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[–] 87 points 1 year ago (1 child)

History will judge the politicians who did nothing, too.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So they're stopping trade talks, but continue supplying them with arms?

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    history doesn't save lives. history doesn't remember individuals. history doesn't care if money paved over graves.

    history isn't consequence.

    i have no place in this fight, other than to say that no Good God would ever want this.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    no worries, i think you just misunderstood what i was trying to say. not your fault - i probably shouldn't have been so vague.

    i'm a white non-religious dude from canada. i don't have a place in this fight. i still have opinions, though, and what's happening in gaza right now is a fucking holocaust. i think we're both on the same side, and i admire your conviction.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What have you done that's actual made a difference?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Or what would he expect someone to do? The best you can do is share information, information that you've been simply told yourself. Every time I've tried to express the opinion that "yeah that's not OK" I end up bombarded with whataboutism and do you even begin to comprehend the previous 3000 years of history and how dare you have an opinion when you didn't even consider why they're doing it etc etc etc.

    By the end I just give up. I can't even be sure Israel actually exists. It's on maps. People talk about it. I haven't actually been there and verified it's real, never mind what goes on over that way.

    Turns out all you can actually do is keep your own little world clean.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Would be cooler if the present judged them.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    We have to wait for 'history' to handle this for us, huh.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Amazing how the entire world turned into anti-Semites overnight just because of a little ethnic cleansing

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    It'll judge you too, but if you stop supporting them now you get a participation prize.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The same way history remembers all the multiples famines caused by the British on India?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    History indeed remembers. No coincidence half the world has an "independence from the English" day.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Never on one of those days the 45M people of famines deads in India by the English empire are talk about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    My dude, I grew up in bumfuck Eastern Europe. Our textbooks and history classes that were so shitty that we spent like 4 lessons in total on WWII and the Cold War in total (with a cutoff date of like 1980), had a whole chapter on the incredible cruelty the British Empire had towards the people of India. Pictures of people blown from guns, descriptions of the famines, Gandhi and all that stuff.

    There was practically more time spent on it than the Holocaust.

    I understand why you're saying what you're saying though, and I'd just like you to know, many people didn't forget.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Seems like it since apparently the international court is a joke.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    If you look at pictures from Warsaw in 1943 and Gaza in 2025 the eyes looking back are the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    No, it won't.

    History is written by the victors.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    but how about they rewrite history with trained ai and edited digital books?

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