• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Genuinely makes me wonder if they are told to do this shit before they leave to help spread anti-semitism around the world or something. I suppose it’s just more likely that a fascist society that trains people to only want to hurt others produces awful people who only want to hurt others. If social media existed in the 30s Nazi Germany’s tourists probably would’ve acted the exact same.

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      Blindsiding a total stranger while they’re drinking so that they fall: “It’s just a choke, I mean joke.”

      This probably comes from normalizing everyday cruelty.

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    I know that there is somewhere in SE Asia, maybe Thailand, that has signs everywhere saying Israelis aren’t welcome here because of how terrible the tourists treat the locals.

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      Malaysia doesn’t allow their passports entry anymore, and yeah, there’s back and forth levels of town occupation & rejection throughout Thailand and Sri Lanka

      kinda grim that the only time sex workers will get respect on the normie internet is when a video of thai workers beating the fuck out of some isreali pig in the street gets posted, but I still love seeing the hitlerites get owned

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      Idk about everywhere, plenty of opportunists in every country who don’t care where the money comes from.

      I went to Panama a couple years back and they occupied the fuck out of this one beach. Even importing snacks from across the globe into their convenience stores. Restaurants with signs in hebrew.

      Worst part was that locals weren’t even allowed on the beach IIRC, they checked passports at a checkpoint ~3 miles down the road from the water.

      I can’t say it’s unique to “israelis” though. Plenty of amerikkkans occupying beaches all across Latin America and South East Asia, with the same restrictions applied to locals.

      I even see this trash being applied within America as well. I went to a beach in Florida for an occasion, only to find that in this municipality, private property extended from wherever your house was all the way down to the water, regardless of the tide.

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    My average experience with isn’treali tourists is that they’re a bunch of fascists. The kids are worse because they have no filters.

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    I teach skiing at a resort where they frequently spend vacations, and you can tell. Their kids act like entitled monsters 3/4 of the time. They’ll yell at people they know don’t speak Hebrew, they’ll act as if the world revolves around them, they’ll intentionally do things they know are dangerous to both other people and themselves… I’ve kicked a few out of my classes for being assholes, and I’ve let more of them eat snow from next to port-o-johns that’s made from drainage ditch water. 1/4 of them are fine.

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      Funny you mention the pushing safety boundaries part. That famous diving footage of a guy going too deep and drowning to death was an Israeli who went against the locals telling him not to do it.

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        It’s usually for the sake of being dangerous, too. I’ll say skis have what are essentially blades on either side that cut into the snow so you can turn. They start swinging them around like Link in Super Smash Brothers. I’ll say they’ll get frostbite if they take their boots off and walk around in the snow in socks. Guess what they do.

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      Who would’ve thought a society that teaches its citizens to devalue human life if they don’t look like them behave like this as international tourists

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    It makes sense that Israelis would develop the same reputation as Americans abroad. Entirely free from consequences but somehow more openly fascistic.