Cowbee

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

A few liberal areas do it, slow or scared folks see it is beneficial, it spreads, it becomes a topic at the federal level and has caught on enough that it is just an inevitably

This does not logically follow. Policy is not implemented because it is "popular" or "talked about," but because it serves a material interest to the corporate donors of the DNC and GOP.

assuming the government doesn't somehow become christofascist because of some ignorant morons....but that is an edge case.

Is that your analysis of fascism? That it exists because of Chrisitanity, and Christianity exists because someone thought of it?

Fascism is Capitalism in decay. It's a violent defense mechanism, not a mold that infects people's minds. America is heading down the fascist path regardless of who is in power because Capitalism is dying.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

People who are won't vote for genocide certainly aren't going to vote for Trump.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I wasn't making a moral judgement of Sinwar, but contextualizing the Palestinian view of him. Palestinians sided with Hamas and Sinwar because of Israel's genocide against Palestine, Sinwar wasn't some great and powerful manipulator able to trick an entire population. Again, I am not making a moral justification for Sinwar, I am explaining why this isn't leading to a ceasefire.

Secondly, are you denying that Israel is committing genocide?

Third, Sinwar absolutely has positive views among Palestinians. The majority of Palestinians support fighting Israel, and the footage of him perishing on the front lines, in full combat garb, defiantly throwing scrap metal at the drone confirming his soon to be death, has fully disproven the idea that he was a coward hiding in a bunker this whole time. He is more popular now than ever before.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Please answer why you believe

  1. Democrats are more likely to be swayed, and

  2. Less deaths will occur with Democrats in power than Republicans.

Do you think the IDF uses the bipartisan weapon shipments any differently? What kind of materialist analysis are you doing, is it just vibes?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't believe the IDF will win, actually. The entire strategy of the Resistance is more to bleed Israel to death with a thousand cuts than it is to storm Israel and take Tel Aviv. They want Israel to be unable to defend itself and have everyone leave Palestinian land, and to do so they make it incredibly expensive, rockets that cost thousands against defense rockets that cost tens of millions. That's how asymetric warfare works. That's why they use tunnels, so Israel's bombs struggle to reach them and can't invade properly.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Of course Hamas won't dissolve, their entire structure is designed to minimize the impact of assassinating leadership, otherwise they would have folded long ago.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

100%, everyone thinking Palestinians were duped by Sinwar into striking back at Israel has no knowledge of the history of Israel as a Settler-Colonial project.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Bold assumption to claim it will get less intense.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Neither does Israel in general, nor the US backing them.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Nope, it will only intensify. Yahya Sinwar wasn't some evil mastermind manipulating and controlling the Palestinian people, they have been fighting an existential war against a genocidal entity that has been exterminating them for nearly a century. You can't get a ceasefire by killing someone beloved by the Palestinian people.

You can hate Sinwar if you want and celebrate if you wish, but the Palestinian people are not celebrating right now, they are mourning. Historically, deaths of Hamas leaders have only hurt ceasefire talks.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I think you're looking at the Democrats as "good but misguided" and Republicans as "frothing evil fascists," but the tragic truth is that they are all businessmen and women. They serve their corporate donors and economic interests. The genocide in Palestine isn't moral, but economic, Israel helps establish hard power in the region for the US that secures the Petro-Dollar, which is how the US maintains control over international financial Capital and brutally exploits the Global South via Imperialism through brutal IMF loans.

Both parties are complicit and aligned with respect to Israel.

The only way out of this is revolution, so I recommend joining an org like PSL or FRSO.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Then make good on it. Voting is less than the bare minimum.

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