I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • @[email protected]
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    06 days ago

    Working for peace is the exact opposite of contributing to the conflict.

    I was actually trying to use a neutral phrase. Meaning that it would be possible to have a positive contribution to resolving the conflict. As I think I’ve made clear, I don’t believe it was positive overall because of a few factors I’ve tried to lay out. Can you say that you aren’t skipping over factors I’ve presented to come to your conclusion?

    Killing 4.4 to 5.3 million Nazis was part of that achievement. It was not achieved peacefully. Thankfully “Nazi” isn’t an ethnicity, but Israeli Jews are and ethnic group.

    That was the war that got us to the place where we were able to make demands of the state and hold them accountable for their actions. At the moment, it doesn’t seem like war is required to give the US that kind of sway over the state of Israel.

    • @ChonkyOwlbear
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      15 days ago

      Can you say that you aren’t skipping over factors I’ve presented to come to your conclusion?

      They are irrelevant. You don’t try to stop something you support.

      it doesn’t seem like war is required to give the US that kind of sway over the state of Israel.

      Do you expect that Netanyahu would step down from power if we asked?

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        05 days ago

        They are irrelevant.

        They are inconvenient to your argument. This is you dismissing evidence in order to preserve a worldview. Practically the definition of being close minded.

        You don’t try to stop something you support.

        She didn’t try to stop it, that would require holding the aggressors accountable for their actions. If there’s no accountability, why wouldn’t they just pick up where they left off?

        Do you expect that Netanyahu would step down from power if we asked?

        Yes. If the USA, the world’s largest superpower and Israel’s biggest benefactor and arms dealer, were to demand he step down, I don’t think he would feel he had much choice. Maybe he’d try to start a war because of it, but it wouldn’t last very long. Assuming we actually had intention behind the demand.

        • @ChonkyOwlbear
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          14 days ago

          She didn’t try to stop it

          I thought maybe you were misinformed before, but now I know you are just lying. We just agreed she was working for peace. That is trying to stop it.

          Yes

          Then you are completely ignorant to the political situation in Israel. Holding power is the one thing stopping Netanyahu from going to prison. He won’t step down under any circumstances.

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            04 days ago

            We just agreed she was working for peace.

            No we did not. You agreed with yourself. I said there’s no peace without justice and no stopping without accountability.

            On both parts and others you’re flat out ignoring major pieces of my argument. I have no desire to respond to someone who engages disingenuously like that.

            • @ChonkyOwlbear
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              14 days ago

              Being called disingenuous by you is hilarious.

              • @[email protected]
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                04 days ago

                You seem like a really bad listener. I bet there’s people no longer in your life because of it.