• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Both sides ARE bad. The trick is to use critical thinking and realize that one side is “stupid and misguided” bad and the other is “literal nazi, genocide against minorities, and also very stupid” bad.

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    9 months ago

    “The son of YOUR president took a single bribe and showed his ding dong on the internet, my president rapes women, lies about his finances, commits fraud and incites an insurrection! See both side are bad!”

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      9 months ago

      I find it interesting that the hamas Israel conflict has become such a political issue. Support of Israel in general, yeah religiously charged. But Hamas did start the attack and do a ton of fucked up stuff. SO many hostages including Americans. Israel is an oppressive government and from a distance seems systemically racist not just overly defensive. I just feel like this is a more nuanced issue

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          9 months ago

          I just think it’s worth noting that Hamas does call for the destruction of Israel. You can’t discount one set of lost lives for another. The only real victims here are non-Hamas Palestinians

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      9 months ago

      Good is relative. And relatively speaking, one is definitely good compared to the other.

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        9 months ago

        It’s not good of its own merit though, it’s only good compared to something worse. Neither party represents the interests of the average working class individual.

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          9 months ago

          Literally nothing is “good of its own merit”. Because literally nothing is intrinsically “good”.

          “Good” is a subjective idea, not objectively measurable, so it will always be in reference to another, i.e. relative.

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    25 days ago

    I can’t believe I escaped Reddit just to fall back in the same political controversy here as well x-x

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    9 months ago

    Yeah, people need to stop condemning plaestinians for resisting genocide.

    Oh this is about voting lol.

    You know, this shit is frustrating. Imagine every day everyone has to vote whether 10 people in lets say a group of 30 will be hit with a bat 4 times or 5 times, and everyone else gets hit once.

    And you talk to the other people, and say “we have to stop these people hitting us with bats or we’re all going to die” and they respond with “but you’re going to vote for those people to be hit four times, right? Getting hit 5 times is much worse! We have to devote all our time and effort to making sure the 4 times option wins!” And of course they’re one of the people who only gets hit once either way.