The people who benefit from division, confusion, and inability to determine information from misinformation. Aka, the rich and powerful.

Honestly, more people should be.

Nair, not hair.

Also, this is the most Reddit I have seen come from Lemmy, which simultaneously entertains and worries me.

See what I mean? Much easier to just call you a grade-school dropout and call it a day.

I don’t tend to engage with people whose only rebuttal is to a strawman, because it’s not going to do a damn thing. Takes more effort to refute the bullshit people like that will fling than an argument with them on the internet is worth, so I usually just point and laugh.

That being said, allow me to give you a more accurate representation of my argument; because I’m feeling generous.

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There are five major wars America participated in that tend to be prevalent in my generation’s psyche. These, listed chronologically, are: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War 2, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror.

Of these, two of them dealt heavily with genocide. World War 2 because we were simultaneously avenging one and preventing its completion, and Vietnam because the overwhelming attitude of the US’ commanding officers in that war was, “Kill all Commies,” and the majority saw no difference between a Communist and your average Vietnamese person.

Therefore: in my generation’s psyche, our country is one and one in terms of genocides stopped and genocides attempted.

In addition, the United States is one of the main sponsors of Israel as a country, and is basically the entire reason it hasn’t been wiped out by all of its neighbors, who hate it and everyone in it. They all realise that to attack Israel would cause the US to retaliate and basically wipe them off the map. This gives the US a certain level of responsibility for what Israel has decided to do whilst under that protection, since it wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

Further: the UN’s call for a ceasefire in that conflict has been vetoed by the United States. So basically that makes the US responsible for allowing the bloodshed to continue.

Therefore: yeah, the United States is, in fact, responsible for Israel’s continuing genocide attempt by vetoing the call for ceasefire and not doing anything tangible to stop the bloodshed committed by a country it has protected from its inception to today.

Overall: we are one and one for genocide v not-genocide, and it’s not looking good.

This is a hilariously misleading summary of American history.

America has only been in 2 conflicts and is responsible for genocide carried out by a sovereign state

Fucking lmao

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Oh, hello strawman argument! How are you doing?

Yeah, our ancestors stopped genocide during World War 2. And then other ancestors tried to engage in genocide against Vietnam. And now we’re only just starting to attempt to convince Israel to not do genocide. So the record currently stands 1-1, with the current one being the tiebreaker.

You see, and then they go and do shit like that.

Why can’t the villains just be moustache-twirlingly evil and the heroes be radiantly pure, like in the old Saturday morning cartoons? It would make the works a whole lot easier.

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Thanks, Martin, you fucking greedy imbecile.

This is what happens when you traumatise your potential law enforcement to make them a gang rather than training them to be police officers. Great job, Uncle Sam!

Same here, mate. You got anything you need to get off your chest to a bunch of strangers on the internet?

I mean, the infrastructure has been actively falling apart for years, people can’t afford the fuel to get to work, half of the country is actively trying to sabotage the rest of it…

My money’s on 2050, at the latest.

Damn, you’d really think Israeli citizens such as Netanyahu and the rest of Israel’s government would hesitate to use Hitler and the Third Reich as a role model, but here we are.

Genocide, for one.

Oh, Israel leadership says they’re only going after Hamas, but they’ve also just been gunning down anyone in the streets who aren’t wearing their colours (demonstrated with a few Americans and Australians being shot), bombing hospitals, and opening up evacuation corridors only to bomb them when they get filled up. They’ve also cut off food and water and internet, so even the civilians who aren’t in the immediate line of fire are suffering and dying.

I dunno, sounds like genocide to me!

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Honestly, the rabid part of the fuck cars crowd are letting perfect become the enemy of good enough for now. The sort of thing they want could never stand a chance of happening. Not anytime soon, not under this breed of capitalism where corporations have a say in the government.

EVs are good enough to slow down emissions to the point where maybe our descendants will have enough time to shift public opinion and get rid of cars entirely. Until then, cars are going to stick around, best thing to do is compromise for now, and use the time bought to have a chance of getting everything you want later.

Man, 1993 was my year.

I was born in ‘94.

No, ADHD is being trapped in your own head, screaming at yourself to fucking move while your body reads on unhindered by your plans or obligations.

“As long as is deemed necessary,” roughly translates to, “As long as Palestinians exist as an ethnic group,”