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    8 months ago

    You got exactly the resolution you were demanding

    Please show me where anyone has “demanded” a resolution that will in no way be enforced, as the totality of action needed to stop Israel?

    Netanyahu is thumbing his nose at everyone because he knows no one is going to actually do anything about his genocide. Stopping weapons isn’t about stopping the genocide, it’s about not actively contributing to it.

    Actively stopping it would probably require a hell of a lot more than cutting off our weapon shipments, and no one but Netanyahu (yourself included) can quantify what that actual line would be. Maybe it would require international sanctions. Maybe it would require military intervention. Neither of those is actually on the table though, realistically, so not being active contributors is probably the best we can do right now.

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      We’re I at my PC I might dump a boatload of links to lemmy comments but, since I’m not, I’ll just tell you to do your own search. It’s incredibly prevalent in the more “tankie” subs, but they show up pretty much everywhere the subject is discussed.

      The frustrating thing is that there are two groups doing it. There are right wing trolls pretending they care but actually just taking advantage to damage Democrats, but there are also good people arguing for the best of causes, but not understanding the dynamics at play.

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        8 months ago

        But so, not actually the person you were responding to when you said “You got [what] you were demanding”?

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          8 months ago

          When someone says that an abstention from a vote is “kissing Netanyaho’s ass”, it seems pretty apparent that the consider a lack of a yes vote as a moral failing.

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            8 months ago

            Yes, but how did you get from “not opposing Israel is a moral failing” to “if we oppose Israel in a UN resolution, that will fix everything”?

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              8 months ago

              How did you get from a vote on a particular wording of a particular resolution to “not supporting Israel”? Where did I say that anyone said the revolution would “fix everything”?