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BurnDoubt

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3. Dirty business for many generations thanks to Colonialism...

Reply to lees1975 (Original post)

Mon May 26, 2025, 02:16 AM

May 26

that's History. What should be compelling is the scale of atrocity meted out to people whose only crime is to try to survive where the have no other choice in where to live. The only thing that is really true here is that the hatred born and bred by barbarity will come back again and again because the only tool in the toolbox has NEVER... Never... Never been effective except to create MORE HATE. Armed to the teeth and out of ideas. Ruled by DumbFucks.

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When Holocaust survivors speak out against the war in Gaza, and call it "genocide," [View all] lees1975 May 25 OP

Two totally unrelated topics. Beastly Boy May 26 #1

Sorry, but you are wrong lees1975 May 26 #2

I beg to differ. Beastly Boy May 26 #4

Thanks for begging. But that doesn't help your argument. lees1975 May 26 #5

I tried to be nice. It's time I start insisting. Beastly Boy May 26 #7

You're pushing propaganda. lees1975 May 26 #8

That's it? That's th extent of your knowledge of history? Go read a book? Beastly Boy May 26 #9

Dirty business for many generations thanks to Colonialism... BurnDoubt May 26 #3

When the major powers are involved, resolutions to problems in various parts of the world are always one-sided. lees1975 May 26 #11

It may take generations after a decision to forget the wounds of the past... BurnDoubt May 26 #12

Be informed. lees1975 May 26 #6

Ok, I get it now. You are peddling a book. Beastly Boy May 26 #10

History is always written from the perspective of the powerful, the favored, the wealthy, the conqueror. lees1975 May 26 #13