Yup,. the hypocrisy is so thick you can taste it, and it's bitter with a strong hint of propaganda. the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.
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the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.
This is an objectively true statement. Of course the world is lead by assholes.
We all know that power corrupts. Neuroscience has shown that getting power damages the brain's capacity for empathy.
You just can't lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.
You just can’t lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.
Yup. One of the very few who had the capability and likely didn't use it.
Which of course led to him being single term because he wasn't ruthless enough for a voting public that would rather have a former actor run the country into the ground while paying loveable grandpa to hide the evil.
But that wasn't because he couldn't lead the country, just that the public loves to fall for confident blowhards that tell them what they want to hear.
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It's extremely frustrating to hold the apparently controversial opinion that killing civilians is, consistently, a bad thing.
You're only worth moral consideration if those in power want you to be.
Wars, racism, homophobia, etc. These are just the results of those who have the power to ignore those they deem not worthy, doing whatever they want.
It ranges from current wars, to past wars, to the Holocaust, to 9/11, to eating animals, to Epstein, etc.
Maybe one day we will realize that someones worth should not be assigned by others.
We are all equal or we are all dead.
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Hell, a while ago France24 wasn't even using the terms "Israel" or "IDF" in any of it's reporting on the sacking of Gaza - they were literally pretending the bullets, bombs and missiles was being fired and dropped by some unknown party.
Just off reading headlines..is "entering" and "bombing" the same thing now?
Off headlines not.
Off reality Al Shifa is far more destroyed than the Ukrainian hospital.
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What Israel did was far worse. They bombed the hospitals, laid siege, raided the hospitals, killed doctors, abducted doctors, tortured patients and staff, and dug mass graves.
i wonder which side this respectable publication is on 🤔
Considering that Netanyahu was having corruption charges levied against him before October 7th... well, from the Israelis I've talked to, the intelligence was there to prevent the attack, and the brass let it happen. War time leaders tend to hold on to power a lot easier. In addition to the gas deposits off the Gazan coast, and the whole beach front property development thing that Israeli corporations are advertising. It's terrible what has been happening in Gaza and the West Bank (obviously) BUUUT, I mean, they're surrounded by much larger countries that are hostile to them. WHY they are hostile, well, that is where cracking open a history book comes in.
Netanyahu is just the latest in a long list of demons, the invasion of Palestine didn't start on October 7th.
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I wonder how it would read if they quoted the Russian military in the headline on the right.
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Well, we have established that the West is racist and supremacist centuries ago, nothing has changed.
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my favorite is that everybody is referring to the israel palestine thing as a genocide, but i have yet to see anybody piss and shit themselves over what russia is doing to ukraine.
Let alone what russia is doing to it's own domestic population. Take a guess on how putin is still popular after putting hundreds of thousands of people to death in a needless war.
For one thing, the US sends huge amounts of money to Ukraine for defense against Russia, and huge amounts of money to Israel for "defense" against Palestine. I care way less what people "piss and shit themselves over" than where the material support goes.
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Huh?? The West has been almost entirely united behind Ukraine. I mean it's the controversial stuff that gets clicks but there's plenty of hatred for Russia to go around. Hell there's graphic videos on Lemmy of Russian soldiers being blown to bits and no one bats an eye.
We’re all in the Zone Of Interest now.
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