Genocide isnt necessarily a bad thing, depending on who is being genocided. Take Nazis and white supremacists, for example....
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Races and cultures get genocided. You don't genocide ideas. You are talking about the extermination of people who don't think like you. This is not part of the paradox of intolerance. Re-education is the only solution barring becoming the monster you are trying to destroy.
I doubt Israel and Palestine had that much of an effect on the New York city mayoral race. Just because this guy is Muslim they are making all these crazy assumptions. Frankly it seems a little racist at this point and super embarrassing to watch
Asking someone running for mayor about international politics seems like a real "sir, this is a Wendy's" moment.
Yes, committing active and rapid genocide out in the open will do that
I was kind of on Iseral's side in the beginning. 1200 dead for no reason?
Then I found out Iseral started murdering peaceful prostestors before Hamas came over. Fuck Iseral and their bullshit.
Israel has a long and fucked up history. They're like a little ADHD fucker in the playground with the huge older brother and a father as the head school administrator. No one dare punch the little fucker in the face.
Whenever someone claims they are "gods people", you're going to have a bad time.
Even Hamas tried peaceful protests in 2017 and Israel murdered them.
Are you talking about the Great March of Return? They repeatedly tried to breach the border fence under cover of the protests. Of course Israel can’t allow that.
I'm with you on this one. What could they do but hvae their snipers target the elderly, children, and disabled? And they were being humane too! They were aiming specifically for the knees so rhat they wouldn't be killed, but just completely disabled for the rest of their lives. Honestly confused as to why Israeli leadership wasn't nominated for a Nobel peace price for that one.
Most of those killed and injured were fighters and members of militant organizations who were attacking the fence or supporting attacks on the fence by burning tires for thick smoke.
Some innocents were hurt, yes. The IDF is far from perfect.
No about the handicapped people in wheelchairs and medics which the IDF sniped.
It was a false flag, obvious from the first tape of the assault at the party
Israelis have been downpressing the Palestinians for as long as there have been Israelis and Palestinians
Me 3 years ago, somewhat ignorant: “I’m okay with sending bombs to Israel.”
Me, today: “I’m okay with ‘sending’ bombs to Israel.”
The important difference between "send them quickly" and "send them fast"
Younger democrats...18-49....the fuck. Doing some heavy lifting with that younger phrase calling 40-50 younger 😂
1/2 of the people in politics in the USA remember eating woolly mammoth burgers, so there's that.
Just goes to show how up to date they are.
What's that bullshit about Mamdani facing criticism about not being outspoken enough against antisemitism?
They'll go on and on about antisemitism (which often is just criticism of a nation-state, so not actually antisemitism), but then it's deafening silence when it comes to racism against black people. Systemic discrimination against people of color is still alive and well in the U.S. But when have you heard this administration talk about it.
Same spin on all people calling for an end of war since Netanyahu decided that being against the genocide was antisemitic.
Same shit when any individual with an even remote arabian origin needs time and again to formally condemn islamist terrorist attacks, otherwise they're instantly labeled terrorist supporters or some shit.
So be prepared to read a lot about "ambiguous position" on antisemitism because no matter what he says or does, they need to slap that label on him.
I wonder how these people would feel when they find out "islamist terrotists" attack muslims more than any other group also.
It's probably the escalation of the genocide. If Israel were to stop committing genocide and move to reconcile and take actions to prevent it in thr future I'm pretty sure most of us would be open to reevaluating our position. Plenty of us like the modern Germany after all.
A non-genocidal apartheid state is still an apartheid state.
Committing genocide tends to turn the public against you.
And somehow that comment is antisemitic. Because the Nazis are Jewish now. I just want people to stop killing other people!
plus funding and censoring protests in colleges where most of the public/voting is does that too.
A tale as old as time. The abused grow up to become the abusers.
I just want people to stop killing other people!
hey, that's antisemitic! think of all the profits weapons companies could make, you're hurting them. what about their freedom?
So all of a sudden
Maybe something happened that caused the shift? Hmm, what could it be?
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