• Addfwyn
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    2 months ago

    “Why were your family members occupying Palestine?” If the family members were adults, they were either directly or tacitly supporting all the oppression of the palestinian people up to that point. More likely directly given their likely participating in the IOF.

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      there is always the fringe possibility that they have minimal contact with their family member but worry about them as people often worry about their deployed humvee mechanic brothers and they give tacit support without any understanding of the situation. i’ve run into people like that and found ways to state that the best thing is for them to return home because the Iraqi resistance is not going anywhere. i wonder if they remember i said that in the current context. probably not

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        2 months ago

        My oldest brother was literally one of those people, did welding contracts for the US military in Iraq.

        He’s also an actual neo-nazi so I have long since gone no-contact with him and would not have been particularly upset one way or the other.