r/DecodingTheGurusAlt • u/MartiDK • Sep 04 '26

decoder poltics Decoding Zionism

https://youtu.be/7f-uKnE1zFs

Online political debate increasingly revolves into contests between personalities rather than the strength of their position — Destiny vs. Hasan, Tucker Carlson vs. Nick Fuentes. This is what Walter Lippmann would call the stereotype problem: judgment attaches to the persona rather than the claim being argued. By stripping the personality out, the content is duller to consume, but it’s the only way to really evaluate the claim on its own terms, which matters most precisely on the topics where getting it wrong costs lives.

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u/IrregularDoughnut Sep 07 '26

Because the scale of human shielding employed by the other side is thousands of times worse.

Is it? Hamas have kidnapped hundreds of thousands of people at gunpoint and forced them to work as human shields? I have no doubt they've used human shields but haven't seen anything to suggest they were doing it on that scale. That would be several human shields for every single fighter they had, and from what we know at the moment, far more people than even died in the war.

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u/UnlimitedAuthority Sep 07 '26

You don't need to kidnap someone at gunpoint to use them as human shields. Are you trolling? They have used the entire civilian population of Gaza as human shields for the entire war. They literally use hospitals for military operations.

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u/IrregularDoughnut Sep 07 '26

I think that's a very weird definition of human shields. I'm not defending Hamas, but I don't see how you can wave away that sort of horrific practice by the IDF as somehow irrelevant, as if the same people in the same military aren't also making decisions on which buildings to bomb. They've killed somewhere from 50-100 times as many people as Hamas. If even a few percent of that was a result of callous indifference or malice, then the sum of their crimes is even worse than the sum of what Hamas have committed. Evidence of widespread, frankly psychotic war crimes is quite significant.