Geopolitics

I don't care that they had elections in 2006. What I care is who they elected. If they had 15 more elections, hamas would win again

That's just your theory, not a fact.

LOL. Even in that election Hamas only won 44% of the vote. I'd dhardly call that a democratic mandate. Also in their presdential election Hamas got less than a fith o th vote. It's very likely that if elections were held today Hamas was voted out. No woner they prevented elections for the last 20 years. The mental gymnastics need to stp

If you love them so much, go there. In my opinion, israel should occupy and if needed evaporate them all. As much as I can't stand trump, he'll hopefully tackle the cancer of the modern society, that is radical islam.

Omg you really state your arguments in such a dumb and subjective way, that they're ridiculous to read. If you like the health care in Germany, does it mean you should leave everything behind and go live there?

Appeals to liberalism and democracy are so cute because proponents always assume their system is the ideal and anyone who would even consider an illiberal alternative must be either deluded or insane. This is not to say I defend Hamas, but liberal presumption is a pet peeve of mine and I feel it needs to be called out.

If I had an incurable disease, of course I'd move.
And for anyone defending illiberal regimes, did any of them bring anything useful for you?
I'm sorry, the fact that we can discuss here is a result of the liberal regimes. You could just dream of internet, computers, assistive tech etc under illiberal regimes. It's easy to defend one from your air conditioned home with chat gpt available.
Go and ask someone in ethiopia, a woman in afghanistan, someone under surveillance in China what it means to be under an illiberal regime.
Liberalism should be defeated by preemptive nuclear attacks if needed.

and yes, anyone defending non optional, illiberal regimes is deluded. We played nicely for too long

Lol, my point exactly.

Here's what your dearest illiberal regime that you so defend does. Read it before commenting.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/18/walt-harvard-research-funding-cuts/

Who said I defend the current US government? This does appeal to my libertarian instincts though. They should be cutting trillions.

Would you say the same if you or someone from your family suffered from something so rare, that only 1 or 2 institutions in the world research it?
I'm sorry, money is needed to fund groundbreaking research. You need to pay the scientists, and if you cut trillions, no money will be there to research. Trumpoids all over the world just help china. Covid, an artificially made virus, can be used as a bioweapon. And the current US government is doing a great services to russia, china and north korea. Research is being stopped, trillions cut, which means that all rogue states can develop bioweapons for which there won't be any cure, vaccine etc. Is that what you want?

So of course the only possible way to address this is to give the responsibility of funding it to the state through the taxpayer. There's simply no other way. Give me a break lmao.

Which fucking state? Harvard is a private institution. Learn how the research works

Crashing out over alleged misunderstanding on my part while failing to understand such a basic political term as the state is crazy work.

@27, you claim to be a proponent of Liberalism yet one of the core beliefs of Liberal thought is that each individual is equal and created with inherrent rights, key among them, life, yet you turn a blind eye to the actions of Israel in the Gaza strip where thousands of people, including children are being dehumanised and murdered without trial and starved to death. You even go on to say that these entire countries should be nuked because they do not subscribe to the ideology that you do, which is also a tenant of Liberalism.
Do you not notice the absurdity of what you're saying?
P.S, no, the room I'm writing ths from is not air conditioned. If I want to protest anywhere, I need to ask the Commissioner of Police to do so, and my government has the right to have me arrested for speaking out against it. So, do not condescend to me as if you know me, because you don't.

Lol, radio silence.

@18 by all means. Right now what it sounds like is that your hate for palestine is soully bassed on nationalism

@24 Israel and the masad are proving again and again that they don't have the power, inteligence, capasity, whatever it may be that is needed to quote, "go in and evaporate them all" without killing the tens of thousands that are currently being killed.

Oh no, they absolutely do have the capacity to conduct their operations with little to no civilian casualties. That's how you know they're intentional.