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Side one: Bully punches you in the face, full force and never ceasing.
Side two: Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly.
"Both are assaulting me!!!"
Yes technically, but one is a very different situation. You first defeat the thing punching you in the head so you can live another day to fight the thing giving you the random poke. Whoever doesn't get the fact that your right to even attempt to fight back is likely the cost of trump at this point... Jan 6th did not happen before in any of our lifetimes, things are tangibly escalating and those of you considering this as a choice at all are just far too comfortable in the rights you think you "own".
TIL genocide can be compared to "Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly"
You're missing the point of the analogy. Israel is definitely committing an active genocide and that's inexcusable. The world at large and US as a superpower need to do more to pressure Israel and potentially intervene, but people with your mindset are oblivious to the idea of triage , You have multiple active problems here. You first separate them into levels of severity to establish an order of operations and then you move in that order. You help first where the most help is needed to eventually solve for the whole situation.
You're either purposefully ignoring that or you have some growing up to do in how you process big problems happening all at once. Your response is lazy, but it makes you feel good - while doing absolutely nothing to help solve the larger problem.
This is genocide denial.
You say that when you stub your toe.
It is in no way denial of the active genocide perpetrated by Israel. It makes you feel good to reduce it to that, because what I present is a more difficult path to actual change.
Your pleasant enough neighbor annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs, a few times a day randomly.
This is how you describe the mass slaughter of innocents.
May you be gently poked in the ribs.
You're purposefully missing the point. Read and think.
I don't give a shit what "point" you think you're making while minimizing the mass slaughter of innocents.
Minimizing is you've perception through misinterpretation. You're a child and I'm not minimizing the genocide that Israel is actively perpetrating.
Right, only a child misinterpreting would think that comparing a genocide to "getting poked gently in the ribs" is minimizing it.
Most reasonable liberal.
Showing your ass, buddy
How so? I'm not the one comparing mass slaughter to getting poked in the ribs.
Well, your "liberal" comment to start, but more importantly, your repeated, performative missing of the point of the original statement. That wasn't the comparison made. All of your "counterpoints" center back to your same core misunderstanding of the original statement. Doesn't slow you down a tick though, does it?
You first defeat the thing punching you in the head so you can live another day
The US is aiding and abetting the slaughter of Palestinian-Americans’ families, so by your own account you’ll excuse them for being uncommitted to the current administration.
You are on a sinking ship, there is a hole in your boat. There are people on the shore that need food. You want to help the people on the shore, but you need to plug the hole in your boat first so you don't sink and drown. Only then can you make it to shore to actually be able to potentially help them.
This is about us as voters, the power we have in this moment and how we choose to strategically use that power. There's no excusing going on here, or just makes you keep good to draw that lazy conclusion. There's an order of operations to actually impact the problem.
Your passion is misdirected and short sighted, what is the actual plan for Gaza/Palestinians if you get trump elected? trump will literally use the war powers act to get IBM to give Israel the same SW they gave the nazis to make the concentration camps slaughter "more efficiently" and found more Jewish refugees not yet captured by the Germans at that time through records searching.
You and folks with the save shallow mindset are looking at this like children.
So far it looks like you’ve convinced no one here, Very Serious and Sober Adult In the Room, but go on.
This is not true. But considering how nowadays, it’s not terribly uncommon for people to base reality solely on their own personal perception- I can see how it happens.
Bigger commentary on the folks here.
Your boat is sinking.
Genocide is playfully poking someone in the ribs? What do you think Trump is going to do by comparison then, kill God himself and destroy reality?
The analogy compares trump and Harris generally. You can read my other responses elaborating to others with a similar gut misunderstanding to yours, if you care to do so. But you likely don't. You likely just said a quick thing that made you feel good because you don't actually give a shit about the suffering of Israel's victims or have a clue how to solve large, multifaceted problems with layers of tangled complexity.
Holy shit dude. Take a step back and understand how severely you've downplayed a genocide.
Just cause Harris is on your team doesn't mean you need to engage in this kind of denialism.
No team, no flags, no downplay of genocide - comparison is about the candidates generally as it pertains to the US election. You misunderstand the point of the comment. Explained further in other replies.
Are you comparing people getting bombed with chemical weapon and "annoyingly pokes you gently in the ribs".
Jeez I hope you see your mum slowly dying of cancer. Scumbag
No. I'm not. You seem to lack the depth to actually consider the comment beyond a reaction from your gut surface reading it seems, further illustrated by your lovely words for my "mum".