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I said not less than a week ago that they shouldn't have overthrown that government or dicked around in general region
I'm starting to think some of you might be skipping over any kind of criticism I have of all sides
That doesn't change the fact they are still behaving in terroristic manners and I'd like to see any of you have the courage to at least condemn terrorism
It comes across as bad faith debate that none of you will even make that concession in the conversation
I expect crickets in response to that request
Pointing out the reality a country is combating frequent attacks against it is not a mainstream take.
Any time countries attack each other they have a right to self defense. Whether they win that war is a different story
I've still yet to see half of you on here condemn terrorism and human shields
@Vermillion-Rx people criticize Iranians for chanting death to America in the streets, but leave out the little detail of America and Britain overthrowing their legitimately elected leader and installing their puppet the brutal and repressive shah. They criticize Iran for funding terrorists but leave out the decade America funded their adversary, a guy you probably heard about only after he turned on America, Saddam Hussein.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
@Vermillion-Rx It's very analogous to the way mainstream culture defaults to gynocentric assumptions and conclusions in SMP matters, and how easy it is to follow that well trodden pathway oneself. To do otherwise is so shocking and antithetical to mainstream norms, that doing so requires a transformative mental journey we call taking the red pill.
The same is true for automatic and unquestioning support for Israel. I see you not "hardlining or shilling " for Israel, but stuck in a mainstream perspective rut from inside of which you can't see the bias your perspective gets influenced by.
Concrete outcomes of this bias, accepting the position that actions taken by Arabs that strike at Israel make terrorism, while the exact same acts committed by Israel against Arabs and Persians are righteous self defense. Justice and accurate understanding of events requires digging into motivations and root causes. This requires personal effort and more significantly, personal moral judgment. Most people aren't willing or able to do this work, yet that doesn't stop them from accepting the mainstream perspective with all the righteous fury that could get justified by full understanding of the issues they posture about.
Read MoreWhere do you guys see me hardlining for Israel other than pointing out what their objective circumstances are?
I'm tired of a lot of middle east countries resorting to the stuff they do (primarily terrorism)
Too many of you guys think I'm shilling for Israel when i actually just cannot stand a lot of middle eastern governance and terrorism
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I have yet to see a lot of people criticize the terrorism in the region.
They could have released the hostages and found other ways of handling whatever problems they have with their neighbor
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No prospects
Meanwhile their leaders in Hamas live in high rises and half the time they are in Qatar or some wealthy location that isn't even on that strip
Hamas keeps their own people poor.
Should probably look at who was running that place
Also, there were so many people putting their energy into protesting Israel, countless news stations and celebrities were against it. Why didn't they put their energy into trying to make Gaza a better place?
Seems like a lot of solutions seem to just go completely ignored, almost like it's because people just want to see rockets fly past human shields
Not allowed out
In large part because when their muslim neighbors took in Palestinians they experienced a sharp rise in terrorism and uprising and had to either kill or relocate them back. Their neighbors don't want them in their land.
The way they could have gotten sympathy was by not electing Hamas, giving Hamas an 80% approval rating, and cheering over 10/7
Hamas does almost nothing but steal aid from Palestinians and fire rockets at Israel
Sounds like there are a lot of alternative solutions to this problem. Isreal did more to help Palestinians by wiping out Hamas than Hamas ever did for Palestinians
Artificial intelligence is now going out of its way to reinforce REAL STUPIDITY.
Unskippable Google AI ad. Woman dressed in too-nice clothes looking down at toilet tank hardware laid out on a tile floor. "Hey, Google, how do all these parts work together?" This is obviously the wrong question; the right one being, "How to install these parts" or even better, unfolding the damn paper that comes in the box with pictures and step by step instructions how to install them. Only by virtue of being inside the same toilet tank do the fill valve and flapper "work together" and this dumb bitch won't understand any of the hows and whys even after muddling through the job. Still, the ad ends with her dancing out of her $50,000 dollar bathroom like a TikTok short.
Next ad in this campaign, a guy brushing up on his rambling stream of consciousness woman emulation game. "Hey, Google- what's the best time this weekend to host a barbecue, and what's a dish I won't have to stand next to the grill the whole time?" Fuck it, I just closed the browser rather than endure another 2s of this retardation-amplification.
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