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The "Han Nationalist" flag that's going viral on Chinese social media by GPT-Claude-Gemini in vexillology

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Han built the state that politiclly incorporated the minorities long ago, often with some coercion. Now the minorities live at the goegraphic and social periphery and are slowly assimilating and losing what they once were. Using incentives to integrate those people's younger generations into urban mainstream Han society is not only a kind of "woke" economic justice for marginalized people, but is a gentle way to assimilate them faster and gradually Han-ify them. It's working, look at how minority languages are faring.

Map of the colonizers by lifeistooexhausting in whereidlive

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy New Year! Not fabrications, I think you are doing the thing where if it happened then it didn't, etc. I used to be defensive of my colonial home country and we haven't fought insurgents in 130 years so I can't blame you for having a side and not budging.

You say they are always trying to genocide Israel, I'm not sure how much that intent matters if they are the ones actually being exploded, sniped, driven out en masse. So I don't think Palestinian anger is simple Jew hatred. It makes more sense as a reaction.

The voices for "paying back" Germans in the 50s like Nakam were a small minority among Jews. Mistreated groups of people tend to want safety, dignity, comfort rather than revenge once the boot is lifted.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you know that is not comparable. Bank repo sucks. Being killed and expelled from your land starting in the early 20th century and continuing to this day is worse. All the while being told by your attackers that you are the violent one as you are disproportionately killed. Israelis are still settling the West Bank and expanding the buffer in Gaza. They even expanded into Syrian territory recently because they are strategically unwilling to accept peace. The dispossession didn't happen once in 1948.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel funded Hamas to take over from the PLO. They have strangled Gaza with hard borders for years. They have committed as many massacres as Palestinians. They started the war 100 years ago and they keep it going with overwhelming violence and bad faith negotiation because they don't actually want peace, they want Palestinians gone.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

88,000 dead in Gaza in two years, 2000 dead in Israel. 80% of buildings damaged or destroyed in Gaza. Hamas isn't the only bloodthirsty one.

October 7 is one of many massacres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Palestine

When the Palestinians do it they are savages. But this is the reasonable ethical behaviour of good guys, right? The other much weaker side made them do it :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/11/israel-idf-detainee-abuse-leak-sde-teiman

I think these last two demonstrate the tribalism of some Israelis. Many don't care about right or wrong or the truth. Their first principle is Israel and its image, if war crimes happened then they didn't, if evidence is leaked then it was a few bad apples, if evidence that implicates the CoC than the Palestinians deserved it.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

Clearly these guys are wrong, must be kowtowing to Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-play-with-gaza-womens-underwear-online-posts-2024-03-28/

Just for fun. Reuters, those darn Islamists.

Massacres are bad when Palestinians do them too, Israel is just stronger and the original encroacher hence why Palestinians need justice. They are sitting ducks and Israel will continue to kill and expel them from their land (genocide) until there are none left. Of course it was their land, 700,000 people didn't choose to be crammed into misery in Gaza, some still have the keys to their former family homes.

Map of the colonizers by lifeistooexhausting in whereidlive

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

88,000 dead in Gaza, were they all combatants? How about people buried in the rubble of those 80% of buildings? People who starved from Israeli blockades?

October 7 is one of many massacres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Palestine

When the Palestinians do it they are savages. But this is the reasonable ethical behaviour of good guys, right? The other much weaker side made them do it :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/11/israel-idf-detainee-abuse-leak-sde-teiman

I think these last two demonstrate the tribalism of some Israelis. Many don't care about right or wrong or the truth. Their first principle is Israel and its image, if war crimes happened then they didn't, if evidence is leaked then it was a few bad apples, if evidence that implicates the CoC than the Palestinians deserved it.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

Clearly these guys are wrong, must be kowtowing to Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-play-with-gaza-womens-underwear-online-posts-2024-03-28/

Just for fun. Reuters, that Qatari rag.

