@[email protected] is banning people on lemmy.world’s largest communities for saying that Israel is like the 51st US state. He’s declaring that this is “misinformation”

That Israel exists as a de-facto US state is a fairly non-controversial statement in Israel. But on lemmy.world’s largest communities, where mods are working to distance certain US politicians from the war, it’s now misinformation.

  • davel [he/him]
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    154 months ago

    Of course it is. Hyperbole is not news, and you posted it to .world’s c/news & c/world. You’re trolling. If it were my instance I would have given you a temp site ban.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    It’s still wrong. Israel isn’t a US State or even a territory. They’re a sovereign nation. It is a false statement.

    And for the record, I think Puerto Rico is going to be the 51st state. Or possibly Guam.

  • Mellow
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    4 months ago

    In polite society it is a controversial statement to call another sovereign country a US state. If you if you don’t understand why then maybe you should look inward toward your biases, or maybe understand what it actually means to be a US state. Nice hot take though.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      -64 months ago

      Are you saying Israel is an impolite society? I’m not disagreeing, just want to make that clear.