but your attempt to provoke "why should?" really shows which side you are on that question, with the racist shitheads. — Saphsin
as shown by their adroitness leading up to the partition of the Raj. — Ciceronianus the White
There was nothing ambiguous about it, you made your attitude very clear throughout this thread ( — Saphsin
" You clearly haven't evolved past grade school. — Saphsin
Oh sweet summer child. — StreetlightX
How is this determined? What would define a country lacking in agency? The United States is the most economically and militarily powerful country in the world, but it seems less able to direct even domestic policy than many other states (e.g. China would seem to have more agency in that regard).it's clear that Isreal is a state with full agency
That's a good description. It's genocide of the soul. Israel can deny claims to genocide in its conventional sense, since Palestinians have one of the highest birth rates in the world and are suffering from an obesity epidemic on par with the United States, rather than being starved out. This is the new world we live in. Providing food is now cheap enough, and mass exterminations now considered untasteful enough that the new method is a slow execution by the restriction of any access to freedoms or meaning. A restriction to a life of constricted opportunities and constant harassment, with the lack of any meaningful rights. This "genocide of the soul," is somehow considered acceptable enough for Israeli voters and Israeli allies. It is, if possible, even more morally repugnant than the Chinese attempt to forcibly absorb minorities, because it doesn't even envisage eventual parity, even after murdering the culture of other group.slow burn genocide
Here we go again. — Manuel
(Emphasis and substitutions are mine.)One will notice that I wish to be just to the [Israelis]: I do not want to break faith with myself here. I must therefore also state my objections to them. One pays heavily for coming to power: power makes stupid. The [Israelis] — once they were called the people of thinkers: do they think at all today? The [Israelis] are now bored with the [ethical], the [Israelis] now mistrust the [ethical]; politics swallows up all serious concern for really [ethical] matters. [Der Judenstaat, Der Judenstaat] über alles — I fear that was the end of [Israeli justice]. — TI: What the Germans Lack (sect. 1)
Since the beginning you've been giving nothing but defensive excuses. Oh they're racist and do bad things, but I have all these things to add to it while you naive guys voice your opposition to what they're doing.
Oh yeah? Wouldn't be surprised if you turn out to defend that — Saphsin
Don't really know what kind of glue you're sniffing in order to interpret things this way, but it must be pretty strong. — Maw
Unless the irony is lost on me, you're playing the racist card I see. That doublespeak is mighty MAGA/QAnon of you, BC. — 180 Proof
The point of politics to improve the world and end suffering, that's why I bother spending time on it rather than plenty of other more pleasurable activities I'd rather do. The way to alleviate suffering in this case is to end oppression of the Palestinians. That is morality, and you are not to the Left of me for lacking it. — Saphsin
The reason I responded that way was because you said you felt a tinge of self-disgust when other Jews were acting poorly. I just didn't understand why you felt self-disgust. — BitconnectCarlos
but you just sound like an honestly miserable person — BitconnectCarlos
If every time a Jew did something bad it caused me to feel self-disgust I'd just permanently be in a state of grossness. — BitconnectCarlos
Guess there's shitty people everywhere. — BitconnectCarlos
That's exactly correct, if I sound like a miserable person it's because I interact with dogshit illiterates, such as yourself, who filter videos of Jews cheering death and destruction after rockets murdered several dozen Palestinians and nearly a dozen children into braindead commentary like: — Maw
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