• The Cooking Senpai@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The recent US and UK actions can be taken as examples on how to cure the symptom while making the disease worse

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      10 months ago

      Here’s an idea:

      The Houthi’s can just not launch missiles at ships

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        10 months ago

        I’m tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.

        Why are the Houthi’s committing violence?

        I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.

        Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.

        Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren’t launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of ‘militant rebels’.

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            This what? These people are religious fanatics so self absorbed in superstition and nonsense that they will literally blow themselves up and kill a bunch of people just out having breakfast because they don’t like the hours of operation one group sets for a pile of rocks some other group wants to visit on one day but not on another day. It is their utter lack of empathy and rationality that makes them evil pieces of shit. They aren’t fucking freedom fighters standing up for innocent people. They are morons who want religious control over their own people and every other person, absolute male domination of women in society, minority rule, and the ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from the middleeast.

            With the support of useful idiots as you, of course.

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          10 months ago

          The Houthi are the Proud Boys of Yemen.

          After 1/6, instead of arresting the insurrectionists, maybe we should have bought more Proud Boys merchandise? That’s your solution to religious extremists attempting to overthrow the government?

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            Yemen’s chief export is Proud Boys merch?

            Didn’t know that.

            Thanks for informing me and not just being a murderous troll.

            If that’s the case, just nuke Yemen. Explosives are the only real fix for social issues.

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              I was comparing religious extremists in the US who attempted to overthrow the US government with the Houthi who are doing the same in Yemen. The Houthi aren’t the official Yemen government. They are a religious faction who are attempting to overthrow the Yemeni government.

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                10 months ago

                Then why did you take my point, employ and empower legitimate Yemen businesses and buy their chief export, flip it around, and say that I was suggesting buying Proud Boy’s merch?

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                  10 months ago

                  Sorry, I interpreted it as supporting the Houthi. That is buy Houthi products from Houthi businesses.

                  You didn’t say Yemeni in your reply.

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                    10 months ago

                    Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren’t launching missiles

                    But we got there eventually. All good bro.

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          10 months ago

          Spending 1.2 billion on bombing campaigns keeps 1.2 billion in the American economy. Giving another country 600 million only exports money from their grasp.

          Peace is not the point of the war machine.

      • The Cooking Senpai@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Good idea! Here’s another: UK and US stop interferring in middle east (FYI the palestine problem was worsened by magnitudes by the UK mandate)

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        Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.