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  • you seem to be trying to be pedantic regarding war crimes but are still wrong to boot.

    when they tie Palestinians to the front of their vehicles, I think we can say they're using literal human shields.

    try putting your energy somewhere where you're not defending genocidal fascist military forces?

  • Definitely. In the past I hesitated to express my thoughts that Israel is a settler colonial apartheid state and now it's a very prominent and accepted viewpoint.

    Sure there's a lot of pushback, still, but it's not an unspeakable accusation like it used to feel like. Even "centrist" eyes can see this viewpoint now

  • Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson said that when diplomats go to observe a combat area, their safety is not guaranteed.

    "Things happen which certainly are not probably intentional on the part of the Israeli government, but these things have happened in the past. We've had Canadian observers killed, for example, when we were doing peace monitoring in Vietnam and in other situations," he said.

    Fuck off Colin, fuck you

  • People will do anything but blame corporations for their behaviour.

    If we tax them prices will go up! Of course they raised prices, we didn't make enough eye contact while we fellated the board!

    Funny it's never "raising prices is pointless, people will just demand higher wages!"

  • This assumes that everyone is equally politically informed and engaged, and that everyone has given governance as much thought as one another.

    The sad reality is a huge portion of people sleepwalk through life and they'd get by the same in a democracy vs. feudalism vs. socialism.

  • That was my point, really. I guess if you're thinking of military training as resistance training then we agree. I think training our young men and women to immediately blow up in tanks and planes and die in trenches isn't going to be useful.

    I guess I don't see the Canadian military training a bunch of Che Guevaras.

  • Our conventional military forces, even with mandatory service, won't compete against our threats.

    If anything the training will be useful for the deserters who then go on to form rebel and guerrilla factions, similar to what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan when the armed forces melted away into an underground resistance.

    Canada isn't going to fight and win a symmetric war with any of our adversaries. I think our able bodied people and military equipment would be better used off the conventional battlefield.