snek

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[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Now the law is "Israel can do no wrong"

Such democracy!!!

Much amaze!!

[–] snek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Wins. And MacOS.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Except you literally think that though. You just wrap it around some BS like "war is baaaad" or "hamas is baaaaad".

So I guess if war is bad and everything is allowed, the take your example further and say that killing Israeli civilians is "tragic but war is war".

Don't spit on my cupcake and tell me it's frosting.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So if Israel had any kind of military base near civilian areas, would that mean it's using Israeli citizens as human shields?

[–] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"Echoing his leader, Major General Igor Konashenkov, chief spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defence, stated in a news conference on February 28 that “the armed forces of the Russian Federation strike only at military targets”. Discussing the capital, Kyiv, he added that “the leadership of Ukraine and the authorities of the city, having announced a curfew, are persuading the residents of the capital to stay in their homes”. This, he concluded, “once again proves that the Kyiv regime uses the residents of the city as a ‘human shield’ for the nationalists who have deployed artillery units and military equipment in residential areas of the capital”."

"Then on March 3, Moscow accused Ukrainian authorities of holding a group of 6,000 Indian students and other foreign nationals as “human shields”. Indian authorities themselves denied the claim. A couple of days later, Putin declared that “the neo-Nazis” were obstructing the creation of humanitarian corridors requested by the Ukrainian government to evacuate civilians trapped in the line of fire, claiming “the militants” were keeping the potential evacuees as human shields."

[–] snek@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Basically this in every capacity.

Immigrants are easy to hate and kick out. They are already probably vulnerable as a group, so kicking them while they are down while screaming, "YOU DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE!" makes emotionally immature people feel like they regaining control and protecting their country. This however has nothing to do with the other. Societies where racism begins to thrive will pick any vulnerable group. In Nazi Germany, it was the Jews. In China, it's the Uyghurs. In many European countries, it's the immigrants.

What exacerbates this further is that hating on immigrants (or any vulnerable group) worsens their conditions which makes it easier to point the finger and blame them for crime or lack of resources. Rinse and repeat. The spiral continues. The racists get more validation after pushing the immigrants down, and the immigrants become more frustrated with a country that doesn't value their taxes and contributions.

 

...whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc...

And did the person ever recover from it?

 
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