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There it is folks.

Remember that name: Chabad-Lubavitch

declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files, released on Friday, includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump.

The memo says that Trump was “compromised by Israel”, that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epsteinworked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch sought to hijack his first term in office.

The memo, written in 2020, formed part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS) and appears among a vast trove of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.

“CHS advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” the memo states regarding his first term. 

Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (21 children)

~~Say the line, Bart!~~ OOPS, I initially misread your post, I thought you were yelling at people who voted for neither Harris nor Trump as a principled anti-Israel position, not people who voted for Trump for supposedly being the lesser pro-Israel candidate. Obviously I didn't vote for Trump, and obviously fuck Trump and his supporters and voters.

Gonna leave the quote tho because it's always One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This-o-clock.


But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this. Countless otherwise pragmatic people who would in any other circumstance choose liberalism by default will instead decide none of this is worth the damage to one’s soul. They will instead support no one, vote for no one, wash their hands of any ordering of the world that results in choices no better than this. And the obvious centrist refrain—But do you want the deranged right wing to win?—should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to ~~make it c~~lose.

— Omar El-Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, correction mine.

[–] Tuscy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

So it’s actually less damning for the soul to vote neither.. because you have no choice in the matter to begin with. It’s a bullshit facade. Contribute to lesser evil or more evil. How about don’t contribute and just let them roll over you because ultimately it mean death anyways but at least this way it’s better for your soul because you didn’t partake in any evil. Sort of like “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” but since we’re all going to hell anyways at least you didn’t pave the road there.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

How about don’t contribute and just let them roll over you

I am not saying to just let them roll over us. Do anything else. Voting is a form of letting them roll over us, it's just the version of getting rolled that lets you feel better than everyone else and serves as a pressure valve for righteous proletarian fury.

[–] Tuscy@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hey buddy I’m agreeing with you 100% I’m not saying you have a choice but to LET them roll over you. It’s a non choice. It’s gonna happen. So this way you still have some dignity. “You’re not firing me, I’m quitting.”

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay fine, but we can fight in ways that are outside of voting. 🙂

[–] Tuscy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Woah buddy, are you calling for some kind of vigilantism? .. you son of a bitch, I’m in.

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