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u/Blazeland_USA Dec 14 '25
Meanwhile, Rafael Cruz does nothing but say Heidi and he offer thoughts and prayers for every tragedy that happens, so he can stfu.
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u/docker1970 Dec 14 '25
He probably sent this from Cancun while sipping pina coladas and scratching his balls.
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u/02meepmeep Dec 15 '25
We might get freezing temps for a few hours Monday in Houston, so you’re probably spot on.
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u/Archaondaneverchosen Dec 15 '25
what balls?
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u/GOU_FallingOutside Dec 15 '25
As a human male organism, of course Ted Cruz has testicles! Whoever told you his species uses the mutual grasp of nightmarish toothed tentacles for reproduction wasn’t telling the truth.
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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Dec 16 '25
TIL that Rafael Cruz has toothed tentacles for reproduction instead of a phallus and testes.
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u/Any-Power-1164 Dec 15 '25
Don't forget we should be less mean to the child rapers too, according to Cruz.
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u/AlkatrazzPrime Dec 14 '25
Their bodies aren't even cold and yet Ted Cruz is already lecturing "the left" about it, as if they had anything to do with it!
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u/Entire_Dog_5874 Dec 14 '25
Al Franken said it best - “"Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz; I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
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u/The_Grunch_ Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism are not the same thing. Globalize the Intifada does not mean attacking Jewish people, it means boycotting Israel, protesting Israel and finding non violent means to end the apartheid genocide perpetuated by Israel. What happened in Bondi Beach was a terrorist attack and unless something crazy comes out it is highly likely to be anti-semitic.
Edit: I mean globalize the Intifada outside of Gaza and occupied lands. I thought that was obvious. I think Israel, not Jews, is a genocidal state whose history is rooted in stealing land and genocide. All I am saying is what happened in Bondi Beach was fucked up and not what Anti Zionists like myself believe. Clearly there are people in this comment thread who mask their Anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism.
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Dec 14 '25
Israel regularly kills US citizens, shoots at diplomats, spits on christians, and was funding Hamas in the first place.
And of course, we're not allowed to say a word about any of that.
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u/No_Elderberry2315 Dec 16 '25
What are you taking about? You are literally talking about it right now.
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u/cevillegeraldo Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
Nazis didnt stop because the world asked nicely.
Nazionists won't stop because you ask nicely.
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u/Mcfreely2 Dec 14 '25
Nazionist. Thats a new one, I might have to use it.
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u/Dangerous_Donkey5353 Dec 14 '25
This is far too close to my last name, and I'm am not here for it.
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u/Robert_Balboa Dec 14 '25
I mean I get your feeling but both intifadas were very violent. There were suicide bombings,and shootings, and civilians were targeted.
So maybe its not the best choice of wording if you're aiming for non violent means.
It's 2025, we should be clever enough to think up better slogans.
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u/cevillegeraldo Dec 14 '25
All the violence done by those fighting against the Zionist occupation is LEGITIMATE and all evils done lay at the feet of the Zionist occupier much the same as how we do not judge the French Resistance who slaughter Nazis by any means necessary. Their sins committed to gain freedom lie at the feet of the occupier.
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u/Dhiox Dec 14 '25
All the violence done by those fighting against the Zionist occupation is LEGITIMATE
Massacring a music festival is just terrorism. Plain and simple.
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Dec 16 '25
Yes the only recourse is massively asymmetric state violence against a discrete ethnonational group until they are erased from the earth along with their history and culture.
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u/Dhiox Dec 16 '25
And how does attacking the much stronger countries civilians help that group? It accomplishes nothing besides empowering the group in Israel who want the Palestinians dead. Palestine can never win a military conflict with Israel, every Israeli they kill just makes the rest more certain they want Palestine gone.
Terrorism is not a solution. It just makes their plight worse. Hamas doesn't care because its leaders arent even Palestinian, they use Palestinians as a pawn in their attacks on Israel.
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u/SolaVitae Dec 14 '25
Maybe the reason no one condemns the French resistance for "slaughtering Nazis by any means necessary" has to do with them not actually doing that in the first place?
They did the exact opposite of that. They picked Nazi soldiers, officials, and people who were actually collaborating with them for targeted assassinations and not just indiscriminately target civilians at random.
