My friend posted this and it really encapsulated what I was feeling yesterday.
Still curious as to why Israel and Ukraine situations are viewed so differently.
- Both are imperfect countries, but they broadly share the same values of individual freedom, representative democracy, and rule of law.
- And they are both longstanding American allies
- Both are sovereign territories invaded by barbarians
- Those barbarians share none of our values (eg. try being a woman under Hamas; try criticizing Putin in a newspaper in Russia)
- Those barbarians killed, tortured, raped, pillaged, plundered, kidnapped Israelis/Ukrainians
- Both Israel and Ukraine fought back against the invading barbarians (Israel with more success, wiped out almost all Hamas leadership; Ukraine has caused Russia to lose way more troops than it has lost, and it has stopped the Russian Invasion)
- The support in the U.S., and the support abroad, for the two countries is very different
- I strongly oppose the two on her murdering, kidnapping rapists side.
- I strongly support the imperfect liberal (classical sense) democracies who are our allies
What am I missing?
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The iron dome Israel has wouldn’t work here as long range missiles would be fired at us not short range. Unsure if those capabilities exist.
They are misinforming and everyone believes it, without questioning anything
Still no excuse to keep ripping off our grandkids for endless wars. We are literally printing money to pay for these wars. We can’t afford them. Money printer go brrrrrrr and people die. It’s wrong.
Btw the propaganda is working on you because you caught feelings for a war. If anyone socially engineered this, it was Ukraine. Their propagandists KNOW how much Americans of a certain persuasion would back Ukraine just because they don’t like orange man. Don’t get played. Lose the feelings and zoom out. They are stealing your money for this shitshow. The majority of Americans voted trump. So this certain persuasion of leftists may be loud but it’s still the minority. Choose logic rather the vocal minority fallacy. Unless you want social credits from a mere few…
Nope. Trump got less than 50% of the vote. It wasn’t a mandate and it wasn’t unprecedented. It’s not just the left that supports Ukraine. I see the MAGA propaganda is working on you.
The Based Dept told me you’d be a rough one when they sent me to tutor you
Not liking leftist propaganda doesn’t make one a maga or follower of right propaganda.
Nothing is black and white—especially wars
I don’t need you to tutor me as I would learn nothing from you.
😂 there’s those feelings again you caught for that war
Normalize tolerance of views other than your own
I do but you don’t need to insult me or my intelligence to make a point.
I see that you insulted me too.
Heather you insulted me first. You don’t have to be rude to make your point.
So it goes both ways.
This is what people on the left do.
They try to browbeat their point into people based on moral high ground. Then when I don’t agree I am bad and you are victim. It’s tiring.
I’m such a bad person because I have my own opinions and share them. You’re right. I’m so terrible for not thinking like you.
You are obviously being ridiculous right now. Once again not the left. You made it personal and insulted me so I stood up for myself. You are entitled to your opinion as I am. The issue is when you took it personal. Be better.
So much projection
Sometimes the truth is hard to hear. Have a nice day!
I look for people who can handle conflict without freaking out 🤷♀️
You took it personal and you didn’t have to.
Shall we talk about what’s in my inbox or no?
Seriously?
You take the moral high ground in public but I see you got down to some real nasty name calling there. YOU do better. 🫡
