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Jim Packer's avatar

Let me be utterly superficial. Which country do I prefer? A democracy with certain basic freedoms and a determination to be utterly ruthless in protecting what it has achieved? Or a fascist state, full of neurotic incompetents making historical claims based on their adherence to a religion of conquest and submission? (Forget about the aboriginal stuff. Sensible aborigines don't want to live in bark huts, and to think that their religion is based on the retention of things like bark huts is to misunderstand them altogether. Culture in the "Palestinian" sense doesn't even pretend to be anything other than the supremacy of one group of people over another.)

To know history is to know morality and politics. I wouldn't dream of suggesting that anyone else share my preferences, but from the point of pure jurisprudence people's preferences are truly the basis of the shittiness of their lives.

Was it "just" for the Jews ("the Jews") to take over "Palestine" seventy-five odd years ago? Did they "start" something then that truly needs to be revenged? Yes, if your religion is a religion of revenge, and you can't bear to think that a tiny part of your World Conquest has been compromised by people making you take a step back. Tears form in my eyes. But I do think I understand the world-historical processes that involve people of one sort battling people of another. "Justice" has nothing to do with it. There is nothing "just" about the State of Israel and there is nothing "just" about any part of the Unrealised Caliphate (like your backyard) where Jihad Justice Warriors could conceivably at any time take up a proprietorial claim.

The fact that they are incompetents with a good line in self-pity makes the whole thing hilarious, not "just". What is particularly hilarious is that the West, with its long and rich traditions of persiflage and doublethink (and I am not underestimating the present contribution of Ethiopia to this) takes a quick look at a few bomb-craters and declares "This all must stop". Heraclitus first conceived the word for people like this. In the original Greek (where it means "person of limited intelligence who doesn't get out much"), as well as in current parlance, the word is "idiots".

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Nous's avatar

Not intellectually dishonest, but it raises an interesting point on motivation. Did “leaders”!like Netanyahu, Biden, Johnson, Morrison et al force jab their populations with the intent of thinning the herd or just because their owners told them it was a great idea, get with programme?

In the latter case the Netanyahus, Bidens and so on are stepping it up a bit when they move from thinking they are just carrying out orders to the point where they are quite open in their intent to facilitate genocide while still following orders.

Or they could just have been comfortable with genocide from the start.

I guess the result is similar even if the means is simply these wonderful people wading deeper into the mire at the behest of their bosses.

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