• TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    You don’t blame a kicked dog for biting. That’s not a tankie opinion, it was everywhere a year ago.

    ETA: Hell, I just remembered that I dropped that line during a first date in February and got an “Exactly!” in response.

    • AlinationOfGravitas@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 days ago

      We aren’t talking about dogs here, neither are we talking about biting. We are talking about humans making the deliberate choices to kill, rape, abduct, and torture other humans. You do blame people for murder, no matter why they did it. Doesn’t mean Israel doesn’t do evil shit and their policy towards Palestinians isn’t disgusting, but it doesn’t justify murder, rape, a d torture. That doesn’t mean that Israel should not be pressured to stop some of their policies and operations which are openly in defiance of international humanitarian law, not justified by need, unnecessarily and unjustified brutal, and against common decency. To claim that the actions of either side are forced upon them by necessity or somehow dictated as response is to deny their humanity, their agency as individuals and political entities, and their right to self-determination. Neither of them is justified on their actions and all of them are committing grave, non justifiable, unnecessary, and self defeating evil.

      • peregrin5@lemm.ee
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        20 days ago

        Lmao why is this extremely reasonable comment being downvoted? Some pieces of shit in this thread.