• The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    That conflict is just 76 years old. Even the idology that caused the conflict ist just 130 years old. Before the British colonialism the region had almost no conflict since the crucades.

  • antiyanks@leminal.space
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    VERY SERIOUS:

    I am just a random person without any stake in this. I just deeply believe the americans are in the wrong for supporting war crimes.

    But now I’m being told the russians could be paying me to do this? I mean it’s kinda fun. Anybody know who I could ask? Is there a recruitment process or something?

  • NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world
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    Another post that makes me further double down on voting 3rd party. It is because of this mentality that not enough people vote 3rd party to make a difference. Also, I refuse to reward genocide.

    I would also like to add Trump being worse isn’t a good argument because this administration has let israel do all it wants and given them every weapon and funding.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Imagine a scenario with multiple political parties competing to defeat the Republicans. With more representative electoral systems, voters could choose any candidate they prefer, ensuring that even if their choice doesn’t win, their vote can still be counted against the republican party with no spoiler effect. Since voting methods are determined at the state level, we don’t need to wait for federal changes; some states have already implemented electoral reform. Alaska recently picked a more moderate conservative over Sarah Palin because of Ranked Choice voting

    Who would oppose having multiple chances to take power from the Republican Party? The Democratic Party would. In states they control, they could replace First Past The Post voting with an electoral system without a spoiler effect. Yet year after year, election after election, the democrats sit on their hands and do nothing about FPTP voting.

    Democrats frequently acknowledge the shortcomings of FPTP voting, and have done so for longer than I’ve been alive. Just mention voting for a third party to any Democrat, and they’ll readily express their awareness of the flaws in the voting system used by most states. Comments for articles about the Green Party will further illustrate their understanding of this issue.

    The Democrats seem to prefer the country balancing over a fire pit of fascism rather than truly competing for our votes. Party over country at all costs.

  • boywar3@lemmy.world
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    Another day, another smattering of “leftists” in safe blue states trying to be armchair activists while folks in red states fight to not be hunted for sport by the ruling class.

    I’m sure glad it’s easy to hide behind “both parties bad” or whatever nonsense they come up with this time.

  • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    the funniest part about this post is that trump and kamala’s statements here are functionally identical, differing only in the phrasing.

  • chakan2@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I just want to point out I don’t believe this is a far left thought. It’s a very good Russian disinformation campaign.

  • cashsky@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Please look up Brett Mcgurk before you praise Biden and Kamala’s stance on Israel. Literally following Bush era policies in the Middle East.

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    I don’t know who is driving the Gaza protest rhetoric. It’s a question that should be answered. Because the absolute anti-Democrats narrative while simultaneously getting extraordinarily butthurt if anyone points out the Trump/Republican stance (and the fact it’s Congress that votes the Israeli aid) is indicative of foreign-based propaganda that cares NOT AT ALL about Gaza. It’s about getting Trump re-elected. Either that or the people posting here and across social media calling this war a genocide are just plain stupid or really, really feel self-fulfilled by their own anger.

    You wanna complain about an actual genocide, look up what’s happening in Sudan as we speak.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    There was no massive Jewish/Muslim conflict for a 1000 years in the region. The biggest massacre in the region against the Jews was probably the Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, albiet exact numbers are not available. The crusaders killed everyone in the city with a death toll as low as 3000 to as high as 70000. This includes all Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

    When I tried to look at the pogroms done against Jews in the Levant the history is actually remarkably scant. While they did happen, my impression based on just reading the wiki article was that they were caught up in larger conflicts in the region and it wasn’t a deliberate targetting in the same way the Tsar’s cossacks targetted Jews. And in all those cases the dominant power always came to their rescue and compensated them for the damages done by their persecutors. Also it appears that the worst perps weren’t Muslims, but Druze (who are not Muslims).

    In short, Trump is not only highly dishonest, but also a worthless shitbag who has been struggling his entire life to enshittify the world we all live in. He is worse than Bezos or Zuckerberg, because at least Amazon is a decent shopping platform, and Zuckerberg’s facebook helped many people (myself included) to reconnect with childhood friends that I thought I would never speak to again).

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Holy shit these comments…

    Guys, I think you have over-saturated your target forum. Too many on the same site, you gotta tell the higher ups to spread it around more so it’s not so obvious.

  • yeather@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Vote third party if you live in a solid state like me, vote red or blue if you are worried about your states outcome.

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    1 day ago

    “1000 year conflict”

    Year of Israel’s creation: 1948

    Start of Gaza genocide: 2023

    🤔

  • underwire212@lemm.ee
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    Lmao genocide is not a “highly complex geopolitical issue”

    It is neocolonialism that has been going on for a while (not 1000 years??) and is now ramping up to full on blatant murder, genocide, and devastation for the Palestinian peoples.

    I can think of something US govt can do literally right now to help; STOP GIVING ISRAEL FUCKING WEAPONS!

    But then the poor investors of aero/defense industrial complex will whine and complain that their Raytheon stock went down 5% ☹️. Can’t have that now can we

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    Yeah I’m perfectly fine with not being on the same side as people openly embracing Dick Cheney and weird can’t figure out how being active in genocide is bad.