PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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We might not fully invade enemies often, but the Arabs definitely have.

The days of massive Pan-Arab socialist coalitions are over, and even back when they were still a threat, Israel beat them off pretty handily without significant US support.

Threats to Israel at this point are largely not existential, and if they were changed to existential threats, further radicalization seems more likely than redress and reconciliation. Especially considering Israel's nuclear program.

The original 97 Berserk anime (though the first episode is very weak), Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Black Lagoon (though it has definite... weak arcs which get too animesque), Girls Last Tour, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Space Dandy, and Pop-Team Epic, (roughly sorted from most serious to least) are all excellent series.

Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, and Princess Mononoke (really, anything by Miyazaki) are all fantastic anime movies.

I can add, as guilty or semi-guilty pleasures, Canaan and Tsukikage Ran.

What is your threshold for often?

When was the last time a country with a functioning military was overthrown by outside intervention?

I guess we can count Iraq, though that requires connecting the First Gulf War and the Second, since the First Gulf War is when the Iraqi military was last seriously functioning.

The best way to punish them is to give Isreali left wingers and “out” which allows them a path back to normalcy so they can take political power and condition that with punishment of high ranking war criminals and a two state solution. But this cant really happen due to the current US admin.

I think you overestimate the appetite of the Israeli left-wing for normalcy, a serious two-state solution, or punishing war criminals. Like I said, at best, you'll get a handful of offenders from internal politiking. But the chance of there being some punishment for any significant percentage of the very large number of very active and intentional orchestrators of this genocide is... small. Zionism is unlikely to be meaningfully repulsed by anything but time, and that's assuming a best-case-scenario that the problem doesn't intensify.

People will fight to the death if they’re backed into a corner but they will throw a few people under the bus if given a path out.

Again, I consider that covered under my "Slobodan Milošević" scenario. Don't get me wrong, seeing Bibi die in a prison cell would be based and hilarious. But even that would only be a drop of water in the ocean of blood.

But if by Zionists you mean anyone who wants isreal to exists then you are backing isrealis in to corner and guaranteeing the conflict continue to be played out.

By Zionists, I presumed it was meant those who see Israel's existence as an explicitly Jewish apartheid state as core to its continuation. And as long as Israel remains Zionist in that sense, this shit will keep happening. Ethnostates are notoriously amiable to the whole lebensraum idea, regardless of whether it's currently-occupied territory they're looking at, or potentially occupied territory - or both.

Turn them in community centers.

Apparently, a big part of the problem is that entrenched interests, including the Teachers' Union, are resisting any attempts to shut down or convert these smaller schools.

Israel is one of the worlds most powerful militaries, if they wanted to get things over as quickly as possible they could have polished Gaza off on October the 8th.

Considering that the brutality of this war has only been matched by its incompetence, not so sure that's correct.

Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.

I don't know that I agree. At this point, I think between the instability of their neighbors and the built-up siege-state of Israel itself, it would continue acting like a rogue state even if the US cut off funding.

Which is not to say that we shouldn't cut off funding - we absolutely should. And extend that 'umbrella' of protection to Israel's neighbors, not Israel, which might at least reduce blatant incursions.

But I suspect that the response of Israel to reduced or eliminated US support would be to become even more militarized, not less.

We can’t. At least while the USA is a thing.

Even if the US wasn't a thing, punishing Zionists wouldn't be possible without subduing Israel through a literal war. Something which is not often attempted.

At best, we'd have the half-ass 'punishment' levied on states like Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Djibouti, and North Korea, wherein the primary punishment is "It's slightly harder and more expensive for the elite to get their precious foreign luxuries."

Don't get me wrong, that's better than nothing. It's just...

Prevention is generally a more fruitful avenue than punishment, when it comes to international polities and ideologies even with just regional majorities.

The chance of seeing genocidal cunts swing, or even acknowledge their wrongdoing, are generally small. Even the worst genocide of modernity, the Holocaust, had only a relatively small number of Nazis punished, despite literally every major extant power agreeing on how horrific their behavior was, and quite literally destroying all military capacity for the Nazis to resist and occupying every inch of their territory.

At most, you might get a handful of them in international courts by internal politiking, like Slobodan Milošević, but even then we're unlikely to see the fully 'cathartic' end we want. "My dad is a war criminal" will still be sung proudly.

Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon.

Me and my friends are picky about anime, but they all swear by it. I haven't gotten around to it myself, but it seems like it's quality.

Around age 12. Graduation from High School is at 12th grade in the USA.

Not mine, I just found it online. But yes, it is disgustingly accurate XD

What's that in metric units?

Good. They should be troubled. This is utterly fucked.

I think the stupidity of the electorate is being vastly underestimated here.

The guy was dancing around like a crazy person to Ave Maria at his last rally and yelling about people eating cats and dogs on the debate. There’s no way anyone saw that and wanted that running the country save the maybe 8% of the population that are Trump Simps.

You overestimate this country.

I don’t even disagree, it’s just not productive to constantly harp on this when we’ve all heard it a million times

Man, there are people who still believe that helping fascism win was a good idea. Look in this very comment thread, where people are openly extolling the virtues of having Trump win from a 'leftist' standpoint, and teaching those damn dirty SHITLIBS a lesson.

As long as those opinions remain widespread on here, it remains necessary to highlight just how morally repugnant they are.

A movement tried to make Palestine a relevant political issue for the electorate. It got stomped out.

No, it succeeded in its goal - making sure the fascist won.

Yep. God help us.

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is saddened

Oh yes, I strongly agree with all that. Just felt the need to nitpick that the contribution of Nazi scientists was relatively narrow.