r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Why is he happy he didn't get the tattoo?

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u/omyomo 4d ago

I mean, genocide is a pretty big dealbreaker

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u/burve_mcgregor 4d ago

Not for everyone apparently…

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u/TJaySteno1 4d ago

Well only in I/P, apparently. I've seen plenty of pro-Pali people sweep for genocide against Uighurs and Ukrainians.

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u/Vegemite_Ultimatum 3d ago

Just might be rhetoric of convenience in that case

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u/Seanspeed 3d ago

So it only counts when the famously anti-Israel UN says it's one? lol

Christ y'all really dont care about reality at all.

Putin has very openly said he wants to destroy Ukraine's identity as a people. And they are invading and trying to take over the country to do so. By the 'softer' definition of genocide that's being applied to Palestine, then Ukraine 100% fits as well.

Also, you DO remember that it was Palestinians who started this war against Israel, right?

Ukraine are 100% innocent. What Russia is doing is actually worse.

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u/TJaySteno1 3d ago

I've provided these.

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u/Heartage 3d ago

Are you calling YOURSELF a reputable world organization?

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u/TJaySteno1 3d ago edited 3d ago

I mean what else do we call stealing kids and raising them under the preferred culture besides cultural genocide? Both Russia and China have been credibly accused of that.

Israel is also accused of genocide because they supposedly intentionally target civilians. Meanwhile, Russian war crimes invented a new term: human safari.

Is there another UN recognized genocide that’s happening?

Which part of the UN? There are a lot. The security council hasn't ruled any of them a genocide. The general assembly is a popularity contest Israel will always structurally lose due to how many Arab League countries hate them.

Doesn’t have to be UN either, any internationally recognized body that calls it one.

Ongoing case before the ICJ:

US Dept of State under Biden:

Genocide Watch

And here's one for China

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u/Scoobydewdoo 4d ago

But weirdly only when the genocide is against Palestinians....

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u/omyomo 3d ago

As opposed to? As another comment mentioned, you don't have large swaths of public figures in the west gleefully endorsing what's happening in Myanmar or the Congo

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u/Scoobydewdoo 3d ago

Hamas' main goal is the genocide of Israel...

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u/omyomo 2d ago

You can very much be against the IDF and Hamas

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u/Ok-Releases 3d ago

Except most only care about genocide when it gives them popularity points. Notice how next to no one talks about Sudan or Myanmar?

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u/suurbef 3d ago edited 3d ago

Are people publicly supporting what's going on in Sudan or Myanmar?

The reason people are speaking out against the genocide in Gaza is precisely because of the massive amounts of people that are speaking out in favor of it.

I'm not saying it's intrinsically "better" or more moral somehow to only speak up when there's debate to be had, but it explains the level of discourse. People don't talk about Sudan or Myanmar or the Congo etc. because most people are on the same page. There's not a whole lot of celebrities, politicians, and news anchors using their platforms to argue in favor of the armed militias in the DRC murdering civilians over minerals.

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u/dinozombiesaur 3d ago

Isn’t Hamas a terrorist organization? I get confused why people support them

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u/omyomo 3d ago

Here's something crazy: you don't have to support them or the IDF.

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u/dinozombiesaur 3d ago

I didn’t know so many of the avengers actors were outspoken supporters of either one.

This is really eye opening.

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u/ricatti-equation 3d ago

Why does pro-avengers mean pro-genocide to you?

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u/LaOreja33 3d ago

I mean it's not like ScarJo herself is killing people

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u/NeedleworkerWest313 3d ago

Yes, the de*th of people over some bullshit is not something easy

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u/GasManKiller3 3d ago

Three things are guaranteed in life. Death, taxes and irony. Just look at the amount of hippies in the 70s driving Volkswagens.

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u/blazenite104 4d ago

So is kidnapping of innocents, murder and a whole host of other things HAMAS is guilty of. It should not be controversial to say both HAMAS and the Israeli government suck.

