Then arguing with people about whether the kernels popping is “justified”.
Trying to focus on the slaughter of regular Israelis and whether it’s good or evil to attack civilians is just such a ridiculous approach to me. The question has no meaning in this context. If you don’t want kernels to pop take the pot off of the flame, if you refuse to do that then shut the fuck up about it.
Like obviously it sucks that everyday people were intentionally killed but the blame is just being put on the entirely wrong place, it’s just individualist moralism that works to strip the event of any context. It feels like it’s a rhetorical funnel whose function is to push those who engage in this moralizing to the next logical point in the talking-point journey: whether Israel has a right to defend itself.
Bassem Youssef actually had a similarly good analogy on his interview with Piss Morgan
they are shooting fish in a barrel and getting annoyed with the splashes
If an someone breaks into your house and locks you in the basement for twenty years, do they have “the right to defend themself” when you break out and throttle them?
Well, probably not. But already, the conversation is absolutely asinine because somehow we’re talking about this and not that you were locked in your basement for 20 years.
yes but the HOA declared that any damages done to a homeowner’s property must be compensated. Therefore, the man in the basement shouldn’t have broken out and instead write an appeal letter to the HOA
I’ve found IRL that the people who are talking about how “evil” it is to attack civilians have literally no correct understanding of the situation. Event their superficial understanding is wrong. The extent of their conceptions is:
- Israel is good country. Friend of US. Democracy.
- Israel surprised attacked by terrorists.
I don’t even know how to even begin with these people. One person I said “if there was no occupation there would be no Hamas”; and they looked at me the way a dog looks at you when you try and talk to them. Had no idea what I even meant by “occupation”.
i did scream the first pop last time i did this cause i was like “this is taking too long they look burnt” and leaned over the pot like a dumbass
Its the guy putting a stick in his bycicle spokes meme but theres like 40 sticks
