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Mecha_Sonic posted...
israel is indeed conducting a genocide and it is evil

lots of those college students are also cheerleaders for hamas/houthis and they're helping trump get elected, which will kill millions of people

most of the protestors suck
Shut the fuck up
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Beany posted...
An offer was made to the Palestinians for a state, on 96% of the existing territory occupied by the Palestinians, with 4% of Israel to be given, to reach 100% of the amount of territory that was hoped for, Clinton said. If [former Palestinian President] Yasser Arafat had accepted it, there would have been a Palestinian state now for about 24 years.

This seems a bit of a non-sequitur since most of the discourse is on the disproportionate retribution on part of the Israeli government.

"A guy didn't compromise 24 years ago, so that gives the IDF free reign to massacre Palestinian civilians"
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Doe posted...
Shut the fuck up

no ty
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ScazarMeltex posted...
I'm pretty sure Hillary doesn't know the history of the region.
The original 2 state plan was from 1947 and it was not accepted by Arabs in Palestine or the neighboring Arab League countries because even though only a third of the population was Jewish and the Jews owned only 10% of the land in Palestine, they were given 55% of the territory. The Palestinians ended up with 45%, even though they were the majority at the time. So they rejected it. And rightfully so.

She should probably also remember the modern root of the problems in the region is the Western powers drawing borders in a region they didn't understand after WW1 ended and the Ottoman Empire was dissolved.

yes, but it was intended for more Jewish people to emigrate there

and those other countries went to war with Israel and lost, so you can't really blame Israel for taking more territory than they started with.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
lots of those college students are also cheerleaders for hamas/houthis

I'll bet you used to call anyone who opposed South African apartheid a communist.

Mecha_Sonic posted...
and they're helping trump get elected

No, Joe Biden is helping Trump get elected.
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
I'll bet you used to call anyone who opposed South African apartheid a communist.

No, Joe Biden is helping Trump get elected.

yeah because Biden's current policy is so much worse than Trump's...nuke Gaza policy?
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
I'll bet you used to call anyone who opposed South African apartheid a communist.

i would have called the ones waving hammer-and-sickle flags communists, sure
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You're wrong about most of the protestors sucking.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
lots of those college students are also cheerleaders for hamas/houthis and they're helping trump get elected, which will kill millions of people


is there any actual proof of that? just because someone is anti-genocide/pro-Palestine doesn't mean they're pro-Hamas.

so far I've seen one video from a protest where the guy recording said "death to Jews!" and absolutely no one chanted that along with him. but media still ran with the story of the protests being full of anti-Semitism
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
israel is indeed conducting a genocide and it is evil

lots of those college students are also cheerleaders for hamas/houthis and they're helping trump get elected, which will kill millions of people

most of the protestors suck

Nah most of the protesters are cool, you just have boomer brain
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How is mecha sonic allowed to post here.

I distinctly recall him being purged
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thronedfire2 posted...
yeah because Biden's current policy is so much worse than Trump's...nuke Gaza policy?

Yeah because that's not the bloody point. People aren't making comparisons between Biden and a hypothetical Trump, they're looking at what Biden is actually doing and deciding it's too evil for them to vote for him. You may think that's the wrong way of looking at it, but that won't change the reality. Which makes Biden's continued support of Israel's extremist government not only morally reprehensible but politically stupid. Though his statement just yesterday about possibly stopping some arms shipments, though it goes nowhere near far enough (and comes seven fucking months late), suggests that he may finally be just beginning to inch towards getting it.
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the same young people probably didn't know what bill clinton did in the office
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
Yeah because that's not the bloody point. People aren't making comparisons between Biden and a hypothetical Trump, they're looking at what Biden is actually doing and deciding it's too evil for them to vote for him. You may think that's the wrong way of looking at it, but that won't change the reality. Which makes Biden's continued support of Israel's extremist government not only morally reprehensible but politically stupid.

it's not a hypothetical Trump. it's literally what he said he wants to do.

and Biden could denounce Israel's current invasion all he wants, but that's never going to change the US's overall stance of Israel being far too strategic of a military position to give up.

we should not be sending bombs or ammo to Israel, and we should be doing all we can to prevent civilian deaths, but the US is never going to give them up as an ally.
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
Yeah because that's not the bloody point. People aren't making comparisons between Biden and a hypothetical Trump, they're looking at what Biden is actually doing and deciding it's too evil for them to vote for him. You may think that's the wrong way of looking at it, but that won't change the reality. Which makes Biden's continued support of Israel's extremist government not only morally reprehensible but politically stupid.

