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Congratulations, you've reached the level of "terrorist well-wisher"
by Y_Y 9mo ago
Congratulations, you've reached the level of "terrorist well-wisher"
- flumpcakes 9mo agoIs there something you disagree with? My opinions were pretty neutral.
- simondotau 9mo agoThe internet is where every issue is a binary, nuance is scorned, and moderate views are weakness. You should know this already.
- HPsquared 9mo agoIt's like Hamlet. "To upvote, or to downvote".
- iso1631 9mo ago"centrist dad" is apparently an insult
- hackable_sand 9mo agoThe only positive quality to centrists and moderates is their endurance of sledgehammer attacks.
- Y_Y 9mo agoI just felt you didn't quite reach the criteria for "terrorist sympathizer" outlined above. I don't make the rules!
- megous 9mo agoUK military is operating in Palestine (very frequent military flights from their post-colonial base in Cyprus), and is operating in Israel (when they were shooting down drones, etc.), and is supplying Israel with weapons (directly by soldier training and indirectly by allowing to use their military bases), and joined in international coverup (they have detailed intelligence on what Israel was doing in Gaza, which they never released publicly any part of). Pretty solid basis for direct action. If they provided this level of support for Russia, they'd be a new Belarus.
- dgroshev 9mo agoEquating surveillance flights off the coast with "operating in the country" is tenuous at best. If that's the threshold, Russian military is already operating in Britain (see Yantar's adventures). The mental effort a lot of people has made to pretend they aren't entirely powerless and irrelevant for stopping Israel's crimes is deeply impressive. The reality is that there's nothing the UK can do to stop Israel as long as the US is supporting them (short of going to war with both the US and Israel), but this reality is at odds with the desire to do something, so people invent and inflate leverage where there isn't any. Moreover, most of the time the very same people oppose creating more leverage for the future, as your added qualifier of "post-colonial" implies. It's depressing.
- megous 9mo agoIt's not off the coast, they're circling directly over the territory of Palestine, without invitation from Palestinian state, and against interests of Palestinians. Post-colonial only implies that Cyprus was a UK colony, and now is not, but still retains some bases in there.