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What the fuck are you smoking?
Outside of shitty Israeli propaganda, no-one thinks Israel is under the threat of genocide.
And who think that Israel is committing one? The rest of the fucking world.
— Desmond Tutu
"What the fuck are you smoking" is an ad hominem designed to distract from my undeniably true point, specifically: that both sides are similar in using unfair allegations of defending genocide to dismiss more nuanced beliefs of the other side.
This is called a motte-and-bailey fallacy. You're taking my point implying that both sides accuse the other of defending genocide and then wanna say I'm suggesting Israel is under threat of genocide. These are different things. You use a different thing because if you were to address the actual point, which again is undeniably true, you would have a very hard time.
To be clear, the "genocide" Israel supporters (unfairly) accuse others of defending is the Hamas attack on Israel, where Hamas killed unarmed civilians at close range, proudly recording it on video. I don't mean to imply you can't figure that out on your own, but you kinda forced me to point it out.
And if you say "but people who are protesting Israel aren't defending Hamas attacking Israeli civilians, but are defending the right of the Palestinian civilians to remain alive", then you understand completely. Now try swapping the relevant ethno-religious tribes.
You don't understand what tbe words "ad hominem" or "genocide"
Mean.
You're a little kid larping a philosopher. Badly.
In a highly charged ruling in January, the court ordered Israel to do everything in its power to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza
Again, you don't seem to understand what "genocide" means.
It's not "both sides". "Both sides" do not have cases in the ICC about being accused of genocide. Both sides do not have convictions from the ICC that they need to do all the can to stop genocidal actions being undertaken.
You genocide defenders make me fucking sick. Grow some balls and question your brainwashing.
Ad hominem = attacking the person rather than the argument. Like "you're a little kid..." The fact that you feel the need to accuse someone you've never seen of being a kid instead of pointing out what's actually wrong with what I'm saying should be seen as evidence that you are desperately flailing, pathetically grasping for straws to build an argument from when you clearly have nothing. Instead, it's getting upvoted, for some reason.
Everything else you say is completely and absolutely non-responsive, internet tropes in place of argument. You completely ignore the whole point of my argument, which is that you replaced my argument with another argument and argued against that instead, and proceeded to argue against an argument that was never made in the exact way I described.
Forget Israel and Palestine, the fact that this illogical Trumpian debate tactic shit is getting upvoted is the new thing that disturbs me. We're truly fucked as a species.
Yes, "rather than". Do you know what those words mean?
It doesn't mean the same as "in addition to", does it?
"Everything else you say is completely..."
You are the one pulling an ad hominem, not me. You ignore my answer to your "argument" and go on to attack my person. Your entire argument is "without the context of the site we're on, no-one could know what this is referring to", as if this was some sort of "both sides" bullshit, which you claim to despise.
It's not. Everyone knows Israel is genociding Palestine and not a single reasonable person would argue that Palestine is trying to genocide Israel.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
Israel's assault on Rafah.
Fuck your equivocating teenage propaganda bullshit.
No I didn't, everything was specific to your argument. I said nothing about you. As for your argument, well I guess I'm glad that I'm promoted to teenager now.
But the argument I'm making is that both sides are guilty of claiming the other side is defending genocide not that both sides are guilty of committing genocide right now. The argument that one side is defending genocide is bad faith, as other than a few extremists nobody on either side is actually defending genocide.
INSTEAD OF
I very clearly pointed out what's wrong with your.
"Both sides"
See. You're pulling the ridiculous "both sides" bullshit.
No it isn't. You're just pretending it is, willfully ignoring the reality of the situation. Israel is most definitely defending a genocide.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/
https://apnews.com/article/world-court-israel-genocide-gaza-south-africa-65b087102893dd06222370b10f0b4e4d
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976
#Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
You still aren't addressing the point they were making. They weren't claiming either side to be ethically, morally, or objectively correct. They were simply stating that both sides of the conflict have claimed the other is attempting a genocide of their own side.
You are trying to argue the objective facts of the situation, poorly at that, not the propaganda. They were commenting on the propaganda, not the facts.
I am.
