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Imagine if during 9/11 nearly 51,000 Americans died, not the 3000 people that actually died. Imagine if it wasn't Osama bin Laden who did it to US but the dictator Govt of a country of 2.2 million people who had a military force of 50,000 people. How would the USA respond?
People that compare 9/11 to Oct 7th get the comparison of deaths compared to population wrong by a factor of 16. That's the level of damage Israel just faced. 1400 Israelis dying out of Israel's 9.2 million population is equal to 51,000 Americans dying out of USA's 335 million population. Israel faced an attack that is equal to an attack as if 51,000 Americans were killed. | ||
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#393
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All I know is that if Palestine was free and America wasn't yet again supporting genocide all of these dumb reactionaries would just find something else to whine about
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#394
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The Palestine / Israel battle is really quite simple.
Palestine as a county is run by terrorists. This does not mean all Palestines are terrorists. Terrorists use civilians as shields. The Free Palestine has merit if you mean Free Palestine from terror lords. Now if you mean Israel, you’re wrong. So basically, bootstraps, pull-ups. | ||
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#395
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American hegemony is basically the same as the terrorism it opposes. The bias displayed by the American right is meant to perpetuate the existing power structure, that's why it has never once solved a single problem it gripes about. It's profitable to have millions of rubes propagate hatred
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#396
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Origen you support a group that condones rape. See the Me Too movement. You support a group that condones child abduction. See the horrors of human trafficking.
You have zero credibility Origen. Israeli Arabs live a better quality of life in Israel because of its brand of western cosmopolitanism right in the middle east as a parliamentary democracy. Outside of hostages there has not been a single Israeli living inside of Gaza since 2006. You want people to suffer. Why? Who hurt you? | ||
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But I think the problem with a lot of these peoples' worldview is they view America as an evil monolithic oppressor, so they couldn't give two shits if it gets attacked, as long as the person attacking is a brown muslim and not an orange retard. Without realizing that the US is definitely history's gentlest hegemon, both in absolute and relative terms. | |||
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Last edited by Lune; 11-03-2023 at 10:58 PM..
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If Americans lost 51,000 civilian people in an attack from a neighbor that included rape and child abduction would Americans be ok with attacking a city-state nation of 2.2 million people hiding 50,000 terrorist members each one an open target of war? It's interesting for Americans to be observers in a war that we are not conducting. | |||
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I'm pro-Israel but that line of thought is cuckoo bananas. | |||
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It's not how Americans think but rather the shift in what Israelis think in response to what happened to Israel on Oct 7.
I was making the comparison because people, including myself, have said that Oct 7 was Israel's 9/11. I'm saying Oct 7th is actually 16x worse than 9/11 on a per capita basis. | ||
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