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Libs: "THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION THAT THERE'S GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG, AND IF YOU DARE TO BRING UP THE LACK OF EVIDENCE OF ANY SORT OF ABUSE FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS YOU'LL GET BANNED!!!!"

Also libs: "Didn't you know that 15k of the 40k humans murdered in Gaza were actually terrorists? it-is-known Also, lots of civilians die in wars like the one happening in Gaza, it's sad but inevitable"

smuglord

Fuuuuuuuuuck this shit.

  • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]
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    2 months ago

    Oho,I admit,I'm flattered you decided to take time out of your day to look through my posting history to dunk on me

    Credit where credit is due

    Now,with all due respect,you can fuck off with that smug attitude you westoid fuck

    The gall of these smug little reddiors is astounding

    Seeing as you saw fit to look through my comments,I think you might have seen that I literally live next to "the" Ukraine

    I saw the Russians drone strike cities from my own house and I still think uwu smol bean Ukraine should lose this war on account of the being a puppet of the NATO reich and because they have become a Mecca for nazis of all stripes

    I hate NATO,I hate Ukraine and I despise Israel

    The fascist world order will collapse and you smarmy little fucks can do nothing about it, except piss yourselves on the internet and epically bait and pwn le evil commies

    • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Yup. I'm smug and you're a hypocrite who is ok with innocent Ukrainian civilians getting killed by an invasion force that has no business being there. Think about that. You want civilians to die for world politics

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        You want civilians to die for world politics

        You say this like "politics" is some nebulous, worthless thing. People typically want wars that are disruptive of the status quo because they view it as the only way to change systems in which, e.g., a much greater number of civilians live under brutal oppression, as their grandparents did and their grandchildren will if the state machinery is not smashed. You're like the people who bemoan the Haitian Revolution because some white families died with no concern for the fact that it was a slave state and the revolution stopped, it cannot be stressed enough, the continuous, literal chattel enslavement of an entire country's worth of people.

        THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

        -- Mark Twain on France's "Reign of Terror"

        • newacctidk [none/use name]
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          2 months ago

          The implication that there are premature deaths that are not in some way political is also silly.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            Notice I also brought up France, where people were not chattel slaves but living in oppression and fought a revolution that conservatives still have not forgiven them for.

            So the question is "What humanitarian issues are you saying would actually get better by Russia invading?" And my answer is that the Euromaidan coup government was culturally repressing the better part of eastern Ukraine, which was the material basis for their revolting against the Ukrainian government, which resulted in an eight year war of the slaughtering of civilians and journalists in the east with indiscriminate bombing and shooting. Russia's victory over Ukraine is the best chance they have to live without cultural repression or slaughter.

        • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          Nope. I don't understand why people think that one side needs to be right

          • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            It's less about being "right" and more about which side is conducting a settler colonial genocide

            • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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              2 months ago

              Israel. However hamas abducted 251 people and 97 are still unaccounted for. Two wrongs don't make a right

              • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]
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                2 months ago

                Someone shoots you in the chest and kills your entire immediate family

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                You try to punch them in response

                "Two wrongs don't make a right!"

                Add in a pinch of us-foreign-policy and a dash of hitler-detector and voilá,you have the average liberal!

              • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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                2 months ago

                However hamas abducted 251 people and 97 are still unaccounted for

                It's notable that you think that the victims of a genocide should have no bargaining chips to negotiate with.

                EDIT: Also,

                Two wrongs don't make a right

                You are very willing to excuse stuff like the Ukrainian military attacking civilian targets and using civilian facilities to stage military activities. For some reason, it's only non-white people whom you apply these standards to.

                • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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                  2 months ago

                  No I'm not. Just haven't talked about it yet. You got the numbers because I'm having trouble finding any

                  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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                    2 months ago

                    No I'm not

                    If taking hostages is enough for you to condemn a people to a genocide, then what the Ukrainian military does should be enough for you to support their loss, especially considering that the stakes are much lower.

                      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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                        2 months ago

                        Okay, if you don't support that, and you apply the same standards to the Ukrainian military, surely you support the defeat of the Ukrainian state, as well as a complete dismantlement of NATO and its states, right?

                      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                        2 months ago

                        The only mistaken assumption anyone has made here is that you have a coherent worldview or set of politics. We really shouldn't be assuming that.

              • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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                2 months ago

                I have a give and take relationship with people on the internet.

                This is toddler logic. You have to use violent tactics to resist genocide, it inherently involves committing "wrongs".

                • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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                  2 months ago

                  You're right. It's such easy logic that a toddler can understand it. What's your problem?

                  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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                    2 months ago

                    My problem is the real world is more complicated than a children's book. Toddler logic doesn't work in it.

              • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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                2 months ago

                What actions do you recommend victims of genocide take to overthrow their century-long oppressors?

                      • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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                        2 months ago

                        You did, though. You took an anti-Hamas stance, condemning them for October 7th, without providing any analysis of what they should have done otherwise in your opinion.

                        You could have just as easily said "I am uninformed on the subject and refrain from speaking on it until I am," and that would have been better.

                          • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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                            2 months ago

                            I did. You said Israel was committing genocide, but "2 wrongs don't make a right." The conclusion is, therefore, that a hundred hostages against a genocidal oppressor is equivalent to a century of settler-colonial genocide.

