The former. Israel is a proxy to control the ME, contain China and Russia, and ensure supply of oil, it’s prices, and control over the resource. I think the value of the USD is that oil is traded in dollars; Israel ensures that dominance.

It is a vassal, but like a march vassal. You need them even if you don’t like them. They are subordinate but they can tell you off.

If you’re voting between two genocidaires, and acknowledge it as such, then your political system is illegitimate and deeply evil.

And if it has gotten to that point, where you acknowledge the reality of genocidal parties and candidates but just handwring about voting, then the real sentiment here is:

I care about Ukrainians in my vicarious crusade against Russia (and because Ukrainians are European and white), and I don’t care about Palestinians. Just let me go back to Brunch.

This is tell you all that those posters and propagandists are white supremacists. They just want a baptism that absolves their complicity in empire, because they also depend on it for cheap treats and good wages/credit. Life is materially good for them but also incredibly emotionally and spiritually vapid, which is why liberals obsess about politics in this manner.

Though Biden may not survive to see justice, I certainly hope the rest of the administration will be held to account one day.

" I take solace in the fact your life is probably so terrible you have to hurdle insults at refugees to make your pitiful friendless life slightly more tolerable and that you will die alone. Eat shit" is insanely toxic. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1381

If you come back to do an “I told you so”, you shouldn’t. This isn’t a game. Genocide isn’t a contest of who is more correct or virtuous.

Just go back to your instance and jerk off with sandpaper, asshole.

They have to say that as the government would be liable in empowering those violations if they did admit that.

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Yeah that’s fair. I’m trying to understand why I look at pro-Zionist subreddits on my end, to make a parallel here.

Found this rabid comment on r/thedeprogram quoting an r/israel user: https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1biqqy1/netanyahu_i_made_it_clear_to_biden_we_must_enter/kvm7kgo/?context=3

I don’t understand why their descent into cultish devotion to the Democrats bothers you all at Hexbear.

Liberals are no ones allies and even if the entire US left voted for Trump it’s not as if we’d determine the election; Democrats offer nothing while Covid was rampant, wages are stagnant and declining, unions were busted, abortion rights shredded, and inflation on a runaway freight train.

Unoriginal thought: Started watching some Isekai - Wrong way to use healing magic - and I don’t know if it’s just me but I can’t help but feel that modern Isekai is really bland.

Knowledge is reactionary. Don’t know things.

https://twitter.com/CNBCi/status/1767052871487410346

You’re pretty much right.

https://www.newsweek.com/2018/05/18/israel-brain-drain-technology-startup-nation-religion-palestinians-economy-919477.html

The Netflix Airbender isn’t that bad. It was a solid 7.5/10 for me. Better than Netflix’s Witcher seasons.

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I still think about past people that I loved and cared about. I don’t fantasize about a future or what ifs but acknowledge the humanity and comfort I felt when dipping into nostalgia.

Ready to read a cheesy proverb? Be grateful that you had those moments and cherish them; it is you who wields those emotions and memories not the other way around.

You were once loved, are loved, and will be loved.

Don’t mistake this for love. This phenomenon is called limerence, and it can be very toxic in the long run.

This happened to me once. I met them two years later, and I realized that my attraction wasn’t really about that person - indeed, I was bored on that date - but about feeling wanted, desired, and understood.

I wasn’t needed. I wasn’t someone to this person soley for the purpose to console them, to comfort them, to heal their damaged psyche from a traumatic childhood. We were there searching for a companion to be happy with. It felt like acceptance and understanding, a transcendent and tranquil state after emotional catharsis and reconciliation from past trauma and regret. Still, the moment had passed and that was the last I saw of them.

if you mess with the honk, you get the bonk.

The central thesis of those that make these arguments is: Palestinians are not people and that Israel is only a utopia away when Palestine and Palestinians are erased from history and memory as the indigenous peoples of North America were. They object to criticisms because it impedes Zionism’s progress in manifesting this grim vision, but adherents of this ideology can tolerate the liberal critique be more discreet about it. i.e: If you criticize us, criticize that we should be erasing and eradicating Palestine in slow motion.

If you must engage with these genocidaires, on the off chance they are speaking from ignorance rather than malicious approval, then you should focus on the apartheid nature of Israel ruling over 5m people in Gaza and the West Bank without any voting rights, legal rights, and civil rights. They can not file grievances against the state in courts, they can’t travel freely. They can’t press charges against individual abusers. e.g: Tiktoker IDFers posting their crimes live for the world to see w/o repercussion.

Then escalate to Palestinian current status as stateless and occupied people who are displaced and dispossessed of their homes, property, and freedom. Historically and in the very present. Then Proceed with “administrative detention”, explaining that this is imprisonment without trial.

If they use Judaism and being Jewish as an aegis against criticism, remind them that the Torah, the central religious text of Judaism, forbids the oppression of one’s neighbor. Forbids murder, theft, and cruelty.

Inform them Jewish people have a right to exist everywhere and anywhere, but a theocratic ethnostate that commits apartheid and genocide does not have a right to exist as it is. Flawed as it is, a secular liberal democracy with a presumption of assumed equality and liberty for all its citizens w/o privilege to ethnic and religious groups is better than a theocratic ethnostate with incentive to pursue genocide and apartheid, and an ideology to indoctrinate current and future generations into perpetuating this barbarism.

Calling for serious solutions is welcome.

Israel is starving two million people to death in the name of the Jewish people, with plans to expel them into the Sinai as measure to spare their lives. The only other thing more anti-Semitic than that is European history.

These “solutions” aren’t welcome either. Israel rejected the two state solution. A compromise I believe the PLO was once willing to accept.

Whatever pretense of other parallel sub-ideologies of Zionism (Labor/Liberal Zionism, etc) has given way to Kahane’s Kach ideological successors. And they aren’t interested in “serious solutions” They are interested in dominance and destruction of Palestine. This status quo is the current state of Israel’s vision in fruition.

Bit of a rant here. It was always possible, after the establishment of the Israel, to have established a single unitary state and immediately granting Palestinians citizenship and a right of return in Israel too, solving the situation of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide but Israel would then lose its demographic majority and cease to be an ethnostate. A unitary Palestinian state could have been a refugee state for Jewish people facing systemic oppression and discrimination, as well as offering a path to immigration and citizenship in the same manner other countries have.