Welcome to the modern political protest. Government sanctioned and self referential no matter which side you stand on. Totally ineffective.
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- Comment on Battle of the Signs (2009-03-08 13:44:37)
Welcome to the modern political protest. Government sanctioned and self referential no matter which side you stand on. Totally ineffective. - Comment on Sunshine (2009-03-01 10:35:37)
Dull acting, poorly realized bad guy, poorly executed in many respects but damn I love the visuals. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 21:44:00)
Also don't forget that the Jewish settlers in the region that is now Israel, (we're talking from the mid-1800's to Israel's creation) weren't colonists but refugees from oppression in europe for the most part. I don't yet know how you feel about this but if you're against their right to have settled there, perhaps you should do some anthropological research and figure out where the people in your bloodline started out and go back there. If you're anti-israel's existence then you're pro-ethnic cleansing. There's no way around it. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 21:37:18)
Your sarcasm wasnt transparent to me. Given the general tone of your arguments on the subject it's difficult not to take what you say seriously. I will watch the video tomorrow. Can't do it now. Israel doesnt have an army based on a religion. You're getting it confused with the muslim countries. What the heck are you talking about? And where's your outrage at theocratic regimes who are worse human rights offenders? Where's the public outcry about all of the muslim on christian violence throughout the muslim world? If you're against israel's right to exist, are you also against muslim immigrants to Europe? or any immigrants to anywhere? No? Then you have a moral double standard that is suspect. The Palestinian cultural leaders were collaborating with the Nazis. If they didn't set up Israel, the arabs would've ethnically cleansed the region of Jews, some whose families had been there for most of a hundred years, some whose families were there dating all the way back. Also if you're against Israel's right to exist, why arent you against the existential rights of every country in north and south america as well as Australia? More thoughts to come. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 19:41:07)
@dieAnatagonista: Have you read anything i've said in this thread? At all? Perhaps a partial recap is in order: the palestinian governments and terrorist groups want genocide. They use the conflict to help them stay in power. They steal all of the aid money. A lot of the human shields are voluntary and thus combatants. If you're so concerned about the Palestinians you'd care about that but its all israel's fault to you. Apparently I am more pro-Pal than you. Israel is much more careful about not killing civilians than any other nation on earth. Compare to America and other countries in Iraq and Afganistan, Russia in Chechnya and Georgia, pick your african conflict, and the list goes on. Where's your outrage about other conflicts with higher body counts? Where's your outrage about the stuff the Palestinians want to do? You're not against ethnic cleansing or the death of civilians. You're only agianst the death of Palestinian civilians. You're basically telling me that the Israelis don't have the right to stop people from trying to kill them in schools, malls, nightclubs, buses, and homes. You're telling me that its OK that the Pal terrorists launch attacks from within densely populated areas on purpose. You don't care about human rights at all. Not Israeli, not Palestinian, nobody's human rights. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 19:01:44)
Meh it happens. I have fallen into the sarchasm apparently. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 18:21:29)
re: 'So?" you're taking htis strangely as far as I can tell right now. I'm trying to figure out what the big deal is. So i didnt get the joke. So what? I'm so used to being in fight-mode about this subject that its hard to get humor about it. This is a big deal to me. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 18:18:59)
in case you havnt noticed, it wasnt entirely obvious to me that it was anything but serious. Sarcasm isn't always transparent on the interwebs. Everyone makes mistakes. What's wrong with "so?"? - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 17:45:51)
@nyokki: you didnt reply to the substance of what I said. YOu just called me stupid. Resorting to insult isnt substantive debate. Its the sort of thing one does when they can't think of anything else to say. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-08 10:49:47)
@nyokki: Respond to the substance of my post or admit stupidity yourself. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-07 23:45:53)
@nyokki: Whatever dude. Good luck finding accurate stuff. If you go to the muslim world, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to speak out against the party line. A) all they know is what their fascist media, and the complicit western media give them, and b) if they do contradict the line, they get shot. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-05 09:57:02)
Show me one society on earth that is monolithic in it's politics. I dare you. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-05 09:56:32)
@nyokki - I've been over there. I've seen it for myself. Don't believe everything you read. Go see it first hand. - Comment on Israeli apartheid wall graffiti (2009-02-04 23:32:27)
@nyokki - all i have to say to that is "so?" Saying that the way the sign does falsely attributes those words to an ethnic group with a wide array of opinions. It would be equally fallacious to say that all Jews support Israel. It may surprise you to know that Israel actually has about as much freedom of speech as the US does. There are anti-zionist Israelis, Marxists, Leninist, Stalinists, Holocaust deniers, flat-earth believers, secularists, Arab and Palestinian-sympathizing Jewish Israelis too. They aren't persecuted by the government in any way. There's a joke in Israel that the Israelis and Palestinians have at least one thing in common: they are both allowed to criticize the Israeli government equally. @jamestuskgeorge: Ethnic cleansing consists of extermination and/or explusion. Israel hasn't done either. Please get your terms right. I would agree with you that Hamas doesnt have a chance of achieving it's genocidal goals. I think they know it too, and they are profiting off of that fact. If they lay down their arms and actually tried to govern, they would have to answer for the fact that they are incompetent at it. They don't invest in infrastructure, they don't allow many civil rights. They impose more restrictions than even Fatah does. I think I might have said all of this before but I think i have to say it again: Fatah doesnt really want a Palestinian state. It is entirely questionable that they even want to destroy Israel and for one reason: if Israel ceased to exist, there would be no distraction from the fact that Fatah has been exploiting the Palestinians and oppressing them continuously since before even the 6 day war. About the plight of the average Palestinian, I agree, they are suffering and live in shitty conditions. Thing is, what is Israel supposed to do? They put that security squeeze on the Pals because without it, the terrorist Pals would blow themselves up in markets, schools, buses, and night clubs. Before they did suicide bombing, they would take hostages and murder them. Before the six day war, they did hit and run attacks too. If Israel didn't have the occupation with it's security checkpoints and all that, the terrorists would run rampant and no Israeli would be safe. The terrorists know this too. They know they can't win militarily so they do what they do so Israel will put the squeeze on the Pal civilians - which the complicit world press views in a vacuum and this kills Israel's image in the world. Terrorism is basically a device for endangering your own side for political gain. It's quite ingenious when you think about it. A side note: between the '48 war and the Six Day War, Jordan and Egypt illegally occupied the West Bank and Gaza respectively. Where was the world's outrage about that? Where was the Palestinian outrage? When Arafat helped in the six day war, he wasnt fighting to liberate the territories. he was fighting to destroy Israel. If the world gave a rat's ass about the Pal civilians, they wouldnt keep giving money to Fatah and Hamas. Those two don't distribute the aid. This was never about the Pal civilians and you know it. The muslim world knows it, the West knows it, and most importantly, a sizable minority of Palestinians know it. However we never hear from them because they get shot if they speak out. Yes the Palestinian civilians are suffering under the occupation. If you merely say "stop the occupation," and ignore the rest of it, then I am more pro-Palestinian than you. - Comment on Top Gear - Car Vs Jet (2009-01-26 21:07:49)
The soundtracks are excellent too. You can download fan-compilations of all the songs used in a given episode in torrents. Great stuff.