Side one: Bully punches you in the face, full force and never ceasing.
Side two: Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly.
“Both are assaulting me!!!”
Yes technically, but one is a very different situation. You first defeat the thing punching you in the head so you can live another day to fight the thing giving you the random poke. Whoever doesn’t get the fact that your right to even attempt to fight back is likely the cost of trump at this point… Jan 6th did not happen before in any of our lifetimes, things are tangibly escalating and those of you considering this as a choice at all are just far too comfortable in the rights you think you “own”.
You’re missing the point of the analogy. Israel is definitely committing an active genocide and that’s inexcusable. The world at large and US as a superpower need to do more to pressure Israel and potentially intervene, but people with your mindset are oblivious to the idea of triage , You have multiple active problems here. You first separate them into levels of severity to establish an order of operations and then you move in that order. You help first where the most help is needed to eventually solve for the whole situation.
You’re either purposefully ignoring that or you have some growing up to do in how you process big problems happening all at once. Your response is lazy, but it makes you feel good - while doing absolutely nothing to help solve the larger problem.
It is in no way denial of the active genocide perpetrated by Israel. It makes you feel good to reduce it to that, because what I present is a more difficult path to actual change.
You first defeat the thing punching you in the head so you can live another day
The US is aiding and abetting the slaughter of Palestinian-Americans’ families, so by your own account you’ll excuse them for being uncommitted to the current administration.
Side one: Bully punches you in the face, full force and never ceasing.
Side two: Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly.
“Both are assaulting me!!!”
Yes technically, but one is a very different situation. You first defeat the thing punching you in the head so you can live another day to fight the thing giving you the random poke. Whoever doesn’t get the fact that your right to even attempt to fight back is likely the cost of trump at this point… Jan 6th did not happen before in any of our lifetimes, things are tangibly escalating and those of you considering this as a choice at all are just far too comfortable in the rights you think you “own”.
TIL genocide can be compared to “Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly”
You’re missing the point of the analogy. Israel is definitely committing an active genocide and that’s inexcusable. The world at large and US as a superpower need to do more to pressure Israel and potentially intervene, but people with your mindset are oblivious to the idea of triage , You have multiple active problems here. You first separate them into levels of severity to establish an order of operations and then you move in that order. You help first where the most help is needed to eventually solve for the whole situation.
You’re either purposefully ignoring that or you have some growing up to do in how you process big problems happening all at once. Your response is lazy, but it makes you feel good - while doing absolutely nothing to help solve the larger problem.
This is genocide denial.
It is in no way denial of the active genocide perpetrated by Israel. It makes you feel good to reduce it to that, because what I present is a more difficult path to actual change.
This is how you describe the mass slaughter of innocents.
May you be gently poked in the ribs.
You say that when you stub your toe.
Holy shit dude. Take a step back and understand how severely you’ve downplayed a genocide.
Just cause Harris is on your team doesn’t mean you need to engage in this kind of denialism.
The US is aiding and abetting the slaughter of Palestinian-Americans’ families, so by your own account you’ll excuse them for being uncommitted to the current administration.
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Genocide is playfully poking someone in the ribs? What do you think Trump is going to do by comparison then, kill God himself and destroy reality?