Lol! You can’t “exterminate” a state, genius. It’s a state. You remember what those are?

And if Hamas were to disappear tomorrow who will oppose the Israelis?

You?

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

Yeah… tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it’s almost like Cuba had the correct idea.

Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened… I wonder why?

edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.

but the US knew Saddam had chemical weapons

Yes, I know… the US knew about every gallon of mustard gas and sarin Saddam had - not only did the US provide intelligence to Saddam to specifically help his use of the stuff during the Iran-Iraq War be more effective, they could also literally read almost every damn ciphered communique of the Iraqi army at the highest levels thanks to the fact that Iraq used compromised ciphering machines bought from the CIA front company Crypto AG in Switzerland.

They knew perfectly well Saddam had destroyed all his stockpiles - if he hadn’t, Bush would have never dared to invade Iraq.

What about confronting it’s colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn’t ended.

Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

Right, regulate capitalism… by regulating the capitalists that have all the money and can buy the regulators any time they feel like it.

Sounds legit.

They don’t bat an eyelid when you accuse Israel of being an Apartheid-state - it’s like water flowing off a duck’s back. Call Israel a kapo state, however, and they lose their shit. That they can’t ignore.

I recently came back to Lemmy from reddit to escape the batshit pro-Israel censorship happening on there right now and I have to say that the quality of the content and discussion has just gone up.

I’m sure he would rather put them on trains. And still wouldn’t see the hypocrisy.

Funny you mention that… one of the things that barely gets any mention in history books is how enthusiastically Europe’s police forces collaborated with the Holocaust - the Vichy police literally rounded up Jewish people by the thousand to send off to the death camps without the Nazis even asking them to do so.

It’s almost like the institution of police was invented to act as a distillery for the worst right-wing goons that the people at the top can sicc on anyone that the status quo has painted as a threat and/or scapegoat.

or left-center and still support free markets and capitalism.

Absolutely not. There is no such thing as “leftist capitalism.”

What is left and right is really simple - you are either for dismantling systems of power and privilege (left) or you are protecting systems of power and privilege (right). The (so-called) “center” is merely politics that performs the latter while pretending to sympathize with the former.

Believe it or not, it’s possible for a person to hold right and left ideals simultaneously.

No, it isn’t - you can’t be “half-pregnant.” If your politics protects power and privilege it’s perfectly clear what politics you ascribe to… it doesn’t matter what you may personally feel about this or that irrelevant little disagreement you may have with your fellow travellers regarding the details. A person that believes abortion should only be allowed “in cases of rape” is no less right-wing (ie, misogynist and patriarchal in this case) than a person that wants it abolished altogether.

Ummmm… where do people get the idea that the Dems aren’t right-wing?

If you are pro-capitalist, you’re right-wing - no ifs, ands, or buts.

How convenient… every time Israel indiscriminately murders Palestinians, it’s just going to be blamed on Palestinians?

Riiiight… US intel “confirms.”

Have they found Saddam’s “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” yet?

Israel is absolutely justified in going after Hamas.

Why? Does Israel want a refund?

just as the Naqba doens’t justifiy violence today.

Sooo… Palestinians should just accept their genocide quietly?

It’s pretty obvious… the myth of Israeli invulnerability turned out to be just that… mythical. The Palestinians have done a good job proving that.

So just bog-standard right-wingers, then?

But, I can find almost no information about it from reputable sources

What? You think this is some kind of secret? Israeli officials themselves have been admitting to this for years now.