uncle bernard

When does your ban for life start? lol

that’s not how a one-party nation works. dems could flip texas and the republicans would still control around half the governorships, state houses, congress, etc…. plus a near permanent majority on the supreme court. presidency is only 1/3 of the federal government (and only one party has been winning it while losing the popular vote)

you can keep trying to straw man me all you want because you know you can’t address my actual position because it reveals the barbarism behind yours. hamas is bad. that doesn’t mean you get to kill civilians with mass bombings. we decided that as a global community after the horror of the world wars and for good reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jan/30/how-war-destroyed-gazas-neighbourhoods-visual-investigation The tweet allowed you to see the map without clicking on a link. The actual article is much more detailed and horrifying. It would have been pretty easy for you to google "Guardian Gaza map" if you were actually interested.

Their starter is a 3x AA and title contender.

that is not the actual definition of genocide. "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." 25,000+ dead and rising and almost all of Gaza levelled including most of their civil infrastructure. This campaign is clearly aimed at ethnically cleansing Gaza for Israeli settlement, dispersing the survivors into neighboring countries.

multiple war crimes on camera in this one instance

why?

Palestinians /= Hamas. 25,000 dead, overwhelmingly civilians, is genocidal behavior. The ICJ just found South Africa’s charge of genocide to be plausible in its preliminary hearing and ordered Israel to prevent further genocidal actions/incitement and also preserve evidence for hearings to come.

*taps sign*

yeah, but they don’t want to ethnically cleanse gaza….

I shouldn't be, but I'm constantly surprised that so many (i'm assuming) adults on here lack simple reasoning skills. In what ways are those examples at all analogous to my example? This is elementary school level stuff, man. Depressing.

Obama deported more people than Trump. Inconvenient fact.

lol what are you talking about?

they should study your brain in a lab

Exactly. The people that know this history, but think it's only "a dark time from our past" are extremely naïve. These types of operations are active all over the world today.

In what concrete way have these people impacted your life? I can't think of any for mine.

They wouldn't need to come here if we hadn't destroyed their countries. Do you think they want to leave the place their ancestors lived in for generations, usually walking for 1000s of miles, to live a life of relative poverty in the US? This will get you started, but is only the tip of the iceberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

brother not even close lol it's a shame most americans know very little of our country's actual history.

no lol, see @Le duke and @braves121 posts and go do some reading. the amount of evil we were up to down there is nauseating. it was a set back the region hasn't recovered from.

the truly enlightened know that their home countries are the way they are largely because of america. we created this situation ourselves.

I think what @WrestlingRasta and I would say is you're missing the forest for the trees. Are you right about the narrow technical definition of "peace time?" Sure. Is that definition a useful way for understanding the situation? No. The attack on 10/7 wasn't an end to any sort of meaningful "peace" even if Israel would have considered itself in "peace time" (though the Palestinians certainly didn't). Rather, it was one event within a larger conflict that has been ongoing for 80 years. I'm not sure what you think the technical definition of "peace time" adds to the conversation or aids in understanding anything.