Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.

“We are aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank,” Reuters reported a State Department spokesperson as saying. The official declined to comment further “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones” of the reported victim.

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    You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon. There isn’t the same strong implication in Maple Engineer’s comment.

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      You comment strongly implied

      Oooooh, so now you’re willing to accept implied statements!

      What happened to demanding explicit quotes only? Which implicit is exactly the opposite of.

      And yes, there is the same strong implication in their comment

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        I never said that I wasn’t “willing to accept implied statements”? Their original comment absolutely did not imply they thought that it was only MAGAheads who were ok with Israel killing USAmericans, on the same level that you implied they thought that. You’re like that tweet about “I like waffles” “So you hate pancakes?”. They didn’t say anything about Biden either way…

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          Their original comment absolutely did not imply they thought that it was only MAGAheads

          Yes it absolutely did. Stop being deliberately obtuse.

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            You cut off my sentence. Here’s the full quote.

            Their original comment absolutely did not imply they thought that it was only MAGAheads who were ok with Israel killing USAmericans, on the same level that you implied they thought that.

            Whether or not there was an implication at all is subjective. I don’t think that criticism of one party should be understood to be at the exclusion of another party, but whether or not that implication is there at all is up to you. I think making those sorts of inferences makes it very difficult to have any discussion about politics when criticising some group is meant as condoning another group; in that case any political statement would have to be very long to list all the groups it applies to.

            But I didn’t say that it wasn’t implied at all; I said it wasn’t implied at the same level. Your reply to the original comment would make no sense if you didn’t believe that they only thought MAGA supporters were ok with Israel killing USAmericans. There’s far more ambiguity in the original comment, and I don’t believe it automatically lends itself to your interpretation (which was proven wrong by that commenter saying they don’t believe such a thing), but in any case it is absolutely not the same level of implication as your comment.

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      Not an American, A Palestinian American. The Magazis don’t give a shit.

      Bold mine. Yes there is.

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        Where did they say they only thought it was the “Magazis” who don’t give a shit? You’re like those amerikan liberals who think that criticising genocide joe meant you thought trump was better. You can make a negative comment about one amerikan politician without it being a positive about another. They’re practically the same anyway.

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        Can I point to where I said you said that explicitly? I can point to where I said you said it implicitly though. (emphasis mine)

        You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon.

        You also more or less said it explicitly though, if you want to go down that route. I can’t quote a specific part of your comment because your entire comment is based on this suggestion. (emphasis mine again)

        You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don’t care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?