Your prescription seems to assume that either:
Everyone can be rehabilitated, which no society has ever achieved.
That it’s preferable to push a well understood risk to people’s lives back into the community than it is to keep that risk in the care of the state where they can’t kill more people.
…but you strike me as too sensible to prescribe that kind of thing, so what have I missed?
They’re not currently in power. I’d like to keep it that way.
Hold it in Palestine, get murdered by Israel.
Hold it in Iran, get murdered by Israel.
Hold it in Lebanon, get murdered by Israel.
…but Israel is less homophobic than them, so Israel’s genocide is good, actually.
Are you able to explain why the Nazis were bad in a way that doesn’t implicate Israel?
It’s not complex - bigotry is bad, genocide, as the most extreme possible outcome of bigotry, is far worse. Some bigotry in a population isn’t justification for a genocide - that would be an apocalyptic prescription if applied consistently.
You do understand why people would look at your prescriptions and think that you’re either a world-ending lunatic or genocidal piece of shit, right? Why would we be wrong?
I’ll ask again because you dodged the important question - Does Palestine have the right to defend itself like Israel and what would that look like to you?
Which specific 2 state solutions are you referring to? I assume it’s the ~1994 deal that collapsed because Israel couldn’t stop their terrorism and assassinations throughout the negotiations, and the Partition Plan that violated the UN charter with respect to national self-determination and carved out the majority of the territory to the minority Israeli population.
To defend the genocide of Palestine as a necessary lesson reveals a let’s say… interesting moral framework - particularly as Israel escalates aggression against Iran and Lebanon. Putting aside the obvious genocidal intent, rhetoric, and action, how does an exterminated population learn any lesson?
Your argument is the best possible case one could make for the genocide of Israel - they are the regional threat and aggressor - they are the ones that (by your sickening logic) need to be exterminated to teach them a lesspn. The outcomes of the actions you’re defending have civilisation-ending consequences one way or another, and zero benefit - why do you hold these positions?
My bigotry and genocide is fine because other countries have bigotry, actually.
What do you think you stand for, exactly?
You don’t need the permission of a European kid to vote for the least shit option for your government and kick the can of fascism a little further down the road. The recent is close - the outcomes delivered by each candidate aren’t - you shouldn’t need encouragement to vote accordingly.
They’re not all MAGAts, but they are all anti-empiricist conspiracy theorists, so it’s only a matter of time before they land on Trump or run straight past it to Nazism. Surely you’ve seen this for yourself.
Cultural Bolshevism > cultural Marxism / post-modern neo-Marxists.
Immigrants polluting the blood of the nation > immigrants polluting the blood of the nation.
unified Reich > unified Reich.
Hooray for populists that aggressively fight against anything resembling worker solidarity, planning to end democracy, convincing people that it’s for their own good, and bumbling their way into Nazism.
There isn’t a third option.
You get the neoliberal that will be broadly disappointing, and likely perpetuate the situation in Palestine, or you get the open fascist that will make everything far worse - including Palestine, and potentially end US democracy. Both are bad, there’s a yawning chasm of difference between the two.
Your spectacularly priveliged abstaineousness and the false equivalence you’re drawing (even on the single issue you’ve pointed to) in such a critical swing state is cripplingly naiive, and gambles with the lives of who knows how many Palestinians, Ukrainians, and Americans. To sit back and vote for a Russian asset in this context is frankly disgusting.
There are 1,458 days of the election cycle to push for better - there’s only one for keeping the fascists out of power, and you chose not to.
Don’t forget the electoral college…
Broken-ass excuse for a democracy that’ll be shattered if Trump wins.
But that would shift the election in favour of the Democrats…
Yes - if the GOP can’t survive more proportional representation, they shouldn’t.
Not actively, gleefully making things worse. Biden is doing this.
Working to stack the Supreme Court, and triggering a constitutional crisis in the process because the Republican Senate will refuse confirmation, and the Supreme Court that was stacked with self-contradictory GOP bullshit will agree with them would be the interesting move that won’t happen because the Democrats are cowards and institutionalists rather than fascist monsters.
I can imagine there would have been an interesting dynamic between this piece of shit and fellow Bob’s Burgers voice actor Sam Seder…
It shouldn’t need to be explained why you shouldn’t help a state murder journalists, but based on the downvotes we can already see in this thread, the genocide enjoying cowards and bots are doing their thing.
Cynical as it is, that’s what makes them “vital”.
Trump and Vance are obviously monstrous pieces of shit, and helping Ukraine is pretty objectively correct both morally and strategically, but losing Taiwan, specifically TSMC would do a pretty incredible amount of damage, while losing Ukraine would empower Russia, but otherwise do fairly limited damage to US interests.
Should have happened after he started fucking with Starlink in Ukraine to aid a hostile state actor. Insanity.
Cancel culture strikes again… From the right as usual.
Palestinians killed in Gaza aren’t terrorists - they’re the victims of a genocide.
Since October 7th, 44,000 Palestinians have been killed compared to 1,706 Israelis. The stats over the past few decades don’t deviate much from this ratio. Israel is killing many times more Palestinians, and a higher ratio of children, they’re seizing land, holding many times more hostages, and committing and proudly documenting countless warcrimes.
Does Palestine have the right to defend itself like Israel? What would that look like to you? I ask mostly because you’re actively supporting an ongoing genocide while blaming the victims of that genocide while applying inconsistent, nonsensical standards across the two groups.
Hooray for courts stacked with sycophants and partisans, and liberals enabling fascism because meaningfully opposing it would be uncivil.
There’s slim hope that Trump losing the election along with his viability as president or leader of the GOP would see his protections make way for consequences, but even that seems unlikely.