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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

ho boy, here we go again.

At this point in time that conflict has been going on for so long, I have no clue anymore who started it. So all I can do is judge both sides by their current actions without historical justification which, to me, results in fanatical religious fascists fighting fanatical religious fascists with neither side caring for civilian casualties. Not exactly a situation in which I'd support any side tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you. There's way too many people claiming one or the other side is justified or worse and frankly at this point they've both committed so many atrocities against one another that it's hard to have an emotional or subjective response other than, they're both pretty shitty.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is much more nuanced. Both countries' current heads of state are kinda like "all this land is my country's, the other country should not exist." It's unclear who is right.

The Russo-Ukranian conflict is clear. One leader is claiming the land of the other, the other just want it back. Ukraine's government is not claiming half of Russia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Unclear who is right"

No it's pretty clear, out with the colonizer government. How is this a question?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It isn’t that nuanced. The colonized, subjugated population is rising up rather than laying down to continue getting slaughtered.

Liberate Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

From the river to the sea

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Palestine has attacked territory that was assigned to Palestine by the UN in 1947. The UN also makes it very clear that a country may lawfully recover occupied territory "by any means, including armed force". UN laws are thus very clear: Ukraine and Palestine can recover territories by force. Now, that doesn't mean you should support them in their struggle to do so, but if you don't, it must be for some other reason (e.g., Israel taking over would constitute a huge strategic gain for the US, while Russia taking over would destabilize the world and thus benefit small or weakly aligned players).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s unclear who is right.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184195/

  1. Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;

Seems pretty clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (11 children)

all this land is my country's, the other country should not exist.

One of those countries is an ethno-religious state that is exclusive of the other. Can you guess which one?

If you are an ethno-religious exclusivist who says "your country shouldn't exist only mine!" and I am a country that multi-religious, and say "actually my country should be the prevailing one, not your exclusivist one", you gotta realize those two are massively different, unlike you portray.

The Russo-Ukranian conflict is clear. One leader is claiming the land of the other

Russia's original pretext for the war is not about territorial gains. It was supposedly regarding Ukraine's attack on Donetsk, Luhansk, and ethnic Russian populations in general (such as the Odessa massacre), what they also called "de-nazification" of the Ukrainian government, and Ukraine's bid to join NATO. This is easily verifiable, but I can provide you a sources on this if you doubt me.

I am not claiming what Russia is saying is true, but it is not what you make it seem to make your argument.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I get that there is lot more nuances than russo-ukrainian, but imo there is a lot more similarities than you seem to imply : both Russia and Israel claimed that the land belonged to them before, that they should get it back, and use violence to kill local people who tried to resist or move them. The only difference is that Israel did it with the help of western countries and partially according to their laws, so they get like an aura of legitimity, but the acts remains quite close.

I do not like when people basically do not accept violent behavior but accepts them when they are allowed by some law or authority.

(Also yes Hamas is doing bad things and should be held accountable in some way, just like Ukraine to my eyes. But still, for me it remains obvious who kills more, who steals more, who oppresses more)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As a Ukrainian, let's sort out what we're accountable for once we're not getting genocided. We also have a lot of questions to our own government, but I would still prefer it to the Russian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Lets have some nuance" people on their way to defend Nazi war criminals

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Edit: removed implied support for Hamas. Both militaries should burn. Hope for a quick end to the conflict for the sake of the civilians affected.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Its unlcear who is right? Tell me, who lived there first before the US swung its dick around and displaced all of them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The people who have spent time telling is that Ukraine is fighting for its nation against an invader and how its good are having a real hard time reconciling with reality as evidenced by the amount of down votes.

If anything, this Hamas operation revealed you fucks' true faces. It was never about "liberty of the people" "self governance" or "respect of territorial integrity". It's just that you're bloodthirsty monsters desperate to have a side to pick and finding excuses for why you always align with the largest imperial power in the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can't compare these 2 conflicts at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why? Because the west supports the occupied in one and the occupier in the other? Don't forget the west expected Ukraine to be an occupied state with a gorilla insurgency within a few weeks at the start of the conflict.

Edit: because I am getting the expected hate. The Palestinians didn't start out as Hamas. The extremism of Hamas was born out of the lack of action from former moderates. People will always become more extreme when they are met with a lack of action. That goes for the left and the right.

So ask yourself if someone came to your house and told you to leave how angry would you be? If you don't understand this look up the actions of the Israeli settlements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Idk if this is a hot take, but imo the war in Ukraine is pretty clear city while the Palestinian and Israeli conflict his an infinite list of wrinkles and nuances.

It's far less controversial to say the former is Russia's fault than it is to say the latter is either Palestine's or Israel's fault.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What nuance is there be had about this? Israel is a settler-colonial apartheid state that deserves what should've happened to America when those settlers were doing it. That's like saying "the civil rights conflict has an infinite list of wrinkles and nuances"; in that it's objectively wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Launching rockets at civilians isn't glorious whether you're Russian or Palestinian.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

HAMAS isn't Palestine. Israel isn't Judaism.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Biden is 100% gonna support "Israel's right to defend itself", while they've been awfully quiet when Palestani people are getting murdered and their infrastructure decimated 🫣🤫

Fucking fascists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

IMO everyone should leave everyone else the fuck alone and stop trying to be modern empires, but come on man, these are VERY different situations.

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