US 2024 Presidential Election

Agema

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In the long term, literally every civilization on the planet has eventually peacefully accepted being conquered.
Are you certain? Because by my knowledge, Ireland and India aren't peacefully parts of the British Empire, Haiti isn't peacefully part of France, East Timor isn't peacefully part of Indonesia, etc.
 
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Are you certain? Because by my knowledge, Ireland and India aren't peacefully parts of the British Empire, Haiti isn't peacefully part of France, East Timor isn't peacefully part of Indonesia, etc.
And they will never, ever be conquered because history has ended?

Everywhere there is peace, there was once war. Someone lost all those wars, and eventually accepted it. That is a pathway to peace, repeatedly pushing the fighters back to their own corners of the ring to catch their breath is a path to more fighting.
 

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And they will never, ever be conquered because history has ended?

Everywhere there is peace, there was once war. Someone lost all those wars, and eventually accepted it. That is a pathway to peace, repeatedly pushing the fighters back to their own corners of the ring to catch their breath is a path to more fighting.
I think one of the key points of civilised nations we've learnt over the last few millennia is not to use the same path to peace as Genghis Khan and Hitler.
 

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I shut it off after the first 30 seconds. Give
me Sega Genesis fart noises any day over that shit
To be fair, the way pop acts are going after politicians playing their music, I guess something safely out of copyright is all they have left.
 
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To be fair, the way pop acts are going after politicians playing their music, I guess something safely out of copyright is all they have left.
The politicians brought it on themselves in the first place, so fuck'em.
 

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He certainly wasn't there to figure out "peace". He was there to deliver a decisive win for the USA's main allies in the Middle East, chiefly Israel and to a lesser extent Saudi Arabia, casualties current or future be damned.
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And they will never, ever be conquered because history has ended?

Everywhere there is peace, there was once war. Someone lost all those wars, and eventually accepted it. That is a pathway to peace, repeatedly pushing the fighters back to their own corners of the ring to catch their breath is a path to more fighting.
That does not put "conquest" as a prerequisite for peace. Just "defeat".
 
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Not everyone who votes for Harris is Pro-Genocide but Genocide is obviously not a dealbreaker for them...
Not everyone who votes for Harris is Pro-Genocide, some of them realize there isn't an Anti-Genocide candidate with a realistic shot at winning so you need to compare notes on other topics.
 

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Not everyone who votes for Harris is Pro-Genocide, some of them realize there isn't an Anti-Genocide candidate with a realistic shot at winning so you need to compare notes on other topics.
Yes yes, whatever you have to tell yourself to justify voting for a Pro-Genocide Candidate. Obviously Genocide is not a deal breaker for you so go for it.
 
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A key thing to point out is that the other Arab nations really have not helped the Palestinians that much, and a great deal of the conflict and imperilment of Israel was theirs, not the Palestinians.

They invaded Mandate Palestine in the middle of the Jewish-Palestinian post-independence fracas and took what are now the Palestinian territories for themselves. Every subsequent war was between the Arab nations and Israel, with the Palestinians mostly onlookers as they didn't have a state or army. The last war was in the early 70s, not counting subsequent Israeli attacks on its neighbours and ongoing occupation conflicts.
Yeah, one of the previous videos was on Transjordan just after the War and trying to get a king set up in the area and how that just aggravated everyone
 

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Unfortunately, in this election, you get to vote for partial genocide or full genocide. Even if you don't vote, it's going to happen on your behalf anyway
Which is why it's the better to vote and do something on the side to prevent anything worse happening, than to not vote at all.