• BigMacHole
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    3 days ago

    They BETTER be Careful! If they HURT HARM or KILL a US Politician they’ll be getting a VERY STERN Letter with their Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars!

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      2 days ago

      They probably would have gotten a letter of thanks. Trump would have loved it if they killed Ro Khanna since he’s been one of his biggest opponents.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    This kind of treatment of American leaders and luminaries underscores the probable reality that Israel has the US by the balls because their intelligent apparatus has the most vile dirt on every single American politician with any measure of power, even at the state level, as evidenced by Colorado’s supposedly liberal governor pardoning a literal election rigger and traitor.

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    these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun

    The M4 is not a machine gun. And there’s no way to tell where it’s made without close inspection, which I doubt he was able to make. IWI makes several AR-pattern rifles in Israel. The story is bad enough without wild and baseless stuff like that.

    • hcf@sh.itjust.works
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      He’s likely referring to the M4A1 Colt, which the US openly ships to Israel as recently as this year..

      A lot of those rifles make their way to settlers’ hands through various channels.

      And machine gun is just vernacular for a fully automatic rifle.

      Making it loudly known that you’re ammosexual doesn’t detract from the point the Congressman was making, which is that it’s fucking ridiculous to have a bunch of plain clothes teenagers pointing weapons that the US gave them just for visiting a village that they decided to vandalize days prior.

      Red dot vs laser sight, machine gun vs AR, silencer vs suppressor — who gives a shit about the right terminology? You understand perfectly what he’s saying and what happened.

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      Machine gun, assault rifle, whatever. It shoot many bullets make you go owwie.

      It is a US made gun in general and is used by the US military and thus very likely to have been supplied by them I think was the point? Sure it could’ve been made elsewhere, but seeing US military gear used to essentially kidnap a US politician should be a bigger deal than a lot of media is making it.