The point is that him demanding there's "both sides" to this is true as much as it would be true that "both sides claim the other has false science" when arguing Flat Earthers.
It's disingenious and bad faith to pretend there are "both sides" to this. There aren't.
I can show you thousands of pages and people talking about Israel committing genocide on Palestine.
Can you show me a single page where anyone says that PALESTINE is committing trying to commit genocide?
Hint: google "palestine genocide" and "israel genocide" and tell me just how many links concern Palestinians being the victims of a genocide and how many there are saying they're committing one?
Yes, Israel loves to yell about "Hamas is trying to kill us" but Hamas isn't Palestine and an attack on a country doesn't qualify as genocide. Not to even mention how hypocritical it is of Israel to accuse Hamas of a genocide in the current situation when they're fervently trying to deny the genocide they're committing in broad daylight. Almost as ironic as you saying my arguing is poor. Thanks for the laughs, lol.
He never claimed that. Your anger fueled tirades put those words in his mouth.
Ah the old "implications don't exist".
Pretending "both sides are accusing each other of..." in cases like this is a textbook example of bad faith arguing.
I agree you absolutely have been arguing in bad faith this entire thread.
You acting that childish — proudly — is honestly making me sad in real life.
The implication of the first comment of this thread is that there are "both sides" to this. There aren't. Who exactly is saying "Palestine is committing a genocide on Israelis?"
Trying to pretend both sides are in any way "as bad" is exactly the type of shitty propaganda Israel keeps pushing. The same type of rhetoric the Nazis used. It's so fucking ironic that Jewish people are now committing the heinous crimes they were the victims of 100 years ago.
what an incredibly naive and basic take on a geo political (historical) conflict that is still ongoing.
If we're going to analyze this from a clinical perspective, as would be implied by "both sides" we need to consider the actions of both sides, independently to each other. In a manner that is unrelated. This is the only way to truly "both sides" something.
Looking at it in any other capacity is entirely irresponsible and disingenuous at best.
Only a literal child considers both sides exclusively in the capacity of "genocide" in this case. This is like saying that the US won the space race because we got to the moon and back, with people. Even though the USSR did literally everything else before the US did.
So angry at me and sore at losing the argument that instead of just replying with your usual garbage, you replied to three different comments of mine; one on a completely different post (so you got so mad you started stalking my profile, hahahah), then this one, and lastly in the actual thread itself.
Just a proudly American fool who's denying that Israel is committing war crimes like these.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-panel-report-eng.pdf https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/04/israel-50-years-occupation-abuses
Oh, right, sorry, I just remembered you're proudly ignorant and probably your literacy matches that attitude, so something... more to your level:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_schools_during_the_Israeli_invasion_of_Gaza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_during_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_airstrikes_on_municipal_services_in_the_Gaza_Strip
People like you disgust me, but as I don't want to be as shit of a person as you, I actually reply in good faith. People like you just tie yourself in knots.
if we're being factually accurate here, it should be four no? You left two comments in reply to one comment i made that i split into two separate ones due to word limit. And then i responded to this one, and another one about harry potter, and possibly a fifth one, though i'd have to go check it to be sure.
demonstrate it.
nice copy pasta btw, try harder. You're clearly tired from being wrong so often.
Just a proudly American fool who's denying that Israel is committing war crimes like these.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-panel-report-eng.pdf https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/04/israel-50-years-occupation-abuses
Oh, right, sorry, I just remembered you're proudly ignorant and probably your literacy matches that attitude, so something... more to your level:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_schools_during_the_Israeli_invasion_of_Gaza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_during_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_airstrikes_on_municipal_services_in_the_Gaza_Strip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Get a grip. You get you panties in a row when someone points out what a scumbag fascist state Israel is, and the warcrimes they commit.
Ofc I copy the piece of comment I wrote because you're so desperate not to address those links, as your brainwashing just won't allow you to.
ah yes, 1000 USD to anyone who can find an example of this (this post is not legally binding)
israel is literally democratic. Fascism, is a fucking dictatorship bro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Government_and_politics
it's not the written material that i have a problem with, it's fine, you're the fucking problem because you keep mischaracterizing and completely ignoring what it says. It's not my fault you're stupid.
