• Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    There is no purpose in doing some hypothetical scenario. Israel’s existence is dependent on settler colonialism. it is dependent on the displacement of Palestine in one way or another. Settler colonialism is an act of violence no ifs ands or butts.

    There is no point in debating a hypothetical world where Israel exists without colonialism, because that’s not the world we live in and it never will be. This is a Zionist talking point that people like MrKaplan use to justify support for Israel, and that you are unwittingly falling for and defending.

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      Also the people preventing a state of equal rights to exist, are the Zionists, as it’s been since the beginning. Their hypothetical completely ignores the reality of both the Zionist project and the resistance.

    • But he’s not exactly arguing the hypothetical scenario or at any point claiming that it is indeed possible. So it sounds like he just agrees with you?

      I still do not see how “Israel does not have a right to exist because it’s ethnically cleansing its neighbours” could possibly considered a zionist statement. It’s really grasping at straws for me, sorry.

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        30 days ago

        And you’re the most obvious vote manipuilation account I’ve seen yet, @rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com

        Edit: Sliding into my DMs to whine and complain doesn’t change the fact that this is blatant double voting. If you made a mistake you need to apologize, not act like you’re within your right to do this:

        And just to so we’re all clear on this. This isn’t okay whether you’re upvoting or downvoting. Upvoting or downvoting twice from clearly defined alt accounts is blatant abuse. Even moreso due to the fact that this community is experiencing waves of abuse from the trolls on LW.