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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago

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 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Here's a symbolic reminder of our terror attack that killed lots of innocent people"

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

John fetterman, who once held an innocent black jogger at gunpoint with a loaded shotgun because someone set off some fireworks nearby, who was elected to gentrify his town and mainly did his “amazing projects” because his rich dad suddenly was willing to dump a ton of money into the town now that his kid was mayor (on top of paying his kid 50k a year since the mayor gig paid dick)

Also his second election he literally abused his power to release confidential arrest records on his opponent to smear his record. And he only won the first time by a single vote.

He was placed in the mayor gig to gentrify the town and remove “undesirables”. He is a class traitor from the beginning. He is a rich daddy’s boy who never did any serious work and was bank rolled by privilege. He was happy to take his generational wealth and use that to uproot people from “his” town that he felt didn’t meet the “target demographic”. Neolibs loved this because on paper he raised property values! He lowered crime! But he didn’t do this by addressing any systemic issues or helping the community in any real way. He did it by sweeping problems under the rug

Fuck John fetterman. I unironically hope that pager blows up

[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

And here he is celebrating a terror attacks that killed civilians in multiple countries.. Fuckerman can fuck off in his fake working class outfit

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow that is so disgusting. This is why I don’t have heroes.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I forgot to mention he not only has never apologized for mistakenly holding the black jogger at gunpoint (when he had no reason to do so other than being suspicious of black folk in “his” town) he has actively refused to do so. This became a problem during his senate run because of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, which was essentially the same exact scenario except two dipshit white idiots that egged each other on into murdering the innocent jogger they kidnapped for no reason.

The dnc actively worked to downplay the fact that their new wunderkid was a racist shithead because he polled well, aligned with Israel, was a class traitor, etc. they fuckin love fetterman. Now he’s the heel that lets them get gop bullshit pushed through which they love even more (so much that their fucking leadership does it)

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah he fooled many of us Penn residents. The media failed to report this. I’m looking at you John Oliver.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

What a fucking shame.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Have a look at the things Brian Blessed and Christopher Lee have done. Each is worthy of being your hero.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is disgusting. 🤮

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Of course not! That would be promoting terrorism.

State violence isn't terrorism, so it's fine to celebrate it.

[–] cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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…

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A fucking Carhartt no less...

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And then the beeper exploded his arms off like a Palestinian/Syrian child

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dr. Oz just made Fetterman look normal.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

He was portraying himself as a younger sanders like progressive. Right wing politicians keep getting elected by pretending to be left wing populists

[–] whaleiam@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow WTF, the beeper thing is creep as fuck.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

John, I highly recommend that you do not use that beeper.

Or do.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Do it. I don’t give a fuck at this point. Fucking class traitor piece of shit.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

A beeper... Dude,.don't EVER accept beepers from the Israeli government, not if you like your life.

Having said that, you're all a bunch of shit Nazis so go ahead and get yourself killed, it's not like I'll carry anymore

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dude is a clown unfortunately

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hitler gives tall guy explosives

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

This reads more like a threat coming from him.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I swear that week has broken something and revealed so much pent up cruelty towards my part of the world from American shitheads specifically. Didn’t even know they’d care to remember where we are on a map.

And to think I’ve been eying the US as a possible new home not that long ago. Just so icky

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

What the shit.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 2 weeks ago

Shame the stroke didn’t fucking kill him.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“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.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You just can't make this up. Satire is dead.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

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."

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 2 weeks ago

“Have this commemorative from when we killed lots of people”

Sick fucks probably get off over that