letsdestroy.bsky.social
Void boi. Balkan bear-man living in exile in the decadent West. Union thug. Scientific socialist. Neurodivergent. I'm sorry for whatever it was that I said.
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You're right. Palestine is a country. Gaza (part of Palestine) is a territory under illegal Israeli occupation.
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He's got that "family annihilator" energy
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But hey, you do you man.
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It even suggests that the IDF may have intercepted the Madleen in international waters, something they've done to previous flotillas. You're hanging a fairly extraordiny claim on a very feeble thread of evidence and have seemingly decided to die on that hill for some reason.
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Considering the Madleen was en route to Gaza (see last GPS location below), whose territorial waters do not belong to Israel but which Israel illegally controls, the logical explanation is that the IDF did not, in fact, intercept the ship in Israeli territorial waters.
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It's weird how you think taking the IDF's claims at face value with no corroborating evidence makes *you* the smart one.
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"IDF estimates" does not exactly inspire confidence
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You're basing your entire claim on one statement from the IDF, a military that is currently committing a genocide.
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I don't trust the statements of the IDF, sorry
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The Madleen was not passing through Israeli territorial waters.
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Idk Jenny, it seems like Israel is an apartheid state that is intentionally starving to death an unwanted ethnic group
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Why is Israel blockading humanitarian aid from Gaza?
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The Israeli government doesn't care about the hostages and has made very clear they will continue the destruction and ethnic cleansing of Gaza even if they're all returned. The hostage families want Netanyahu to return to the ceasefire which Israel deliberately ended in March.
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Based on the statements of Netanyahu and his ministers, this is categorically false. Additionally, Israel broke the ceasefire in March precisely because they did NOT want to end the war, hostages be dammed.
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Worth recalling that the Oslo Accords created the framework for this "Schrödinger's State".
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At no point since 2005 has Israel actually relinquished control over who or what enters the Gaza Strip. It is a Bantustan without even the nominal independence of say, Transkei. But supporters of Israel will claim, with a straight face, that Gaza is (or was) "100% sovereign".
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Okay I'll bite, what's the true origin of bagels?
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That was a well-aimed brick
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That show fucks
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The Monarch, the Nation, the value, all reified in the same object. We should be worshipping this thing like an idol.
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At this point, this kind of whataboutism feels like a whimpering and half-hearted rearguard action to deflect criticism from what is obviously a genocide. It's pathetic.
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But everything the IDF says can and should be trusted as indisputable fact
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1948 - Israel expels much of the Palestinian population into the Gaza Strip
1967 - Israel occupies Gaza in a war of aggression
2005 - Israel "withdraws" then imposes a blockade on Gaza
2008-9 - Israel kills 1400 Palestinians in Gaza
2014 - Israel kills 2400 Palestinians in Gaza
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You're right, Palestine has the right to defend itself from its genocidal occupying power
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I would despise Israel too if they'd been occupying my land for 58 years. To expect anything less is to deny human nature.
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Do you have evidence for this claim?
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That's not what "human shielding" means. Guerrilla organizations have fought within civilian areas for as long as guerrilla war has existed. Israel uses actual human shields. Additionally, the IDF is thoroughly embedded in civilian areas in Israel. IDF HQ is in the center of Tel Aviv.
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What evidence do you have that Hamas has "deployed the same tactics", much less done so on a "much grander scale"?
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Yeah the US would have a *very* easy time crippling Israel militarily if they wanted to. Won't happen, but it's fun to think about.
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Why settle for just one AIPAC? Let a thousand AIPACs bloom!
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They definitely "prevailed" against the kids throwing stones at tanks by breaking their arms and legs... So I guess he's right?
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Sorry for all the replies, I couldn't think of how to make my answer more succinct.
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as a historically persecuted minority with legitimate fears of antisemitism (mostly from the right), it doesn't sit right with me to smear such a broad (and loosely defined) swath of the Jewish community as "Nazis". Most likely self-ID as Zionists, but their actual thoughts on Israel vary a lot.
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That describes a lot of diaspora Jews, and needlessly antagonizing them by painting Zionists with such a broad brush feeds directly into their (not unjustified) fears of antisemitism. Imo it risks pushing them further towards casting their lot with Israel. I have to say, also, given their status...
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I think most diaspora Jewish Zionists are in denial about what Israel today is. They're supporting the Israel in their head. Usually they're against Netanyahu's govt and sometimes they'll even call the war on Gaza a genocide. But they self-ID as Zionists because support a Jewish state in theory.
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I agree, but people have this cartoon villain view of Nazis thanks to (admittedly enjoyable) films like Inglourious Basterds. Saying Zionists are Nazis flattens the spectrum of Zionism (which is best understood as a form of nationalism imo) and also implies a violent solution.
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It's kind of a thought-terminating cliché and leads to stupid people saying stupid things like "all Zionists deserve to die".
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You went from "Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are Nazis" to "it's a Nazi government" to "everyone who supports Israel is a Nazi", and I don't think that's a particularly useful analysis given the common corollary that Nazis can and should be killed (see below).
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The online discourse is very toxic and crazy-making, although I am more disgusted by the Zionist extremists and ashamed(?) of the anti-Zionist extremists, since the latter are ostensibly on "my" side. REALLY not fond of the "Zionists are Nazis" refrain.
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What if I told you YIMBYism could solve *everything*
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Your anti-Australianism is showing (complimentary)
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Like, in my experience it's about 50/50 lefties/radicals/anarchists (complimentary) vs weird and vaguely right-wing cranks. But I'm working from a rather small sample size.
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Not maligning M-Ls in general, but this is the M-L version of a vaguely right-wing archetype
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It's Internet Tough Guy (Marxist-Leninist)
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stronger by inviting a highly motivated, mobilized and heavily armed USSR to liberate/occupy the entire eastern half of Europe.
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chance of success in the long term. The same would be true if Israel were occupied and the occupying power tried to mass murder everyone who could be called a "Zionist". For that matter, the Nazis themselves tried to kill an ideology (Communism) through mass murder. They ultimately made Communism...