• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    I don’t want Israel and Hezbollah to go to war, but what will ‘talking about the religious fanatics’ achieve?

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      5 months ago

      Nothing except for deflection of blame for the many war crimes of the fascist apartheid regime of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

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        5 months ago

        I agree that’s where the blame lies, but even if they were right and the problem was religious fanaticism, talking about it achieves nothing.

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          5 months ago

          It does for the genocide denying Zionists whose ONLY goal is to convince people that the actions of the Israeli government are justified. I suspect that the one you originally addressed was one of them, if not just a thoroughly gaslighted useful idiot 🤷

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            5 months ago

            Again, I agree with you. But OP made the implication that if we just talked this out, then there would be no war there and I wanted to nip that in the bud from the source before we even got into whether or not the OP was being disingenuous.

            I feel like the best way to attack such things is by talking about how they are illogical or irrational arguments irrespective of the intentions of the person making them.