Sure. I just think that at some point after Israel left Gaza the last time in 2005, there was a long window of opportunity for gazans and palestinians to make everything better, but they totally failed to do so. Instead, they specifically voted in to power a terrorist organization who for the next almost 20 years did pretty much nothing except prepare to attack Israel.

There are reasons why prisons are made.

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It’s definitely not “the genocide”. I don’t think it’s even “a genocide”. As clarification, this is an example of what I think qualifies as a genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide and I am aware that UN has far far less stringent definitions. I don’t think we should be watering down serious concepts like UN is doing there.

But yes, that’s how I view Israel’s justification for the Gaza War. Obviously Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is even more ludicrous than Hamas’s justification for terrorizing and invading Israel regurarily, but it’s not exactly sane either.

Hamas is obviously the greater evil in about the same way as Nazis were obviously the greater evil in Europe in WW2. Beating them was also extremely harsh for german civilians sometimes. Dresden firebombings killed 25 000 people in a single bombing raid, in a population of about 600 000 people. Relatively speaking about as many deaths in that one day than total in Gaza since October 7 2023.

Was it necessary? I cannot tell definitely, but probably not all of it was and probably most of it was.

I’m not doubting any of that, that VW is doing currently better in the market than Tesla. I’m saying that they could’ve totally swept the floor with Tesla because of the idiocies of Musk but failed to do that.

Looking at my crystal ball, I’m guessing that unless VW dramatically and very quickly improves the quality of their cars (and especially the software) the end result of this will be that Tesla will bounce back.

Israel is a logical ally to Ukraine because both are being attacked by an evil entity using fake justification. The more nations are acting both against Russia and radical Islam, the better. To have a nation as advanced as Israel on the right side on this is a very good thing.

They had the moment of a lifetime when Musk redoubled his efforts to make Tesla unpopular… and they completely failed to grasp it.

More likely that the batteries are outdated for their standards.

As a finn, I very much want “gifts” from Israel. Their air defence systems are amazing, and they have very nice looking defence capabilities against drones. Which seems to be a growing risk from Russia.

I hope nobody is surprised to hear that I value the people of Finland over the people of palestine.

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To mention a couple from the top of my head:

1. Palestine invaded Israel, that’s how the war started – not the other way around

2. Ukraine is not looking to genocide Russia, just that they would fuck off. Hamas is looking to genocide Israel, and Israel would just like hamas to fuck off

3. Ukraine is in Europe, Europe is being threatened and has been manipulated by Russia for decades

4. Of the two largest participants in the Gaza War, Israel is closer to western values

5. In Ukraine war, the evil participant is strong

I’m sure there are others.

He’s losing the war and is thus expecting a loss of support for the war. So he needs to extend the war or he’s dead. And he cannot just attack another country again.

What we need to do is exactly the opposite of what he wants us to do. Which I think we are doing.

Yeahp… but it isn’t that stressful. I hide the votes and block the toxicity and things are improving slowly. Only for me though, unfortunately.

Perhaps some kind of a reasonable center could be carved here anyway. And even in the middle of a cesspool, there’s always one or two potential people who can actually listen and perhaps their thinking will improve.

No he wasn’t that either, apparently.

Yeah she seems to be a way better person than Trump.

In other news, an apple seems to be way larger than a single atom.

Do elaborate sir or ma’am

Is Vox right wing? https://archive.ph/9wPgw

It’s often difficult to find articles contrary to whatever-wing message in whatever-wing media, for obvious reasons.

The shooter isn’t a right winger MAGA. That was disinformation that was shared before anyone knew anything.

What are you talking about?

what do you/mankind get once such a ranking is established

From principles potentially comes a clarity of opinion.

what criterion are you going by?

There are plenty of ways in which Israel is bad and if you look at any of those, Hamas is worse. But the overall bottom line difference is visible when we look at what would be the ideal end game for both of these entities: Israel wants to live in peace. Hamas (and many others in that area) wants to destroy Israel, and the liberal west in general too.

That they are unable to do so doesn’t remove the fact that they would very much want to. Global Jihad is not a conspiracy theory.

I couldn’t say which is worse between the two governments

Hamas. Hamas is worse, but then again it’s barely a government. Which is one of the many reasons why palestine is not a country.