• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Remember, reporting that any Palestinians lost their lives during this conflict is not only anti-semitic, it’s anti- American. Israelis aren’t capable of committing violent war crimes. (BTW I’m being facetious, but only a little).

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      10 months ago

      I take issue with your wording: “crimes” are the things that the OTHER side does, while when WE do it, it is ah… something else. (I am also being facetious, but only a little, unfortunately)

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        10 months ago

        That’s very true. When the other side does violence, we call it “crimes.” When we do it, we call it “justice” or “necessity.” Humans are good at justifying whatever they want to believe is true about the “other side.”

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          10 months ago

          This unfortunately is human modus operandi. There isn’t a single person, alive or dead, that has ever done differently. Though some of us are aware of that tendency and fight like hell against our own biases, in order to be better, when and wherever we can.

          Politicians, on the other hand… play by a different set of rules, it seems.:-P On the one hand, it seems easier to just lie to the children then it does to explain whatever needs to be done, especially when they are cranky & dead set against learning (e.g., fluoridating water and iodizing salt = good?), while on the other, corrupt politicians also lie to line their own pockets and achieve their own goals, even if those may be detrimental to those they are supposed to be “serving”. In either case, they lie:-|.

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        10 months ago

        They justifying extreme violence by claiming that they’re squashing “terrorism.”

        Even though the USA, and it’s military-industrial complex, has been the single largest terrorizing force the world has ever seen…

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        10 months ago

        I condemn the Israeli government for slaughtering civilians and committing endless war crimes

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        10 months ago

        The Israeli government sure doesn’t. They know 100% that oppression leads to terrorism. They knew their actions would create Hamas, and they know that giving Palestinians equal rights would end the terrorist cause in an instant. When they say they condemn Hamas, they’re lying. They love Hamas.

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      10 months ago

      Perhaps POTUS should take a leaf from my government’s book. Here in the UK they are struggling to deport enough immigrants, so they want to send them to Rwanda. Since there’s a concern that Rwanda isn’t safe and this would therefore be a violation of our international obligations to genuine asylum seekers, they are considering legislating that Rwanda is safe - regardless of the truth.

      If reality is bothersome - why not simply state that it is not, and make it the law that you can’t say that it is!

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      10 months ago

      Wait, are you being a little or a lot facetious? Bc it sounds like a lot. If only a little, you’re saying you mostly do believe those previous statements.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        Or mostly believe you’ll be called antisemitic/anti-American, not that it would actually be so.