I still think its incredibly irresponsible to abstain from voting in this election cycle. You don't have to, but at the end of the day if you don't and Trump becomes president, you might as well kiss what little protection Palestinian's have, goodbye completely. Not to mention the domestic issues that would get even worse.

I get it, you live in the now. But good politics requires forward thinking, something MANY people lack, including presidents.
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Yazarogi posted...
You're wrong about most of the protestors sucking.

when great throngs of people are shouting "from the river to the sea," what are reasonable people supposed to extrapolate about the protestors.

israel exists. it isn't going anywhere. it's not going to be dissolved as a country, nor should it be.

if someone is rooting for hamas to overthrow israel and take over the entire levant from the river to the sea, that's not great, because the first thing hamas would do is turn the table and genocide ten million israeli jews and their muslim collaborators in the arab population.

therefore, either hillary clinton is right and the protestors don't know history, or the protestors really are anti-semitic

there has to be a middle ground between these two radical paths, but as usual anyone who speaks out against the zeitgeist is deemed to be pro-genocide, a secret republican, whatever.
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thronedfire2 posted...
and Biden could denounce Israel's current invasion all he wants

I'm not talking about denouncing, I'm talking about ceasing to supply weapons and money. That should have been the absolute bare minimum response to Israel's crimes since October.

Yazarogi posted...
I still think its incredibly irresponsible to abstain from voting in this election cycle.

I agree. But I'm not the people Biden needs to persuade.

Yazarogi posted...
But good politics requires forward thinking

Tell Biden that.
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Aloc posted...
How is mecha sonic allowed to post here.

I distinctly recall him being purged
Maybe he messaged DToast and said he wasn't really purged
Mecha_Sonic posted...
when great throngs of people are shouting "from the river to the sea," what are reasonable people supposed to extrapolate about the protestors.

That they want Palestine to be free.
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
That they want Palestine to be free.

great, i would like a free palestine too. but what happens to israel if palestine controls everything from the river to the sea.
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They probably don't, but that doesn't really mean much. We also don't know the history of Eastern Europe either, doesn't mean what Russia is doing is good.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
great, i would like a free palestine too. but what happens to israel if palestine controls everything from the river to the sea.
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" doesn't say 'controls everything from the river to the sea'.
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Thanatos_the_Great posted...
I'm not talking about denouncing, I'm talking about ceasing to supply weapons and money. That should have been the absolute bare minimum response to Israel's crimes since October.

well you probably could have quoted the next line instead, then
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ClayGuida posted...
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" doesn't say 'controls everything from the river to the sea'.

"from the river to the sea" was a slogan for the PLO since its charter back in the 1960s. it was used in context of eliminating israel and creating an arab state that subsumes the current borders of israel. it was used as a zionist slogan before that in a similar but opposite context.

i think it's overly charitable to read the most benevolent of all motivations into what they're saying.

but i also think clinton is right and most of the protestors don't really understand history very well so maybe you're right idk.
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Mecha sonic can you stop. Literally every time you post you just rile people up.

It's safe to say at this point it's intentional.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
but i also think clinton is right and most of the protestors don't really understand history very well so maybe you're right idk.

Prove it. Are you suggesting that pro-Palestine sentiment is an evil conspiracy by the Chinese on Tiktok and not a reaction towards continued US support of Israel even when they're slaughtering civilians?
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
i have opinions that are often disagreement with yours
Opinions that ignore reality.
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I honestly don't get why it seems like she intentionally makes herself out to be unlikeable. I guess she's only appealing to her particular Dem demographics because any time she speaks in a manner that she does here it just pisses off every other generation.

