Politics and social issues

  • Siding with the Palestinians doesn't equate to siding with Hamas. With the 33,000+ dead at Gaza, surely, not all of them can be Hamas, can they? Specially when most of them are Women and Children.

    Again.. they were able to say that 33,000 people were dead yet they can't say who's alive anong their hostages?

    palestinians also celebrated on the streets when Oct 7 happened. What needs to happen is for Hamas to stop existing.

  • Again.. they were able to say that 33,000 people were dead yet they can't say who's alive anong their hostages?

    palestinians also celebrated on the streets when Oct 7 happened. What needs to happen is for Hamas to stop existing.

    It won't stop existing by killing civilians. The genocide Israël is doing in Gaza creating more national and international support to Hamas. Israël doesn't want to win over Hamas, they want to vipe out Palestinian people so that they can steal their last remaining land too🤦

  • Again.. they were able to say that 33,000 people were dead yet they can't say who's alive anong their hostages?

    palestinians also celebrated on the streets when Oct 7 happened. What needs to happen is for Hamas to stop existing.

    What needs to happen first is for Israel to stop oppressing the Palestinians. October 7 happened as a reaction to Israel's violence towards Palestine. If you treat people like animals, surely, you wouldn't expect them to react kindly to you, right?

  • If anything, this "war" has exposed these Western countries for the frauds that they are. They call themselves as "progressive" and were so quick to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine but were silent when it comes to Gaza and continues to support Israel even though it's committing war crimes with impunity. A genocide is happening and is even being documented in social media and still... Nothing.

  • What needs to happen first is for Israel to stop oppressing the Palestinians. October 7 happened as a reaction to Israel's violence towards Palestine. If you treat people like animals, surely, you wouldn't expect them to react kindly to you, right?

    Raping people is a justified "retaliation?"

    i swear, people in their mom's basement talking like they know all.

    Hamas is a terrorist group.

    Israel and and USA are no innocent (specially USA)

    But really? You justify Hamas killing and blatantly parading their kills?

    the group that stole billions of aides that's meant for their people.

  • Did I say I'm justifying Hamas? Let me get this clear for you. What Hamas did on October 7 was wrong. But like what I said earlier, it's a reaction to decades of living under an apartheid regime. If you continue to instigate violence, you will get violence in turn.

    Seriously, calling people "living in their mom's basement talking like they know it all" is your kind of discourse as if your information is any better? You won't get far with this kind of rhetoric and it's not an indication of a healthy and respectful discussion.

  • You justify Israël murdering innocent children? Letting them starve to death is a justified retaliation. No one says Hamas innocent, don't pretend like anyone brave enough to point out Israel's war crimes are automatically Hamas supporters 🤦

  • show us proof of Hamas killing civillians.

  • show us proof of Hamas killing civillians.

    Wow. The world has gone mad indeed.

    the terrorist group hiding below hospitals.. killing 1200 civilians back in Oct 7 alone... stealing aids intended for their people..

    Either you are a terrorist sympathizer or you're plain stupid.

    Of course i know about that area's history.

    Where Israel's claim was longer than the Muslim even set foot in that area.

    Not that Israel is fully innocent.. they are another breed of warmonger like USA.

    But Hamas are exactly the same coin of a different side as well. A worse version.

  • show us proof of Hamas killing civillians.

    I also won't debate someone who excuses a group who parades the dead bodies of their victims on the street to be applauded by their residents.

    i won't debate someone who thinks a group who has an ideology that oppresses women, justifies killing the lgbtq, allows grown men to marry 9 year old girls etc.. you are that.. you justify that.

    Or maybe you are one of the belivers of that ideology?

  • Altinli with regard to the topic of war and why the US is seeking to invade and impose their imperialism on other countries in the other thread.


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    I think the US and their proxies are for sure concerned of natural resources, although there is almost nothing of value outside of opium in Afghanistan. The country is practically one large desert devoid of valueable minerals and oil. What made them attack Afghanistan and seek to dethrone the Talibans in charge of the regime? I believe there is is an ocean of causes, but the military complex is powerful in the US and they are lobbying for war in order to keep their position in the hierarchy. Peperpetual peace would cause massive unemployment in the US as they employ millions of people in their army as of now.