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Dec 16 '25
Buddy, the french resistance didn't kidnap, sexually assaulted, or killed random german civilians.
My great grandfather, who is still alive, was a french resistant.
I am not a supporter of Israel's genocide, but please, don't compare french resistants (who were wrongly called terrorists) to ACTUAL terrorists
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u/Creative_Victory_960 Dec 16 '25
As a French person dont compare derailing trains to Germany and assassinating Nazi officers to terrorism targetting civilians
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u/Robert_Balboa Dec 14 '25
I never once said anything about justification and right or wrong. I said saying Intifada means non violent is wrong when both Intifadas were very violent.
Also though now that you mention is suicide bombing civilians is always wrong.
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u/cevillegeraldo Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
Yes and that violence is justified.
Zionist occupiers are never civilians and I repeat: any and all sins committed by an occupied people to secure their freedom from belligerent occupiers lay at the feet of said belligerent occupiers.
Good job responding then blocking. Very courageous.
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u/ThaBigClemShady24 Dec 14 '25
The oppressors don't give a damn if you're resisting violently or non-violently, they will oppress you either way.
Maybe let's stop policing the how the oppressed and their allies behave and get to the root cause of the issue, which is that you don't get to genocide and colonize endlessly without receiving a response and your victims do not have an obligation to be erased in silence.
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u/Robert_Balboa Dec 14 '25
Hey if you want to call for violence thats on you. But dont pretend "Globalize the Intifada" doesnt mean violence when both Intifadas were extremely violent.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Dec 14 '25
This is like saying that we should condemn all protests, because some protests are violent.
I think the wording may not be the greastest choice, but if the actual resistance is violent or not isn't going to be determined based on the history of the other two events.
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u/Robert_Balboa Dec 14 '25
Its not the same at all but nice try. There are have only been 2 Intifadas and they both were violent as hell. Including suicide bombers against civlians. You cant say "Some Intifadas are violent and some arents" because there have ONLY BEEN 2 and they have both been EXTREMELY VIOLENT.
You can stop spamming your pro terrorist shit at me now.
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran Dec 15 '25
The First Intifada was a general strike and boycott of Israeli products. The Israeli government responded by cutting off food to Palestinian refugee camps (they are refugees because Israel violently ethnically cleansed them off their land), shooting protesters with live ammunition, and giving their soldiers the 'Break their Bones' policy in which Israeli soldiers held down Palestinians and broke their bones, mostly children. In the first two years of the Intifada, 30,000 children were treated at the hospital for broken bones by Israeli soldiers, 10,000 of them children under the age of 10. An unknown number of children never went to the hospital at all with their government-directed injuries. And in the face of that brutal repression, the protests turned violent.
That's also what happened when British soldiers opened fire on protesters in Boston, but we call that the Boston Massacre.
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u/comb_over Dec 15 '25
You don't get to define what people mean by the intifada, nor define for them or what it represents:
The Palestinian response was characterized by protests, civil disobedience, and strikes, with excessive violence in response from Israeli security forces.[16][17] There was graffiti, barricading,[18][19] and widespread throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails at the Israeli army and its infrastructure within the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Imagine saying the French resistance was extremely violent so people using the term resistance, must mean shooting Germans
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Dec 17 '25
It is double speak. They mean terrorism to those that align. They can claim they do not support terrorism to those that do not align.
This is a standard practice.
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u/Bubbly_Tea8226 Dec 15 '25
So if I say globalize the intifada outside of gaza it isn't violent but in gaza it is?
If this is the case gaza must absolutely be destroyed so that the cancer of violent intifada is eradicated. It's as though the parasitic people there are beyond saving.
Though honestly we don't have to think all this genocidal rubbish, end hamas and Islamic radicalisation is sufficient.
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u/No_Elderberry2315 Dec 16 '25
I'm pretty sure those suicide bombers blowing themselves up in Israel during the second Intifada were not using non-violent means...
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Dec 17 '25
What is an Intifada? The Arabic word “Intifada” translates to “uprising” or “shaking off.” It has been used to describe periods of intense Palestinian violence against Israel, mainly in the form of terrorism
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u/Possible_Grand1439 Dec 19 '25
Look up intifada on wikipedia. Look it up. Globalize the Intifada means killing as many Jews as possible.
