• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    The nazis didn’t just kill jews.

    Okay, go tell the American people that. They’ll get confused. I promise you. The politics will not work the way you expect.

    Nazis == Holocaust. That’s the #1 focus in our schools. You’re going to be working against like, our culture, if you try to go deeper than that. As I said earlier, this line of discussion will not go the way you expect.

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      The internet is not American

      Any government is capable of fascism and capable of genocide. If that’s too complicated for you, go sit at the kids ta-… Don’t talk to my kids go sit outside.

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        Any government is capable of fascism and capable of genocide.

        There’s an explicitly fascist and genocidal player in this conflict. And spoiler alert, it isn’t the Israelis.

        I think you might want to check on the people who had an election on 25 January 2006, seized power after that and refused any further elections. Explicitly run a Muslim ethno-state and terrorist tactics, and wish to kill the Jews from “River to the Sea”.

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          It isn’t Israelis. It’s Israel, though, as a country. An apartheid country.

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          Hey ding dong, not every Palestinian is a member of Hamas and the average age of Palestinians is 19. The average Palestinian did not vote in 2006.

          Yet Israel cut the power, food, and aid for the entire nation because of terrorists that live among them. Then they proceeded to murder over 20,000 civilians (almost certainly an undercount). And in their bloodlust, they managed to execute 3 people waving a white flag with their shirts off… Hostages.

          You want to talk about how terrible Hamas is when the IDF is indiscriminately killing everyone they find? Dropping bombs in the most population dense regions of the world?

          The world isn’t black and white, there can be two terrible actors. And right now, the IDF has already killed 20x the number of people killed by Hamas on Oct 7. With no signs of wanting to stop.

          And for someone that wants to “school” people on history, perhaps take the 5 seconds to Google what “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” means. Hint, it’s not “kill all the Jews in Israel”.

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      American here. Would you care to explain to me how Israel can be compared to Nazis? My stupid brain can only understand Good guy vs bad guy movie tropes. Please give me a break.

      I went to public school and can clearly see the comparison between a far-right Zionist Israel and Nazism without getting tripped up on the Jews being the largest target during the Holocaust. Not only that, but with the shrinking of Palestinian owned land and illegal Israeli Settlers I can also make the comparison to Manifest Destiny and the relocation of Native American people, even though Palestinians aren’t Cherokee.

      Attempting to expand Israeli lands for Israeli jews and pushing out Palestinians with no source of aid for those displaced, as well as blocking aid and giving extremely short timelines to escape the encroaching Frontlines very much falls in line with Nazi ideology.

      The Nation of Islam and the American Nazi Party had common goals despite being mutually exclusive. I don’t think it’s that far of a stretch to compare Israel with the Nazis.

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        In particular, Israeli borders have been set since 1967 and they even returned the Sinai peninsula after the 7 day war.

        So please, show me where Israeli conquest in the past 50 years (1973 to 2023) led to expanded Israeli territory.

        Ah right, there wasn’t any expansion of territory at all. It’s like they aren’t invoking Lebensraum at all.

        illegal Israeli Settlers

        Yes. This is a problem. But they are as you put it, illegal. The issue here is not one of law or even the Israeli government, but instead the people at the bottom trying to reclaim their lands. Or so they think anyway, everyone has a claim here so it gets rather complex.

        Israel needs to punish those illegal settlers in the West Bank more. But guess what? The West Bank settler issue is in the West Bank, not Gaza.

        So if you are talking about Gaza specifically, you’ve already lost the settler debate because there are no Israeli Settlers moving into Gaza.

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          “invoking Lebensraum” sounds so awfully off. You apporach this discussion in a condescending fashion, yet you sound rather… superficially informed. “Lebensraum” is not a program that gets “invoked”. It’s the German word for “habitat” or “living space” and was not as prevalent in Nazi ideology as especially US-discussions make it seem. Furthermore, “Lebensraum” alone is not a Nazi-thing. It’s “Lebensraum im Osten”. “Lebensraum” is a word that’s common in German today. “Der Lebensraum des Pandabären ist in Gefahr” “The habitat of the pandabear is in danger”. So whenever someone starts yelling “Lebensraum” and starts to act smug in Nazi-debates, they actually disqualified themselves to German ears.

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            Okay cool. So tell me when the Israelis have called for it.

            You’re begging the question and avoiding the crux of the issue, because you know you this entire line of discussion is bullshit. And I don’t blame you. I’m just calling yall out on it.

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      Even if it’s not effective the comparison still holds true. I honestly don’t know the best way to approach people who deny genocide. But I think not calling something for what it is is a mistake.

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      Okay, go tell the American people that.

      Gosh, you know, I didn’t want to debate you but for the love of fuck, just admit you are wrong for one second.

      What? Tell the American people history? Really? Ugh. Somehow you seem to believe that what you were taught as a kid is necessarily true because you got taught that, no other reason whatsoever.

      You’re going to be working against like, our culture,

      You keep saying WE, and OUR, but I doubt that most Americans would associate with you.

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        just admit you are wrong for one second.

        I thought you wanted to leave the debate yesterday?

        Whatever. I’m wrong. Happy? Feels shallow doesn’t it? That’s probably not what you wanted.

        If you actually want to pick up where the discussion left off, my latest post and point-counterpoint is over there. Not here. We already covered this post.

        Edit: I’m fine picking back where we left off. But if you want to rehash and replay our debate yesterday, just reread what we already wrote. I’m not wasting my time replaying the same conversation.