BlameThePeacock

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Israel went to war because they were invaded by 5 other countries who weren't happy with the lines the UN agreed upon.

This fight wasn't just inevitable, it's been an ongoing fight for thousands of years, Arabs have been attacking Jewish people for literally thousands of years in that region.

When the Ottoman empire collapsed because they supported the wrong side in the war, the victors got to decide what happened with it. You don't get to lose a war, then just go back to peaceful enjoyment of your land like nothing happened. Wars have consequences. Maybe Palestinians should have done something about that before allowing their country to join world war one.

Even Germany lost land to it's neighbors during the wars. I don't see anyone here complaining about that land being colonized.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -5 points 12 hours ago

How exactly do you "colonize" a region that your ancestors been on for 2000+ years?

Remember, the first massive waves of Jewish people moving to Israel literally came there from concentration camps, refugee camps, and other displaced locations because of what happened around the world wars.

Of course it was a settler project, around 6 million Jewish people were killed in the holocaust, you think they all wanted to move back in next to the neighbors that had ratted them out to the government? They got absolutely fucked, and the UN had given them their ancestral homeland back when it broke up the country that had been in that region and lost in the great war.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Outraged that they're now being used against them? Israel spent literally tens of billions of dollars on a missile defence system to reduce the effect of rocket attacks. They've been pissed off at Palestinians and other terrorist groups for attacking them for a very long time, in fact literally since the day after they declared independence and got invaded by 5 of the neighboring countries.

Your logic in no way helps your argument. If it's actually a war that both sides want, then what the fuck are we doing complaining about civilian deaths on one side being lopsided? Should bigger countries always have to deal with smaller groups with kid gloves on? That's just stupid, wars aren't about being fair.

You can want them to stop fighting, but both of them want to be fighting right now. You aren't going to pull them apart like in a bar fight, there's no way to physically separate these two groups.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

In this case, the context was that there was a threat being made, that voters could be materially harmed by the Chinese government if they did not vote a particular way. This is something that China has a history of actually following through on, so it's obvious that people took it seriously. I don't really have a problem with someone voicing their own individual opinion.

To keep things simple though, probably all social media comments made by someone who is not in Canada related to Canadian politics should not be visible while in Canada. Canadians should be allowed to talk to each other freely. If Canadians want to see how Americans are feeling about our election, they should have to seek that information out from News Outlets, Pollsters, or even just directly talking to someone rather than it just showing up in some random feed on Facebook.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

We regulate social media content all the time. Why would this be any different?

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

PA doesn't operate in Gaza.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Palestinians support attacking civilians in Israel. That makes it a war.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

I mean, there is actual data on this... it's easy enough to google.

28.2 Billion spent by 22.1 million international tourists in 2019 is $1276 per tourist for each trip. https://www.latmultilingual.com/blog/who-are-canadas-tourists-an-overview-of-the-top-tourism-markets-for-canada/

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -3 points 15 hours ago

They lost support when they saw the consequences of their choices. That still makes them terrorist sympathizers, they had to support it initially in order to abandon support.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

Having foreign countries or foreign people pressure Canadian citizens in any way to vote a particular way.

 

Uber's reply to the new laws.

 

Surprise surprise, a Conservative who's got a past full of hate.

 

Interesting decision

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