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    NYT is a Zionist publication and Zionists are literal Nazis, only with some nouns shuffled around in their Nazi ideology.

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      a publicly traded entity controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, who have held authority since 1896. A.G. Sulzberger is the current chairman of the company and publisher of the newspaper, representing the sixth generation of his family to lead the organization.

      Just another multi generational dynasty. Inbreeding may be less popular these days but I’ve met some rich families and they raise horrible human beings.

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    Israel and their claims to lebensraum in Lebanon is as disgusting as it is heart shattering.

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      See I take the ever so nuanced stance of yes Isreal is entitled to self defense, BUT and stay with me here it’s important, what they are doing isn’t self defense anymore and needs to be stopped

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      The zionists only think they have the right to defend themselves. Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran don’t have the right to defend themselves from the attacks of Israel.

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      typical liberal monkeybalancing

      No more greater evilism here like you do in your elections? eh.

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        People who use liberal as an insult immediately out themselves as untrustworthy pigs to be shot. Thanks for being so quick about it.

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          You think I care about china or russia, lol

          Its just the sheer hypocrisy liberals do, they can never criticise west without doing but but china russia too eee

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            Ooh, that’s just heading off whataboutism at the pass. That being said I criticize the west all the time without bringing up anyone else so stop strawmaning me

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        Oh, like kill 50 million + citizens through internal war and poor planning.

        Take away individual liberties and develop the most insane surveillance culture in the world.

        Commit to a slow burn genocide of Muslims.

        Pump out more billionaires than the US for the last two years while massively increasing the income gap.

        They did raise hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty so you have got to give them that. But then immediately take it away when you learn they are the fourth/fifth largest supplier of arms in the world.

          • That’s if they don’t catch you.

            My mom told me the first hand account of how women would just get forced abortions.

            Like there are lots of women that was pregnant with their 2nd unapproved child, then the government found out and they’d force you go get an abortion.

            My mom managed to hide me till like month 8 of the pregnancy, then like someone found out but they turned one eye blind and didn’t report it.

            I mean I don’t exactly understand the full story either, its not like mom wrote a diary on it.

            Basically it was a combination of many factors that lead to me surviving.

            There was an issue of jurisdictions, they mostly left it local governments to enforce, mom was from Taishan and she was working in Guangzhou when she had me, and she was supposed to submit a pregnancy test every 3 months and send results back to their hometown. But mom told me she got another woman to take the pregnancy test for her under her name.

            So like, the people working for the Guangzhou government didn’t enforce it as harshly because she wasn’t registered in their Hukou.

            Perhaps a god exists and they intervened? idk, not really that religious…

            I barely lived, and yes there’s a fine, like somewhere in the ¥20000-¥30000 rmb which was a lot in the 2002s.

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          Well by that logic millions have been killed by the civilization you yearn for

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            Not to my knowledge, but I’m sure they’d like to and don’t recognize Taiwan as separate from China.

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              Call me crazy, but that doesn’t feel as bad as

              • invading Ukraine
              • invading Iraq twice, bombing Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, bombing Yugoslavia, arming a genocide in Guatemala, invading Afghanistan, invading Vietnam, bombing Cambodia and Laos, funding a genocide in Indonesia, funding a genocide in East Timor, funding a genocide in Gaza
              • invading all your neighbors all the time

              Third one is Israel, got lazy.

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                Well, China didn’t invade anyone in the last decade because they’ve already annexed the territories they wanted. It’s not like Uyghurs and Tibetans stopped getting genocided because their territories are already internationally recognised as part of the PRC.

                And they do fund multiple conflicts outside of their own country, like the aforementioned invasion of Ukraine.

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                  Uyghurs and Tibetans stopped getting genocided

                  Doesnt happen. There were cases of violence but it wasnt genocide.

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                I definitely think you’re right in that there are degrees to the evil these countries are perpetrating on the innocent.

                I feel like the OP was just saying fuck X country who does evil, which is far from the complete list, haha.

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                  If that the case let’s look who vote with evil things in the UN it’s a clear record where countries stand. This will put UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Australia, India, Argentina at the top of the list.

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    “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”

    We are back in a period of great power actors. I should brush up on my Thucydides.

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    Now let’s play the game : does the poster mean both should be legitimate, or both condemned ?

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      That doesn’t seem to be the message. Instead, it’s that the NYT (along with the rest of mainstream/establishment media) self-censures criticism of Israel, by using more neutral terms.

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      Suppose I say “if you’re ok with X then you should be ok with Y, because X and Y are equivalent” and “if you’re not ok with X then you should not be ok with Y because X and Y are equivalent”. Do I mean I’m ok with X or not?

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    There’s legal invasive annexation?

    Edit: Wait. No. I get it now. It’s annexation when there’s a believably responsible reason for it. It’s illegal annexation when there isn’t. Control is just, whatever, including annexations of all sorts.

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      Control is a broader term meaning it could be yours or your neighbors but it is occupied and garrisonsed by your troops. Annexation is formally adding the territory to your nation and increases the Aggressive Expansion penalty.

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    Israel is taking control of part of Lebanon, because rockets were being shot at Israel from that part of Lebanon. If Israel had not been attacked from there, Israel would not have invaded. That is ethically and morally quite different from Russia’s unmotivated war of aggression to annex their neighbor.

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        Which is itself preseeded by Hezbollah attacking Israel.

        Why the fuck do you think Israel doesn’t have a right to attack Hezbollah, when Hezbollah has attacked Israel? Complete madness and amorality by you.

