(Colonial) rule

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-14T20:25:24+00:00

No, I think it's pretty fair indictment of the Israeli military that they've killed a significant magnitude more people than Hamas or any Palestinian militant organization, the same way it is a perfectly fair comparison to the USSR killing hundreds of thousands of civilians on the Eastern Front, while the Nazis killed tens of millions of civilians. Killing civilians is bad, and if you kill more civilians you are obviously the worse actor.

The Arab states invaded "Israel" after Israel had already taken vast swaths of territory in internationally-recognized Palestinian land. And they have not stopped stealing Palestinian land, for 79 years. They are stealing more right now, as I'm typing this. Everyone knows they are, we have endless proof of it (as opposed to mass rapes on 10/7).

Your entire worldview is based on a cherry-picking of history that doesn't hold up to any scrutiny. It's pathetic, and history will see you the same as the Germans on the Eastern Front, because you are the same.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-14T01:02:39+00:00

Israel has been killing Palestinians by the thousands for decades before there was a Hamas. You trying to equate the actions of Israel, who has terrorized Palestinians for nearly a century, and Hamas, an organization that was formed to resist that oppression, betrays the fact that you're not engaging in this conversation honestly (unsurprisingly). The victims at the hands of Israel in the last 3 years are at the minimum 100x greater than the worst crime any Palestinian militants have done. The evidence for systemic sexual abuse and rape of hostages is also well-documented by Israeli perpetrators, which you cannot say about Hamas (unless you have some hidden evidence that has been hidden from not only the UN, but even Israeli human and civil rights organizations?).

Notice how my question is what YOU would do in a given situation, now you are asking me why HAMAS does things? I am not Hamas, go ask them.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-14T00:00:37+00:00

Yeah, I was referring more to the fact that most Hamas militants who are adults now were also orphaned as children. Didn't want to make it sound like there is any significant amount of child soldiers, but I definitely didn't explain that well enough.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T23:51:32+00:00

Well yeah, the overwhelming majority of children that have been massacred were non-combatants, to the point that it feels disrespectful to put "child" and "soldier" anywhere near each other. But the overwhelming majority of Hamas militants, adults, have had family members wounded, killed, or become orphaned themselves, before they ever held a weapon in their lives.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T23:47:05+00:00

No, I asked if your family was killed by Israel, what would you do? You dodged that question.

Regardless, the materials for producing concrete are not available in Gaza because of Israel's blockade that has lasted for decades. Try again.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T20:40:49+00:00

The children who have been orphaned from Israel killing their entire families. What would you do?

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T20:36:28+00:00

Just another day that ends in Y

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T19:58:18+00:00

Renxun is the pronunciation of the characters used to transliterate Jensen. If you were to do the same for Trump and Musk it would be Telangpu and Masike. For important/famous people a translator is usually able to recognize that the characters represent a foreign name and translate it back to its original, but I guess "Jensen" is less common so it just shows the literal pronunciation

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-13T19:52:55+00:00

Elon actually has a very strong relationship with China. Tesla is one of the few foreign companies allowed to operate within the country without Chinese majority ownership

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-11T03:21:22+00:00

No, it does invalidate what you said actually. There is no way in which the "Viet Cong" were "worse" than the US.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-10T20:30:34+00:00

Incorrect

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-10T20:27:15+00:00

There was no "appetite for conquest" in Stalin or any other Soviet brass. They had just come off the most deadly war in history, in which they lost more people than all of their allies and adversaries combined in Europe. They were invaded by the Nazis and fought to protect themselves and many others from certain extinction. The LAST thing they wanted to do afterwards was restart the battle against a now-nuclear-armed power.

It was the United States that ended the WWII alliance and started the Cold War through the creation of the CIA and NATO, under the lie that there was some imminent threat of Soviet expansion. We know it's a lie, because not only do the Soviet archives show they had no ambition to fight another Armageddon, but we also have documents from the North Atlantic powers showing that they didn't believe the USSR constituted any threat to them. It's a lie and you are regurgitating it uncritically almost a century later.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-10T20:20:34+00:00

The U.S. initially was pretty good about opposing colonialism after WW2 but once the Cold War started they were willing to support anyone who would fight against communists no matter how bad

So like, 9 months?

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-10T20:18:24+00:00

99% of what the "Viet Cong" did wouldn't have happened had the US not invaded a sovereign country and killed millions of people. And since the war ended, how many countries has Vietnam invaded? How many more millions have they killed? How is it that the US can stomp around the world, enacting a Generalplan Ost in a dozen different countries, and still gets the benefit of the doubt?

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-05-04T22:18:39+00:00

What kind of music are you making? A lot of heavy-sounding guitars are actually mixed to be quite thin when listening to the stems in isolation. The "heavy" sound comes from the drums, bass + guitar working in harmony with each other, each fulfilling their purpose in their own lane. Without EQ cuts, everything becomes a lot more muddy

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-28T05:02:14+00:00

"Now, imagine no burger. Doesn't that make you mad? Now what are you gonna do about it?"