Dakimakura posted...
Old white lady pretends she knows more about middle eastern affairs.

I mean she was the literal Sec of State during Obama's tenure. I don't doubt she knew a lot more about what was going on during then, however even then I've seen older people trying to use the 1948 attack on Israel from the allied Arab nations or the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 to justify what's happening in Gaza as "if you knew your history you'd understand".

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Kradek posted...
I honestly don't get why it seems like she intentionally makes herself out to be unlikeable.

It's not intentional, she's just arrogant enough to think that people (or at least the ones she cares about) will find the way she goes on appealing. Intellect and self-unawareness aren't mutually exclusive.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
israel exists. it isn't going anywhere. it's not going to be dissolved as a country, nor should it be.

How about just remove the apartheid elements and let everyone within Israel's led territory vote on the country's future? Peacefully and democratically.
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Fenriswolf posted...
Prove it. Are you suggesting that pro-Palestine sentiment is an evil conspiracy by the Chinese on Tiktok and not a reaction towards continued US support of Israel even when they're slaughtering civilians?

i never said that. this is a strawman argument.

ClayGuida posted...
Opinions that ignore reality.

the internet/social media encourages groupthink. it also encourages people to push the most radical positions and disavow all complexity and nuance, because the most radical, black-and-white arguments get the most clicks. i think a lot of people are internet-brained because they've been acculturated to this kind of thing.

israel misses what is right because it is deficient. the protestors miss what is right because they are excessive. true virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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That's what Mecha Sonic would be arguing.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
israel misses what is right because it is deficient. the protestors miss what is right because they are excessive. true virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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History isn't really that important in gauging the morality of an ongoing military campaign.
Have you tried thinking rationally?
Mecha_Sonic posted...
the protestors miss what is right

They don't, though.

Mecha_Sonic posted...
true virtue finds and chooses the mean.

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Diceheist posted...
How about just remove the apartheid elements and let everyone within Israel's led territory vote on the country's future? Peacefully and democratically.

i think that would be a wonderful outcome, provided everyone can get along and not kill each other.

the arabs in the occupied territories outnumber the jews in israel proper, so they would likely win any one-state election. i remember when something similar happened in iraq after the shias won, and it led to persecution of religious minorities + sectarian bloodshed/civil war. so my honest questions to you are

  1. what is your plan for stopping Hamas or a Hamas-like party from winning this election, coming to power, and then genociding all the jews.
  2. what is your plan for convincing israel to go along with this and grant suffrage and political freedoms to every palestinian in the occupied territories.
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I really don't get what motivates mecha sonic to do this every single time.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
lots of those college students are also cheerleaders for hamas/houthis and they're helping trump get elected, which will kill millions of people

most of the protestors suck

No, they're either a very small minority or have agitator infiltrators who make them look bad.

The right-wing apparatus in this nation has used the exact same argument you're using against the protests in the 60s against Vietnam, against protestors for Civil Rights, against BLM protestors, and against AntiFa. The media, in assisting the right-wing narrative to become the dominate one, hyper-focuses on the rare incidents (which in even these cases it's the cops who bring violence, it's not the protestors getting violent) while mislabeling the actual intent of the protests IE "anti-Israel" and not "Pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide".

I've been hearing firsthand testimony about protests on college campuses that don't make the news because the college wasn't shitty about it, the students were respectful and peaceful, and the cops didn't come bringing the violence they always use to quell college-aged protestors.

The narrative that BLM was violent was spread around heavily by right-wingers and our mainstream media, then an actual analysis was done and determined that 96% of the protests were peaceful without incident, and yet which is the narrative that seeped deepest into the American mindset?

Don't fall for their games.
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Virtue does not find the mean. Virtue is almost always considered extreme. The mean historically has always been some awful system of oppression. The people who recognize that are called "radicals" and later "people who were obviously correct."

