• Auli@lemmy.ca
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      Sure but you try being killed and kicked out of your homes. I’m sure you would not like the people who are doing it either. Israel has created this mess.

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        People forget Israel is the one with the power and creating this issue. If Israel actually backs off and treats Palestine as at least human, then I think (and hope) most people will see that Hamas needs to be destroyed as they are a terrorist group.

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          Isn’t that exactly what Israel did when they left the Gaza strip in 2005? That’s the thing that lead to Hamas taking over in the first place.

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            Didn’t that process of backing off continue until 2007, when the terrorist group Hamas took over and restarted the terror campaigns?

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      I mean if you live in a country controlled by a terrorist group that kills anyone who is not their side, and someone goes to your door and asks if you support them… What would you say?

      It’s easy to dismiss this issue by thinking they have the same freedom of speech as we do in the west, and they can have political opinions without any repercussion.

      Same can be said about north Korea.

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        No, not really. The polls showed majority support for Hamas but a lot of people freely answering something other than Hamas. Fatah for example got ~14% IIRC. Hamas had a bit over 50%.

        Sure some people could be afraid of dissenting but that seems unlikely to habe contributed too strongly given this result. These aren’t state conducted polls with results of 90%+ for one side.

    • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hamas is the only group in this world standing up for the Palestinian people, so I would support them too, we’re I locked up in that open air prison, my family and friends being constantly murdered for profit.

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      Yes, we must understand that not only do Gazan Palestinians as a majority support Hamas, but Hamas is a force for good and they are correct for doing so. Sure, after decolonization, start fighting for a better representative, but for now Hamas is the best shot they have at not being genocided.

      This same framework is used every time there is a broad movement which chooses, with good reason, for a strong group which can accomplish their goals. “Socialism is fine but Stalin did it bad” but then the purity fetish prevents the original goal from ever being achieved. Don’t bother convincing people socialism is good but Stalin bad. No Stalin is good and so I socialism.

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          To be clear, because reading it again gave me some unclarity, I absolutely defend Stalin because he was good, not just as a rhetorical strategy. Just that even if he could’ve been better, he was the best possible and denigrating him denigrates socialism every time. Real critique is fine (“75% good of course”) but painting him as a problem as a person cannot be removed form socialism. Hamas is doing decolonization, and denigrating them is denigrating decolonization

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            You know Hamas wants to kill the Communists too right? They write about it. East and West and all their respective societies and political structures are entirely aligned in their eyes.

            You should read what they actually write about. If I told you David Duke wrote it you’d absolutely believe it.

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        the best shot they have at not being genocided

        Stalin is good

        You should go to the olympic games in paris next year, you could probably win a lot of gold medals with these mind gymnastics

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          You should read a goddamn book about any of these topics or begone ye LIB

          Edit: ah shit I’m outside of Hexbear. Ok then let’s engage a bit here. What about these things seems contradictory to you? That there is an active genocide for about 100 years in Palestine or that Stalin is good?

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      I think elections showed Vladimir Putin won with >90% of the vote.

      Kim Jong Un also seems to enjoy the support of his people.