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  • You can't just ignore their answer and say they don't have one just because you don't like it. Besides, it's a nonsense question, like "What's your answer to stopping Indian attacks?" during the US's settler colonialist period of western expansion and manifest destiny.

    Israel can stop their oppression of Palestine and allow their citizens actual sovereignty and you've already cut off the source of Hamas support. You can even trade hostages for this. But the truth is, Israel cares more about the land they're sitting on and getting rid of the people on it then they do about their hostages.

    Israel can't immediately kill everyone because they have to pretend they are the good guys for the US. But they are killing as fast as they can right below that line. Nazi Germany and the US did the same thing. First, gathering their targeted ethnicities in ghettos, then using their retaliation as evidence of the necessity for slaughter and displacement, then repeat and continue until they're all gone. It took the US hundreds of years to do their genocide, but nobody denies it was one.

    Btw, this isn't a war, it's an occupation and ethnic cleansing. It's why one side has tens of thousands of civilian deaths and the other side doesn't.

  • I'm currently the one being cut off from someone and I feel like shit... I double-booked a thing and now they think I suck and am not reliable. And it's probably true. I'm so bad at dates and remembering to write things down, but I want to change. This is probably the push I need to remember forever now, but don't want to lose my friend group over it. Fuck, I hate myself so much.

    Oh hey, that whole type of rant is on the list,too lol.

  • Well it's not like settler colonialism failed in places like the US, Australia, South Africa, and other places. They just hope to do the genocide now, then in 50 years everyone will forget or want to move past it, and they can make sad movies about it and pretend they feel bad about it.

  • The problem, from a comedy perspective, is that lots of people go there. Ricky Gervais, every right wing late wanna be news or comedy talk show host, every unoriginal Twitter/X jokester, your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, etc. The "I identify as X" joke they all derive from has been dated since like 2010.

    The only reason he makes headlines is because he's famous and used to be good, and now his bigotry makes people angry and sad instead of laugh. Those reactions do draw clicks, and it makes him want to strike out and keep doing it, because all famous, rich people are children who are mad at people who don't like them.

  • Ah, yup, makes sense. It's like the antisemitic people who liked Israel only because they wanted all the Jews off somewhere else, not because they liked Jewish people themselves. It's the mixing and diversity that's the problem (at first, of course, but it sounds less bad that way).

  • Yup! I just don't like when people say it completely failed. It encourages apathy in the face of oppression because of a fear of radical change. It's the boogie man of revolutions, but for the common people, life was way better after than before, and for all their children who benefited from it forever after, I'm sure it was worth the period of tumultuousness.

  • Ya a king was forced on them by other monarchies, but their nostalgia for the Revolution set the seeds for the other revolutions that did eventually get rid of their monarchy. It's not like it lasted long. They had another revolution one king later to get a stronger constitution to restrict the King, and then a revolution during the King after that. Their monarchs were on shaky ground after the Revolution. The common people now had rights and wants, and expectations. They also had a bunch of gains that persisted through the monarchy which I brought up in another comment.

  • The French Revolution gained the common people lots of gains that even their kings weren't able to roll back without risking pissing off the populace too much. It was a huge improvement on life before. They drastically reduced the power of the church, fixed the antiquated tax system, made nobles taxed, arranged the military by merit, fixed up the laws with the Napoleonic Code, made the government more representational by giving the Third Estate a voice, etc. These things stayed even through Napoleon and the kings after.

  • Palestinian quality of life has already been shit for decades. Most of their water is poisoned, they're allowed barely enough calories, the sky is so filled with spy drones they can't sleep, they don't control their own power, water, sky, trade, freedom of movement, etc. They fight because they have no other choice. They're not going to give up or lose Hamas members while their quality of life sucks and they stay oppressed.

    Unless Israel goes the genocide route...