Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Kari Lake Warns That 2024 Race Will Be 'Even Crazier And Nastier' Than Last Election's" video.
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@vintagesportscardfinds964 "the last time"
The Oklahoma City bombing had no connection with a popular movement. The largest groups of domestic terrorists (Antifa, BLM) operate with near legal impunity and political and media support as they assault conservative demonstrators, riot, vandalize, loot, and kill.
As for the war Hamas started in Isreal, Hamas has always had a policy of siting its installations in places like hospitals, schools, and the like and not permitting the civilians to leave. The "human shield" tactic has been a mainstay of the terrorist handbook for a long time. No major national or international defense war has been waged without civilian casualties, including WW2. Luckily, the grownups were in charge then or Hitler would have completed the Holocaust and the conquest of Europe. Israel is not bombing population centers because they're population centers as you imply, but because Hamas has personnel or equipment there. To want the human shield tactic to WORK is to share the genocidal goals of Hamas, because if they aren't forced to stop they will succeed.
It is true the Hamas justifies their atrocities in the name of God, but Israelis don't need a religious reason to defend their communities and their families. Israel is a fairly secular country, and with conscription the rank and file of the IDF reflect this. Many members of the IDF are atheists, Christians, or Muslims.
A note on your tendentious use of the term "fundamentalism". The word fundamentalist was coined by certain evangelical denominations and was later extended by polemicists to certain Islamic groups in a tendentious attempt to equate the dissimilar and discredit the former. As applied to Islam, it is not a term Islam uses itself, but a western notion applied to serve western political ends. There are no Islamic "fundamentalists" and there are no Judaic "fundamentalists". Conservative Christians seek to make those who agree or disagree good.
Your attempt to imply that violence is associated with "religion" is counterhistorical. When did MAN not have these issues? "Religin" is such a broad term that virtually no generalizations can be applied to the "whole". And what do you propose as an alternative? Atheism? An an antidote to ideological murder, that has a singularly abysmal track record. From the Jacobin Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, through the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Communist China, and the Pol Pot regime; the result of a society based on atheism has invariably been bloodbath after bloodbath. The USSR alone murdered more of its own civilians than have ever been killed in all the inquisitions, pogroms, and purely religious wars in recorded history, and they only lasted: what? 80 or so years?
"both sides would rather see people of other religions dead than to coexist with them."
You're one third right. Hamas says as much, and there are many passages in the Koran and Hadith that support such an attitude. Israel does not want to exterminate the "Palestinians". They have obviously has the power to do exactly that for the last 60 years. If that was what they wanted, they would have done it by now. Muslim and Christian Isrealis have rights of Israeli citizens; rights which Arabs have nowhere else in the Middle East and in no Islamic state worldwide. Voting rights, freedom of religion, women can drive and don't have to wrap themselves in a parka in tropical heat or be accompanies by a male protector from her family, rights of sexual preference, etc., the whole shebang. The only major difference is that Arab Israelis are exempt from the compulsory military service, though they can volunteer, and many do. In the Gaza strip, ruled by Hamas, Arabs suffer the most oppressive government in the Middle East, with none of the above freedoms.
PERSONAL freedom is the only meaningful sort. "Group freedom" is invariably a smoke screen for tyranny. Taiwan votes to maintain its democracy, group freedom says mainland China owns them because they're Chinese. Northern Ireland votes to remain in the UK, group freedom says Ireland owns them because they're Irish. Many Blacks in the US vote Republican, Joe Biden and many other Democrats say the Democrat Party owns them because they're Black. (My! That sounds familiar!) Hitler says the destiny of Germany is important and Germans are being oppressed, he proceeds to steal other countries and murder racial minorities.
Legitimate political organizations group to protect personal freedom from threats. That is the lone and essential purpose of government: to FORCE people to mind their own business. Because left to themselves, THEY WILL NOT.
Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
You see the law enforcement apparatus mobilized against anybody remotely conservative, and you somehow claim to regard LAKE as autocratic? Whose rights was SHE violating? Who was SHE using the legal apparatus to punish for their political beliefs? WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? Your party is increasingly authoritarian. It's all there, including your racial segregation, prejudice and racial and political slander and hate, using government power to suppress and terrorize political opposition, moving to restrict gun ownership and possession, locking down state control of businesses and the economy, media censorship, using schools as political indoctrination centers, mobilizing taxpayer money for the production of partizan propaganda, abortion and euthanasia; all straight out of the Nazi playbook, including your economic program. Your side is doing all these things, we are not and never were. For YOU to call US authoritarian is projection to a delusional degree.
Tax cuts are not authoritarian. Deregulation is not authoritarian. Free speech is not authoritarian. The right to keep and bear arms is not authoritarian. Freedom of religion is not authoritarian. Criticism of a government lapdog corporate media is not authoritarian. Speaking the truth to power in the face of persecution is not authoritarian. Opposition to the firing of employees, the cutoff of their access to funds or commerce, violence against their persons and property, and the restriction of their communication on the basis of their political beliefs is not authoritarian. All of these things are the diametric opposite of authoritarian. We're on the freedom side of every issue except hurting children, and you shouldn't be free to do that. Conservatism is anti-authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. Leftism is authoritarian fundamentally and point by point.
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