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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 153 points 2 months ago (8 children)

an 8-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy are among the dead.

Great way to radicalize the next generation.

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[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago (95 children)
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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Terrorists being terrorized until more terrorists can terrorize the terrorizers.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Bibi and co need the endless cycle of hate and violence to go on so he can rob his own with impunity.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago

It is the biggest "problem" of modern warfare. We don't fight wars of conquest anymore because that tends to actually make other countries care (because those brown people have resources!). So we attack and then leave.

It is similar to why France and England (or China/Japan/Korea) were basically at continuous levels of war for hundreds (?) of years. Because when you roll up and kill a bunch of people and maybe steal a goat? The remaining people want revenge. When you conquer them and either ethnically cleanse them to nonexistence or integrate them into your society? They forget why they were angry after a generation or two.

I very much do NOT believe the world would be a better place with more ethnic cleansing and stealing of land. But we also are in a mess where retaliation between countries just continues with no real consequences to the people who are calling for the attacks. And the civilians just get rightfully angry when their kid is permanently blinded because she was looking the wrong way at the Lebanese equivalent of a Kroger.

And then you get the keyboard warriors who hop in decades (or even centuries) into the conflict, pick a side, and immediately say THESE terrorists are good guys and THOSE terrorists are bad guys.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (15 children)

You know whats even scarier? Out of the thousands of devices produced I bet none of them have gone through proper quality control and testing (because it requires documentation, which kind of goes against the whole "covert" thing), which means the failure rates are probably through the roof. This means that there are most likely dozens of unexploded devices still around filled with plastique. This means 2 things, 1st you essentially gave away military grade explosives to uncontrolled civilians which can be harnessed and reused for other malicious purposes, and 2nd if a media illiterate civilian doesn't know to chuck their device in a tar pit, they will continue to walk around with an unexploded bomb strapped to their leg for a long time.

All in all, whoever came up with this Idea, should be gunned down in the streets like a dog. Or at least be prosecuted for every confirmed civilian death.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Israelis are the world's largest terrorists and the world's largest cause of terrorism. I have had many 'debates' with zionists before getting permabanned off reddit who actually tried to frame Israel as a stabilizing force in the region where all the whining infantile Arabs can blame all their problems on (which they don't and never did BTW) instead of tearing each other apart for land and on religious grounds (also bullshit).

I simply pointed out how absurd their beliefs are and how utterly baseless. As you would expect, they constantly shifted the goal posts in ways that revealed the sheer depth of ignorance that they had about anything.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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