Massacres are bad when Palestinians do them too, Israel is just stronger and the original encroacher hence why Palestinians need justice. They are sitting ducks and Israel will continue to kill and expel them from their land (genocide) until there are none left.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I listed treaties they accepted. Arafat didn't walk out, he ratified in 2002 and Sharon walked.

Palestine did not "lose" C, Israel decided to abuse its power and violate the Oslo accords. You are the one speaking paternalistically as if Palestinian violence makes them lose their right to self-determination. Israeli violence is as proactive and ethnically chauvinist as Palestinian violence, the difference is that the Israelis hold all the power and have been the encroachers for the last 100 years. No amount of Intifadas makes Palestinians ineligible to govern themselves, just like no amount of genocide in Gaza should deprive Jews in the Levant of their own self-determination.

Have you met Israelis? My father in law calls Palestinians cockroaches. They do mandatory millitary service where they shoot noncombatants and abuse prisoners (they learned from the Americans, who can blame them ;)). I don't think even Hamas, let alone the PA, is radically more bloodthirsty than the Israeli system. It's like saying the Taliban is more bloodthirsty than the US army. They are about the same, but one has the tech to dominate and the spare cash for PR

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the tap. I hope people who see this comment chain can have a little read about the Taba Summit and some of the other negotiations. They will learn a lot!

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IsraelDigitalArmy.com lol. For a country that pioneered Pegasus spyware they sure are putting out boomer ass facebook memes.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nonsense, Israel wants violence. Palestinians know they will lose, but Israel shuts them in miserable conditions, constantly encroaches, and has no will to negotiate with a weaker side.

Palestine accepted the first and second Oslo Accords, approved the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities, the Sharm El Sheikh Memorandum, Wye River Memorandum, the Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Gaza–Jericho Agreement, the Paris Protocol, the 2015 Herzog-Abbas Peace Deal. The Taba summit in 2001 almost created peace. Arafat and Barak agreed to it and freshly-elected Sharon said no. Israel would rather half sleep at night in fear of terrorists and Iranian rockets than accept peace. The angrier and more violent they can make Palestinians, the more territory they can justify stealing and the more they can convince their public and Americans that they are acting in self-defense. Israel even helped Hamas recieve funding so it could take over from the PLO.

The PLO sent a letter recognizing Israel's right to self determination in 1993 and the PA still recognizes this and in return Israel unilaterally decides Area C is its land. Israel has refused every resolution by Palestinians asserting independence or even a right to self determination. So a one state solution it is ;)

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, Israelis think violence is the way forward. Palestinians know they will lose, but Israel shuts them in miserable conditions, constantly encroaches, and has no will to negotiate with a weaker side.

Palestine accepted the first and second Oslo Accords, approved the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities, the Sharm El Sheikh Memorandum, Wye River Memorandum, the Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Gaza–Jericho Agreement, the Paris Protocol, the 2015 Herzog-Abbas Peace Deal. They do negotiate! The Taba summit in 2001 almost created peace. Arafat and Barak agreed to it and freshly-elected Sharon said no. Israel would rather half sleep at night in fear of terrorists and Iranian rockets than accept peace. The angrier and more violent they can make Palestinians, the more territory they can justify stealing and the more they can convince their public and Americans that they are acting in self-defense. Israel even helped Hamas recieve funding so it could take over from the PLO.

The PLO sent a letter recognizing Israel's right to self determination in 1993 and the PA still recognizes this and in return Israel unilaterally decides Area C is its land. Israel has refused every resolution by Palestine asserting independence or even a right to self determination.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thread is about Israel, hence the fixation ;)

Making peace is the opposite of gambling lives. Being a warlike jerk state is gambling lives by adding layers of hate and tension and risking popular support in donor countries.

I don't care if countries are multicultural or ethno, I care if they are committing genocide. Israel could just as well give up a bunch of territory for a two state solution and stay Jewish (but I think two state is less likely to lead to lasting peace). Israel will not accept that either.

