I’d say it’s also a problem that the sort of people who use the Internet to find people to beat up are idiots, so even if they aren’t going out of their way to victimize minorities, odds are they’ll just beat up some random person.

It is.

You keep insisting that you’re not on their side, but you do insist we more or less are morally obligated to let them try to kill us without responding.

Furthermore, you demonstrate a clear double standard in your argument. If the only logical response to being bombed by the West is to attack Westerners, then doesn’t it stand to reason that the logical response to being attacked by the Houthis is to attack the Houthis? It’s the same as the arguments defending Hamas. You treat the Arabs as if they’re too stupid to try diplomacy while arguing we are morally obligated to endure being attacked by them.

Well you did just say you support the Houthis attacking Israelis, so you are rather proving my point.

They haven’t fired any rockets since the last bombing.

The Houthis are murderous terrorist slavers. I do not trust them. I do not care what they want. I want them dead. I may not support Israel’s war effort, but that does not justify the Houthis attacking us. They have chosen to make themselves the enemies of America and I expect them to be treated as such.

A tankie resorting to violence in immediate reaction to a political disagreement?

Must be a day ending in “Y.”

“They attacked us” is flimsy?

Does not even make sense.

You don’t support the Houthis, but you assert they’re doing the right thing by attacking international shipping to spite Israel, don’t think we should do anything to stop them and that we should let them get away with attacking us.

Right.

Bernie Sanders does not support the Houthis.

Show me five people who support your position that have won elections in the United States.

Your comparison is wrong because we aren’t occupying Yemen.

The average person does not want us to bow and scrape before terrorists.

So, you believe Israel started committing genocide as soon as it retaliated to the October 7th massacre?

You are wrong. They’re murderous terrorists.

They attacked us. My heart does not bleed.

First of all, they began launching rockets at Israel on October 19th.

Second of all, what is your actual point? That because they aren’t intrinsically evil, we shouldn’t do anything to stop them? That because they have articulated a reason, they aren’t terrorists?

If anything that’s worse. And it is not, in fact, part of any international obligation with regards to genocide.

So, they’ve attacked us in the past, they’ve promised to attack us again, they’re pretty much the worst people alive and you think leaving them to make good on their threats is a vote winnter?

Israel didn’t purposefully attack Americans because they are Americans. It’s not much, but it’s a difference.

All of those descriptors except for the slavery one apply to israel and half of Americans give them unequivocal support. And? That doesn’t dispute anything I said.

First of all, the UN would gladly vote Israel out of existence. Second of all, I do not necessarily oppose a ceasefire. My point was that letting the Houthis get away with attacking us is stupid and, more importantly, politically indefensible.

They’re enacting the blockade because they’re terrorists. They began the blockade weeks after the October 7th massacre, because they, like Hamas, are servants of Iran’s proxy war with Israel and the Saudis.

Palestine is an excuse for the Houthis, much as it is for you.

Once again you miss the point. You argue their actions are because of their duty under international law. Despite that they are presently enslaving people, in defiance of international law. I have no reason to believe anything they say.

I think bombing the Houthis is good for the rest of the Yemenis.

Nowhere in there does the ICJ label it genocide.

First of all, that comparison is bullshit and you know it. The Houthis are purposefully attacking American citizens abroad.

Second of all, I disagree that destroying their capabilities to attack would accomplish nothing and I have no sympathy for genocidal, rape happy slaver terrorists, so you aren’t tugging on my heartstrings by talking about carpet bombings.

Thirdly, as I mentioned, they’re genocidal slaver terrorists. So I do not trust them.

Fourth, this is why any politician supported by Lemmy is obviously going to fail. You have no conception of what normal people think is acceptable. For example: the average American does not hear about Americans being attacked abroad by terrorists who commit rape en mass, support genocide and have reintroduced slavery and think, “We should give these people what they want.”