[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago

Israel is the aggressor too, violently colonizing and ethnically cleansing the local population. The Palestinians are just defending themselves against their own destruction. But it's an unfair fight, because they only have small make-shift rockets against Israel with a big army and getting billions from the biggest empire in the world.

The fact that Israel has a democracy is of no concern to the civilians in Gaza being bombed and starved to death. In fact, it makes it worse: Russians can't vote out their government, but Israelis can.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago
[-] iain@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

Every US president is a war criminal.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 7 points 9 months ago

I don't think you're wrong per se, but I think you are applying your logic too equally. Yes, we all need to humanize each other more, but that ignores the uneven situation we find ourselves in. The colonizer or enslaver needs to stop the crime they are committing. Only then can the victims start their healing process and begin to humanize and forgive. This is a long process, but it needs to start with the crime being stopped. It's hard to humanize the person that is enslaving or committing genocide against you while it's still happening. It's also hard to humanize your victims when you're still committing crimes against them.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago

On the scale of doing nothing to socialist revolution, this is a pretty minor change. But I'd love to hear some improvements that are not fantasies. Or do we just have to give up?

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

If only we were so resolute to stopping people shooting civilians..... that would solve both problems at the same time

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

People here seem to think that the parties that want unification are pro-CCP. Taiwan (until now) thinks they are the rightful rulers of China. A decent part of three Taiwanese still want reunification. I'm happy that they don't have that delusion anymore, and I hope China follows suit, but let's not see the situation here too black and white.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago

Exactly, it's the whole "black lives matter" vs "all lives matter" thing all over again.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, there is a big difference between the crimes you commit and the ones you don't commit.

If we're going to judge countries based off what politicians of OTHER countries say, we'll be here all night. Fuck Canada for the shit Trump says, etc.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

lol, out of arguments?

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

The trains and subways are already very full. Just making things cheaper will not be enough. We need to massively invest in new lines and more frequent trains everywhere.

[-] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

These kinds of articles are not about wanting to add to the runtime, just about providing extra context to the things portrayed in the movie.

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