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There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?

What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror--that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Mark Twain

Yeah there is. If you're antifascist and anti-imperialist you should support the oppressed people.

If you don't side explicitly against fascist states and American imperialism then you support it.

You understand food has to come from somewhere and Israel controls the sea, the air and most of the land while bombing the fuck out of the people and infrastructure.

oh I'm sorry I can't support Palestine because they won't lie down and die

Imagine only supporting oppressed peoples when they don't fight their oppressors.

If your support is conditional you are not supporting.

I picked an example that I knew the context would be almost universally thought of as morally good even though the act in it's self is indefensible.

I'm not comparing those two either, the IDF exists and makes a great comparison against other fascist state's armies. French resistance fighters also definitely killed innocent civilians and children so still makes a decent comparison since society views violent resistance against certain oppressors even with civilian casualties as okay and some as terrorism.

Also Imagine being so braindead that thinking being against fascist states means you are antisemitic.

I did look through their Lemmy posts but arguably its not the full story I'll admit.

The act with no context committed in a void is terrible, but we're not talkimg about theoretical ethics, everything has context and that context can change everything. You probably wouldn't be so angry at videos of resistance fighters raping and murdering Nazis and collaborators, why? Because of the context.

Violence against oppression is not something that can or should be condemned by those who have never faced that oppression.

Also hate to break it to you the settlers will be an issue for as long as they are there. Look at Northern Ireland, it's been 400 years and the settlers there are still an issue. Look at America, it's been 300 years and the settlers there are still causing issues for the indigenous people.

Dyslexic but but nice try

Oops lol looked it up and TIL fashist was a fascist magazine

The person above me made a grammatical error. I didn't call them out nor do I think it voids an otherwise perfectly coherent statement. This is because I'm not a cunt.

Also can you point out what I misspelt, my phone's dictionary isnt't complaining. Thank you.

Neither side initiate these, its tit for tat going back over 100 years

If only you cried for the oppressed as much as you cry for the oppressor.

There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?

What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror--that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Mark Twain

What do you mean origins, it's what's happening now!

Native people get to told to leave their land. House gets bulldozed. Israeli settlement gets built.

Or are you trying to say every settlement that exists now sprung up in 1948?

The people in Palestine are unsafe because of the powerful fashist state trying to wipe them out.

Jews and Palestinians in Israel are safer because they have all the military power and funding from the American religious quacks.

It's not a fair comparison.

Edit: leaving the typo for context further down

Israeli settlements and military bases are installed by the government to keep control of an illegally conquered area.

If you are looking to liberate that land, stuff installed by the the offending government for military purposes is not civilian.

Israel is using its own citizens for it's benefit without regard for their safety.

If you are watching any content from the web, it doesn't matter if you download it or "stream" it. The same data gets sent to your computer either way.

My response to your first comment implied that both downloading and streaming pirated content count as sailing the high seas since both methods mean downloading pirated content.

Some people may not see "streaming" torrents as the correct way to pirate things because you aren't seeding though.

You download it either way

I mean its not that crazy, I'm writing this on a moto Z2 play. It was released June 2017, not long till year 6 bit hope it goes longer. It's perfectly usable, runs most apps fine, can even run TFT.

Phones haven't changed that much recently, this model has a great screen, 4gb of ram(more than some laptops that are still being released!), and a decent chip. Only issue is the battery is sub 3000mah but I know of a few models from around the same time went up to 5000mah.

You do get better mileage running an OS like lineage and being degoogled since a lot of their tracking processes kill the battery and slows things down.

I'm a software engineer but go off

That used to be possible on less ram, blame OS, browser and web developers