Then your point is a bad one. See my edit.
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You think a government is going to just give up power, that it won't take mass organization to challenge hegemonic powers and a new form of governance to deprogram the racist settler colonial ideology that is embedded into the Israeli populace? That's incredibly unrealistic. What's your plan to get there, then, and how does it help Palestinians?
Dogmatically denouncing all violence, when violence is the main tactic employed to enforce hegemony, is reactionary and counter productive. It only serves the status quo, to keep us where we are. It's chauvinism.
This might be useless advice but I think this is a situation that can be helped by taking a walk. Get some fresh air, clear your mind, and come back with a fresh set of eyes. You have experience, so I know you can work this out with some patience.
Also fuck your colleagues, and for that matter fuck your job for making you feel that way. Your worth isn't measured by them. Fuck capitalism for making us dependent on such abusive relationships in order to work and make a living.
Get that computer fixed up so you can use it to look for greener pastures. Find a recruiter, that seems to be the way to do it these days.
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No, I will not agree that its okay for anyone to blame the victims in this situation for their own genocide, but you can run away if you're so afraid of challenging your own western chauvinist notions.
We really are not beating the dead internet allegations with this one
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Sorry, try again. The negotiations have been sabotaged by Netanyahu at every step. The American government; first at Biden's direction and now Trump's; has lied to the public to cover for him, blaming Hamas and twisting the word 'ceasefire' to not mean ceasefire at all.
Not to mention that Israel has assassinated the "hot heads" you're referring to, who would be counterparts to Netanyahu. The leader of the Hamas organization, Yahya Al-Sinwar, was martyred in Gaza in October. Hamas's lead negotiator, lsmail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran in July. Needless to say, they have stepped aside. Permanently.
I suggest reading a more comprehensive history of the negotiations themselves
When looking for the party who is being unreasonable in a negotiation, look to the one that has the least to lose by walking away. And while you're at it, stop acting like you know better or have more urgency than the people who have experienced 77 years of dispossession, occupation, and genocide, on their own land. You call them "terrorists" as if that dismisses their humanity en masse and the inherent rationality granted by such, but you betray charitability to the Israeli government by speaking as if all of its evil is contained within one powerful man. Why do you do that?
Actually no, wait, you must be the cooler head that will prevail. Don't you dare introspect before sharing your responses to the dilemmas pressed in that article I shared, lest you taint your answers with terrorist propaganda! Win a "ceasefire", except Israel is explicitly allowed to break it once you've given up the only bargaining chip (A chip that additionally has a chance of getting it through to the Israeli populace, who are paying attention, that their government does not care about them beyond their ability to legitimize Israel's occupation by existing on stolen land.) OR, continue pressing for an actual realistic end to your people's suffering.
Yes, I'm sure if you were in Gaza you would want a "cooler" disinterested party who doesn't care at all about you, your culture, or the land that has given both life, to be making that decision for you.
No, it could be possible to both have cheap goods and compensate workers fairly. It would just require the owners to take less profit. Can't have that.
Finally, an AI for scat fetishists. Just what the world needed.
Bottles aren't perfect, you still have to sit up to use most of them as they generally need some way to let air in as you pull water out. The bite tube also prevents spills without having to move too much or otherwise disturb your partner with one of those pop-nib bottles that has to suck air back in when you release suction.
If she exists, it seems she has more of a problem with the way it looks than its actual functionality. That is a problem that can be solved as easily as getting a bag that doesn't contrast so much with the existing color scheme. Hilarious to suggest a relationship isn't working out over such a minor aesthetic disagreement though.
I think it just takes quite a few moral failings to even achieve that level of wealth in the first place in the vast majority of cases.
Here specifically, these people are authors and IP holders in a society that places a lot of value in ignorance and in very chauvinist and racist ideas. By hook or by crook, they've made something original. They have some merit, and you would expect them of all people to see those societal failings for what they are. To not comment on them, or to uphold them, or to mask them, (arguably all the same thing) is a decision they made in their work. I think we vastly overestimate how easy it is to do that across an entire body of independent work if it doesn't align with your beliefs.
It makes sense that a person who has the merits and will to do something like that, again, entirely without challenging such obvious failures (as most in their position would), would be chosen to win the broad favor of a society that desperately does not want to be challenged or its failings acknowledged (esp ruling class, the ones with something to lose and wealth to spare to push these things), and would gain a lot of its wealth. Especially in ye old early-internet world when people weren't discovered as easily. Then, when their platform is secure, the mask slips.
It's not a conspiracy or an aberration, it's survivorship bias. These people are a product of our society. We have to reckon with that.
edit: I realized I could expand on what I meant in a few places so I sprinkled a bit more in.
Cool. What does that have to do with their history and the way they are treated by the west? You know so much, can you tell me that? What do you suggest should be done about it? Just to clear things up, so I'm not "putting words in your mouth" by literally repeating what you said verbatim and responding to it.
Also its "virtue signalling" now to insist people be treated with respect and that their material reality shouldn't be dismissed? wtf??? As you said, we have the same "ignorance and cultural failures" in our society. Do we deserve to be bombed and occupied?
Huh??? Did I say anything about that? Does this racism excuse anything we've done to them? Seriously, project much?
What the hell should we do about it, fucking invade them again? Continue blockades that don't even achieve their stated purpose and just make things worse for their people? Cause that's gone over so well... the only real interaction with most foreign nations being that of sanctions, acts of war and colonization, arbitrarily imposing their own values, and constantly talking down on them both as a nation and as a people, definitely is going to make them love foreigners.
It's not an "excuse" brother it's just material reality, why do I have to be "excusing" anything? Is it too much to treat them like humans worthy of a basic level of respect??
Let's talk excuses though. It'd really be no fucking wonder if they hate us like you say they do. You would hate foreigners too if they talked about you like that and preyed on your downfall the way western nations do to the DPRK. In fact you've shown very clearly that you have the exact same hate which you're trying to condemn here. Calling their home a "shithole", your only response to a very brief overview of their history not being one of understanding or empathy but simply to lash out and call them racist, which I can only assume is to imply they deserved it. What's your excuse??
Good luck finding a job in tech without any experience right now
The comment they were responding to there was literally calling them on it
Name one benevolent regime the US has supported.