    Hence they simply pursue the sort of "perpetual war economy" as George Orwell outlined in 1984 in order to 1) Maintain stability in the workforce and keep the working-class occupied, often at slave-like conditions 2) Blame an external enemy to distract the people and implement populistic measures, i.e "war on terror" to gain popular support 3) Satisfy capitalistic/industrial interests. 4) Create puppet states with liberal and market-friendly measures where the US businesses could thrive (McDonalds, Starbucks etc) from consumerism through the purchase power of an emerging local middle-class 5) Establish friendly puppet states or pseudo-colonial states where they could benefit and reap the fruits from very cheap labour for their companies 6) Establish puppet or proxy states where tax regulations would make them tax heavens for Big Business. Ireland is a case-in-point of a nation which is ruthlessly exploited by the US conglomerates. Several large American enterprises have their HQs on Ireland, but the population hardly benefit at all from it as almost all money generated from its activity escapes the nation with limited tax-return, so called "tax flight" and create a restrained amount of jobs for their citizens (outside of finance sector, almost none). 7) Come to the rescue of their allies who are against a certain country.


    Just as Orwell suggests, the outcome of the war is here fairly pointless and war is thus merely a tactic without any traditional end in itself. There are private commercial and industrial enterprises who gain immense profit from war as it forces the government to make huge purchases of their equipment, thus Big Business craves war to cash in on it. The most priviliged government contractors have made many billions of dollars from the campaigns in Iraq, Syria, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Russia has also seen a considerable spike in their economy since the invasion of Ukraine, as military spending accounts for so much of their GDP. The defense industry, with its military pay, ammunition, tanks, planes and sectors such as the steel industry are benefiting from the war. This is also why their economy is growing despite all sanctions and why many oligarchs are still behind Putin.

  • 2/2 Altinli


    It is well known that WW1 created the greatest amount of new dollar millionaires in history - up until that time - and that the stock price per share of DuPont Company, the world largest supplier of gun powder at the time, went from 10 usd to 1000 usd in a span of only four years. The notorious millionaire Basil Zaharoff, born in the Ottoman Empire, modern day Turkey, became the most hated man on earth when he provocated nations to wage war against each other and then sold weapons to both sides in the conflict in order to thrive financially. Alfred Krupp, the cannon king, made his fortune in a similar fashion in 19th century Prussia. When Austria and Prussia went to war with each other, Krupp supplied his cannons to Austria and made an outstanding fortune by selling to the enemy. In WW2 Krupp scions were backing Hitlers campaigns against the Jews as it provided their factories with cheap slave labour. More than 50.000 prisoners were performing slave labour on his plants. Hugo Boss utilized the same conditions.


    It is, btw, a complete myth that Germany was, as some people suggest, hopeless victims from the whims of a psychopathic madman with inferiority complex who imposed havoc on them. Both Wall Street capitalists (J.P Morgan & Rockefeller etc) and German millionaires evidently financed the rise of Hitler by trading with him and donating funds, charmed by the allure of his promises to modernize industrial Germany. https://www.goodreads.com/book…et_and_the_Rise_of_Hitler This is hardly a conspiracy as for instance Rockefeller-dominated Standard Oil (modern day Exxon Mobil) was sentenced in court for cooperating with Hitler and that Krupp was sentenced to prison for Nazi complicity at the Nuremberg Trials. Reality is that WW2 rendered IG Farben, the industrial conglomerate led by Krauch and his allies, the worlds largest company in early 1940s. Siemens and BMW also benefited a lot during WW2. The leading outspoken Nazi industrialists amassed exceptional fortunes during the Hitler regime, and several of these families (Flick, Boss, Porsche, Reimann, Quandt and the fellow behind the Adidas fortune etc) are still some of the richest in Europe today, i.e dollar multi-billionaires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires

  • Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing hakin12 :drink: