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Hezbollah is as much a terrorist organization as the Asov battalion is.
That is to say, you may not like their politics, but they're resistance groups formed to fight against an occupation.
To that end, Iran is their sponsor, so of course their is coordination between the two, especially at the highest levels.
The irony, is that you're saying this not even two weeks after thousands of consumer electronics were turned into bombs, and detonated inside Lebanon, and then multiple residential buildings flattened via airstrikes, both actions taken by the Israelis.
I guess to you, any civilians killed in those instances were just collateral damage, and definitely not victims of terrorism.
"Terrorist" is the worst defined, most expansive and arbitrary applied legal term. It essentially means "non-state actor hostile to us or our friends."
Wow, whataboutism and unfounded ad hominem in a single argument.
Bold strategy, let's see if it pays off!
Some people just aren't worth engaging with. They get their entire world view from rich "leftist" tankies on twitch and think the israel vs everyone else in the middle east conflict started last fall.
I mean... pretending nobody had any issues with azov (the ultranationalist movement that would likely have attacked ukraine if russia didn't beat them to it...) is a giant red flag in and of itself.
I did not endorse Azov, or attribute any sense of morality to them.
They were an apt analogy to Hezbollah e.g. militant resistant groups, but not terrorists.
The fact that you all actually believe Hezbollah is akin to Al-Qaeda or ISIS is the real insanity here.
But I get it, you've been told that your entire life from mainstream Western outlets, and it's a hard to leave that propaganda bubble entirely.
I did enjoy how you dismissed me as some "tankie" and Twitch viewer...? Given that I don't use Twitch, am not a tankie, and have an academic background in related fields that give me at least a slightly above average insight and perspective into this subject.
But you don't consume propaganda, your ~~propaganda~~ sources are correct!
/s
What sources?
Do I have to cite the Bill of Rights every time I mention the second amendment?
Water is wet, the Earth is round, and Hezbollah was formed in response to Israel's invasions of Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
More accurately, it was a consolidation of various militant Shia factions and groups.
In case you're unaware, modern Islamic terrorism is almost exclusively a Sunni phenomenon, or more accurately, more fundamental offshoots and subsets of Sunni Islam e.g. Wahhabism.
But sure, that's just my recollection of past readings and I'm not going to go find the books I read to provide a bibliography.
If I got anything grossly wrong in there, please call me out and show everyone how misinformed I really am.
Wow everything I already know condescending delivered by a complete asshole! How nice!
Get off the high horse
That's hilarious that you're pretending you didn't just spend the last 10 minutes Googling that shit.
Because if you did know all that, as you claim, you wouldn't be conflating Hezbollah with a terrorist group.
So which is it? Do you have a basic grasp of the facts?
Or do you believe they are a radical Islamic terrorist organization, just like Al-Qaeda and ISIS?
I did know that
Never said anything about that
whole issue is your giant asshole prickish whiny know it all condescending giant baby attitude.
Nobody wants to listen to you be a dick sis, sit down and chill out maybe think about how you talk to people if you wanna be listened
So you just jump into the middle of threads to chime in about your perceptions of attitudes? Ignoring the fact that where and how you inserted yourself meant taking agreement with one side of the discussion?
Maybe you should start reading a thread from the top, and use the context clues, to understand the implications of how you insert yourself.
In case you're too lazy to do that, let me show you the comment and commenter you came in defensive of:
Unless you feel some moral imperative to always turn the other cheek, I don't understand why my attitude is such a great offense, when you clearly had no problem with their attitude. And even came to their defense.
Gee maybe I did read the thread? I find it really fuckin unlikely someone just appears in a thread like you're trying to say, that's absolutely absurd. Just because I'm not running up and down the comments like you doesn't mean shit.
Instead what I saw was someone I sort of agree with saying dumb shit accusing everyone of being more ignorant than them. That arrogance was stupid so I mocked them and then they blew a fuckin lid and pissed from their high horse thinking, once again, they're the smartest in the room.
You're not the smartest person in the room and every single person consumes propaganda to some degree you are not immune thinking you are makes you vulnerable to it doofus.
Now grow up
If you walked into a conversation with someone telling flat earthers that the Earth was actually round, would you get pissy with them, ask for their sources, defend the flat earthers, and then tell the round earth advocate to get off their high horse because they're not the smartest person in the room?
If we were discussing the pros and cons of certain political systems, or other subjective topics, I would agree with you, but we aren't.
Instead, you jumped in to white knight for the people who are objectively wrong. Does that make you feel morally superior?
Get over yourself.
If they're being a whiny dork and assuming everyone is below them yes
I would say exactly the same shit. I'd tease their arrogance and point out you convince nobody being such an ass.
You walked into that one dopey
That's a very roundabout way of answering, "Yes".
Also, lol.
Literally said yes?
Go outside and play bud you're too cooked rn
No, what you literally did was qualify it, and then follow that up with a fantasy game plan for your morally righteous white knighting in defense of flat earthers and (presumably) Holocaust deniers, from those that would dare speak down to them.
You can go back to smelling your own farts whenever you're ready.
And what you try to do is lock people into one word responses that make you feel correct nobody is allowed to be multifaceted and answers can't come with qualifying facts?
Foh lmfao
The irony is that with that response, either you lost the plot, or I did. I honestly don't know which.
I genuinely don't know what you're referring to, and don't care enough to read this entire thread to try and figure it out.
If you want to post examples, I'll take a look.
I will say that if you decide not to reply and post specific examples, I will not take that to mean anything other than you not wanting to waste anymore time here in this pointless back and forth.
That's not even close to whataboutism...I explicitly stated that Hezbollah was not a terrorist organization, unlike the IDF and Israeli security state.
Next time maybe ask ChatGPT before burping out the first thought that pops in your head, it might save you from future embarrassment.