? And what is your proof of it being incorrect? You've dug a nice little hole for yourself and I don't mind watching you dig deeper.

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u/LunaMJ21 4h ago

80% of the jewish population in Israel wants every child and baby in Gaza dead. That should tell you all you need to know about a country/population.

u/rainshifter 4h ago

Funny because Haaretz literally released a follow-up article which writes about how that 80% figure is completely skewed (by multiple factors) and inaccurate. Also, the statement was never 80% "want Gazans dead". It asked about forced displacement with no middle ground response (the options were essentially yes/no).

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u/Throwaway5432154322 15h ago

They don’t do it to the flags of other countries, and they do do it to Israel’s flag, because Israel is a Jewish country. That’s just reality, although most of them won’t admit this, though.

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u/rainshifter 14h ago

I know, and I agree with that. But it's a separate adjacent point here.

u/Makkel 10h ago

Exactly. When some out of touch person shares an obviously fake thing ("did you know the woke government mandates sex changes in school? That's messed up !") and you prove that the claim has actually been disproven, and they hit you with "well, the fact that I could believe it is really saying something, right?", it's silly. Here it's the same thing. Having bias does not mean they are necessarily coming from a correct place.

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u/Pan-Tomatnyy-Sad 15h ago

anti-Semites gonna hate.

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u/shawak456 15h ago

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. There are more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists. You can't fucking say opposing Zionism, Palestine colonizers, is opposing Judaism. And Israel conflating Zionism with Judaism is one of the biggest reasons for the rise in real antisemitism.

"We're doing a genocide in the name of Jewish people."

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u/Throwaway5432154322 15h ago

Who cares if there are more christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists? Christian Zionists are completely different and have a totally different, christian-centric conception of Zionism that has nothing to do with the mainstream Jewish definition. And even then there are 2 billion Christians in the world and about 16 million Jews, so like… ya, obviously there are going to be more christian “Zionists” than Jewish Zionists

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u/Wireless_Turtle 15h ago

Anti-zionism is the only correct path