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Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed
  • The gallery still has to be closed, has to dedicate cleaners, invest into security measures etc. Vandalism can be as simple as spitting on the street. But that's not my point, in general.

    My point is why mess with a place what has nothing to do with climate change, and not mess with places that absolutely do have something to do with it?

  • Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed
  • You created your own argument here though, right? I can be an advocate for any of one million serious problems that our societies have. Should everyone go destroy art galleries? Housing crisis = art destruction? Unliveable minimal wage = art destruction? Car centric societies = art destruction? Local store increased prices = art destruction? You have to agree that at a certain point this becomes indistinguishable from vandalism.

    At what level then is this threshold? Or do you propose a hierarchy of ideas, which are suitable to protest in an art gallery, versus those that aren't?

  • Lovecrafty
  • Politically yes, but it's well known his writing stayed pretty racist (even the later stuff). There's this funny trope that people with a Germanic last name are rarely evil in this writing, but Italian, Slavic etc last names are often depicted as bad people.

  • Israel kills orphans and widows in Gaza school bombing
  • Don't even try. These people are deluded. There's no way for Israel to do anything. Israel could probably be invaded, its inhabitants massacred and they would still chant bullshit about that somehow being okay. How has so much of the left turned to unconditionally support the nazi-inspired muslim brotherhood is beyond me.

  • World demands end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine in landslide UN vote
  • Ethnostate: 73% are Jewish 21% are Arab 5% are other ethnicities.

    Most states in the world are more.ethnically homogeneous. Before you spout some nonsense about them not having equal rights, they have an Israeli citizenship. And if you ever lived in any "ethnostate" country, like Japan, good luck getting a citizenship.

    Please tell me more about the ethnostate where Palestinian Arabs, Bedouins, Druze and many other people of various religions can study, be doctors, work and own houses.

    If you think there's racism -- fair enough, but don't pretend that racism is an Israel only problem. There's racism in every country in the world, and it should be eradicated,but not singling out Jews and advocating for the destruction of the first time in thousands of years where they can live in a country without fear of being persecuted. If you think that's not true maybe you should get at least one Jewish friend and ask their opinion.

  • 14 pages of dead babies
  • That's a horrible statement to make about a nation that seen thousands of years of genocides, pogroms, discrimination and displacement. You're just saying let's continue with that.

    You have to understand that Israel is there and will be there, and you need to work from there to find a solution which also accommodates Palestine ( as an independent country ). There is no future for Palestine, however, where Iran-funded terrorist organisations are at its helm.

  • 14 pages of dead babies
  • I'll just open with saying that I agree with your main point. Of course Israel is an ally of US, and US uses Israel to further their own gains in the region. The same can be said about literally any country in the world, though. It's just the military & economic power of the US, and going against is a dangerous game to play. I am not defending or saying that US is good, I am just stating the obvious. Even China is not always able to stand against the US.

    Now to continue to my main point:

    I’m not going to pretend to know enough about those conflicts to answer your question, but I’m not exactly sure how it’s relevant.

    The point I was trying to make is that Israel-Palestine conflict is hyperfocused on, in a region that is extremely unstable and seen dozens of civil & international wars, coups & human rights abuses over the last few decades. Fighting ISIS killed thousands of civilians and displaced, at least, several million people. And while ISIS comitted many crimes against humanity, Russian & NATO bombs have also killed thousands of civilians. But people don't even know this. And don't seem to care.

    Should I also talk about Kurds, who were also fighting that war (against ISIS) and despite that Turks are literally borderline genociding them whenever they get the chance, these people do not resort to terrorism?

    It makes you wonder, why in this sea of instability, wars, coups and human rights abuses everyone hyperfocuses on one particular state, which is primarily inhabited by people who have been historically persecuted, killed and displaced consistently for thousands of years?

  • 14 pages of dead babies
  • Thanks for this elaborate attempt at a discussion. Telling someone to fuck themselves instead of engaging with their point is kind of satisfying to see, especially from someone claiming to have the moral upper hand.

  • 14 pages of dead babies
  • Yea instead of even attempting to engage with any of the points I made write a witty comment. That will show that you know what you're talking about! 👍

    I literally didn't say what you said, as a matter of fact this entire thread says that its everyone's BUT Hamas fault. I was making a point that they could have and should have done significantly more to ensure that this tragedy doesn't happen.

    What Israel is doing isn't good but pretending that this is a one sided issue is a ridiculous misunderstanding of the entire problem, which is by the way the theme of everyone who made up their minds in the last year regarding "which side they support"

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