• NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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    Speaks to human selfishness that “nobody gets it” means to nuke it rather than turn it into a wildlife preserve or something…

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    That’s been the plan of some all along.

    Collect all jewish peeps there, then have them convert to the new christian messiah, or else boom.

    Not joking.

    Some really have been pursuing that plan.

    Gets rethinking the perception management ploys upon us, eh?

    So it’s not really so original a savvy, as much just succumbing to the genocidal psyop.

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    Except isn’t nthis what American zionists want? To bring about the end of the world and make Mr. The Jesus come back? To start the Harmegdon?

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      Except isn’t nthis what American zionists want?

      There is an American doomsday cult that thinks Israel needs to be demolished, because some 3rd century gnostic who was most likely tripping balls while writing Christian fanfic got his work included in the official Biblical texts.

      What this overlooks is how many times the territories in and around Jerusalem have been sacked and plundered, how many genocides the region has endured, and how often the various diasporas native to the region have failed to fulfill any of their goofy eliminationist fantasies.

      Armageddon keeps happening. Antichrists keep emerging. Plagues keep ravishing the land. We must be on the twentieth “Second Coming” by now.

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        some 3rd century gnostic who was most likely tripping balls while writing Christian fanfic

        If you mean the Revelation, it’s a political pamphlet masqueraded as apocalyptic literature, which latter was a popular genre at the time.

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          “The last battle humans fight on all of Earth will be at a big hill called Tel Megiddo just west of Afula” is one hell of a bold claim, though.

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    It’s often said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but it seems vastly more difficult for people to imagine the end of the state, so much so that it’s equated to the end of the world.

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    You’re attributing too much intelligence to the people causing problems. The zealots would continue to fight over the fallout zone.

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    Sure this one was founded in the late 1940s but this is for sure the kingdom of israel from the bible.

    You have to keep the name the same on the map though so I don’t have to abandon the 1920’s era invention of Biblical Literalism that became popular in the 1980s.

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    Giv’em a week’s notice and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

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      Your solution favors the wealthy who have the means to escape. The poor will be the ones to suffer and the elite will continue to peddle their elitism elsewhere.

      As an alternative to your plan, we could give the week’s notice and, when all the elite have escaped, nuke everything but the holy land. Problem solved. “The meek shall inherit the earth” and all that.

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        nuke everything but the holy land. Problem solved.

        No, the existence of said land is the root of the problem.
        Plus you missed the reference but true, a week’s notice would be too short for everyone to leave.

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        Japan’s nukes taught us the most heinous war crime ever committed, twice, remains unpunished.

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      I wouldn’t necessarily want to see Israel and surrounding states vaporized, but I would quite enjoy saying “hey guys where’s Jesus? When’s Jesus coming? Do you think they’re gonna rebuild the temple?” to all the unhinged Christians I know.