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The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called "terrorists coming across the border being funded by Jewish money." Yon was speaking at a "Take Back Our Border" convoy in Texas.

In the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the man can be heard claiming that HIAS, a global Jewish nonprofit that works to protect refugees, is responsible for funding terrorists coming to America.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 156 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Descends into?

Are you sure they weren't there all along?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 99 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Indeed. We need a new version of Godwin's law. Something like

The odds of xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, or antisemitism appearing in a conversation is directly proportional to the number of conservatives participating in that conversation.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hence forth this will be known as “Billiams law”

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Texas border convoy removes mask"

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

"descends into," "reveals undertone of," tomatoes, tomahtoes

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 103 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Idk about you guys but I hate Nazis more than I hate illegal immigrants.

Hopefully their power grid can keep up this winter.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I hate Nazis

"Especially Illinois Nazis"

~"Joliet" Jake Blues

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 89 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Jesus fuck I'll never understand these people. So now the Jews are sending Mexicans? Do they hear themselves when they speak? How incredibly fucking stupid that sounds?

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Republicans, bruh. They’re dumber than dogshit.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Less so dumb, more so easily swayed by validation of their internalized racism and homophobia. We gotta remember there are smart assholes out there.

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not that confusing. You figure out who you hate, and then find any possible reason for them to be the cause of all your life's problems, no matter how thin or tenuous.

Luckily, there are always people to tell you both of the above.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

This is not a new theory. This was the motivation for the 2018 Tree of Life shooting, which is the deadliest anti-semitic attack in American history.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My uncle-in-law is convinced that the CCP is sending spies and sleeper agents in droves across the border. There's just no way to reason with this level of delusion.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They get their spies in legitimately or turn people. The fuck would you use a border? You want someone with a legal job.

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[–] nvvp@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Anti-immigration hysteria? Check. Anti-semitic conspiracies? Check. Now all they is some anti-black dog whistles to hit the trifecta. The odds are looking pretty good.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

It's like a horrible game of Bigot Bingo

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 70 points 9 months ago

The only part that surprises me about this is that the convoy isn't called "Take Back Are Country."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 33 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Who's funding *this *rally??

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

putin. As usual.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 11 points 9 months ago

The asshole who tells you that you just need to work harder to get that $2 raise, after purchasing himself a new super truck with the money he definitely earned by working hard.

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[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 51 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Yet this is the same party attacking the left for being antisemitic, and the media never contextualizes their attacks with things like this or their Jewish space laser actual antisemitism.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The so-called antisemitism: pls stop genociding Palestinians :(

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 46 points 9 months ago

I disagree with the word "descends." Aren't their previous racist and otherwise positions equally low? This is a lateral move not a descent.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

Uh oh, quiet part aloud.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How does a group "descend" to a position they never left. That's like saying these conservative shitstains "descended" into racism and xenophobia. They are conservatives FFS!

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think it's funny how the starting point was they're christian nationalist secessionist traitors but OP's red line is anti-semitism.

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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When does free speech descend into incitement?

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

When black people do it.

See: BLM protests

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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In a separate video of the same event posted by Ryan Matta, he also claims that Hamas and Hezbollah "are coming across" the U.S. border. "Venezuela is filled with Hezbollah," he said. "Our borders are wide open, it's our government that's doing it." Yon reposted the video with the caption "Allahu Akbar!"

So is it Jews or Hamas/Hezbollah?

They can’t even keep their shit straight that they are telling people. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

They probably don't know the difference. They're from the same place after all LoL. These people aren't smart.

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was told that 21 year old college students advocating that less children get blown up were the antisemitic ones?

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 9 months ago
[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

I’m shocked

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These people don't know whether to hate or love Jews depending on what their talking heads told them that morning

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They generally hate Jews unless Fox News tells them that Arabs are scarier.

When it's not involving Arabs, then Jews are scarier.

I don't quite understand the hierarchy of fear that's so present in these communities though, but I assume there's sub gradations within the groups like an Israeli Jew isn't as bad as a wall street Jew and a wall street Jew is scarier than a Mexican but not a taxi driver?

I'm probably not racist enough to grasp the nuances of their thinking but I'm among the scary people so I try to catalogue where I am in the moment on the hate scale LoL. Rising the ranks quickly is my current experience.....

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[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 17 points 9 months ago

Been hearing about terrorism in the US for years. Why are they all homegrown?

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

these morons just need someone to hate, 24/7

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