By Connor O'Keeffe
Israel’s defenders act like Netanyahu and his allies have had no choice but to react to October 7 in the manner that they have. But that isn’t true.
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142 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 22 May
Usually when I hold an opinion on an issue I try my best to see the other side's point of view. In this case, I can't. It's weird, because it's not often that I agree with left wing democrats and the ICC. It isn't even a close call IMO.
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140 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 22 May
I would say that I have tried to see the other side's point of view. I've listened to Dave Rubin, Walter Block, and RFK Jr's arguments, as well as several different guests on TimCast.
The problem is that their arguments are all nonsense and it's clear that they're the ones who have never tried to see the other side's point of view.
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 22 May
I listened to RFK Jr on Dave Smith. Shocking how he clung to a ridiculous position.
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75 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 22 May
Yeah I was dismayed to learn of RFKs position.
And I don't usually agree with the left position but I do on this issue.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 22 May
What is the purpose of ICC besides hating Israel?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 22 May
Were those Hamas arrest warrants just brought to throw everybody off?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 22 May
The ICC can’t indict the president of a country. It’s a dangerous precedent.
Remember when Pinochet was arrested in Spain? Was that ICC related?
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106 sats \ 5 replies \ @bitties 22 May
Kind of a verbal false flag, if they are defending themselves then where’s the line? Thanks for sharing.
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116 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 22 May
If someone robs my house and flees back to their home, it would not be self-defense for me to blow up their whole neighborhood.
Take it out of the euphemistic realm of war and put it in a more familiar domestic context. That should make the morality easier to assess.
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75 sats \ 3 replies \ @bitties 22 May
I completely agree. I was trying to express the same thing.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 22 May
"War" is a weird magic word that somehow means none of our standards of justice apply anymore.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 22 May
True
On the other hand war between two nations or tribes cannot be adjudicated in a court of law like murder or theft
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 23 May
I don’t attach any moral validity to statist constructs.
Calling it “collateral damage” doesn’t change the fact that it’s the same thing as mass murder.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @freebookspls 22 May
They choose to commit crimes against humanity, it's part of their self-destructive mindset where they commit all sorts of injustices and when the pushback comes they act like victms. It's a pattern they repeat since the Roman Empire, maybe even before that.
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