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He’s done it! He’s found a new hobby!
No way this is real…
Oh, there it is.
What’s your creative process for a post like this? Do you start by following Jews on Twitter, then looking for sequelae? Or do you see a modern habbening and start tearing up the floorboards?
Imagine finding a new hobby when the Jews are out there causing all the evils of the world. SMH my head.
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Your reaction was mine as well. I thought “refreshing something not about the je….awe shucks”
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It's fascinating. I'd love to observe a day in the life of such a person.
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This story reminds me of the old joke about the the two old Jewish guys sitting on a park bench -- one of is shocked to notice that the other is reading White Supremacist literature and asks why. The response: "Where else can I read that Jews control the world and the Holocaust never happened?"
But seriously, it would probably be a good idea for Israel to retaliate against these Leftist-run European countries who are constantly trying to stick their noses into Israel's business and drum up hatred. That being said, the evidence that Israel behind this is rather weak.
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My thoughts too! Like cool anti-immigration, makes sense for a rightward shuffle, I get his bias but hey its progress!!
But then came the "Jews are at fault"... I suppose it can be interesting to read about current affairs from a one-track poster, I would never have heard about this otherwise, my media diet doesn't include much of southern Europe happenings.
Has this not been reported at all in US media?
Over here in the Netherlands it's like frontpage news in mainstream media and it creates a lot of commotion on more European heavy parts of social media as well as far as I can tell. Obviously happenings in Spain will be a bit more relevant for other European countries than in the US, but I would think a seemingly orchestrated event where 50 thousand migrants storm a border and cross illegally into a Western country would get at least a little bit of attention in the US.
It was front and center as “breaking news” on the NYT mobile app when the surge started and is still highlighted as a major item with its own section-header, “Migrant Surge into Spanish Territory” (just checked). Mainstream US news definitely considers it a big deal.
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When I checked El Pais yesterday, it didn't seem to be on the front page of the US (Spanish-language) edition but it was the entire front page of the Spain edition. Today it's on the front page of El Pais in the US and all over our English-language media.
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I mean slight mea culpa, I don't really read the news much these days. I used to use reddit as my news aggregation source, but I've shed that, now I use themotte.org. As you can imagine we don't exactly get a balanced spread but its honestly more informative than the mainstream, and condensed enough that I don't need to spend hours reading through a gaggle of substacks.
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On the front pages of US-based news websites:
Fox: Trump reacts to migrants rushing into Spanish enclave: 'Looks like an invasion'
CBS: Spain sends over 25,000 migrants back to Morocco from Ceuta; dozens dead
NPR: At least 18 die after breach of border between Morocco and Spanish territory of Ceuta
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At least on /pol/ in the last 24 hours, most of the threads about this have brought up the various Jewish connections. Both the extremely tenuous/schizo ones like "Israel tweeted out something about a Morrocan holiday it means they're behind it!" as well as some that could theoretically have something of substance behind them. So I wouldn't doubt it if @SecureSignals isn't effectively outsourcing a lot of the research for posts like these to /pol/ and certain corners of Twitter.
Alternatively, he is the one posting these schizo theories on pol and the like.
At the very least, I'd imagine there is a lot of connection between the various lunatics seeing the Jews in every shadow
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