• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      So much for your “respect for basic human rights”

      Pure selfishness disguised as a political position.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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        I’m not willing to give up human rights in the US because another country is committing genocide. Yes, we are giving some of the support that helps Israel to do it, but don’t think for a second that they wouldn’t be doing it even without US support. Two countries without human rights is not better than one country without human rights. Call it selfish all you want but idealism that does not adapt to reality helps no one.

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          3 days ago

          Like I said, pure selfishness disguised a political ideology: you would have supported the holocaust so long as you benifited

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      4 days ago

      As I said in the other comment, what you think of as a difference between fascism and not fascism is actually the DISTANCE between your position in the core of fascism and the boundary/periphery/frontier of fascism.

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      5 days ago

      No, actually, Israel’s fate is directly tied to the US’s fate, and the US’s to Israel, because Israel is the 51st state.

      Why do you think all the fascists love Israel and crack down on anyone who opposed its genocide?

      It’s all one empire.

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      5 days ago

      If you don’t view genocide outside your borders as relevant you don’t deserve the dignity of human rights within your own.

      The US doesn’t get to force fascism and imperialism on the rest of the world only for its citizens to live in peace.

      Whatever happens, happens.