For years I’ve thought of busting this famous meme, but I don’t think could do better than this video from ARI. It goes through each panel, noting that it’s either an outright lie or drops crucial context.
https://youtu.be/btVFgqkgkzw?si=YUIz503kVfv6lCdW
A few quick points:
▪️The first panel shows the bulk of the land green, despite much of it being unlivable at the time and not owned or settled. They just color it all green as some sort of collective rights claim for “Palestinians” which is invalid from an individual rights perspective and inaccurate from any sort of state control.
▪️The second panel never existed, but now the white and green switches from collective group claims to actual state control. It was the UN plan, but the day after Israel declared independence all the neighboring Arab states declared war and tried to obliterate Israel and send the Jews to the sea.
▪️Keep in mind, the invading Arab states were never trying to ensure a Palestinian state or any such freedom. They were trying to grab the land for themselves and send the Jews to the sea. If they had won, the land would be controlled by the autocratic states of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc.
▪️The 3rd panel is a lie. The green areas were controlled by Jordan and Egypt, they weren’t “Palestinian land” and those countries would have laughed at that claim back then.
▪️There’s no panel showing Israel taking Gaza from Egypt and and greatly expanding into the Sinai, which they used to strategically defend itself from Egypt trying to launch attacks in another attempt to send the Jews to the sea. But when Egypt stopped being a menace they gave back the Sinai.
▪️The last panel drops all the context that “Palestinian land” was just a series of warring factions with no ability to ever have a remotely functioning state. Because that wasn’t their goal. Their goal has never been to have a government that protects Palestinian rights and land, the primary goal and obsession (as always) is to throw the Jews to the sea.
A more accurate meme will be posted in the comments.
▪️The left keeps using this meme but they don’t actually believe it. If you believe SNAP subsidizes companies to pay below a “living wage” this implies that if you take food stamps away they would suddenly pay a higher, “living” wage. So why not get rid of food stamps, then?!
▪️Except they know, and everyone knows, this isn’t true. Wages are set by supply and demand, not some mythical “living wage” metric. Absent food stamps there would actually be downward, not upward, pressure on wages, because the reality is food stamps subsidize the poor to not work as much as they might otherwise need to.
▪️Without SNAP, some low income people would need to work more hours to make ends meet, increasing the availability of low-skilled labor and lowering wages (all else being equal).
▪️Plus, we all know the left loves and supports food stamps. Which means, by this meme’s logic, they love to subsidize corporate profits. But they don’t really, they just think this ...
▪️Wait, this is the guy libertarians and the new right rave about being a great historian?! This sounds like a clueless meme from The Other 98%, except they wouldn’t add in the bizarre defense of feudal lords. Feudalism didn’t deprive peasants of their livelihoods for abstract goals? This is total fantasy.
▪️Amazon employs 1.55M, so this is less than 2% of their workforce, although these cuts will be to corporate, which employs 350k, so 8.5% of that. The CEO says there is an excess of bureaucracy at Amazon, and AI can automate certain repetitive tasks. Also, much of the cuts will be to HR, which is expected shrink by 15%, yay. Managers and HR are peasants now?
▪️I don’t know the inner workings of Amazon, and neither does Darryl, but this seems to be normal management practice to keep a company efficient and competitive. Given the immense size of Amazon the numbers look large, but far bigger shakeups happen all the time in the private sector. Apparently, under the new ...
▪️This statistic is just made up. The reality is that there hasn’t been a real study on this since 2013, when Pew did a poll. They found that Democrats were actually more than twice as likely as Republicans to report ever using food stamps (22% vs 10%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/
▪️Obviously, those percentages could have changed over the past decade, but it’s very likely that Dems still receive more SNAP benefits. Certainly, without an actual study or poll the claim should be thrown out, as it wildly contradicts a previous study.
▪️The meme probably comes from a 2024 analysis by Social Explorer, which found that 78.7% of US counties with the largest increase in SNAP since 2010 voted for Trump in 2020. But that tells us nothing about the actual number of Republicans (or Democrats) who are receiving benefits, just county-wide trends.
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