You keep acting like i'm disavowing what the material says (strawman btw) and then ignoring what i saw about what you've written, which is completely fucking asinine.
"Israel is literally democratic"
North Korea claims the same.
"I'm reiterating that I can't address any of the proof of Israel massacring children, torturing and raping people, because I'd make my dad angry. But despite me denying the torture, rape, child massacre, forced transfer, etc, I'm actually not denying any reality at all."
Okay buddy.
So you don't think Israel massacres children or rapes and tortures people?
You won't be able to take a side, on anything. Because you know you're on the wrong side.
You do. You can't engage with it, because you know what the truth of the situation is. You know that I have dozens of links to UN high office reports and the only thing you can actually answer with is "b-b-b-b-b-but Hamas!"
Have you heard about "whataboutism"?
If you're not disavowing any of it, then reiterate what they say, so we know that you agree. You won't though, because you're a genocide denier and actually admitting any of those criteria of genocide is just something you're not capable of doing. Utterly brainwashed.
this is actually not true, like at all.
They're called the "democratic peoples republic of korea" Likewise, the "PRC" is "peoples republic of china" which is, closer to being true, but not true.
Israel is called "israel" hmmm. Yeah no this one doesn't follow. If we're arguing semantic technicalities here, yeah sure it's a republic, and not a democratic system, but that's just a democratic system with one extra step
hmm, funny, i dont remember saying that, point me to where i said that specifically?
bro literally every country in the world does this, even by fucking proxy. Serial killers live everywhere
Even fucking japan. Just look back at ww2 history and see what they were up to at the time.
you really shouldn't take a side on anything. Taking a side on everything is a sign of weakness and societal conformance.
I don't and cool mischaracterization of my quote btw. Very slimy. Again, i have nothing to say regarding the material, because it's all fucking legal paperwork, none of which says much of anything regarding substance in relation to the conflict here. I have yet to find a single fucking case, of anything you've linked directly corroborating what you've said.
You say something, and then link a block quote as a source, and it doesn't even fucking backup what you're saying.
my friend from the city under water. You have literally accused me of denying genocide, and derided me from the very first fucking comment i made. With every fucking comment you've said you started with "you genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach"
oops.
oh no, even the relevant quote literally supports what i fucking say. I have not once said that hamas is worse than israel, or that israel is worse than hamas.
oh no, yet another proper example of a whataboutism.
i already have, they say that there is reasonable grounds for israel to have been, or to commit genocide. Likewise, there is supporting evidence of "war crimes" being committed.
oops you did the thing you werent supposed to.
Still avoiding a clear yes on Israel being guilty of anything. Mere "oh it COULD be". No, it's not a maybe. It's a fact. A FACT which you keep denying, the pathetic child rapist defender you are.
You're just so bad at this, honestly, keep the philosophy larping to some discord or some shit for at least the next five years. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
Do you think NK is democratic because they have "democratic" in their name?
how is it a fact. The papers you link directly disagree with your statement of "fact" here. Literally no body (not nobody, because people are) is saying that israel HAS committed genocide. If they did, the current israeli government WOULDNT FUCKING EXIST RIGHT NOW.
oh cool, more ad hom, notice how i have not accused you of being a terrible person outside of being fucking stupid? Yet you accuse me of defending child rapists. Even though it's entirely irrelevant.
bro go learn some new argumentative tactics.
do you think israel isn't because they don't have democratic in their name?
Even a lot of literal children realise that trying to equate Israel and Palestine as being equally guilty here is not like comparing the US space program to the Soviet's. It's more like comparing the US space program to the Ghanan space program.
You just can't accept any fault on Israel's part, because you're a pathetic genocide denier, denying rape and slaughter of children.
UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
There the truth goes, being objective again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
i'm not equating them.
i have, numerous times. You're just lying through your teeth here.
i like how the section you block quote doesnt even once mention the word "genocide" in it. You're still pulling it out of your ass.
I'm still on the edge of whether you're incredibly stupid or actually that bad at lying.
