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[–] DarkCloud 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A lot of the commenters seem like they would have denounced the french resistance as being terrorists.

I don't think people really understand why "terrorism" and guerilla tactics happen - they come about when there's massive power imbalances.

No government is perfect, leadership and political factionalism gets particularly bad during war, as do the various inhumanities and war crimes. Usually in the hands of the greater power dehumanization is involved in the desire to exterminate, in the lesser power a seething revenge and fearless demand for the right to life to the point of wanting to exterminate the enemy totally.

It is very much true that "one man's freedom fighter is another's terrorist"....

...but in the end we have humans killing humans, and that's the real problem. A problem which is currently serving the US military industrial complex which Israel is contractualy obliged to preference, and much of the US funding for Israel is spent back into that industry.

The war pigs get fat on human blood, and they don't really care whose it is, as long as there's a lot of it. Meanwhile Israel can be seen as aligning with US geopolitical interests, seeking the destabilization of Russias allies and perhaps even annexing oil resources. This is modern rationale for mass killings and war.

[–] Nuke_the_whales -1 points 2 months ago

I just don't wanna hear it from you Westerners. You guys murdered half my people and suddenly you play the moral paragons

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The French Revolution? The system where everyone even slightly suspected of not being loyal to the resistance was executed summarily for spectacle, up to and including its own leader? That's the thing you're going to put your name on and say "if people really cared about freedom, they'd support this"?

Can somebody please remind me why I still use Lemmy?

[–] DarkCloud 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Think you're confusing the French Revolution (violent uprising of the French against their aristocratic rulers during the Enlightenment) with the French Resistance (Underground movement during WW2 that resisted Nazi occupation)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has a very walled off opinion on this stuff, I’d say we name the whole Gaza-Israel thing WARioland and wall it off. Maybe put a glass globe over it and podcast it. We could then name it "Hunger-Games“, because food will be scarce. And, with enough advertising, it would make a profit. Just imagine the podcast stopping and a commentator saying "This handgranade was brought to you by Northrop Grumman" when a grenade is thrown lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ThunderDome if you will

[–] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer 1 points 2 months ago

Two races enter, one race leaves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You know Bob, in all my years commentating I've never seen a Palestinian child fly into so many pieces. The Israeli team is killing it this season! (I feel gross playing along with this.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I like how the UK's barrel goes right up the US's butt. In some circles that might indicate power, but I think the flow of fluids goes a different direction in this instance.

[–] Nuke_the_whales -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just love Americans suddenly moralizing to everyone about war lol

Americans will murder half a country, move on to the next one without so much as an apology, then have the gal to tell the rest of the world what's unjust and what war we should be outraged about

[–] Dead_or_Alive 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love how non-Americans trash our MIC until some big bad shows up like Russia or China. When it’s their countrymen, fathers, brothers, sons and daughters who will be fighting bleeding and dying suddenly we become pretty popular…

[–] Nuke_the_whales 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol pls save us daddy white man

[–] Dead_or_Alive 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No problem, been doing it since we introduced the world to indoor plumbing, penicillin, electricity and space travel.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My Aztec ancestors had indoor plumbing when yours were throwing piss on the streets lol

[–] Dead_or_Alive 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shame they never leveled up the tech tree farther than that. It only took a handful of drunk conquistadors to wipe out the Aztec empire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's called History. Give it a try. Having a crazy amount of weapons did and didn't help you before, so it won't always give you the edge. History, though, always helps. By the way, this country is still called Mexico, which is a Nahuatl name, Nahuatl is also called "Mexicano", which was the language most people talked before the "drunk conquistadores" came to this land. Maybe we Mexicans did leveled up the tech after all, it just looks like that for a childish country mentality.

[–] Dead_or_Alive -1 points 1 month ago

I mean your tequila, la cocaína and siesta tech is pretty dope.