• thebartermyth [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    The main thing for me is how libs nitpick and fight into fake ideas that they think are a ‘progressive middle ground’ which are just extremely evil and unserious. I distinctly remember a lib explaining an elaborate plan of how they would have NATO build a giant wall to enforce a two-state-solution and I just kinda started losing it and showing them pictures of the west bank barrier on my phone. They kept insisting that if NATO ran the wall it would stop israel from expanding.

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      13 days ago

      They kept insisting that if NATO ran the wall it would stop israel from expanding.

      The UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are currently illustrating exactly how that would go even if NATO troops actually somehow cared about trying to do that (which they would not)

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Well of course not. #1 it would require knowing about the material and geopolitical realities which they don’t. #2 it would require them to consider that material conditions matter more than their idealist hasbara that this is a conflict that’s gone on for “thousands of years” because some people don’t like other people because religion or something