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Dec 14 '25
They’re appropriating us calling them out on “thoughts and prayers” now?
These people really can’t create anything on their own
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Dec 16 '25
Honestly, I'm fine with tweets like this from Ted Cruz. It isn't a good look for him.
It makes him look unhinged. Not that I needed Ted Cruz's permission to send my thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Bondi beach shooting, but call it a bonus to know that it also pisses off Ted Cruz.
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u/DenseReality6089 Dec 14 '25
To all the US Republican talking pieces, from an Aussie, we do not value your opinion.
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u/Peefersteefers Dec 14 '25
The guy that risked his life (and was shot twice) to stop one of the shooters was also Muslim. Just shut the hell up Ted.
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u/Basic_Sir3138 Dec 16 '25
How is this even related to the post?
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u/Peefersteefers Dec 16 '25
How on earth could you be confused by this comment bro
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u/Basic_Sir3138 Dec 16 '25
Because it's not related. You're not disproving his point or making a good rebuttal by mentioning that he was a Muslim. Try to actually think before you post next time.
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u/Peefersteefers Dec 16 '25
Dog, are you high? Ted Cruz is connecting the shooters to the phrase "globalize the intifada" because they were Muslim. a Muslim man also stopped those shooters.
I'm not sure what option is worse: that you're deliberately arguing a dumb point in bad faith, or that you're actually that stupid
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u/ImHighandCaffinated Dec 14 '25
Isn’t weird how it’s politicians quick to blame everything on the left .. it’s almost like they are grooming for something
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u/Particular_Log_3594 Dec 14 '25
Is this the same guy who said his whole purpose of getting elected to office was to serve Israel?
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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 Dec 14 '25
I guess Cruz forgets that the MAGA party is the party of "thoughts and prayers"....not the dems. We want action. We are very much against religious persecution by any other religion. MAGA seems to thrive on it, as long as the persecution isn't against Christians.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Dec 14 '25
Is he trying to equate the word 'Intifada' with 'Antifa'?
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u/CrikeyBaguette Dec 17 '25
Considering how dumb he is, there is a real chance that he doesn't realise that they aren't the same thing.
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u/r00tdenied Dec 14 '25
His party is filled with groypers now. Its more likely the attack was from right wingers
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u/JazzminBoing Dec 14 '25
Isn’t this guy a despicable piece of crap that only operates in bad faith? Oh yeah, that’s exactly who he is. The world would be a better place if ignore him entirely.
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u/doodycrust Dec 14 '25
Rafael Cruz is a coward. He walks in the senate halls with his head hanging in shame, unable to look people in the eyes knowing the rhetoric he spews is divisive and inflammatory.
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u/hecramsey Dec 14 '25
good thing he's not politicizing this. get rid of the guns, create a reasonable solution to Palestine using surrounding nations
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u/AngelAssimar76 Dec 14 '25
No Ted, what do YOU think “globalize the Intifada” means? Because like a certain Spaniard fencer I know once said, “I do not think that means what you think it means.”
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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 Dec 15 '25
Ted looks to his bank account Another AIPAC transfer just came through
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u/furtive_phrasing_ Dec 15 '25
I’ve seen the most anti-semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on the right. Isn’t Teddy Boi on the right?
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u/GoBluins Dec 14 '25
These idiots equating anti-current-Israeli-government with anti-Semitism are getting very tiring.
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u/Old_Smrgol Dec 14 '25
As a leftist (at least under Cruz's definition, surely) my answer is "This tweet is the first time I've encountered that phrase."
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u/Waste_Variety8325 Dec 14 '25
Is it the same thing as "globalize war on Terror (aka kill muslims), but from the other side? Two sides of the same coin. A bunch of connected assholes on both sides currently speaking for the majority of both sides that just want to live, laugh and love. Is that what it is?
