theacharnian

Is this the FAFO the Americans keep taking about?

Your comment does multiple things at once.

You are asking why the outrage over this vs the school. Well, that's a false dilemma. Nobody says the school bombing was A-OK.

You're asserting that being in a country's Navy makes it so that you accept the risk someone might shoot you. Well, nobody says it isn't so. But that doesn't make that loss of life A-OK. This is especially shocking given the brutal nature of a ship being torpedoed like that.

The United States has not declared war on Iran according to their own fucking constitution. They only make a bullshit self defense argument. But the ship was in an unrelated part of the world, in Shri Lanka, so literally unable to threaten anything. So the killing felt gratuitous, cold blooded, brutal, unnecessary. The US could have neutralized the ship in a more humane way, given them a chance to surrender, etc. Instead they chose this.

So, no, this isn't more important than the bombing of the school, and yes it is a warship but it's still brutal and shocking. Your scolding of people's natural aversion to this massacre is just not helpful.

A special military one?

Chronic Dutch disease...

It cannot be the case that cycling infrastructure is discussed pracemeal like this. Would the public be asked about installing a new pedestrian sidewalk? No because it's considered normal for a street to have a sidewalk. If a national safety standard for multi-modal infrastructure were in place, these kinds of questions would become uncontroversial.

The moment the US used the NATO deterrent as trade leverage, that ship sailed.

Are they going to be primaried?

To move towards solutions that respect both human dignity and the law, and given that human dignity is non-negotiable, the law would have to respect human dignity.

Not interested in antisemitic gaslighting. This conversation ends here.

There is a whole bunch of antisemitic and racist language in your response, and I'm not going to follow you down that rabbit hole.

American internal politics are not the universal standard. The Iranian foreign minister has called it a war: https://www.wionews.com/world/-us-entered-war-on-behalf-of-israel-iran-slams-rubio-s-justification-of-pre-emptive-attack-1772524933052

I would assume he knows what he's talking about.

The kinds of atrocities you describe are violent imperialist and colonial policies. The word "demonic" is dehumanizing religious language used by nutjobs, bible-thumpers and MAGAts. It is especially problematic when used to describe a jewish institution (even if that institution is a genocidal apartheid state), due to the long tradition of antisemitism in Canada (we are both users at lemmy.ca I see) and the west in general.

you should be ashamed

you are a stupid, bad fucking person

go touch some grass buddy

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Controversial opinion: more young Israelis should do what this man is doing. They should say "lol fuck this shit, who wants to be fighting anyway" and move out of Israel. North American and European countries should welcome them with open arms. Anti-aliyah. Who needs a shithole apartheid bunker state anyway? Settlers move out, come live free from that shit and Free Palestine.

It's a private solution to a social problem, so by that definition antisocial. We need better and more humane schools for every child, not people retreating to private cocoons.

We need the ambition to completely rethink schooling, as part of deep social reform: https://jacobin.com/2020/06/red-vienna-children-childcare-public-health