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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even trying to hide it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would they? Their important allies are cheering their genocide on.

Especially my own gold plated, all American shithole.

Just in case our supposedly wealthy nation's innumerable tent cities bursting with our own people dying of exposure and law enforcement harassment for the crime of being sub-optimal capital batteries didn't clue you in about who we are and how little we value human life in modern times.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's funny that Isreal doesn't see any irony in what they're doing right now.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It makes me lose all hope for any future for our species that the Holocaust is just passing out of living memory, and the Far Right is on the Rise in Germany, and the Jewish State founded by the Holocaust's survivors is doing a genocide.

Humans as a species can't retain the importance of the lessons of history, even in the age of digital records. We just refuse. World War II ended 78 years ago, a single average human lifespan almost exactly, and here we are after most of the world and especially the parties most directly involved resolutely declared "never again."

TIL "never" ≈ 80 Earth years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, history teaches us things always go in cycles, the type and length varies, but cycles. Those people who said never are dead, their children never had to live through it, so why would they say never?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey! I'm still alive and probably still have some decades to go. You can (and should) oppose fascism without being a direct survivor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why limit our retention of knowledge to the quantitative?

We shouldn't have to kill an entire people every generation to be too horrified to do it again, just as we don't have to relearn how to make transistors for processing units every generation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but look at that streak! The "never again" following the Great War was only ~15 years.

I continue to believe we're making measurable gains

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Keep the faith Ted Lasso.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need their lebensraum

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's just like that. Remember how Poland was shooting rockets into Germany and slaughtering the civilians there regularly? Oh wait, none of that happened.

Self-defense did not characterize Germany's behavior during world war II, it absolutely does characterize Israel's behavior regarding Palestine.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

They absolutely do that's why they keep pumping out propaganda like the Taylor Swift bodyguard bs

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Guess the Palestinian's should be thankful the statement implies there will be any Gaza left for them.

This trail of tears will surely end the cycle of violence and hate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I think it was their foreign minister that was saying the other day that he considers every resident an enemy combatant...

So progress?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll play devil's advocate, while hate is definitely still there today, the military actions and trails of tears definitely stopped violence between the US and Native Americans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That is top tier Devil Advocating.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come on all, don't link to the fucking Washington Examiner.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

…of course it will.