• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Maybe USA is an apartheid state too?

    Ya nailed it. See, the thing is here, both of you are citizens of nations where you don’t have a lot of actual personal choice in what your government does to “represent” you, despite both ostensibly being “representative government.”

    They’re both apartheid states. I live in one, I didn’t choose to. You live in one, you didn’t choose to.

    However, in the case of the US, we don’t keep them all in one single, open-air prison with a giant fence between us and them, and bomb the living shit out of all of them if one of them does something fucked up. Usually, we prosecute that individual.

    I’m not saying the US is better, it’s not. Just look at Guantanamo Bay.

    But I am saying the situation with Israel and Palestine is way more fucked up, based on the close proximity, how long this has been going on, and things like Netanyahu probably funding Hamas. Netanyahu is just like US conservatives, he’s willing to fund his enemies just so he can keep using them as scapegoats. Netanyahu has been a fucking piece of shit for over twenty fucking years in Israeli politics, and just like the US, we seem to be unable or unwilling to deal with criminal fucking scumbags like him.