I really can't understand why people fail to get this.
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the israeli declaration of independence was 76 years ago
Ah yes, opposing genocide is a radical far-left position. Of course.
Sadly in American politics it is, if you support anti-imperialism or the end of capitalism tyranny that makes you a radical leftist (according to the shit libs). I say we wear that as a bage of honor, I am a proud radical leftist.
Dude thinks they’re part of some secret grassroots movement of genocide haters or something.
Congratulations! You've just proven the meme.
Your inability to understand the complexity of the situation and your desperation to boil it down into a small, singular point demonstrates it perfectly.
Ah yes, this is definitely a simple conflict with an easily identifiable black-and-white solution.
This.
So many conversations had where people talk about kamela being a war criminal who loves genocide because she doesn't nuke Israel.
People need to get a grip and get a basic understanding that the world is just not that simple.
Ok, I'll bite. In what nuanced way does Israel deserve the billions of dollars in weapons and funding the US taxpayers fund to continue their genocide when at the same time FEMA isn't adequately funded to respond to the multiple hurricanes in this year alone?
Oh they absolutely don't. If I become dictator of America tomorrow, the SEALs that didn't refuse illegal orders would be sent from Moscow to Tel Aviv on day 3. It's possible there are reasons I'm currently polling pretty low in this year's election.
In what nuanced way would voting for Trump change the amount of funding Israel and/or FEMA get?
Mind you, I'm a North Carolinian. FEMA workers are currently being evacuated from the parts of my state that were damaged by the hurricane because armed Republicans are moving around looking for FEMA workers to murder. That's the attitude toward public disaster recovery the grassroots portion of the Republican party is displaying. These are the folks who booed Trump when he said the COVID vaccines work.
If you can't, I can: They have no intention of increasing spending on the American people and every intention of decreasing it. According to the right, hurricanes don't exist; the Democrats are causing them. Their 'solution' isn't to increase aid for those affected by disasters, it's to demonize Democrats. And the more people you can cause to be affected by disasters, the more people you can demonize Democrats to. The Republican party has no plans to govern the United States or improve the lives of any of its people; they only intend to gather power and wealth for their own elite.
The choice Americans face at the polls this November is "I kinda don't care about anybody" and "I actively hate and want to starve to death anyone who isn't in my billionaire BFF club." Seems I'm in the voter apathy party.
How tf does one "excerpt pressure?"
That threw me for a loop as well. Finally figured out that they meant "exert".
I think by photographing a tire gauge? And including said photograph in a textbook?
You've only had to run so far so good
But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face
And you'll have to deal with
Pressure
- Billy Joel
Like that.
Iranian psyc-ops is going strong on Lemmy. I just hope people are aware of it. Or become more aware of it.
Western settler-colonialism is not “a 1,000 year conflict.” It’s a modern imperialist project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism
Journalist Roger Cohen quoted multiple experts in a New York Times article. Both Cohen and Yuval Shany, a humanitarian law scholar, describe the conflict as being between two indigenous groups, and Cohen argues that calling Israel's establishment a colonial enterprise is "a significant category error." Sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander refers to "colonialism" as "the go-to term for total pollution", and he writes that the association of Israel with colonialism "is seen as effective" -source
Is this the same New York Times that published Screams without Words - source? The same New York Times that worked so hard to manufacture consent for the Iraq War - source? The NYT is a consistent apologist for imperialism. It seems Cohen is working hard to hasbara the situation.
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