Reddit used to have a lot of good posts full of wisdom. This was posted there around 10 years ago in reply to someone struggling with losing their child... It has helped me, and countless others, immensely with putting grief and loss in a proper perspective. Just beautiful.
Yup, thousands of murdered brown children were fine for MSNBC, but three young Jews getting murdered while trying to surrender to their own military is where the moral outrage starts. It's pathetically transparent why they suddenly saw this as problematic.
Recreational cannabis is not legal in the Netherlands as far as I know. It's just unenforced under certain conditions.
Next up to freeze: Google's unholy war on ad-blockers. A decisive blow to that would make this a holy trilogy 😄
Interesting for an Israel supporter to raise international law. You know that occupation and annexation, forced removal of the local population and replacing them with your own population are all prohibited under international law right? And that the occupied population has the right to resist by any means, including violence? So why would you call Palestinian resistance to occupation terrorism then? It's very much legitimate use of violence then, under international law.
Try being a Palestinian in Gaza and see how awesome and cool Israel is. Being pro gay doesn't change who's the oppressor and who is oppressed.
"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties, It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence." -Frantz Fanon, 'the wretched of the earth'
That sucks, sorry for your loss man. Being reminded of that kind of shit is waaaay worse than what I'm whining about, and mine is bad enough.
ITT: reactionaries being completely oblivious of what Sartre stood for.
How hard could it be to find out that Sartre was a communist? It's like quoting an anti-Semitic speech by Adolf and saying "just change 'jew' to 'nazi' below". This is impressively stupid stuff.
So, everyone who didn't choose to abandon the platform you yourself admit to have been using until recently, at the exact time that you decided was appropriate to abandon it completely, is an idiot? I think you should try to recalibrate your attitude regarding things like this my friend. That's an unnecessarily harsh way to view other people's choices IMO. It poisons the conversation, but more importantly, it poisons your own mood.
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Calling Iran's support for Hamas "colonial shenanigans" is a perfect symptom of Zionist brain rot. Particularly when it comes from the mouth of a supporter of the only settler colonial society in the region.