• therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I was originally thinking of Israel and the greater Israel project

    Israel is a white supremacist settler-colonialist project that acts like a white supremacist settler-colonialist project… it’s a pretty cut-and-dried situation.

    but didn’t want to touch on that topic

    Why not? It’s a very easy topic to touch.

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      12 hours ago

      Some people are scared of talking about Israel because they can be at great personal risk if caught talking about it. They also might not know how rabid or not rabid the online community they’re posting in will turn out to be.

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      2 days ago

      Once again it’s just a hypothetical about any scenario where group X may want group Y’s land regardless of the details. Maybe group X is good maybe they are bad maybe this maybe that, I think we can step away from the specifics because we’re moving away from the original point. Now you’re kinda proving why, it’s because I thought it would guide the conversation into being about the hypothetical more than the original point which is why I said I guess I should have used aliens.

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        2 days ago

        Once again it’s just a hypothetical about any scenario where group X may want group Y’s land regardless of the details.

        Those details are important.

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          2 days ago

          Yes, in specific circumstances from an outside observer Z. From the perspective of X and Y obviously they feel justified regardless of circumstances.

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            1 day ago

            in specific circumstances

            No, in all circumstances. For instance, the justifications of the coloniser can be dismissed out of hand - in all circumstances.

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              1 day ago

              I said to themselves, that doesn’t mean others can’t disagree and easily. While I don’t agree with Zionist reasoning they seem to feel justified through the argument that greater Israel is promised to them by their God. Always a fun one when people use their religion, it’s ultimately infallible to themselves through their faith albeit clearly misguided to those not faithful.

              It’s human nature at its core. Someone wants something, they craft a reasoning to get it and honestly it’s rare that the reasoning is actually any good, but all the same they believe it and they are internally justified to themselves. That doesn’t mean the justification is good or accurate or right or not easily dismissible by others, it just means they’re justified to themselves as I originally stated.

              A mind typically can’t or at least doesn’t do what it itself has not justified and unfortunately for us all human minds aren’t logically consistent, they are storytellers and you can bend logic two ways to Sunday with the right story at least for those who want to hear it.

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                23 hours ago

                It’s human nature at its core.

                Bullcrap. It’s perfectly obvious where right-wing ideology comes from and who it benefits… stop pretending that all justifications are in any way equal and simply “human nature.”

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                  22 hours ago

                  Have you spent time with people like outside of politics or like spent time with children? Person wants X, they justify why they will or should get X. Man I know I’m on a diet but I worked out really hard today so yeah I’ma get that tub of ice cream.

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                    21 hours ago

                    like spent time with children?

                    How many children do you know that that perpetrates colonialist slaughter?

                    I’ma get that tub of ice cream.

                    Your attempt to de-politicise this discussion is not working - I wonder why.

      • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        There’s literally no way anyone can live alongside a Zionist. They’ll rape them murder them and post it on twitter, then piss on the corpse and feed it to the dogs they use torape prisoners when they get tired.

        I’ve had indigenous roommates, and there was hardly any murder or rape involved at all. Nobody had a dog, and nobody pissed on anyone but themselves, and even that only when they had done lots of drugs.

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          2 days ago

          Now we’re definitely getting away from the general argument I started with (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

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              2 days ago

              Not really, the original point I keep trying to focus back to is the general situation in which a group X wants to take group Y’s land in really any context not specific to any circumstance. Also I don’t appreciate the way you’re talking so I’m going to stop talking to you. We can have civil discussion if you want. To be civil…

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                2 days ago

                You seem like you’re not presenting very civil ideas. A civil tone in which you threaten to grind my pets into a fine paste and spray that through some kind of high pressure water cutter thing in such a way as to bisect me is not civility; its an uncanny dissonance