So you admit that Israel is undeniably indiscriminately bombing civilians, like all the reports show? And you won't start rambling and equivocating with the exact garbage that Israel tries to deny these accusations with?
UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
So if you're not disavowing that, you understand and agree that Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity. But you don't, so you'll continue with some other pathetic grade-school level attempt at saying you're not saying what you're saying.
go read through my posts, you'll find the shit i'm talking about.
ignoring the fact that you're treating your point like the ultimate source of authority (yet another fallacy, i don't even know what it is, but this is almost definitely a fallacy lmao)
And ignoring your rather loaded definitions and statements here which is obviously an intentional tactic of yours, whether you realize it or not.
Statistically, israel is bombing, and likewise, killing considerable amounts of civilians throughout the period of this conflict. Whether or not this is definable as "indiscriminate" killing is debatable, because that makes it sound like they're sending bombs into fucking public libraries in america or something.
However, funny story, this is the middle east, and we're engaging in extreme urban guerilla warfare tactics here. There is simply no way to counter these without substantial loss of life, or putting your military force at considerable risk. You might just argue that you should send personnel into the urban environments to directly counter them, but this is basically going to be a suicide mission. The only trivial ways to counter these are going to be infantry vehicles, or tanks, and bombing. That's it.
And no, i'm not rambling, this is a conflict that has well over 50 years of history, close to 70 in the modern era. Arguably going all the way back to the very founding of religion itself. There is no "simple" answer here.
nice source btw, literally states that hamas has committed multiple war crimes LUL. fascinatingly the block text chunk you're quoting doesn't seem to exist. That or ctrl f is shitting itself.
interestingly enough you say it finds them guilty, but again, not a single mention of guilty within the report itself. The report does mention, at least a few times, that israel has committed war crimes, but amusingly it mentions hamas quite a bit as well. Curious that you aren't talking about the "hamas genocide" on jewish people (or israeli citizens, but that wouldn't be a conflation now would it?) during the time of this conflict.
i don't quite believe this statement, again you're doing the funny weaselly wording. I believe that israel has committed war crimes, like hamas, but i don't believe, and i don't know of any corroborating evidence that demonstrates that Israel is legally guilty and charged of committing war crimes. But again, that wouldn't suit your narrative, and it undermines your statement, so you'll continue using incorrect wording and statements to try and adhere to your framework huh?
I don't know if you're genuinely trying to conflate "israel is legally guilty and charged of comitting war crimes" with "israel has committed war crimes" in order to later conflate it with "israel is committing genocide" in an effort to "convert" me, but by that point you'll have deconstructed your argument thrice, and it will have so little remaining value that it won't matter.
Oh you're denying that Israel is guilty of anything, just alleged to have been doing naughty things? I'm shocked. Yeah, that's exactly the point of this whole thread. You're a pathetic defender of crimes against humanity because you're too much of a pussy to take the stand you know is the moral one, because you have relationships with people whom you're not brave enough to disagree with.
There's not enough money in this world for me to go and read the brainfarts of a person like you.
you: "i believe that the sky is blue"
me: "yeah but it depends on how we define believe, and how we define blue, along with how we classify the concept of "seeing" color."
you: "well you're just a fucking retard who doesn't understand how perception works, you must be denying the concept of blue existing in its entirety"
i'm disagreeing with the shitty way you word your statements, and then reconstructing them to provide my answer to what that question realistically should be.
And to be clear here, you very subtly diverged from using the term "war crimes" and transitioned into using "crimes against humanity" Which are two VERY different things. We agree that there are war crimes taking place. You keep trying to semantically undermine my statements and arguments so that you can say "i agree with you" even though it makes me look hypocritical, specifically through the mechanism of silent semantic corrections. Arguably this is equivocation, because you're subtly stating that war crimes = crimes against humanity.
yet you've done it, again, and again, and again, and again. For some reason you keep fucking responding to me, even though you just keep digging yourself a deeper hole for me to classify your argumentative mechanisms into.
you also keep (amusingly) accusing me of being too frail to simply, make my own decision, even though literally all you do is (incorrectly) reiterate what other people have said. Have you been to gaza? Or israel? No? That's weird.