We have a lot more problems with the English-speaking countries' double standards on how they reflect or view anything about us. Like how us closing the Bosphorus to Russian and Ukrainian warships when the war broke out and the European internet dwellers calling us assholes or the rogue element of NATO, even though the action is completely lawful, actually an obligation by international law, and obviously very much in favor of Ukraine. Or how this time Tayyip didn't bow down to the U.S. pressure for focusing on just declaring Hamas as terrorists as a distraction and show of unjust solidarity behind Israel when the latter, at those exact days, had started bombing hospitals, "safe" evacuation routes, ambulances and aid convoys, while all European leaders just did that and kept sending weapons.
The UN accepting the change and using it officially is one thing; it shows the acknowledgement in official capacity. Calling ordinary people to adhere to it is something else. People show this change willingly, by earning the respect through might used in service of justice and protection, tendency to make compromises on cultural connections, investing in beneficial and noble pursuits -or simply meritocracy in the basic sense-, willingness for mutual aid in both crisis times and in peaceful times. Just working up on trivial things like how other citizens call a country or how they don't find our kokoreç to be up to health standards is just showing unwillingness for compromise or tolerance in even the most basic disputes while there are matters of human rights and international affairs to pursue.
Having this half-U.S. puppet-half-wannabe-dictator of a president is already putting us in between a rock and hard place. Don't try to police people's pronunciations while you should discuss how to find a solution for both of these.
Sorry if it sounds harsh or over the top. I just wanted to provide an (unsolicited but needed) explanation for the downvotes you take.
We aren't happy with our partners supporting and causing untold loss of life, genocide, poverty, material destruction in our neighborhood either but I guess you guys see us as the guard dog you keep on your front yard after you come back from burning down neighbors' houses once a year.
This is how you wage war on terrorists, guys. You just shoot someone's kid in the head, and wait till the terrorists are filled with grief. Oh wait grief turned into anger tenfold, please send help, daddy.
Take the kick in your nuts. It is the only allowed form of meddling with your flavor of oligarcy's succession procedure. Other forms will unequivocally result in police action against you.
The United States, European Union and G7 group of industrialised nations all announced plans to consider tighter sanctions on Iran, seen as aimed at mollifying Israel and persuading it to rein in its retaliation for the first ever direct Iranian strikes after decades of confrontation by proxy.
Ah, yes, the great western (and Japan) mind of trying to deescalate the situation by trying to placate the bully Israel via oppressing bullied (bombed) Iran with sanctions even more, even though the latter said the matter was concluded.
Great fucking approach guys. How American school system is handling the bullying must be working out great to implement it on international politics scale.
Not to be callous or contradicting your comment with all the following, but this would only serve these zionist Israeli terrorists' interests. Put forward a few high profile scapegoats, and some monetary compensation for keeping on committing genocide and utilizing stolen land all those decades. Easy trade.
7 decades of forced indignity, loss of life, loss of culture, forced poverty and famine, total blockade and forced regression on any chance at prosperity would be washed clean by pointing fingers at a dozen people and called justice. Fuck that.
The state of Israel has a lot to pay for. With money, with effort, with patience, with acceptance, with toiling in the hell they created on Earth. Nothing less would make the cut to be called justice.
Of course it will be more sanctions, more pressure to other countries to denounce Iran, more proxy war with funding literal terrorist groups and telling them to hit whoever the US doesn't like, also probably bomb a few Iranian assests because what actually can they do?
An open war rather requires justified claims. It is gruesome and the horrible results are directly tied to the war. A combination of sinister proxy war, subterfuge, coercion and forced poverty are slow killers and will have way fewer dissidents. It is the name of the game for half of the US oppression policing on the world.
Thank you for the insight! I rather work with logos, icons or other flat and vector drawings usually, a lot of the time upscaling or working up from zero so Krita looked rather irrelevant with how the those types of tools were not readily apparent. I'll check Inkscpae for this.
