• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Please, not fixing potholes have been around longer than the current Palestinian/Israeli and also a completely stupid reduction of the complexity of this whole fucked up situation.

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      1 year ago

      not fixing potholes have been around longer

      They haven’t been fixing potholes since 1949? Those potholes must be huge.

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          LOL! Let me rephrase, then…

          They haven’t been fixing potholes since the 1970s? Those potholes must be huge.

          To think… you wasted all that energy to achieve so little. Ho hum.

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            To think… you wasted all that energy to achieve so little. Ho hum.

            While you may boast about valuing ignorance over knowledge, there are others on this site that might appreciate learning a little history. So my time may have been wasted on you, but not wasted for the others people on this site.

            Being proud over being a waste of other people’s time LOL.

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          No, it started in 1949.

          The idea that there’s anything coherent about Zionist justifications for a modern-day Israel based on thousands-year old scripture is pure and absolute white supremacist and antisemitic hogwash.

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      Yeah, but the money that should be fixing potholes, and paying teachers, and providing healthcare has been going to war for as long as the USA has been around.

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        1 year ago

        TBH, The US pays more for healthcare than defense. Hell social security is the number 1 expense.

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      There’s nothing complex about it. Israel imprisons an entire people and every time the UN tries to do something about it the US vetoes it.

      The “it’s complex” excuse is used to have people look the other way by turning it into a hopeless situation.

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        If there were some psychopaths that were insanely dedicated to killing you wouldn’t you want there to be a fence between you and them? It’s indeed not all that complex. Israel built a fence as a barrier between them and the psychopaths Palestinians elected to be their government. Seemed a better option than sending in the IDF to attempt a regime change. But apparently the fence wasn’t effective, so not many options left other than regime change now.

        Hamas has always been the problem. How would you protect people from these psychopaths?