Wakmrow @ Wakmrow @lemmy.world

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I'm not downplaying the deaths of 10,000 people or that 30,000 have been injured. There are over a million displaced and over 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, more in the West Bank and more in the surrounding countries.

Israel cannot win this. It is impossible to accomplish their genocide. That's after weeks of bombing spending who knows how much on munitions. Logistically it's impossible.

They cite the airport in Russia. Those people were explicitly carrying Palestinian flags and targeting the fleeing colonists, people who actively were on the side of the regime in Israel.

I'd like to see the posts. And in fairness I've seen a lot of Nazi shit pop up on posts so anecdotally I believe anti semitism is increasing.

However, I despise the Israeli government and I've been called all sorts of shit for it. So I'm sceptical.

Means testing doesn't work.

I get your trying to help but you're missing the point

This is from 2002 and the source is the Israeli army. I'm exhausted of you assholes.

I keep seeing this question and I'm in disbelief anyone is actually parroting this in good faith.

Not genocide? Can they not do genocide? There are a million different options to combat terrorism but right wing governments only know how to send in shock troops into civilian populations. Just because these assholes are assholes doesn't mean this is the only option.

If there were to be an actual ban on firearms that starts with the police, I would support it.

Republicans passed the mulford act in California.

I don't think you read my comment. I didn't mention mental illness. And I explained how access to firearms will not be restricted to those who commit the violence.

I would prefer to live in a country with no guns but that is not the reality we live in. And it will not be the reality no matter how many laws get pressed. They will be selectively enforced by a fascist police force.

In Colorado, there is a magazine capacity limit of 15 rounds. The police choose not to enforce this. You can walk into any gun store and buy a drum magazine holding 150 rounds. In a metropolitan area with probably the most horrific mass shootings. The only time it will ever be a crime is when the police murder a brown person with a magazine holding more than 15 rounds.

I understand you want to live in a safe community and don't want to read news about mass shooters every week. I think you should accept this and act accordingly, don't bring a knife to a gun fight. The people who hold power do not care and laws they would implement would not stop the violence and would disenfranchise vulnerable communities.

On the contrary. I believe the tools of violence are the only things that will allow us to protect lives.

Gun control has historically been used as a tool to oppress further those who resist oppression. You can see it today, every murder by the police is defended with "they reached for my gun" or "they had a gun". The gun control laws you want will be enforced by the police and they will be enforced selectively against minorities. The atrocities you reference are almost universally committed by right wing straight white men. I can assure you no gun control will stop them from acquiring firearms.

There is an explicit example of this in Israel today. The settlers are allowed and encouraged to possess firearms while the Palestinians are explicitly disallowed.

It's ahistoric to say that gun control will save lives. This country only implemented gun control when indigenous and black people began carrying firearms in self defense. Many black men concealed carried pistols to defend against lynchings which is how we have concealed carry restrictions. Because it became illegal to conceal carry, the lynchings continued. Atrocities continue.

I am against gun control laws and this blood is not on my hands.

It is absolutely a loaded question. The question is not whether Israel should exist or if we should accept what Hamas says about the state of Israel. The question is do Jewish people support the actions of the Israeli government.

Very scientific. Ask them a loaded question I don't care about that isn't on the table. Then you're pretty sure they'll all answer the same way. Do you see how that is anti semitic? Do you think all Jewish people are the same?

Blowback is the most incredible podcast I've listened to. If you like behind the bastards, blowback is better, entire seasons on particular historical events.

You people are so historically ignorant.

They don't leave because they know what will happen when they leave because Israel has done this before. Israel will seize the land and their homes and will continue to bomb them in a more dense space. So if they are going to die they choose to die in their homes and not a concentration camp.

Criticizing Israel is the opposite of being anti semitic. It's an acceptance that the state does not represent all Jewish people and an acceptance that ethnicity and religion are not a monolith and that these do not exempt a person from being a piece of shit

He can be stupid and evil

Gee don't look too hard into how hamas got their funding

Look to improve at whatever you compete in. Then losing is an opportunity, not a failure.