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          Hezbollah itself was created in response to israel annexing part of lebannon. Why are you so hell bent on defending a genocidal state? Do they have videos of you on jeffrey island?

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          Link? I think there should be something exceptional to excuse the pager attack. Being a week old account, you should know how to post links [like](that).

          I find it funny you default to moral difference or failing for the second time, while talking about a country that casually continues to genocide semites in Gaza well after the ceasefire in a way even the failing austrian artist couldn’t have thought possible.

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          Israel doesn’t get a free pass to drop apartment buildings because one dude sent a bottle rocket at Israel. Oppressed people tend to fight back when they are being oppressed. Why does Israel have the right to ‘defend’ itself when the people being shot and forced out of their homes do not?

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          Annexation in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state’s territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to be an illegal act.>

          Granted, that is from Wikipedia, and I only did a cursory search, but I’d say as a jumping off point it doesn’t really support the idea of annexing being OK. And ethically, the concept of ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ is arguably at play here, just because someone might have wronged you, doesn’t give you free reign in terms of retaliation.

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            OK I were imprecise. annexation is not OK. occupation until they stop shooting rockets from Lebanese territory absolutely is OK.

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              I mean, our entire exchange prior to this has been about annexation, so that’s quite the goalpost shift. But assuming you’re being sincere, what’s the functional difference? Who decides when it’s OK to stop ‘occupying’ and that things can just go back to how they were before? Or does if just continue indefinitely?

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                But assuming you’re being sincere, what’s the functional difference?

                Under international law, Israel has an explicit right to fight back, until Hezbollah promises to stop shooting rockets at Israel. It is completely black and white, international law gives the right to fight back.

                Who decides when it’s OK to stop ‘occupying’ and that things can just go back to how they were before?

                Hezbollah does. Hezbollah can promise to stop shooting rockets at Israel. Or Lebanon can choose to actually enforce control over Hezbollah.

                How would you feel, if your neighboring country was shooting unguided rockets at random at your population centers, I wonder? Would you also feel that it was illegal to invade the neighboring country, to disable the launch sites?

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                  Fighting back and occupying are not the same thing though. And where does self defence become aggression, as arguably Israel are not acting in a purely defensive manner. In terms of international law, there has to be an actual of imminent threat, and a response has to be proportionate, so again the argument could be made that Israel are not acting within that framework.

                  In terms of your point about Hezbollah promising to stop and that being an end to it, there have previously been ceasefires in place, agreed to by all sides, that immediately fall apart. So how does it work if you are occupying/annexing in self defence, but you are the one to break a ceasefire?

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              Israel doesn’t get a free pass to bomb, assassinate, and colonize wherever they want. People being oppressed fight back. That’s the very nature of existence.

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                Hezbollah started it. International law gives Israel a legal right to fight back.

                Your nihilism, utter amorality, and utter ignorance frightens me.

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                  Hezbollah started it? Not the guys who all wantonly moved into the neighborhood, and then started attacking everyone?

                  Cmon now. If you decide you’re on Israels side, that’s fine. Don’t try and make it out like the dudes who shoot medics and children for fun are somehow innocent in this.

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        Because they are the proxy of Iran, and Iran uses anti-semitism to distract their population.

        Seriously, that is it. Why did you think that Israel and Iran are at war? They are 1000km apart. WTF would Israel care about regime change in Iran, if not just to stop Iran attacking Israel?

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          Ah yes it’s all antisemitism and mean iranians.

          You’re definitely a jeffrey islander lmao

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          Dude at any point, are you going to develop even a meager amount of self-awareness (aim for, say, a field mouse) and understand that Israel are the bad guys?

          None of your other points matter.

          Israel is the bully and these other countries are just kids stuck in the bully’s orbit. And you’re siding with the bully. Grats on that, by the way.

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            and understand that Israel are the bad guys?

            Your viewpoint is more one-sided than a mobious strip.

            Yes, Israel does some bad shit. But so does Hezbollah.

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              Israel is committing genocide. People being repressed by an imperialist group tend to fight back against those people oppressing them.

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              If you “both-sides” any harder, Karl Rove will appear at your house and ask you to join the cult lol

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              Ok, so forgive my crassness, but to my eye, when you say something like that, your viewpoint seems to be analogous to saying “Nazi Germany was wrong for attacking France, but Poland had it coming”. I disagree with you, obviously, but I’d like to know why, since we both have access to the same historical facts.

              There’s more details as to why I disagree with you, but it roughly boils down to: Israel has been committing atrocities since 1948 (and before), it is a colonial project, colonialism is as bad as slavery, Israel invaded Lebanon first in the 80s, killed 3500 Palestinian refugees in two nights there, and kept attacking untill well into the 2000s. In 2024, Israel struck Lebanon first. Is there any part there you disagree with? Because I find it hard to simultaneously believe all that, and that Israel is in the right for invading Lebanon.

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      My impression as a Russian is that annexation of Crimea was silently allowed by the US and the EU politicians. Putin has become a pariah after invading Donbass

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          If by “silently allowed “you mean “Trump

          Nah, the politicians that let Putin get away with a slap on the wrist for annexing Crimea were pre-Trump. Mainly Angela Merkel, actually. Fuck her.

          Trump has of course also enabled Putin since the full scale invasion.

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          Trump was too busy being so corrupt with his own bullshit that the United States didn’t do its duty as the global protector of democracy

          Crimea annexation was before Trump went into politics

          I am very much enjoying watching them kicking your asses

          I’m just glad that I’m not a piece of shit like you are.