I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.
NoneOfUrBusiness
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People were killing each other for a reason - it's hard to just turn that off.
It's not; it happens all the time. Israel simply doesn't want to because they never had any intention of honoring the "ceasefire" in the first place, just like they never honored any other ceasefire they've signed with a weaker force.
My point is, the whole fucking world is complicit.
Most of the world is to an extent, but not all the world is war crime levels of complicit. Arming people with the knowledge they'll be committing war crimes is a war crime, full stop. Israel was bombing hospitals and aid workers from day one.
Should we be using this to drive yet another wedge among the left?
First, Harris is not part of "the left." Second, opposing genocide is basic human decency. For any vaguely left-lesning cause, someone who can't even do that much is less than worthless; they're a liability.
She wasn't a rightwing war criminal because she didn't have real power yet, but she was definitely an aspiring rightwing war criminal. Surprise surprise, materially supporting genocide is a war crime.
(I just said "yawn").
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But, like, don't overestimate it either.
It was a complete stream of articles aimed at discouraging voting based on a single issue while never posting anything showing that the other side was going to be worse on the same issue, let alone disastrous for so many other reasons.
Oh my god, facts! More seriously, nobody this side of Lemmy needs to learn how bad the Republicans are, and that sort of information is everywhere anyway. Nobody needs to be told that Trump is super duper bad, but many need to understand that Democrats won't save them.
It was selective posting to promote an agenda of not voting.
Or maybe Democrats kept fucking up their campaign in newsworthy ways. If criticism of your camp makes someone the enemy, you should do some serious introspection. Yes, even if your camp is the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy; if you can't hold your leaders accountable democracy is already dead.
Working to change the horrible status quo should be done outside of an election in which not voting is helping to usher fascism into the highest offices in this country.
That's been the pitch for longer than I've been alive, and guess what? It never happens, because giving up your leverage willingly is a terrible negotiating tactic. Also, given that in America there's an election every two years, what? Are people just supposed to keep their mouths shut and toe the party line a full 50% of their lives? And specifically the 50% in which they have the most leverage? Starting to smell of free speech zones in here. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Seeing as you're calling Biden and Harris neo fascist this entire text is lost on you.
Huh? Don't put words in my mouth; I called them proto-fascist. If they were as bad as the Republicans I would've called them fascist.
obviously don't understand what this country lost by electing dipshit don into the presidency.
I do, but I also understand that kicking the can down the road was going to result in zero improvement whatsoever. You think there wouldn't have been fascists running with significant support in 2026 and 2028? Fascism never deescalates on its own; the conditions leading to its emergence need to be addressed and neither the Democrats nor Americans as a whole have shown much willingness to do so. Liberal fuck ups are what fuels fascism; if you're not going to take on the liberals when you can you'll only get more fascism, not less. Electing Biden certainly did fuckall to stop Trump.
Apart from some episodes of violence, it was stable. But when imperialism ended, it was basically a mess.
Not directly relevant to your question, but for starters you should read about Sykes-Picot. The destabilizing impact of imperialism simply comes after the imperialist force and its vastly superior military leaves. Also you're thinking of colonialism; imperialism never ended.
Now to directly answer your question, I'm a politics and history guy and the Ottoman Empire doesn't get nearly enough hate for its role in shaping the modern Middle East. The stagnation they caused that allowed the region to be so easily swallowed by Western imperial interests is a direct result of centuries of Ottoman stagnation and authoritarian incompetence. The janissaries in particular deserve a special place in hell for their role in obstructing any and all progress in the Empire until it was too late. Those fucks are the reason there's no Ottoman Catherine the Great or Frederick the Great.
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