• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    There were liberal billionaires holding purse strings about college students protesting the killings in Gaza. This isn’t a one-party problem. Though Repubs are more blatant about their corruption because they no longer have any shame.

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      5 months ago

      There were liberal billionaires holding purse strings about college students protesting the killings in Gaza.

      What do you mean by the verb phrase “holding purse strings about” here?

      I know what holding purse strings means: one controls the money for an operation hence gets to decide.

      But what does to mean to “hold purse strings about” these protests? You’re saying they were funding them? Or funding reporting? Or funding the schools? Or what?

      What’s “about” mean here?

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      5 months ago

      Zionists aren’t liberals in my book. They’re just a slightly different flavor of fascists who dress up their sick ideology with a Jewish facade rather than the more traditional Christian facade.

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        5 months ago

        Not necessarily- most Zionists are Christians- they have the belief that the apocalypse will be declared by the antichrist at the Temple, so they want Israel to take control of Palestine, demolish the Al Aqsa mosque and rebuild the Temple.

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        5 months ago

        Look up Bill Ackman. There are others, but his name is the one I recognize from hearing about him on podcasts.