[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago

Welcome to Israel, where they're really intent on proving nuance doesn't exist.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago

I mean tbf Islamophobia on an Indian subreddit isn't surprising.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because Israel and Iran are enemies and have been in a state of semi-war for ages? And because Israel is an Apartheid state whose raison d'etre is ethnic cleansing?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago

So, hot take here: preface this with saying I absolutely condone the surveillance by Israel here.

I think you mean condemn.

It is not reasonable to keep pointing at the holocaust and nazi germany as a stick of " look, you became the thing you suffered under", unless in a context of learning from history.

I mean when a country does Nazi things usually other countries point out that that's Nazism. It's not something unique to Israel (see: Trump's rhetoric being compared to Hitler's); it's just that Israel's philosophy shares a lot with Nazism so the similarity is pointed out a lot.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 22 points 8 months ago

At least sanction them like South Africa.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's a lot but it mainly comes down to how Europeans were more developed than the rest of the world due to their frequent wars, so when they went to colonize the world nobody stood a chance. And since colonialism and the subsequent horrible decolonization messed up those countries, we get the state of the world today.

To be more specific, colonialism basically turned affected countries into oversized plantations run by foreigners. Any political development that was already there went out the window, and of course no more could be made. Then you got decolonization, where you had countries either being fought off (like France) or packing their bags and leaving (like the British). This created massive power vacuums, and when you have power vacuums you get power struggles and dictatorships and from there we see the world's current state. On the other hand you have Botswana, where they actually had a native ruler class who could rule when the British left. They were an occupied country, not an oversized plantation, so they're virtually one of the best places to be in Africa. Also specifically in Africa colonies would have their borders drawn with no care for the relationship between the people living there, and occasionally they'd actively set them up for failure by putting rival ethnic groups together.

And of course you have neo-colonialism and shit that even now continue to hold back African development.

TL;DR: Europeans came, turned everything into a plantation, then when they left the plantation collapsed and either a dictator came or things returned to survival for the fittest which then produced war-torn dictatorships. These countries should be able to become decent countries with time, and there are many examples of that happening, but the West is still preventing it in many places. See: France in Africa, cold war-era US in Latin America.

Of course we can get into infrastructure and education and all that, but all these things have their roots in the simple fact that these countries had a horrible start (whether a civil war or a dictatorship) and in many cases had to build states from scratch, and in politics a bad start can cost you decades.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago

For anyone saying Hamas should surrender, this is what losing to the IDF looks like.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

Watch Zionist Christians defend Israel after this.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

So... The US's statements regarding this conflict are only slightly less worthless than Israeli statements. Until a legitimate third party confirms this it's Israeli propaganda. Doesn't help that their evidence is fabricated, but yeah.

Also, that aside, protect civilians from Hamas? Quick reminder that it's the IDF killing civilians with sniper fire in the hospital.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately no it won't. Republicans are even worse about Israel than Democrats are, so unless someone who opposes Israel and can somehow gain mainstream support enters the race, Biden's probably gonna win.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

They were warned to go to the South and most.of them did.

Then they were bombed along the way, couldn't take shelter in the south and had to go back.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bro that's not it. It was about AIDS having spread throughout the gay community before testing was feasible.

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