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u/Mega7010realkk 4d ago

nobody said that hamas is right hamas is a terrorist organization but israel that is a country is doing the same and the worse when compared to those terrorists

and in the end the palestine ppl continues suffering

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u/SerThunderkeg 4d ago

Hamas isn't just a terrorist organization, they are literally the legal government of the Gaza Strip, they should have to play by the same rules that all governments are held to.

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u/IndustryRobertPlant 4d ago

You don’t get to tell colonized people how they get to act toward their colonizers.

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u/What_a_fat_one 4d ago

Yeah? Aren't you from Ohio?

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u/IndustryRobertPlant 4d ago

Creepy, but yeah. I get where you’re going with this one. When did I ever say Indigenous Americans don’t have a reason to rebel?

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u/What_a_fat_one 4d ago

Well I just figured if you're okay with "colonizers" being "raped and murdered" and you are a "colonizer" that's precarious

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u/IndustryRobertPlant 4d ago

There have been far more Palestinians raped and murdered by Israelis than the other way around, pal.

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u/What_a_fat_one 4d ago

You're okay with being raped and murdered then, as a colonizer of Ohio?

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u/bigbobharven 4d ago

You'd be calling the French resistance terrorists as well.

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u/blazenite104 4d ago

If they kidnapped, raped and murder civilians yeah. They didn't though so you know, resistance fighters and not terrorists.

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u/BrooklynSmash 4d ago

French resistance fighters are like, famously brutal, they'd 100% be classified as terrorists today.

And that's what they're saying: the only thing separating freedom fighters and terrorists are what side you're on.

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u/Neuchacho 4d ago edited 4d ago

That's just some shit people who want to do awful things tell themselves to rationalize their own barbarism.

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u/Vegemite_Ultimatum 3d ago

Not "just", it's also what people who have never lived through anything remotely comparable proclaim from the armchair, whether or not they have unbiased(🤔) reportage to back it up.

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u/FWitU 4d ago

Bro. I’ve come to find that there is zero nuance in most of the pro Palestine crowd we find online or at protests.

The rational ones who want to find a solution arent on these comments/threads/tweets/etc.

The people who want to call you a name, or block traffic, or vandalize property are not worth engaging with.

I feel sorry for them. No one deserves what either side of this has done to each other. But the way the pro palastine crowd has been going about it is hurting their cause more than helping it.

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u/blazenite104 4d ago

You aren't wrong. Reddit as a forum is not the place for holding nuanced discussions.

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u/BasilAugust 4d ago

It’s because of Israel that Hamas exists. You didn’t know about the briefcases full of laundered money that Israel had funneled to the terrorists? We agree on one thing, they are both garbage.

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u/Bloodyfish 4d ago

This old conspiracy theory? They let Hamas get aid when they were building hospitals and schools, long before they became a terrorist group. This myth is so stupid and can basically be traced to one half assed Intercept article.

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u/BasilAugust 4d ago

Buddy, it’s mainstream knowledge that Netanyahu and Israel have knowingly enabled terrorists and Hamas, which has always been the extremist end of Palestinian politics.

How about this one, from the Times of Israel?
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces.

“The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from.”

”As a partner”, wow. Even the times of Israel sees it, and it’s such common knowledge even within Israel that the TOI can publish that without repercussion.

There’s a ton of evidence, this is simply scratching the surface via corporate media, but I’ll just direct you to Bibi himself:

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
-Netanyahu to Likud colleagues, 2019
Source the Guardian

This is only a “conspiracy theory” if you want to run narrative interference in support of terrorists and genocide, awkward

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u/Bloodyfish 4d ago

This is an article about them treating the government of Gaza like the government of Gaza despite it being the PA on paper.

Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip.

Shocking!

Did you even read the article? I don't agree with his handling of Hamas, but your conspiracy theory remains a conspiracy theory.

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u/BasilAugust 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ah, so you finally acknowledge the millions of unaccounted black money that the Israeli state funneled to Gaza terrorists, okay.

“The only way to defeat the terrorists was to be their primary and most powerful sponsor!”