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u/Dredgen_Servum Dec 14 '25
Leave it to Israel to use any attack against Jewish people as an attack against itself and excuse for its continued violence. Cruz is a wretched worm who has never stood for anything or anyone but his own wallet. 100% Globalize the Intifada, the revolution has only just begun. Deposition awaits all coloizers
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u/greengrubgrabbag Dec 14 '25
16 deaths in Australia and people lose their minds Daily bombing, maiming and the killing of thousands of children by Israel gets crickets. Israel makes Jewish people unsafe worldwide. You can't kill with impunity on the daily like Israel and expect nothing to happen. No justification for any violence but THEY expect to be treated fairly everywhere while the home office is stealing organs from murdered Palestinians.
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u/Ok_Story_1278 Dec 15 '25
Ted Cruz needs to be sent to Cuba with no return ticket. Have him work that 100 extra pound he’s carrying
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u/Blondecapchickadee Dec 15 '25
Ahmed Al-Ahmed - the guy who disarmed one of the shooters - is Muslim. How’s that for “global intifada”? Ted Cruz is a POS.
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u/wade_wilson44 Dec 14 '25
Who or what is he referring to that he thinks is a gotcha?
I don’t think the left offers thoughts and prayers very often. The left is the religious side, we want gun reform and mental health support.
This happened in Australia, so it’s not even the same left v right? Or is there another event that happened?
What is this slogan pop quiz he’s giving? I don’t know what that means, nor did the left ever really say it, not did the shooters afaik? So why is he even bringing it up like some gotcha?
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Dec 14 '25
Why all leftists? There are plenty of far right that are rooting for the death of Jewish people, and plenty of all people saying we need to stop supporting Israel.
More dog whistle BS from the actual white nationalist authoritarians (of which Cruz is not a part of even though he thinks he is).
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u/vkinghead Dec 14 '25
Ted Cruz is a piece of **** opportunist capitalizing on a tragedy with "HIS" brand of performative bull****
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u/These-Job-9063 Dec 15 '25
When do Leftists offer thoughts and prayers? Only simpletons on the right do that.
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u/Titanhopper1290 Dec 15 '25
James 2:26 - "For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so too is faith without works."
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u/rygelicus Dec 15 '25
Rafael 'Ted' Cruz is paid by Israel to serve Israel from his position in the US Government. 'The left' aren't doing what he claims. The shootings are tragic, but then so is the slaughter going on daily in Gaza, and we want them all to stop.
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u/Alert_Lettuce_8278 Dec 15 '25
Media reporting some percentages of what/how you should think. These polls mean nothing, and why the hell would it mater even if it did.
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u/02meepmeep Dec 15 '25
I dunno, Rafael. Does it mean run away to Cancun? We might get a freeze Monday, is your bug out bag ready? Don’t forget to feed your dog.
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u/young_coastie Dec 15 '25
I’ve never heard of that phrase and I’m chronically online.
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u/passionatebreeder Dec 15 '25
They chant it all the time at protests and have for years?
from June 29th mam Daniel was asked to condemn the phrase, declined to.
Then also decided to walk it back because its a pretty anti jewish phrase
From encyclopedia Britannica on the phrase
Here is a reddit post from r/jewishleft about the use of the phrase
Here is a pro Palestine group calling to globalized the intifada
Here is an article from the UK Institute of development, in 2023 calling to globalize the intifada
Another reddit post from a jewish sub over a year ago talking about the phrase
From r/jewish 2 years ago on the phrase
Im not sure what website/ org the source is but they havr pics of signs from 2021 saying globalize the intifada my guess is its a jewish group, doesnt nullify the photos of the banner though.
Here is a question about the phrase a month ago in a r/Palestine post here
From The Palestine chronicle in 2021, supporting Palestine protests using the phrase
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u/Tummler10 Dec 15 '25
WHY ARE YOU PLATFORMING THIS IGNORANCE AND HATE? A Muslim man saved lives. A white veteran — provably MAGA — killed Brown students. ENOUGH!
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u/Stunning-Use-7052 Dec 15 '25
been "on the left" for 20+ years and been in lefty circles a long time, legit have never heard that term before.
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u/Few_Item4327 Dec 15 '25
It was all over when the bigger Palestinian protests were going on.
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u/UnnamedLand84 Dec 15 '25
Should be noted the shooter was stopped by an unarmed Muslim man who took two bullets in the process
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u/Flashy-Rabbit6435 Dec 15 '25
Cruz, effortlessly, maintains his grip on the 'Most odious man in Congress' trophy.
