• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    who started this escalation

    that’s a very careful phrase, that. “this escalation” as though everything was fine back when millions of people were living in an open air prison and the flow of food, water and people was controlled by an adversarial foreign power that was denying them basic human rights, and the problem only started when someone who isn’t any of them committed a terrorist attack. “Look what they made me do to you” is the language of a narcissistic abuser.

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      1 year ago

      When you justify a deliberate war crime by the Gaza government, when you align yourself with terrorists and apologize for them and grasp for justifcations… that’s a VERY bad place to be.

      It’s good that people who are being radicalized and express support for terrorists are being tracked.

      • chitak166@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        🥱

        The problem with the word ‘terrorism’ is it makes you seem like you’re immediately the good guy and anyone who disagrees with you is a bad guy. Even if the “good guys” are killing 10x as many civilians as the “terrorists.”

        More people are waking up to these tactics, so they are becoming less effective. You’re going to have to come up with a new strategy in the future.

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          1 year ago

          A lot of people need to wake up and realize that evaluating conflicts based on uneven casuality numbers is super sick and poorly thought out.

          That it’s the driver for so much mistaken hostility speaks volumes.

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              1 year ago

              The logical corollary to “oh this is awful, one side is taking way more casualties,” is to say “it’s much more acceptable now that both sides are more even casualties.”

              Do you understand why this is morally and ethically bankrupt?

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                1 year ago

                I’m sorry, I’m not going to indulge your mental gymnastics just so you can avoid holding the IDF accountable.