betwixthewires

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

No matter what you think of it, someone's going to try to guilt and browbeat you. Support the Palestinians? You're antisemitic and support terrorism. Support Israel? You're supporting an oppressive apartheid state. So who cares whether you're allowed, this is the world we live in, no matter what you think about anything there's someone out there who's going to call you a bad person for it. Just learn about things before you form an opinion, use your judgment and critical thinking and then figure out the truth of whatever it is.

Personally, I don't support either side. I can see how they both kind of brought each other's retaliation on themselves. I just lament innocent people dying and dislike how it affects me.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Misuse lol. People need to get their panties out of their butthole. You build a photo generator and get mad when someone uses it to make a picture of Marx with tits. Who cares? Crybabies can cry about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's never going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can you see the tip of your nose?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you expect? Communists always block their people from seeing opposing viewpoints, because their ideas don't hold water. They're like a cult.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Seriously, this person has no clue. They're talking about this like it's more of the same old conflict we are all used to. This is of a completely different character than anything we have seen. There will be no concessions, no ceasefire. Israel is fucking mad. And when they get mad they seriously fuck up whoever they are mad at in a very efficient and indisputable fashion. They might offer a ceasefire after they've exacted a very high cost in retaliation. The Gaza strip is royally fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, and also a hero.

Being a terrorist, objectively with no emotional connotations connected, is about tactics. Plenty of freedom fighters use terroristic tactics. Plenty of groups that aren't labelled terrorists use terrorist tactics. A key strategy in warfare is to inspire fear in your enemies. The underdog always has these tactics in his back pocket, and often it's his most powerful weapon. Sometimes he's a brute and a wannabe dictator or aspiring genocide committer, sometimes he's a freedom fighter, often enough he's both.

At the end of the day, all warfare involves killing people for strategic reasons. It's brutal. Hurling mud with the word "terrorist" does nobody any good in understanding the situation. It is very useful though in propagandizing a population and bypassing their critical thinking capability for an emotional reaction. Sanitizing war though as if there's a good boy type behavior and a bad boy type behavior is senseless. In war, the worst things that can happen to people happen to people, always and forever. People engaging in war do what they need to do. Whether its right or wrong depends on whether you buy their narrative about their motivations, and whether you have unwavering universally applied principles of right and wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have no fucking idea man. I just know that Israel doesn't fuck around. Whatever they do, it will be decisive and effective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We aren't making fun of the situation, we are making fun of 9/11 conspiracy theories.

People died then. It was a war then. When can we start making jokes about the world we live in? My sense of humor would horrify you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is incorrect. The Americans seized Loyalists and executed them, the Red Army killed civilians and genocided several ethnic groups, the Chinese did it, the Cubans did it, everybody does it. The distinction between "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" is who controls the narrative after the dust has settled. Warfare is atrocity.

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