                            This is nonsense, unless you believe Muslims to be worth less than Israelis.

                              • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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                                2 months ago

                                Saying "neither is right" draws equivalence. Saying "I don't know enough to draw conclusions" does not.

                                • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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                                  2 months ago

                                  Not really. I observe actions and observe response. Hamas acted by abducting 251 people from different parts of the world due to Palestinian oppression in Gaza, and it's been like that ever since WWII where the allies supported a Jewish state in the Israel region and then pretended like giving uprooted people Gaza was enough even though zionists want and currently are taking all the land to the Med under the claim "It's our holy land. We had it first"

                                  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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                                    2 months ago

                                    So then take a firm stance supporting Palestinian liberation and dissolution of the Zionist entity. Refuse to say "two wrongs don't make a right" and recognize that oppressed peoples have the right to use violence against their oppressors, especially when all other paths are exhausted and in the face of active genocide.

                  • m532 [she/her]
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                    2 months ago

                    The palestinians have the answer. They're doing it right now.

              • m532 [she/her]
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                2 months ago

                "Roll over and die"

                oppa gandhi style

                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                    2 months ago

                    When all resistance is bad but you appeal to the idea that there's some undiscovered type of resistance that is acceptable, what you are telling the victims here to do is roll over and die until some Great Man discovers that undiscovered type of resistance that liberals don't condemn.

                    Fighting Israel tooth and nail is the only answer, and the handful of mostly-military captives Hamas took (and Israel fucking slaughtered!) does not mean that there is any moral equivalency ("two wrongs") or that Hamas and its coalition are not the best means Palestinians have to fight Israel.

                  • m532 [she/her]
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                    2 months ago

                    Context: Gandhi suggested for the people being murdered by the nazis to not fight back

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                2 months ago

                More Palestinians were dead by October 8th, and the number since then has increased by two to three orders of magnitude.

                The people abducted were mostly military, and some elderly hostages were released very quickly on account of their age. Hamas takes pretty good care of the, it must be stressed, captives taken in a military conflict, while Israel has mostly been fine with slaughtering them in indiscriminate bombing in classic Hannibal Directive fashion.

                This is all ignoring that, outside of children (whose parents are to be blamed), there really aren't civilians on the border with Gaza, as the "civilians" are still part of the enactment of Israel's lebensraum.

              • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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                Two wrongs don't make a right

                Have you considered a much more urgent and pressing matter is that ISISrael has a city-state the size of municipal Johannesburg under siege; has destroyed every mosque, university, hospital, school, UN office, several diplomatic offices, the civil registry, water treatment plant, all farmland, media office, the Court of Justice, cemeteries, most high-rise buildings, effectively banned food and water, etc. At least 50,000 (likely even in the several hundred thousands) have been massacred, with priority targets being UN workers, humanitarian aid, civil rescue/defense, paramedics, professors, doctors and journalists. Several hostages have also been killed. Deaths of Hamas fighters in contrast, have been largely incidental. All of this also recorded live on the free iPhone 15 Pro Max the Nazi soldiers are given.

                Hamas was also ready to negotiate the total release of all hostages in exchange for a permanent end to hostilities literally as early as 9 October.

                Take a wild guess as to why South Africa for instance, no longer has an active underground resistance.

                7 October had maybe, a marginal effect on the already violent Nazi sentiments of ISISrael and it's supporters.

              • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]
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                2 months ago

                Not at all

                Holsum slobber Ukraini Azov nazis ethnically cleansing Russians: They are only defending their country from the eeeevil! invasion of Putler, you tankie! Innocent civilians are dying!

                Hamas heroically fighting the Zionazi entity:

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      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        you're a hypocrite who is ok with innocent Ukrainian civilians getting killed by an invasion force

        You are literally okay with things like your genocide of Palestinians, your atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, etc., colonialism in general.

        • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          And now you're just assuming. You got anything of substance to say or are we just going to keep doing this dance?

          • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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            2 months ago

            And now you're just assuming

            Quick question,do you support Hamas?
            Nope. I don't understand why people think that one side needs to be right

            You have admitted that you do not support a resistance to a genocide, and you don't understand why resistance to a genocide is just.

            But hey, sure, let's hear how much you don't support the rest of the things that I listed, despite uncritically regurgitating your empire's propaganda (even though your empire has admitted to having no evidence to support it).

              • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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                2 months ago

                Show what 'otherwise'?

                Is pretty obvious that you just uncritically trust your empire's career liars, and are unable to admit that you support a genocidal empire.

                    • EABOD25@lemm.ee
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                      I generally don't in cases like this because you already have your mind made up about me and nearly impossible to convince you otherwise. Your assumption has no basis on my life, but now I know I'm going to live rent free in your head 😁

                      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                        2 months ago

                        dril

                        "im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

                      • Kuori [she/her]
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                        2 months ago

                        nobody is buying this very obvious deflection.

                      • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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                        2 months ago

                        If you truly thought that is useless to try to convince us, you wouldn't have tried.

                        Now, can you refute my claim that you support those things, or not? It would be extremely easy to do, and I would stop considering you a bad faith NATO bootlicker.

                      • miz [any, any]
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                        2 months ago

                        does this type of transparent dodge work on the other kids in your middle school