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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Pointing out the fact that Trump is a Zionist and will act in the interests of Zionists is not one of those bad takes.

    However, the specific phrasing promotes the “tail wags the dog” theory, which in my view is backwards, Israel is an asset to American imperialism to a greater extent than Israel exerts control over the US (of course, Israel lobby IS powerful still). Biden put it, if there were not an israel to advance American interests in the region they would have to create one. The tail-wags-dog theory on the other hand lends itself to “ZOG”, a genuinely antisemitic and reactionary slogan, as I understand it. None of us would say that the American govt was infiltrated by Koreans (from the yankee occupation state) or Taiwanese, right? We would see that those countries are if anything subordinate to Washington and not the reverse.