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"A couple of dudes amongst widespread protests across the country have done one reprehensible thing. This means the whole protest is illegitimate. Stop complaining about genocide and go back to work."

The important part about the history of Edison-Tesla relationship isn't some personal anecdote about how Edison was a bad guy, but the contrast between how geniuses are presented as miraculous thinkers who advance humanity who deserve their theoretical thriving under capitalism, and the reality that even the work of great minds gets easily appropriated by someone more socially privileged than them, or else it won't even be allowed to see the light of day.

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Come on I know being bland isn't ideal but there are worse things in the world /s

If you understand the extent to which Israel has been harming Palestinians through history, framing the current conflict as:

[Hamas are] the ones that pushed Israel for so long that it finally snapped

is brutally dishonest.

You know that you don’t have to support terrorists just to condemn a genocide, right?

I don't support terrorists. In a fair world, the Hamas leaders who ordered attacking civilian population should rot in prison. But I'm going to fight fake narratives that pretend that the Israeli government doesn't have the lion's share of responsibility in this situation or that they aren't even worse terrorists than Hamas.

If Russia is willing to continue the war as long as they're making gains (and Russia is making gains as long as they control foreign territory and intend to keep it), refusing to military support Ukraine means supporting a scenario where Russia will have effectively violated their sovereignity, which in turn further incentivizes imperialist countries to attack their neighbours as they've just seen they can get away with it.

You can keep gaslighting yourself into thinking that you only need words to convince Putin to leave Ukraine, or for Netanyahu to leave Palestine, or for Jeff Bezos to give up his privileged position in the capitalist hierarchy, but the vast majority of the world will keep their feet in reality and understand that some people are fundamentally selfish and must be forced into no longer committing evil.

Regardless of whatever changes each side wants, stopping the shooting and bombardments would be a gesture that would represent actual intent in reaching a real ceasefire.

when they’re the ones that pushed Israel for so long that it finally snapped?

I guess Israel has never treated Palestinians unfairly, huh?🙄

Isn't the death star specifically a military spaceship? You can't just choose not to fire at a battleship just because there are engineers who won't personally shoot at you in it.

Unfortunately Podemos has taken the position of opposing any policy that helps Ukraine in their defense effort, framing an attitude that only leads to maximizing Ukraine's losses as "anti-war". At least most people in Sumar haven't fallen to this fallacy.

"Oh shit, we're finally getting backed into a corner to end the conflict I was using to remain in power. Now, hold on a second..."

Someone should tell Netanyahu that picking fight after fight to solve your own domestic issues has an ever growing chance of you ending up in the hospital. Or the morgue.

The fact that I'm mostly using Western media to support my claim that: "Hamas isn't at the endless levels of monstruosity to gleefully wish for more deaths of their own people" isn't the negative you think it is. But when you were born you had already lost the plot, so no surprises here.