And calls from the progressive left for a cease-fire because there have been more Palestinian casualties than Israeli casualties is a bizarre false equivalency that would argue that the penalty for robbing a bank of $500 should be a $500 fine. Israel’s response to the Hamas attack is designed to prevent future attacks, not create a tit for tat that would promote a never-ending state of danger with a terrorist organization whose goal is to finish what Adolf Hitler started.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

cool equivalence. very potent "I paid $1000 to hunt an unhoused family who only generates $1000 of value for the community" energy here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, the penalty for robbing a bank should be levelling the entire neighborhood the robbers lived in. The deaths of the neighbors is the robbers fault, because he was using them as human shields

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that he brings up a hypothetical bank robbery for his god awful analogy just highlights why I fucking hate the human shields narrative

No one would accept it if that excuse was used by cops who responded to a bank robbery even if the robbers were literally using people as human shields

Anyone who's willing to shoot through a "human shield" is just a fucking murderer

Like if I was in a situation where a genuinely bad guy was hiding behind a child I would simply not shoot at the child

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

No one would accept it if that excuse was used by cops who responded to a bank robbery even if the robbers were literally using people as human shields

No they would, this is where the concept of "Stockholm Syndrome" comes from. There was a bank robbery in Stockholm. The robbers took hostages. The cops and government decided that killing eveyrone to save capitalism was a good idea. The hostages had to negotiate with the government on the robber's behalf to keep the government from killing everyone, and some of them actually became friends with the robbers.

Afterwards a psychologist who never spoke to anyone involved decided the only explanation was, pardon my french, "Bitches be crazy" and shat out the idea that the women had fallen in love with their captors because of some incomprehensible mysogynist farting noises.

Everyone forgot where the concept came from but the idea that stuck and now people believe that if hostages get released thinking their captors had good points it can be safely written off as a mental health problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof. I hope this guy is completely ignornat because otherwise skip the gulag go straight to the barbara-pit cuck pit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They're a professional columnist, they have no excuse for being ignorant in subjects they write about.