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  • Ok, thank you.

    Now we can have a dialogue.

    Yeah, her murder, because it was a murder, is fucked up and should be a huge deal.

    I haven’t seen those images, and I don’t want to. Does the OP article make me believe those images exist? Not entirely, Like you said, it is difficult to trust governments that have a history of creating their own truth.

    But I do believe that Hamas is capable of doing that. I do believe that the dynamics of the situation makes it incredibly easy for Israel to be a fascist oppressor and for Hamas to abuse that and do horrific things and then hide behind Palestinians.

    Then Hamas gets to justify more violence when Israel does more fucked up stuff, trying to get at Hamas.

    Any actual peace processes, over the last 50 years, has been constantly undermined and ruined due to militant Muslim groups, like Hamas, who refuse any compromise.

    So what happens? Well the Israelis also got radicalized, and now they don’t really give a shit about the outside world either.

    The Palestinians are stuck in the middle.











  • You are quoting “The majority of studies…” but I am not sure where you are pulling that from.

    I have an issue with that quote since it is absolutely wrong about shipping and air trasport.

    Edit:

    And furthermore, you can’t just abandon a significant sector and expect to pick it up later on.

    There is tremendous momentum in each sector and to just focus on one, at the behest of others, is a TERRIBLE idea. Each sector does not exist in a vacuum. They all have supporting industries that also need to be developed and planned out. To put everything into renewables, is irresponsible at best. If we don’t subsidize it all all. Then it will be a stillborn process that will never see anything outside an office.

    Great, we now have 100% renewables, but we’ve had elevated CO2 for decades and now we have to spin up carbon capture from scratch because someone had the great idea to drop everything else. So add another 20 years for that to work up. We don’t have that luxury.





  • Wait, what!? How would this be a “huge strategic gain for the U.S.”?

    You could argue that it’s a proxy conflict between the West and radicalized Muslim states. Sure. I would even listen to a discussion about rich elites using governments to keep areas destabilized in order to further their own fortunes.

    But saying that somehow the U.S. would gain a huge strategic advantage is reaching.

    What would the strategic value be? Is there oil there? Would they put a base there that somehow had more capabilities than facilities they already have in the area?

    This isn’t 5D chess. This is two cultures that refuse to get along, being supported openly, and behind closed doors by larger nations.

    Israel hates it’s neighboring countries for good reason. Those countries hate Israel for good reasons.

    The human rights violations are disgusting and I support the freeing of Palestine.

    But when you do shit like what the Hamas just did, you destroy any sort of moral high ground you may have had. Two wrongs don’t make a right, no matter what your culture is.

    You can’t divorce Hamas from Palestine either, like some commentors are trying to do.

    Tribalism at its worst.