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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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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 32 points 8 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 11 points 8 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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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 29 points 8 months ago

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

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Descends into?

Are you sure they weren't there all along?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 16 points 8 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 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hence forth this will be known as “Billiams law”

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

You're telling me they're not defending Jews they just like the cruelty‽

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Uh oh, quiet part aloud.

[–] nvvp@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 8 months ago (2 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 12 points 8 months ago

It's like a horrible game of Bigot Bingo

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There must have been at least one confederate flag at this shindig.

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[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I’m shocked

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (14 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 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Republicans, bruh. They’re dumber than dogshit.

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[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (7 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 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hate Nazis

"Especially Illinois Nazis"

~"Joliet" Jake Blues

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s a quote from a movie called “the blues brothers” with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

i weep for this generation.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 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.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I’m getting worried.

I planned a vacation to TX for my birthday in early April, because it happens to coincide with the eclipse, and Dallas will be one of the best places to view it from.

So, since I had a lot of points to splurge on, I extended the vacation a bit and we’re going to fly into Houston, hang there for a bit, then spend my birthday weekend in Austin, then Dallas for the eclipse, and back down to Houston to fly home.

Lots of stuff I want to do in each city, and I know the cities are generally lean a bit more liberal, but I’m getting more concerned each day about actually spending my birthday and a monumental celestial event inside an actual civil war.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I live on the border, and you really don't need to worry unless you're pregnant.

[–] WelcomeBear@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You’ll be fine. The average Texan isn’t even aware of this stupid shit and the cities you listed are way more left-leaning than a small town in whatever state you’re from.

This is a few hundred idiots in a state with a population of 30 million people. I saw more people at Costco yesterday.

Some articles have misrepresented it as 1,000 people, but that was a concert in Dripping Springs, a small town outside of Austin (not the border) with Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin. 1,000 people turning out for a musician with Top 40 hits is actually a very poor turnout for being near a city with 1,000,000 people.

This is all just media hype. Edit to add: And politician hype. I’m not sure which one I’m angrier at. They both suck for trying to “make fetch happen.”

[–] Soulg@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Unless some kind of armed violence and wide scale conflict actually breaks out, you'll be perfectly fine. Especially in the cities, most of those people are just as aghast as you.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 9 points 8 months ago

I cancelled my trip for the eclipse. Why mess with texas?

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Your first mistake was planning to go to Texas.

[–] maness300@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Oh this is good.

Maybe we'll see some of that censorship put to good use, now.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When does free speech descend into incitement?

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

When black people do it.

See: BLM protests

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[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 5 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 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. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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