• lawrence@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is a comic in technical terms, but also political propaganda. I am not sure this type of content belongs in this community, regardless of which “side” the comic defends or attacks.

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      4 months ago

      Chewed on the no politics at the Olympics comment for myself and I think where I landed was that the Olympics should be apolitical. I do think these countries should be punished for their actions, however, with the number and types of international destabilizing events increasing, I think this is a quick win for international cooperation. Something all humans can get behind. Doping obviously should be punished, but that’s an athletic issue.

      Obviously the precedent of excluding countries has been set, so there’d be vitriolic pushback, but I think it would be worth it to have one majorly public institution (read: in popular awareness) that doesn’t judge, it just lets athletes compete.

      Thoughts?

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      Many israelis are American nationalists and America provides israel the funds for their gear. There have even been pictures of American-israeli soldiers proudly wearing their American uniform in Gaza.

      There appears to be a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to US complicity in the Genocide.

      When it comes to any Houthi or Hezbollah topic invoking Iran is fine but the people funding israel can’t be named?

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        Could you clarify what you mean by “many Israelis are American nationalists”.

        What is a nationalist to you, in this context?

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          Literal pictures and videos of IDF soldiers wearing their American uniform. I have posted them a few months back if you’re willing to dig through my post history you’ll find them.

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    4 months ago

    “These two things are both bad and are therefore equivalent” is my least favourite human logical fallacy

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      Both Russia and israel are committing war crimes and therefore should both be banned from the Olympics.

      What happened to all the liberals asking for Russia to be banned when they were committing war crimes?

      Is it okay when israel does it?

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    Any country with leadership that commits war crimes should not be allowed to compete. Israel, the US, China, doesn’t matter who. Also, any soldier working for a foreign army that is well known for committing atrocities should absolutely not be allowed to compete.

    Make it easy.

    I get what the meme is saying, but IMO it’s not executed as clearly and well as it could’ve been.

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      Yep. But we were making a big deal out of Russia doing it so pot meet kettle.

      Letting israel participate is a stunning display of hypocrisy to the world.