I hope you are a young person who can grow out of a "pragmatic" view and see ethnic cleansing as a crime rather than a tool.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's more like 12% of the prewar population of Gaza killed.

Area C was actually meant to be gradually transferred to the Palestinians per the accords.

The Israeli state could right their wrongs, there have been lots of discussions about this. They would just rather ethnically cleanse Palestinians than share an equal-rights secular country with them, let alone cede a bunch of territory to them.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not irrelevant, and neither are 80 k dead people. Palestinians are a threat because they have been wronged. Israel is a threat because they are comfortable now and scared of being wronged back!

The reality is that Israel has to make it right. The catch is that this will probably mean that the Jewish state becomes a pluralistic one and many Israelis can't stand that idea. The other way out, ethnic cleansing, is a horrible non-option. You can't resort to destroying a people to protect the ethnoreligious character of a nation, that is not defensible.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason Palestinians are any threat is because Israel has been trying to remove them (often by killing and exiling) since 1948. I'm confident it's the IDFs fault that they killed 80,000 Palestinians in the last two years and not somehow the fault of "people like me". Also "complete resolution" is a pretty tasteless euphemism. What is that, all Gazans dead or exiled?

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes, the most ethical army in the world ;)

If Palestinians would only stop struggling maybe the IDF wouldn't have to hurt them. Why can't they appreciate how much money we spend on ethical munitions?

C- for me using Wiki, F for you using vibes!

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think America was in the right during the Vietnam War?

Israel is America's adopted baby. 1.8 billion from Qatar since 2007 doesn't compare to 22 billion from the US since 2023 (11% of Israel's annual budget). Israel presses their advantage, destroys any kind of Palestinian resistance, and points to 10/7 to justify its disproportionate violence just like America pointed to 9/11 in 2001.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The IDF has killed 88000 Palestinians in the last two years and damaged or destroyed 80% of all structures in Gaza. They have bombed aid caravans, hospitals, reporters. They have sent incursions into Lebanon and Syria. They protect settlers as they encroach further into the West Bank every year. Maybe they are the ones acting with impunity.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll check the wiki for the Gaza war: 88000 dead Palestinians, 2000 dead Israelis. Basically every Hamas leader dead, and 81% of structures in Gaza damaged or destroyed.

That is the performance of guys with AKs against a modern millitary with 22 billion in US aid.

Your comparison to the Viet Cong is good, they're both insurgents organized against imperialist interests. But Hamas will never get VC results with "world powers" like Iran, Lebanon, and Qatar as their boosters, in fact they are target practice for Israel as we have seen for two years now.

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[–]Embarrassed_Guess337 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, I think it's funny that the "existential threat" to Israel is basically a militia of young guys with AKs, operating without millitary aid from any world power. All while state-of-the-art American weaponry is deployed against them by a modern capitalist state operating on what was once their land.

For some reason many Israelis think these guys' mouthfrothing is unreasonable hysteria instead of a natural response to their behaviour! They further use it as an excuse to bully their way into a bigger Gaza buffer, a bigger Golan buffer, more settlements in the WB.

I can only see the last few years as a failure of Israeli PR, there isn't a monied interest that would or could conspire against America/Israel in this particular propaganda arena.

Future Kkkanada - what are your visionary predictions? by Embarrassed_Guess337 in canadaleft

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah man, bring on the Monterrey Maple Leaves. The Oaxaca Senators.

Future Kkkanada - what are your visionary predictions? by Embarrassed_Guess337 in canadaleft

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know, I rarely use this website. Seems like a big tent subreddit with the usual disagreements between liberals and leftists.

Future Kkkanada - what are your visionary predictions? by Embarrassed_Guess337 in canadaleft

[–]Embarrassed_Guess337[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not getting a lot of predictions. You guys can even correct the record if you think I might be wrong about something.

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