[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 89 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You would have pressed it to retrieve a personal item? Seriously? Like if you're visiting a factory and your phone fell on the assembly floor you would run to the first red button you could find and press it without asking anyone? If so, please never get on an airplane.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

Not to mention you never apply that same lens about aggression to the actions of Israel.

Sure I can. For example, Israel attacked Iran with an airstrike. That's an act of war. When Iran retaliated, nobody pretended the victim was the aggressor like they are now with Israel and Hezbollah.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Hezbollah should not care about Israel indiscriminately bombing Civilians in Gaza

Lots of people around the world care about what is happening to civilians in Gaza. That doesn't mean they want to kill Israelis.

If Hezbollah wants to show how much it cares by launching rockets at Israel, then it will find out how much Israel cares about being attacked by rockets.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No, the first attacks came from Hezbollah, in solidarity with the Hamas attack. The first casualty was Israeli, thus starting the current cycle of escalation.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Hezbollah started firing rockets at residential areas in Israel back in October. That's an act of war.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Plans are not an act of war. China has plans to take Taiwan. The US has made detailed plans to attack everyone, even Canada, if necessary.

If Russia fires actual rockets at Lithuania, that's an act of war and Lithuania has a right to defend itself.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Let's try an actual historical example.

Russia historically colonized Lithuania in the past, until the dissolution of the Soviet Union forced Russians to withdraw, but Russia continued to occupy and ethnically cleanse Kaliningrad (formerly the German city of Konigsberg).

What do you suppose would happen to Lithuania if it started launching rockets at Russia in an effort to decolonize Kaliningrad? Same as Hezbollah: FAFO

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And if Canada agreed with you and started launching rockets at the US on that basis, it would suffer the consequences. Much like Hezbollah.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Notice that the US didn't enter WW2 until it was attacked at Pearl Harbor.

And since then it hasn't launched rockets at military peers, even to stop a genocide. Just ask the families of tens of thousands of Chechens killed by Russians ~20 years ago.

If Hezbollah wanted to follow the modern American example, it would only start wars against weaker countries. Israel isn't one of them. Instead, Hezbollah is using the FAFO strategy.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Canada has a longstanding border dispute too, with the US.

Imagine if Canada launched rockets at the US, because of the border dispute and also because Canada believed US arms shipments to Israel violated international law. It would not end well for Canada.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is similar to popular non-Americans like Berlusconi, Meloni, Le Pen, and Kickl. Americans aren't unique in that regard.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

arbitrary interpretation

They aren't as arbitrary as they seem, it's just that the media don't go into the full detail.

For example, key 2 is actually "The candidate is nominated on the first ballot and wins at least two-thirds of the delegate votes", which is clearly true

Furthermore, the entire point of this method is that it ignores opinion polls. So it makes no difference whether the public actually wanted a primary contest or not. Likewise, it doesn't matter whether scandals have "lost meaning".

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Ending the Gaza war: Three phase proposal

PHASE ONE

  • It would begin with a six-week ceasefire, during which the IDF would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza
  • Hamas would release "a number" of hostages - including women, the elderly and the wounded - in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Some remains of dead Israeli hostages would be returned to their families
  • Palestinian civilians would return to their homes in all areas of Gaza
  • Humanitarian assistance would "surge", with 600 trucks a day entering the strip, and hundreds of thousands of temporary housing units sent by the international community

During that six week period, negotiations mediated by the US and Qatar would continue. If successful, the next part of the plan would begin.

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