That's if you wanna talk about history.
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Mecha_Sonic posted...


i think that would be a wonderful outcome, provided everyone can get along and not kill each other.

the arabs in the occupied territories outnumber the jews in israel proper, so they would likely win any one-state election. i remember when something similar happened in iraq after the shias won, and it led to persecution of religious minorities + sectarian bloodshed/civil war. so my honest questions to you are

1. what is your plan for stopping Hamas or a Hamas-like party from winning this election, coming to power, and then genociding all the jews.

Prior to the terrorist attack and response Fatah was somewhat competitive in Palestinian favor with Hamas. I imagine people are in less murderous moods when they're not being murdered. In the scenario of a unified electorate it would be best for Israeli Jews to throw in with a Fatah-like party to stave off the Hamas-like party.

Granted there are no guarantees in democracy, we can't even keep Trumpists out of power in America despite a much less bloody recent history.

Mecha_Sonic posted...
2. what is your plan for convincing israel to go along with this and grant suffrage and political freedoms to every palestinian in the occupied territories.

"Do it or we don't support you anymore." America's been forceful about spreading democracy in the past...
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Politicians when people lacking knowledge about the history of Eastern Europe and Russia protest in favor of Ukraine:
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Politicians when people lacking knowledge about the history of the Middle East and Israel protest in favor of Palestine:
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Mecha_Sonic posted...
what is your plan for stopping Hamas or a Hamas-like party from winning this election, coming to power, and then genociding all the jews.

Take a step back and listen to yourself. Think of literally any other culture where someone would say "If we give them the vote then they'll genocide us." Be that racists in America or the apartheid ruling class in South Africa. Are those the arguments you want to use? Those aren't less contentious histories. Yes there are extremists that cause pain but in general expanding voting rights has consistently led to a more peaceful society.

If their court systems work like ours then it'll be a long ass time before Palestinians getting the vote translates to Palestinians having any substantial voice in the interpretation of laws. They should have a strong Bill of Rights if they don't already. The US will likely poke their nose in anytime they're concerned.
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cjsdowg posted...
Hillary lost to Trump because she and the DNC pushed him. And Bill got him to run. Why do people listen to this demon again?
Trump won because people fell for the nonsense that Hillary was a boring candidate which dampened turnout.

Trump didn't win because he 'won'. He won because people passed on voting.
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dancing_cactuar posted...
Politicians when people lacking knowledge about the history of Eastern Europe and Russia protest in favor of Ukraine:

I'm sorry, are you using this to speak out against pro-Ukrainian protests?
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Kradek posted...
I'm sorry, are you using this to speak out against pro-Ukrainian protests?
No, I'm mocking how she was probably patting people on the back when civilians were (rightfully) protesting for Ukraine against Russia, but now in a similar situation where people are (rightfully) protesting for Palestine against Israel the conversation suddenly goes "um AKSHUALLY you don't know the full history of the middle east so you shouldn't be talking in this situation" even though tons of people protesting in favor of Ukraine probably know little about Eastern Europe.
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Israel-Palestine and Ukraine-Russia are different enough for it to make absolutely no sense to compare them.
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dancing_cactuar posted...
No, I'm mocking how she was probably patting people on the back when civilians were (rightfully) protesting for Ukraine against Russia, but now in a similar situation where people are (rightfully) protesting for Palestine against Israel the conversation suddenly goes "um AKSHUALLY you don't know the full history of the middle east so you shouldn't be talking in this situation" even though tons of people protesting in favor of Ukraine probably know little about Eastern Europe.

Ah, ok, appreciate the clarification.

wanderingshade posted...
Israel-Palestine and Ukraine-Russia are different enough for it to make absolutely no sense to compare them.

This is where I was coming from, though, when I asked that
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I sincerely doubt shes ever read a book on history and paid attention to it. Not one of these high ranking politicians give a damn about the Jewish people.
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