Any attacks from the other side rarely has direct finger pointing to their background as Israel's run of Gaza as open-air concentration camp, which it has been for quite some time. I'm not going to go in to egg-or-the-chickem of the whole decades long conflict, even tho I can discuss it, but the background is almost never direct as "IDF using unproportionate artillery, airstrike, drone, tank munitions on civilian concentrations" when it comes to Israel's actions. Whether in title or as context, most if not all western articles basing the situation with the start as unprovoked Hamas attack is absolute double standards in showing recency, relevance and intensity.
On the finger pointing:
How is "large-scale offensive" not any distanced and cold, simply unbiased as all new should be? And what is "siege" anything but downplaying the aid blockade, blockade against leaving, bombing anyone trying to leave, bombing both aid-seekers and aid givers, shelling and bombing any and all buildings whether there are any confirmed or unconfirmed civilian/Hamas population inside?
I agree that western media isn't monolithic. But even so, they are mostly aligned together when it comes to applying double standards in distanced reporting and hot-headed reporting, frequency, background, further context and speculation depending on the groups involved. Hence the hypocrisy. It may not be as blatant and amateur as some other media does or did, but it is nevertheless sinister. Whether completely but intent, or being pushed to do so by pressure.
Have you noticed how the articles keep mentioning the Oct 7 first, something that happened 6 months earlier, then goes on the passively call "Palestinian deaths" and not tie to Israel directly, in their titles at least? That is what me and all the people are criticizing the western media about. Direct perpetrators and blame is pointed when it is Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Houthis, or any other Muslim population, and indirect, passive voice is used when it is something the western politicians support. Even goes as far to picture only structural damage rather than how hundreds of people are found killed by Israel's unproportionate, deliberate and zealos attacks most of the time.
Can you give us some enough examples of "western media that is more than America" calling out the genocide with the right weight and not playing the "we don't think what you are doing is wrong but we have to save face to retain the illusion of credibility" game at the moment? Even BBC that first said it wouldn't take part in sided labeling of groups openly said they caved in to the pressure of calling Hamas terrorists in their news about them, all the while Israel was bombing hospitals, housing units, aid delivery locations and trucks, ambulances, children and teens moving back their houses for food, shooting elderly people pleading for their lives?
Or similarly how Turkey handles its current operation in northern Syria that started with ISIS attacking Turkish villages across the border and continues against local groups funneling support to PKK there.
Of course it has no relation to Israel bombing their embassy in Syria. Of course Iran didn't offer the not retaliate if Israel just fucking stopped their genocide.
Of course it is their internal shenanigans vs our valiant international justice movement.
Fuck off to Reddit or Xitter where you can keep on being the white or jewish supremacist troll.
Also they have started the hostilities and made enemies of neighbors, not like they weren't offered a fair share of land even in the face of them settling in there because the big ex-boyfriend just forced so.
This is the most wrong hill to die on.
We have a lot more problems with the English-speaking countries' double standards on how they reflect or view anything about us. Like how us closing the Bosphorus to Russian and Ukrainian warships when the war broke out and the European internet dwellers calling us assholes or the rogue element of NATO, even though the action is completely lawful, actually an obligation by international law, and obviously very much in favor of Ukraine. Or how this time Tayyip didn't bow down to the U.S. pressure for focusing on just declaring Hamas as terrorists as a distraction and show of unjust solidarity behind Israel when the latter, at those exact days, had started bombing hospitals, "safe" evacuation routes, ambulances and aid convoys, while all European leaders just did that and kept sending weapons.
The UN accepting the change and using it officially is one thing; it shows the acknowledgement in official capacity. Calling ordinary people to adhere to it is something else. People show this change willingly, by earning the respect through might used in service of justice and protection, tendency to make compromises on cultural connections, investing in beneficial and noble pursuits -or simply meritocracy in the basic sense-, willingness for mutual aid in both crisis times and in peaceful times. Just working up on trivial things like how other citizens call a country or how they don't find our kokoreç to be up to health standards is just showing unwillingness for compromise or tolerance in even the most basic disputes while there are matters of human rights and international affairs to pursue.
Having this half-U.S. puppet-half-wannabe-dictator of a president is already putting us in between a rock and hard place. Don't try to police people's pronunciations while you should discuss how to find a solution for both of these.
Sorry if it sounds harsh or over the top. I just wanted to provide an (unsolicited but needed) explanation for the downvotes you take.