Liberals On Violence
Liberals On Violence
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I mean … one of these is a violent conflict where mostly civilians are being hit, on both sides. The other is a country defending itself from an invasion. One of these is really complicated and I’m pretty sure violence won’t solve much. The other one really isn’t complicated on the same level and violence (defense) is pretty much the only choice.
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Yes. The Palestinians are defending themselves from an invasion by another country while Ukraine and Russia will have to find a way to peacefully live next to each other.
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Unfortunately isn't that simple. If you would like to know more about the Ukrain conflict than please read "How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe" by Benjamin Abelow. It gives a far more balanced en factual analysis about the conflict.
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I got a free pdf version here if you are interested.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/193c4b51b5aa5c3270c9163200f0d475
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Maybe how the conflict itself came to be isn’t simple (and calling anything simple that involves politics is probably always wrong). But the situation for the people in the Ukraine itself is pretty simple. They’re being attacked and they’re defending themselves.
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They’re being attacked
Yet another lib who thinks the conflict started in 2022, and thus has little understanding of it
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You could say the same for the people in Palestine. They're forced to live under the boot of an oppressive apartheid regime and they're trying to free themselves. Pretty simple, right?
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Apparently that’s an unpopular opinion, but to free themselves the ideal path forward is to conduct terrorist attacks on civilians? That certainly didn’t seem to improve things. And bombing civilians isn’t a great response either.
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"Terrorism" is a meaningless word used to create a false separation between the small violence of the oppressed and the massive violence of the oppressor. The Nazis also called resistance fighters under their occupation "terroristic barbarians" and claimed this proved that slaughtering them was justified.
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"I'm all for liberation, but not like that" headass
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frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Didn't Ukraine literally just launch missile/artillery attacks at random civilian targets in Donetsk... The same thing they've been doing for almost a decade?
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also they've been carrying out improvised drone bombings on Russian civilian centres like Moscow
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You sound like you can't be fucked to even try understanding how settler-colonial ethnic cleansing and oppression justifies violence from the oppressed-- which scans, considering your considerably treat-obsessed techbro posting background.
basically, it all sounds like
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I‘m not trying to argue for one side here and I’m certainly no expert in this conflict. All I’ve been saying is that violence is probably not going to be the solution here. Especially not the kind of violence that Israel is and has been putting Palestinians through.
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Unfortunately, violence is a part of the solution at this point. Violence is the only thing that stopped the Nazis' genocidal conquest, it is what enabled the Black South Africans to take back their country from their colonizers. Palestinians tried diplomacy for years, and all it got them was softer genocide. They tried peaceful protest, and their were shot dead by the hundreds. Listen, I get it, violence is not pretty, but when you are dealing with fascists such as the Israelis, you end up not having much choice in the matter. The violence will stop when Israeli apartheid and genocide stops, and that likely won't stop until Israel as it exists is defeated, as fascism is baked deeply into its political structure.
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Then what is the solution to a settler-colonial menace kicking in your door and demanding your land? Acquiescence and surrender? You'd see done to the Palestinians what Amerika has done to the Indigenous and Black populations in their country. Like I said.
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What’s the solution that involves violence? It can be a wake up call to start a discussion, but I don’t see how things are going to be solved by it. But you tell me.
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When your rip out your intruder by his roots, and cast him into the fire. You cannot really be sitting here trying to justify to someone whose lineage still bears the scars of Amerika's colonialism, that another people's settler-colonialism should go unopposed. You can't be. Expecting the settler to just fuck off back to wherever he came from is idealistic and patently impossible, as Amerika's example shows us; so what's left from the perspective of the colonized? Like I said.
.Don't bother replying; I don't 'debate' with settlers(and settlers aren't just Amerikan; it's a state of mind-- but cute 'gotcha!' attempt) and you've already shown your hand.
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I know you've already been banned, but just in case another lib stumbles across the thread I will reply anyway.
They've tried peaceful marches. Israel shot the peaceful protestors and the world largely ignored it. The fact you didn't know about them shows how easily ignored they were.
Which, I understand, is entirely what ghouls like you want, something easily ignored.
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Real talk these the same crackers that call NFAC a domestic terrorist org.
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Isn't there ample evidence that Ukraine's been forcibly conscripting citizens, many of whom are ethnically Russian and don't feel that motivated to fight against, well, Russians?
Look at a demographic map. Ethnic Ukrainians are in the northwest, ethnic Russians are in the south and east. Guess where Russia is attacking?
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Russia did attack from the northwest to start with, but that failed fairly spectacularly
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Many people in Ukraine support Russia's invasion. Many more are indifferent and just want to steer clear of the war path; millions with consent were evacuated and placed in safety with shelter and food within Russia. On the other hand, Nazi blocking squads working for the Ukraine puppet government will violently, sometimes lethally stop any able bodied people trying to escape. They violently conscripted the men until they started running out and now have been targetting old men, older children and women (not dissimilar to the OG Nazi late war policy of Volksturm). That is to say, even many of the UKR soldiers don't want to fight against RUS. RUS's target is not the people of UKR, it is their Neo Nazi NATO puppet government.
By contrast, the target of Israel's violence is the Palestinian people themselves, they want genocide and expulsion of all non-Jews and Arabs.
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One of these is really complicated
The Ukraine War is actually the more complicated and nuanced one. So its incredible every time to see people come here and get that backwards.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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One of these is really complicated and I’m pretty sure violence won’t solve much.
We're talking about the Ukraine-Russia conflict from the Ukrainian government's perspective, right?
Right? :padme:
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First situation sounds a lot more complicated tbh.
Also consider, for the most part Russians and Ukrainians are both Christian or secular. The intercultural "divide" is played up by both governments and the war makes it possible. Now look again at Palestine/Israel.
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