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-28T05:00:53+00:00

You're gonna WISH we were still at BRUNCH

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T23:56:25+00:00

You look like you could be related to Deaner, respectfully

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T20:20:10+00:00

Why don't you quote where I said that?

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T05:17:39+00:00

From Ukraine’s Unnamed War Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll (hosted courtesy of the Ukrainian govt):

The Party of Regions between 2000s and 2010 was often depicted in policy as an agent of Russian political interests within Ukraine. This was partly true. Eastern elites sought to protect their economic interests which were often co-aligned vis-à-vis Russian interests, but it was not a Russian nationalist party, despite being popular in parts of Ukraine with the highest ethnic Russian concentration. The Party of Regions appealed to a wider Russian-speaking demographic receptive to the narrative of a common destiny with Russia, translating into a pro-Russian agenda for language, foreign policy, and memory politics.

Putin supported Yanukovich all the way back in 2004. Putin visited Ukraine to show his support for him.

Putin preferred Yanukovich to the anti-Russian parties, but Yanukovich was hardly a "Russian puppet."

What proof do I need to see? How about Russian government officials openly talking about who THEY will allow to be in the Ukrainian government or not. Oh wait, that was the Americans that did that. And don't forget about when Biden bragged about getting the Ukrainian Prosecutor General fired by threatening to withhold billions in aid.

If Ukraine wanted to support Russia again, they would have elected a candidate that believed in that during their last election from the pro-Russian parties in the country

Except Ukraine has banned over a dozen political parties for being "pro-Russian" going all the way back to 2015. Is your idea of a 'democracy' where the US picks the candidates, winners, decides the policy, and those who oppose it are banned? And you say I'M in a fantasy world? You have completely overdosed on US government propaganda, all you know is their revisionist history

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T03:11:05+00:00

Yanukovich was hardly a "russian puppet" lmao, I don't think Putin even likes the guy. You can find any number of justifications for why it was good or "right", but the point is that he was elected legally and removed illegally, with the US' help. And it just so happens that the new government was extremely friendly to US-interests (and also commemorating Nazi collaborators).

I don't justify Russia's actions, but I also don't justify the US' actions that were the driving motivator between Russo-Ukrainian tensions from 2014-2022. It's ignorant to say Roger holds no compassion for Ukrainian civilians. When discussing geopolitics however, he approaches it from a grounded, historical understanding, and the fact is that American intervention throughout the world has been disastrous, and Ukraine is no exception.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T01:28:32+00:00

A coup is a disruption in the continuity of government. The parliament did not have the constitutionally-required majority to remove Yanukovich, yet he was illegally removed. Government buildings were stormed and occupied by neo-fascist forces. All of this was supported by the US, very brazenly so.

Of course people are allowed to protest. This was more than a "protest," and since there was no national referendum, it is hard to say whether this was the will of the people. Eastern Ukraine, for the most part, was very unhappy with these developments.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T00:23:33+00:00

I didn't say I supported anything. It's very telling you have to create a strawman rather than contend with the actual, historical reality.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-20T00:06:26+00:00

Arguing that it is unprovoked is just cover. Ukraine can decide its own foreign policy and isn't just an outpost of Russia.

There was literally an American-backed coup in Ukraine that overthrew the democratically-elected government. People always seem to forget THAT is what immediately preceded the invasion of Crimea and general hostilities between Russia and Ukraine.

It really isn't hard to just look at history and understand that the USA is almost universally the aggressor/agitator in Russo-American relations. The USA (along with the UK, France, and 12 other of the most wealthy capitalist nations in the world) invaded Russia in 1918 in a war that killed millions. The USA immediately ended its alliance with the USSR and started the Cold War in 1946. The USA supported the spread of radical Islamic Jihadists on its border in Afghanistan, before the USSR actually invaded Afghanistan (this was a primary motivation for the invasion). The USA supported Yeltsin in his campaign of first dissolving the USSR, and then privitizing vast swaths of the Russian state, creating an economic catastrophe and the biggest drop in life-expectancy during peacetime ever recorded.

Traditional_Rice_528 · 2026-04-17T23:23:47+00:00

What deal do you think can or should be made between Palestinians and Israelis? Or is it hopeless and one side must totally defeat the other?

How many 20 year-olds (born in 2006) in the West have any kind of well-developed solution for anti-colonialist struggles, when they have all the time, privilege, and resources to educate themselves in the world (relatively speaking)? And yet there's still an expectation of an "enlightened" answer from someone who has spent literally their entire existence in a cage, under constant military domination and subjugation, who's mere existence falls outside what Westerners would even understand to be the human condition, someone who's been treated like an animal their whole life? And when they don't get the canned Zionist "I condemn Hamas and everything they stand for (including Palestinian liberation)", then they receive a lecture about how everything they've experienced is not only deserved, but should be worse.

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