Liberals love to say communists are violent, and then say shit like this.
The beauty of the rules based order is that it does a magic transmutation where nothing done legally can be violent whereas everything done illegally is violent by definition
But also “legally” means “I, the protagonist of the universe, want to do it and as the self-appointed arbiter of such things formally say I get to do it as a treat” and “illegally” means “I do not like this and as the supreme arbiter of the universe unilaterally say it’s bad and super not cool.”
This is so psychopathic. Why would anyone care about a system of laws which permits killing a child? Who in the world cares about the distinction between “legally killed child” and “murdered child”? Who could read that sentence and think anything other than “whatever laws they are referring to are utterly worthless”?
Is it true that if someone takes a kid hostage, you’re justified in killing the kid? Sounds fucked up, the idea that killing someone who is doing Bad Things is more important than protecting the life of an innocent child. Hmm. Not sure about this “international rules based” order the crackers keep talking about.
One of the really fascinating things about October 7th was that Israel’s top priority was openly “preventing Hamas from getting in”, with all other considerations, like the preservation of Israeli life, coming second. Then you read stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside, and it becomes an inevitable conclusion that the civilian death toll (such as it even existed, since there was a heavy military presence there) was almost entirely Israel’s fault on an immediate level, even before getting into “Their policies made the attack inevitable” and such
stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside
Does anyone have a ‘reputable’ (i.e. Western or at least Al Jazeera) source for both of these? I need to show some people.
Discussion of the helicopter story, linking directly to a Hebrew article on it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/11993
And a version of the tank story, though you can even find writers on Haaretz complaining about it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/15975
Also Reuters if they don’t belive the other source
Next time a shooter attacks a school in Uvalde they should just send a drone strike, it’s legally justified after all.
legally killed child is crazy
Imagine an editor reading this and saying “now this is top notch journalism, let’s publish!”