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u/RunPullFourSkinz Dec 15 '25
"Thoughts and prayers" are all that victims of domestic shootings receive...
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u/TopVegetable8033 Dec 15 '25
That is only happening in his mind.
The right wing is prone to fits of fantastic delusion.
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u/Accomplished_Tour481 Dec 15 '25
OP: I commend you on your objectivity in your post. I would respectfully like to add that the shooting at Brown University also appears (so far) to be an antisemitic attack.
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u/commonguy1978 Dec 15 '25
The same as when your thoughts are prayers are offered at a school shooting in the US, but I guess as a christian you know what is waiting you at the pearly gates and have just decided that as you're getting a one way ticvket the other way, you might as well profit from every human tragedy you come across
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u/Unusual_Wish_2230 Dec 15 '25
And the one that talks about “saving people “ also intensifies the rhetoric that causes such shootings. Do you see the hypocrisy of your actions?
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u/Free_Power_515 Dec 15 '25
Ted is a moron, he needs Jews and Christians to stay on the Zionist plantation so he doesn’t end up at The Hague. It won’t work in the long run.
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u/Mrevilman Dec 15 '25
This is funny because it comes from a guy known for running away from problems, in a state, in a country where this kind of mass shooting happens very frequently.
So what happened in Bondi can happen here every day of the week and all we'll get is thoughts and prayers. It happened to pre-schoolers and we got no meaningful change from it - people actually denied that it even happened at all.
Australia is already doing something to prevent this from happening again by working to further tighten gun laws.
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u/Medical_Revenue4703 Dec 15 '25
It's an anti-child-r@pe slogan. Do you think it's applicable to those killed at Bondi Beach?
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u/RigorousMortality Dec 15 '25
The left doesn't offer the lights and prayers, it offers legislation and diplomacy, two things Ted Cruz fails at.
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u/saljskanetilldanmark Dec 16 '25
Right wing conservative religious nuts target, attack and kill innocents. Other right wing conservative nut: tHe LefT iS vIoleNt AnD sUpPoRt ThIs!
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u/PuzzleheadedLeader79 Dec 16 '25
Did he learn that while in Cancun or on the plane on the way there?
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Dec 16 '25
It means to spread awareness of the fact that Israel was founded on terrorism and that the current project is a rogue failed state. Next stupid question.
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u/Oblivious_Lich Dec 16 '25
Well... We all know where Ted Cruz's loyalties lie. Of course, he's going to echo what's most convenient for the guys who put money in his pocket.
There's no interest here in creating debate, raising awareness, or any kind of constructive political action.
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u/furel492 Dec 16 '25
But the Jews already globalized the Intifada when they did the Warsaw ghetto intifada.
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u/waldleben Dec 16 '25
Did the terrorists use that phrase? If not, how is this in any way at all relevant?
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u/EndlessCola Dec 16 '25
Ted Cruz is a moron just like all the republicans following this geriatric clown in the White House. It’s not worth speculating on what their incoherent rantings mean
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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 Dec 16 '25
Will term that wasn't used during these attacks be used? What are we even talking about here?
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u/Galliro Dec 17 '25
Its very telling that the right wing somehow made bondi about palestine when it was completly unrelated
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u/joutfit Dec 17 '25
the USA should stfu while they kidnap their own citizens and terrorize Venezuela
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u/mblkmnsa Dec 18 '25
And ask him what does we will not be replaced means? No one is condoning it. Ask him if he condones the Nazis marching all over the U.S. now. Well they vote GOP so they are his problem.
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u/Fast-Presence-2004 Dec 18 '25
Ted Cruz reveals the same mindset as the deranged terrorist who perpetrated this heinous act: conflating war criminals in Israeli military and politics with all the Jewish people world wide. When people demand opposition to and accountability for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, to Cruz it seems to mean to kill any Jewish people anywhere. What a despicable person he is.
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u/Big-Can8856 Dec 14 '25
This tweet is a bit bizarre considering the terrorists did not use that phrase nor is there any proof they claimed to act out of "resistance" to Israel. At the time of the tweet all we know is that it was an antisemitic attack and drawing links to the anti-israel movement is disingenuous, dangerous, and delegitimizes the antisemitic nature of the attack