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Cake day: October 14th, 2023

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  • But I don’t want to believe that, I believe in every country being rational actors. I’ve seen the harm of western media characterizing whole countries as “evil” or “hate us for our freedoms”, I don’t want to do the same. I feel like I must’ve been missing a critical piece of the puzzle here. What am I missing?

    Their actions follow rationally from the beliefs they share with the rest of “Western civilization”. They believe that a singular all powerful god created a racial hierarchy, put them at the top of it, and made the entire planet and everything in it for their exclusive use. They see the people they’re exterminating as nonhuman vermin infesting the planet god made for them. They respond to any sympathy for their victims the way an average person would respond to the suggestion that they should share their home with rats or cockroaches.

    A well adjusted person might find it hard to accept that someone could genuinely believe that, but if you’re speaking English right now then you’re living in a state founded and ruled by people who fundamentally believe the same thing.

    Why can’t Israel stop doing the genocide?

    Clearly it’s not going well. It’s destroying their image not just in the west asia region, but also the entire globe.

    It’s going great as far as they’re concerned. They’re getting exactly what they want out of it: more land and fewer indigenous people living on it. Why would it matter to them if a bunch of powerless foreign serfs that they don’t recognize as human think badly of them? Their actions are overwhelming popular to the only people they see as equals, and any foreign country they’re not currently attacking is either giving them weapons and criminalizing opposition or wagging their finger and looking the other way.