• LeninWeave [any]@lemmy.mlOP
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    19 hours ago

    If that’s your impression of what Hamas is, you are either severely misinformed or you harbor racial/religious bias. I’m assuming it’s the former, so I will let you know that that is not an accurate description of Hamas. If you are interested in finding out more about them, you should read their updated charter from 2017.

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      19 hours ago

      They pursue a deliberate strategy of killing and kidnapping civilians. They brutalize and repress any autonomous political movements within Gaza. Violent repression of queer or otherwise nonconforming Gazans is commonplace. And their disastrous political and military strategy was a large contributor to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Gazans over the past several years.

      I usually try not to criticize them because such criticisms are being used to justify genocide but I don’t know how else to respond to a ridiculous post like this.

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        17 hours ago

        Have you ever heard the term “critical support”? Resistance doesn’t need to be perfect to be valid. Read “Perfect Victims” by Mohammed El-Kurd.

        They pursue a deliberate strategy of killing and kidnapping civilians.

        They “kidnap” civilians (among also many military members) in an attempt to do prisoner exchanges in response to a much more large-scale strategy of the same employed by “Israel”. Unlike “Israel” they are working with few resources and very little intelligence data, so it’s not surprising their actions aren’t always surgically precise (whereas “Israel”, of course, constantly target civilians deliberately).

        And their disastrous political and military strategy was a large contributor to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Gazans over the past several years.

        Literally victim blaming, lol. You’re not only assuming that they could have predicted the exact course of events (including the scale of their success in Al-Aqsa flood and the scale of the “Israeli” response), but softly absolving the actual perpetrators of much of the blame. There is one and only one party responsible for this and for all other violence within Palestine since 1948. That’s what colonialism is.

        I usually try not to criticize them because such criticisms are being used to justify genocide

        Yeah, they are.

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          17 hours ago

          Resistance doesn’t need to be perfect to be valid.

          Bro, they are misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, radical Islamist, fundamentalist terrorists. They are the exact opposite of every value leftist stand for.

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            17 hours ago

            Bro, they are misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, radical Islamist, fundamentalist terrorists. They are the exact opposite of every value leftist stand for.

            made-it-the-fuck-up “My source is that I made it the fuck up.”

            You also don’t seem to understand the concepts of colonialism and resistance to colonialism. Opposing colonialism is a value every leftist should stand for.

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      17 hours ago

      You should see them when they drag murdered people around and cheer for their death. Or just watch them stream it if you don’t want to actually be there and get killed too unless you happen to have the right skin color/language/religion.

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        18 hours ago

        Excellent comment about the “IDF”, but I’m not sure what it has to do with anything I said.

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          17 hours ago

          Ah yes, the classical kindergarten argument. Will played, I am defeated. And Hamas is great because there are other evils too, makes sense.

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            17 hours ago

            No, I didn’t mean “both sides bad”, I meant that your comment literally only makes sense if you were talking about the “IDF” lmao.