Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was “great” to be back.

Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called “'deliberate starvation”.

Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.

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    22 days ago

    The reason y’all have to to deal with trump is because oblivious people like you are okay with fascism as long as it’s a democrat doing it, and now it’s become a part of the tapestry. Pardon me if I don’t give a shit if Americans get what y’all been exporting for over a century.

    Trump didn’t even need to pass new laws to enact a “fascist dictatorship” according to democrats, which begs the question: why the fuck were those laws there in the first place? America been fascist for a while, it just goes on power saver mode every so often.

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      12 days ago

      The reason why we have to deal with trump now is because people like you are so casually easily saying shit like “you are okay with fascism.” You ARE the problem.

      Any idea how many people went to right wing web sites, podcasts, blogs, forums, etc just to escape the PC police who will label anything not fully agreeing with the opinion du jour “fascism”?

      When you make it impossible to have a normal conversation without immediately jumping to Hitler & co, people will go somewhere else where they can speak without immediately being banned. They all went to just mildly more right forums, where they were welcomed with open arms, and where their “I don’t agree with this specific left opinion” quickly changed into “fuck everything about the left”

      What is even sadder is that, if you even read this (most people on the left won’t read anything they can’t 100% agree with) you will immediately go “that is aan fascist lie!” You will take exactly 0 seconds to reflect on your own complicity in trump coming to power because it’s so much easier to just. Blame. The .guy. who. Disagreed.

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        12 days ago

        Biden is literally funding the genocide you doofus. How is that not a fascist? I stg you libs are so brainwashed it’s like talking to a 90s video game character