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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Hasan openly glazes Hamas and Houthis. He calls them freedom fighters and showing their propaganda videos while he calls them music Videos.

I'm not into hating vallhalla for stupid reasons, but it's a fact to call Hasan a terrorist supporter.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

The founding fathers were terrorists, according to the definition the US government uses. They were fighting an occupying force using violence. We now call them heroes and patriots. It’s a matter of perspective.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Did they kidnap ship workers, woman and children to torture, rape and kill them? Did they parade naked woman through the street? Was their Slogan "death to america"?

If you support that youve sold your soul and got nothing in return.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they kidnap ship workers

Likely yes

woman and children to torture, rape and kill them

Most of the founding fathers were slave owners so that's a yes to that as well

Did they parade naked woman through the street?

Americans called it a slave auction

Was their Slogan "death to america"?

Of course not. They were America so why would they say "death to us"? It was more like "death to England and the tyrant King George".

Life isn't black and white.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The whole encyclopedia of whataboutism in one comment. Respect

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How is this "whataboutism"? They gave instances for every one of your hypotheticals.

I do think that Hamas and Houthis are generally vile human-beings and that the West should not be cheering for the Shia muslim faction. But it is also true that they represent freedom fighters to some - especially those in Palestine currently being murdered (genocide) so Israel can have more living space

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

You asked, I answered. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

That's not how whataboutism works.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, that's not what whataboutism is. The person was asked several questions, and they answered them. They even quoted each individual question before answering it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Don't ask the questions if you don't want them answered lmao

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was the slogan of the founding fathers of America "death to america"? Super hard hitting question.

Also there was more than enough rape, murder, and genocide taking place on the part of the American revolutionaries, and it was being actively encouraged by the founding fathers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is like the seventh comment saying "but what about..." that I get.

Is that the bar that makes you defend atrocities against civilians?

You need a deep look into your self mate

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we talking about the Palestinian civilians or the Israelis specifically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Since were talking about Houthis and Hamas, Israel citizens and all kinds of others.

Lemmy seems to love them die.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The other civilians reeeaaally don't count for you, do they?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What are you even talking about? This is about Hasan Piker

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You were just talking about civilians. Are you even going to deny that you don't care?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not a hard conversation to follow. If you gave a shit about civilians, you would include Palestinians. But you cannot because you know how bad that looks for your position.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So we just ignore the IDF then?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry but if you can't even remotely see from where Hasan (or the other commenter) is coming from then you're literally no better than what you blame him to be. Israel has been terrorizing Palestinians probably longer than you've been alive and America has been supporting Israel since the beginning. Are you really surprised when the Palestinians, who have been terrorized their entire life, radicalize into Hamas and start shouting "death to America"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How convenient that you ignore the rapes and murders and just argue about their slogan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't have to ignore it. Isreal gets it's own wiki page of rape and torture . You'll be hard pressed to find anything Hamas has done that Isreal hasn't done 10 times worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So that's your bar to justify rape and murder of innocent people, that others have done it.

You are evil

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that when you're forced to grow up in an violent environment you can also end up being a violent person. I don't condone the actions of Hamas but in the context of the systemic violent oppression by Israel I can see see the "justification" of their actions.

As for being evil. I find it far more evil that you're deliberately trying to villanize victims of oppression. Palestinians couldn't end the conflict even if they wanted to, and I'm sure most of them want to. They can't end the conflict because they're the ones being oppressed, their actions of violence are a response to an oppressive regime. Israel could easily end this conflict in a peaceful manner, but they choose to continue the oppression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm more evil because I am not justifying rape and murder? Sure bud

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you're perpetuating systemic oppression, murder and sexual abuse.

Let me put it very plainly. Let's say someone is bullied for a year and every week for a year the target of bullying gets beaten up. And then after a year they decide to throw a punch at the bully. Which of the two reactions sounds less evil? "obviously the bully had it coming they've been beating the shit out of the other person." or "I can't believe what a violent piece of shit the other person is for punching the bully."?

In case it's not clear, you're the latter calling people terrorists for being violent against the violent oppression that they've been subjected to for decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Terrorists don't throw punches at bullies, they rape and murder civilians, and that's what youre trying to defend here.

Absolute evil, and I mean you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not defending that. I already said I don't condone their acts of violence. I'm simply stating their actions are in response to the systemic atrocities Israel enacts upon them. That's not absolute evil, that's just stating the obvious. What is absolutely evil is your complete refusal to accept that even as possibility.

We're done now. You can continue barking like the Israeli lapdog you are, I don't give a fuck. I have zero respect for soulless monsters like you.

Edit:

And of course he plays the "you're an anti-Semite" card. It's not antisemitic to call someone a monster if they deliberately try to villainize victims of oppression. I don't even know if the commenter is jewish or not and I don't care because it doesn't change my opinion of him at all, he's a piece of shit regardless.

And it's not antisemitic to call out the state of Israel for their deplorable acts of oppression. Israel being a jewish nation doesn't make them imprevious to criticisms you could aim at any nation in the world (if they were systematically oppressing a minority group). Israel also doesn't represent all the jews in the world which means criticism of Israel is not criticism of the jewish people. Calling others antisemitic because they criticize systemic oppression does nothing to address the criticism, it's a cowardly attempt (by both the other commenter and the Israeli government) to sweep the criticism under the rug because it's an indefensible position.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

~~Jean-Paul Sartre

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Those who affirm the sovereignty of the Israeli state and also believe Palestinians have a right to sovereignty for the same reason, and who take the Palestinian question as fundamental, must admit that the Israeli establishment’s policy is literally crazy and deliberately aims at avoiding all possible solutions to this problem. It is therefore politi- cally accurate to say that a state of war exists between Israel and the Palestinians. In this war the Palestinians’ only weapon is terrorism. It is a terrible weapon but the oppressed poor have no other, and the French who approved FLN terrorism against the French must approve in turn the Palestinians’ terrorist action. This abandoned, betrayed, exiled people can show its courage and the force of its hate only by organizing deadly attacks.

~~Jean-Paul Sartre, 1972, after the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

did you learn anything about early america? they absolutely did all that except the "death to america" part was really "death to britons".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That torture, rape, and murder stuff sounds nearly as bad as what Americans and Israelis do daily.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you support the us military or the idf you are a terrorist supporter too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Some more of that whataboutism please. Pretty low strategy to defend terrorist, rapists and murderers.

You always stoop that low to defend evil?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Pointing out common hypocrisy relevant to a topic isn't a whattaboutism, and claiming it is is a pretty transparent attempt to dismiss valid criticism you clearly lack a rebuttal to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Chances are they heard someone else use the term "whataboutism" and are just mindlessly parroting it without understanding what it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I havent been a hypocrite, have I? Your defense of terrorists is by your definition though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't calling you a hypocrite, they were, I am not them, we are not the same person. I was just pointing out that 'whattaboutism' isn't a harry-potter-esque spell that when shouted properly makes valid criticism disappear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Both sides of the conflict are terrorists, between IDF and hamas, hamas are the lesser evil

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

go back to dgg or h3 whichever hole you came out of

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not my cup of tea. Ive been following Hasan for a long time until it became too obvious he just wants to groom the viewers to terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't watch Hasan streams or anything, just sometimes catch the clips on yt afterwards, but I don't think I've ever seen him "glaze" Hamas.

Unless you're saying that Palestinian = Hamas. Is that what you are saying?