like if they had kept the food and water and electricity off until now, and killed 3/4ths of the entire Gaza population, we can talk about a genocide
right now it's just a war with a high amount of war crimes
best I can do is "attempted genocide"
man people are not so stupid they need to be bludgeoned with hyperbole to form an opinion
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same here. i'm coming off as super israel when i'm just more anti hamas than I am anti israel, I don't like either of them. at all.
If it was bad faith and a lie, I would disagree. But I think when people are being massively displaced and killed of a particular identity, it's more than okay to use the harsh terms like genocide. And plenty of people more intimately affected by past genocides than either of us both agree and disagree, so no point in bringing that up.
they're not being misplaced and killed BEACUSE of their identity though... they just happen to be basically an ethnostate.
they're an ethno-state that started a war against a country 100x more powerful than it. it's not the same as a genocide
people are misplaced and killed en-masse in every war ever, not every war is a genocide
like are you saying if they were a racially and religiously diverse country it wouldn't be genocide?
Never said they did? Couldn't give a shit about anyone's opinion but my own and elected officials.
you just advocated for stretching the literal meaning of words and truth in slogans so more people get energized
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israel is a joke if i ever came off as defending their actions or their policy as a state i didn't make my position clear
yeah people attempting to "make it politically poisonous" to criticize Hamas are the reason I sperged out and posted all the shit I did
it's annoying and transparent
But they are dehumanized as an ethnic group to rationalize this stuff. Hamas is just as genocidal, as I'm sure you'd agree. They don't want to merely wipe Israel off the map because they are jews, they just happen to be in Israel!
no dude.. they're WAY MORE genocidal. if the military powers were reversed Israel would be gone in a week.
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I don't think this stretches the truth much if at all though. So go ahead and let them repeat slogans and be cringe in that way.
they're dehumanized because a bunch of older rich manipulative dudes have made a concerted effort to radicalize and brainwash their entire population for the last 20 years, and it's worked
they get manipulated into doing horrific things that reflect poorly on them
yes the Israelis are racist, but they also have an entire Arab party in the Knesset, they have a large and vocal anti-war anti-zionist leftist movement, to call them just as genocidal as this ISIS clone govt. is just wrong
So now it's the genocidal olympics. Sure. Still genocidal either way.
hold up plasma is posting
it's not about this particular instance it's that you argued in favour of being intentionally dishonest for political reasons
Screeching? What
I'm asking asides being a release what do they expect? Nobody gives a fuck about Canada's opinion because Canada is a bunch of ■■■■ that have voted in a ■■■ who's a complete since ■■■. Therefore their protest asides being a release valve appears to be nothing else then that
What's the point