• BB69@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Here’s an idea:

    The Houthi’s can just not launch missiles at ships

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      8 months ago

      I’m tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.

      Why are the Houthi’s committing violence?

      I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.

      Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.

      Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren’t launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of ‘militant rebels’.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          This what? These people are religious fanatics so self absorbed in superstition and nonsense that they will literally blow themselves up and kill a bunch of people just out having breakfast because they don’t like the hours of operation one group sets for a pile of rocks some other group wants to visit on one day but not on another day. It is their utter lack of empathy and rationality that makes them evil pieces of shit. They aren’t fucking freedom fighters standing up for innocent people. They are morons who want religious control over their own people and every other person, absolute male domination of women in society, minority rule, and the ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from the middleeast.

          With the support of useful idiots as you, of course.

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        8 months ago

        The Houthi are the Proud Boys of Yemen.

        After 1/6, instead of arresting the insurrectionists, maybe we should have bought more Proud Boys merchandise? That’s your solution to religious extremists attempting to overthrow the government?

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          8 months ago

          Yemen’s chief export is Proud Boys merch?

          Didn’t know that.

          Thanks for informing me and not just being a murderous troll.

          If that’s the case, just nuke Yemen. Explosives are the only real fix for social issues.

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            8 months ago

            I was comparing religious extremists in the US who attempted to overthrow the US government with the Houthi who are doing the same in Yemen. The Houthi aren’t the official Yemen government. They are a religious faction who are attempting to overthrow the Yemeni government.

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        8 months ago

        Spending 1.2 billion on bombing campaigns keeps 1.2 billion in the American economy. Giving another country 600 million only exports money from their grasp.

        Peace is not the point of the war machine.

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          8 months ago

          I want to stop murdering bad people and I want to start rewarding good people.

          Nowhere did I suggest giving the bad people money.

          Watch a man get strong and push thugs out when he has a dollar to defend.

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      Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.

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      8 months ago

      Good idea! Here’s another: UK and US stop interferring in middle east (FYI the palestine problem was worsened by magnitudes by the UK mandate)

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        Yeah let’s just set back and let be bunch of theocratic authoritarians hell bent on developing nuclear weapons and cleansing the middle east of Christians and Jews.

        I have a better idea. How about we isolate them into little spots of desert nobody cares about and if they poke their heads out and threaten their neighbors, we bomb the shit out of them until they figure out that they are the baddies, while the rest of the world moves forward without them?

        Maybe you’re right. Maybe we should just say a bunch of inch deep non sequitors and nonsense like “fyi the Palestine problem was worsened by the west.” That will totally not result in another world war and tens of millions of dead, tens of millions of refugees, and the worst humanitarian crisis in the history of the planet. And let’s do it all in the name of humanitarianism!

        How about no.

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          I don’t get it, are you trying to preserve life or eliminate it? Wait a minute… do you mean