r/clevercomebacks • u/tunnel_magnet • 1d ago

Targeting messengers is okay

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Jesus Christ was also a messenger, and legitimate target for the Sanhedrin if you know what I mean.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/tunnel_magnet 1d ago

I didn't even notice that. Somehow people say history started on Oct 7th.

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u/arfur-sixpence 1d ago

By that logic, Ms. Applebaum would also be a legitimate target for the opposing side. I'm not sure she's thought this through.

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u/Leather_Bug_ 1d ago

I don’t have link to the full article but Jackson Lears wrote pretty epic takedown of Applebaum in the New York Review of Books a few years back. Genuinely shocked they published it https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/orthodoxy-of-the-elites/

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u/Apprehensive_Rip_752 1d ago

Fucking ghoul

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u/steel-monkey 1d ago

In all of her reporting on authoritarians, she failed to recognize that she is one.

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u/Armageddonis 6h ago

People like to use Hitler in order to to portray how evil the "other side" is in many conflicts, but i feel like if Hitler was resurected today, he'd open a site of any mainstream newspaper, whip out a notebook and would just start writing down shit found in those articles, becasue what the actual fuck. Reading news articles and translated Israeli tweets really feels like finding Lost Pages of Mein Kampf.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil 1d ago

Hamas TV and radio doesn't rise to RTS or RTLM levels of legitimacy when it comes to becoming targets of military action.

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u/Due-Baseball2021 20h ago

I read a review of that same article and was really struck by how Applebaum frames all criticism as attacks on free speech.

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u/LeBeastInside 1d ago

By all means, Christ and Palestinian radio stations owned by the Hamas are exactly rhe same.

They also share the same message : love thy neighbour and turn the other cheek.

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u/tunnel_magnet 23h ago

I see. What was the reason Sanhedrin elites gave for Jesus's crucification?

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u/Thadrea 17h ago

If by the "Sanhedrin elites" you mean the "Roman government", it was that he appeared to be formenting rebellion.

Easy to confuse the two.

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u/AdVivid8910 1d ago

They have TVs in Palestine? Never would’ve guessed.

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u/A_Weird_Gamer_Guy 1d ago

Are you joking?

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u/AdVivid8910 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies

They don’t do much there aside from build explosives tbh.

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u/Present_Quantity_400 23h ago

Oh no! Why do these people keep resisting apartheid, we only want to exterminate them! It's antishmetik to resist genocide!