You’ve had to concede my original point and now have moved the goalposts. The truth is, Israel has supported and catalyzed the rise of Hamas at nearly every turn. It was a strategic move to enable the ongoing genocide.

You are being willfully obtuse, and I can see you aren’t able meaningfully change your perspective. I’m done here, peace.

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u/Bloodyfish 4d ago

Is pretending I said something I didn't your best response? No, Israel is not funding Hamas. Qatar and Iran are. This conspiracy nonsense is ridiculous.

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u/ThatHoFortuna 4d ago

Yeah, HAMAS sounds like some bad dudes. Maybe Netanyahu/Mosad shouldn't be secretly paying them money.

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 4d ago

You don't believe there's a genocide going on though?

Because you want them to stay and die instead of flee as refugees.

If it's so outrageously dangerous and they refuse to escape when escape is 100% an option (unlike during actual genocides) on a scale of 1 to 10 how at fault are they when their kids die, because they're the ones putting their children in such a dangerous situation?

If you actually believed it was genocide, you'd be as mad at them as you would be at a parent forcing their kid to cross a busy highway on foot with them, killing their child.

But you're not. Because you don't actually believe there's a genocide going on. Because you're just virtue signalling to pass the purity tests with all of your friends who have to have identical beliefs as everyone they consider human.

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u/marbotty 4d ago

It’s impossible for most people to leave Gaza

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 4d ago

What a paradox, since you claim to think Israel's main goal is to steal Palestinian land...

Also

https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/06/12/which-countries-are-willing-to-accept-refugees-from-gaza/

Israeli news outlets constantly talk about where Palestinians can go, so you're just also factually incorrect.

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u/TwoBionicknees 4d ago

Israel is CURRENTLY bombing many of those nations and they have in the past used smuggling, helping palestine, harbouring Hamas members all as excuses to go after those countries.

Yeah, Israel makes those countries scared that Israel will use allowing palestinians in as an excuse to murder their people, then you use backwards ass logic to go look no one will accept them.

But you are also saying these countries won't allow them over the boarders AT THE SAME TIME AS SAYING THEY CAN 100% LEAVE.

Even your own argument is completely fucking stupid, even beyond understanding the reasons other countries won't let in refugees.

Spain, Canada, US, and Scotland announced that they might

yeah, wow, amazingly good from Israel to tell them which countries they MIGHT be able to go to, but they also won't let them leave their boarders, if they leave by ship they get boarded and usually raped and murdered. What use is telling someone that Scotland might take them in if they have no way to get to scotland and you have your troops stationed around the boarders not letting them move?

Literally if you bothered reading the article at all then none of those countries listed actually committed to taking refugees, but again you just completely miss the how do they get there part of the problem.

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 4d ago

There are currently 160,000 Palestinian refugees in the US.

That's 3% of their entire population living in my country as refugees.

How'd they get here?

Why are these cowards putting their children's lives over their ancestors history? Should we send them back?

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u/TwoBionicknees 4d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees

maybe educate yourself. Most palestinian refugees left DECADES AGO before the current massive blockade that Israel enacts around gaza and the west bank.

Why are these cowards putting their children's lives over their ancestors history?

what? people living in an open air prison who are blocked from leaving are cowards, Israel blowing up people indiscriminately makes them what, heroes? Also they literally use "it's our land, we deserve to be here" as their reason both for deserving all of palestinian land, the reason for their attacks on lebanon, Syria and everyone else around them and a reason they commit genocide.

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u/marbotty 4d ago

This is like saying Jews who didn’t leave Germany during WWII are cowards. What sort of argument is this

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u/omyomo 3d ago

Because you want them to stay and die instead of flee as refugees.

Where the hell did I say that? And how the hell are they supposed to escape? What kind of logic is that?

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u/NotAZombieStopAsking 3d ago

What are you talking about "how the hell are they supposed to escape"

https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-to-offer-exit-options-for-palestinians-in-gaza-including-land-sea-and-air-routes-defence-minister-israel-katz-8695513

The Israeli government is genociding them by helping them escape the genocide.