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  • redballooon@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlThe correct civilians to slaughter
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    9 months ago

    Just as the reactionary Republicans who accuse the democrats of all sorts of foul play that’s in their playbook, this whole comment looks to me like projection.

    Using the population as shields, by hiding weapons and militants in hospitals and schools is what the Palestinian combatants have done for years decades. Etc

    You have a few points, the Israeli government has long been gone across any reasonable state of mind.

    But the whole mindset you describe did not originate in Israel. This whole situation is waaay less one sided than you make it appear. And it changed significantly last weekend, initiated with a terror attack of unprecedented scale by the Hamas.













  • redballooon@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlMusk patent
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    1 year ago

    Admittedly it is not 100% true for all first world countries, when we’re discussing outside Europe it’s a slightly more complex. For America it was not colonialism but imperialism, but that doesn’t change the moral argument. Those states in Asia that are first world I don’t know enough to talk confidently (and with that you know I’m not ChatGPT)


  • redballooon@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlMusk patent
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    1 year ago

    There’s no need for anyone in the western world to frown upon that. Literally all of us started out with the wealth that our ancestors violently extracted from colonies.

    Just because you didn’t personally inherit millions doesn’t change the structural fact. All our industries jump-started by getting stuff from colonies. It was a big rush among the colonizers, and those who didn’t do successful colonize are not among “first world” countries today.

    Musk is guilty of much, but his sin in benefiting from his parents sins is different from yours only in scale.