• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    This is just an expansion on “violence is inherently bad” which as an anarchist I hope isn’t something you believe

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      17 hours ago

      Violence is inherently harmful.

      Some people and institutions do deserve to be harmed. Those people and institutions are almost never who actually gets harmed in war. War sucks.

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        16 hours ago

        do you know what’s harmful? capitalism. i’d suffer every pain for the world to achieve socialism. yes, you might not believe it, having a comfortable life in the global north, but there are people willing to be harmed to achieve liberation.

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        15 hours ago

        So would you oppose a war of liberation, such as the Vietnamese fought against Japan, France and America?

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          9 hours ago

          No, not really.

          But neither of the wars mentioned in this ‘infographic’ are wars of liberation.

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            But neither of the wars mentioned in this ‘infographic’ are wars of liberation.

            “The Palestinian struggle against the Israeli settler colonialists is not a war of liberation actually”

            You might possibly be the least intelligent person I’ve ever seen.

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                War is defined by the instigator.

                Maybe, if you’re a simpleton who needs everything boiled down to a single slogan/view due to being incapable of perceiving and analysing the totality of the event.

                The great patriotic war was a war of liberation despite the Nazis instigating.

                The war of resistance against Japan was again a war of liberation despite the Japanese instigating.

                The Korean war was again a war of liberation despite it being instigated by the US and it’s client state.

                And so on.