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Thoughts on GDF's new video? (youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml to c/breadtube@lemmygrad.ml

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GDF argues that Zionist lobbying e.g. AIPAC is the main historical reason for US support of Israel, and not Israel's usefulness to the US as a military base.

He bases his argument on the influence of the Israel lobby forcing the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations to prioritize Zionism over American and US capitalist goals.

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (42 children)

This is 100% vibes from me, so I'll edit my comment if someone shows me I'm wrong. I never saw him as a leftist. He seems to be a centrist anti-imperalist, or maybe just anti-American (not a bad take).

Using Pepe the frog is a bit sus.

He might be part of the new breed of reactionaries that have gone anti-US military after the Ukraine war, similar to The Duran, but I'm not yet willing to put him in that club as most of his content is pretty OK.

I think it's fair to label him as a "non-Marxist" and admit that he'll have a bad take from that blind spot.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

He seems very both-sideism lib that still is fundamentally pro-west but not "pro-current west" - this is a contradiction that many dems fall now into. Since its a very idealist position, its no wonder he would align with reactionaries.

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