Dude. Even if you DO ignore that it’s become part of a fascist movement (which you shouldn’t), it’s still called the “appeal to heaven” flag.
SCOTUS is a secular court that’s tasked with interpreting a constitution that specifically forbids an establishment religion. Asserting in public view that there’s a heaven to appeal to is therefore inherently a big no-no.
Locke’s contention was that no man had inherent power to regulate or restrict divine arbitration in civil affairs. Even in dire circumstances, he alleged, natural rights transcended the political process.
So, in the context of today, he’s basically arguing for SCOTUS to be replaced with a religious tribunal and any secular constitution with “natural” (read: religious dogma) law. THAT doesn’t sound like something a SCOTUS judge should be advocating either…
I don’t know about sanity, but it’s very logical when you remember that Hamas is a terrorist group that sometimes governs rather than the other way around.
The genocide is pretty much the best thing that could happen to them. They may pretend to care about Palestinian lives, but in reality they only care about their own power and influence.
And how does a terrorist group gain power and influence? By radicalizing people to join.
What’s more radicalizing than the myriad daily atrocities of a brutal apartheid regime supported by the most powerful countries in the world? Very little if anything.
REALLY? Is that how you would describe the fascist apartheid regime currently engaging in genocide and myriad other crimes against humanity on a daily basis? A flawed fucking ally?
You genocide-denying apologists are fucking wild! 🤦🤬
You should start a Lemmy community called NotAvocado about things that aren’t avocado. I’d do it myself but I’m too lazy to find out how, let alone moderate it afterwards 😄
Since it’s used to convey meaning using letters and people understand that meaning, it by any definition that matters IS a word.
Also it clearly implies something is inherent to “Caucasians”
No. “Particularly Caucasians” ≠ “all Caucasians”.
I can’t be bothered to do any clever wordplay on the other supposed racial categories
Good, because that would likely be punching down, unlike pointing out how audacious some white people are with their privilege.
but I suspect any equivalent puns might be considered a little problematic, what what?
No, they wouldn’t be equivalent. Pointing out white privilege and criticizing those that wield it as both a sword and a shield is not the same as making fun of less privileged people or even white people who are aware of and don’t exploit their privilege.
Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....
They have kidnapped civilians held in captive under god knows what conditions.
Same goes for Israel and their hundreds if not thousands of baseless arrests of Palestinians who they then often torture. We never hear about them, though, since they don’t have a PR budget or indeed anything.
Second, you’re comparing people who block aid trucks to people who raped and slaughtered families.
Nope, I didn’t compare those civilian Israeli people to the IDF.
Think about what type of person it takes to do either of these, then realize who you’re excusing.
All whataboutism aside, it have never said anything positive about Hamas and their terrorism. Palestinians ≠ Hamas.
You, on the other hand, are excusing the IDF, whose atrocities are just as barbaric as those of Hamas and who are an occupation force.
Both extremists are despicable, but coloring Palestinian extremists as “resisting”
Again, I was talking about the favorite victims of the IDF, not Hamas
raping and abusing bodies
Why do you keep pivoting to the IDF?
Israelis as genocidal is plain hypocritical.
Nope, the IDF and other parts of the Israeli government are by the official definition committing genocide. That’s not just an opinion or a matter under review, that’s a fact.
And again Palestinians ≠ Hamas
Both extremists are genocidal
No. That’s not how genocide works. Saying “death to Israel” and then committing an enormous one day atrocity isn’t a genocide. Absolutely unforgivably barbaric, yes, but not genocide.
with one side being more barbaric
Not really, no. Both of the active sides are about equally barbaric. One is more in the wrong, though, because that one has all the power to stop the bloodshed. The one you consider less barbaric, in case you wonder.
We should condemn both
That’s what I’m doing
and not make excuses for both.
Please take your own advice.
But since you’re providing excuses for one side (“resisting”)
As I’ve pointed out many times i don’t, never have and never will consider terrorism legitimate resistance. So no, I’m not.
I wanted to provide the excuse for the other side
So it’s ok for you to be a hypocrite if you accuse me of hypocrisy first? 🙄
Which tbh, is a better excuse
No, it’s not. The Israeli people care about the hostages, but Netanyahu and the IDF don’t. Their indiscriminate destruction is a greater danger to them than their captors and the IDF has murdered at least two of them already.
since it can actually possibly get them results
No. Only result they’re going for is to murder or expel as many Palestinians alive they can get away with and then take the territory for themselves. They’ve already started “resettling” Gaza.
getting the kidnapped back is an option
Not one that Netanyahu and the IDF consider more important than murder and conquest.
exterminating all jews is less so
That was always hateful rhetoric rather than a literal goal.
Extermination and displacement of all Palestinians, though? THAT’S something that can and likely WILL happen if nobody stops the genocidal apartheid regime.
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