God help them. The slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m very afraid of what comes next for the Palestinian people, but regardless of what happens next, Israel has been dealt a fucking incredible blow to its international reputation. This is a country whose main export is highly sophisticated systems of oppression. If you have a nagging problem with some pesky minority, Israel is your “consultant” of choice.

    Now here we are, watching as some of the most violently oppressed, downtrodden people in the entire world do deftly orchestrated commando raids on lawnmower engine powered paragliders, surprising literally the entire world. They have been training to do this under Israel’s watch for god knows how long, and the IDF was none the wiser. How did they pull this off?

    How can you still claim to develop the most sophisticated surveillance systems and to have the best-trained military in the world, when shit like this happens? How do you even recover from this? This is unprecedented, a paradigm shift, we’re watching history in the making here.

    Absolutely uncritical support for the heroic Palestinian efforts.

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      "If you Americans, sated with bread and sleep, want to curse the people and back Chiang Kai-Shek, that’s your business and I won’t interfere. What we have now is millet plus rifles, what you have is bread plus cannon. If you like to back Chiang Kai-shek, back him, back him as long as you want. But remember one thing. To whom does China belong? China definitely does not belong to Chiang Kai-shek, China belongs to the Chinese people. The day will surely come when you will find it impossible to back him any longer. "

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      “When your enemy has the highest tech, you have to come at them with the lowest tech possible” - paraphrased quote from Leviathan Wakes

      This rings true in a lot of instances