"Oh they didn't actually mean that, it was all jokes".

Because those were jokes.

The problem we have today is not that it was socially acceptable to be a psychopath online in 2014. The problems are, in my opinion:

• Rapidly decreasing standards of living
• Social media making people more stupid
• Governments being too large and intransparent
• Pointless governmental spending without explaining the why to the population

The right-wing shift is part of a global failure of established governments.

You sound like a boomer ngl

Leaving NATO requires a 2/3th majority in the american congress, which the republicans didn't quite have. However, trump can obviously keep back troops, gear and money. But he can't just leave like the Paris climate deal thingy.

This here. It's not a trump issue, it's an issue of not being able to defend your own country. Every country must be able to properly fend for itself and most European countries are not. The entire British army has less long distance missiles than a single american submarine. Germany only has enough ammunition for a single day of combat.

It's just pathetic. We tried to safe money for decades and now it just backfires immensely.

Every country should have a good defense. But I remember very well how I was flamed for saying we should invest way more into military. "No no no, you have no clue, you're stupid, the world is way too connected, conventional wars don't work anymore etc."

Well. How the turntables.

Hama's fighting for democracy, ye.Just as the Taliban I guess. Iran also wants to support the Hamas in establishing democracy because Iran has a flourishing democracy and they want to spread it further. That's also why Russia and by extent north korea support the Iran and the "democracy coalition" of palestine, those are also big fans of democracies.

With all due respect, but if you want to believe the Hamas and other terrorist groups want to fight for "freedom" instead of eradicating the entire Jewish population, discussions with you on this topic are fruitless.

The collapse didn't. But the goal or "Mission" of the Hamas is to eradicate all jews.

So yes, Israel falling would result in the eradication of a vast majority of the Jewish people.

Sounds like you're interpreting too much into this. They probably just wanted a short name that's easy to remember with a somewhat religious touch.

So, because the foundations were colonial, we should ... kill everyone living in said country?

Is that a serious argument? Because then we have a lot of places to eradicate.

Funny you call me "Nazi" when you're apparently the antisemite who wants to see the state of Israel destroyed.

No, the qualifications are people who have studied that conflict for decades and journalists that have been to Gaza and Israel themselves.

I value their opinion significantly higher than the opinion of people on Lemmy that haven't taken 5 minutes out of their day to read up on the conflict.