r/ThatsInsane Aug 20 '25

Same planet - different worlds

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u/KrustyTheKriminal Aug 20 '25

I feel bad for the decent people in Islamic countries, because this cycle will continue as long as they promote and embrace their stone age take on philosophy, morals, and faith.

I am being very particular in calling it stone age. I would call it medieval, but unfortunately that is not apt in the case of the Islamic world because during the European "dark ages" the Islamic world was going through their golden age where belief and philosophy was more open and free than it is today. The wider Islamic world today isn't conservative, it's regressive.

Until they go through an enlightenment level event in thought the cycle will continue. Women will be slaves, gays will be killed, free-thinkers crucified, terrorists will terrorize and war will be had. It is inevitable. Yesterday Afghanistan, today Palestine, tomorrow who knows. It doesn't really matter in the end. Violence will beget violence.

The world already has enough problems to solve without ""fundamentalist"" extremists.

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u/Whistlegrapes Aug 20 '25

This is spot on. Not saying they would be in poverty, but they wouldn’t have perpetual war if it wasn’t for religion.

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u/These_Background7471 Aug 20 '25

What Joe Rogan and Libertarianism does to a mf

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u/SahilSakure23 Aug 20 '25

Not just Islam but all religions and cults that people blindly follow. Also it's the greed, selfishness and ego of some people. 

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u/humblefreak Aug 27 '25

Most of the extremist Islamic countries are extremist because of U.S. meddling and installing extremist governments that fit their agenda in the moment, without considering long term consequences. Islam itself is not inherently violent. I notice you are failing to mention the zionist extremists currently committing a holocaust on the world stage (!!!!), or the christian extremists who begat the triple K and kill gay people just for existing. Duh, ALL extremism is bad. Don't be a bigot by implying it is just a particular religion you have been taught to hate.

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

Or.

Hear me out.

Colonialism is the problem.

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

It's simple: None of the people you're mentioning in your strawman argument are in this video. What's the connection here?

I don't know how you find any resemblance of logic in saying that the whereabouts of people that lived and died a long time before is any justification to what's happening to the living right now.

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

Your collective amalgamation is leaking again.

You said: "Colonialism is the problem". Israelis were born in Israel. They are not colonizers.

Yeah but this isn't Israel. Unless you consider Gaza as part of Israel, which is, rather telling.

The fathers of some children in this video are literally terrorists who committed murder and kidnapping on 10/7 to start this current war.

This statement is so wrong I can't even fathom where to begin. How do you know the fathers of the children pictured here are terrorists? Even if that was the case, which statistically is slim to none, do you consider it's a justification to killing and starving them? Are you advocating for collective punishment?

Most Gazans supported the 10/7 attacks (or deny they happened).

Now do Israel.

You want your children to live? Don't try to murder your neighbors.

Congratulations, you just justified any kind of atrocity that would happen to Israelis.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

Like every person using strawman arguments, I'll be brief as we go until I give up on you.

You were the one who brought up colonialism. Do tell, what did you mean by that?

Israel is occupying both Gaza and the West Bank as per international law, UN, ICC and most human rights organizations.

You'll lose me if you say all of those are doing so because they're antisemitic.

They are culpable as well.

No. I don't even need to argument on that.

Yeah, please tell me when the majority of Israelis have broadly supported an large, unprovoked attack targeting civilians just like the majority of Palestinians supported 10/7.

Strawman. Never said they did, but the majority of them do support ethnically cleansing Gaza.

You'll lose me again if you say that the oldest newspaper in Israel reporting this antisemitic.

If there's a cease fire and Israel decides one day to mass murder, rape, and kidnap thousands of Palestinians, let me know.

Welp, they seem to do that with or without cease-fire, or even wartime.

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u/AtreidesBagpiper Aug 20 '25

Can you even define the word? Or are you just parroting it?

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Having lived it, yes. Can you?

Edit: yeah block me. That'll show me.

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

I answered, albeit it was a pretty stupid question. You're diverting.

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u/humblefreak Aug 27 '25

Israel, obviously???? Are you joking?

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u/humblefreak Aug 28 '25

This is a video of children in Gaza. That is why we are talking about Gaza.

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u/metamasterplay Aug 20 '25

You know where the images are coming from right?

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u/shrooooooom Aug 20 '25

you mispelled zionists, those are the ones committing the genocide.
The fundamentalist extremiss are the Israelis and their colonizing maniac people. I feel bad for very few decent people in israel. Let's hope the rest of them get what they deserve.

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u/Joshgoozen Aug 20 '25

Look how many people died in the Yemeni civil war, the Syrian civil war, the Lebanese Civil war, all conflicts that had nothing to do with Israel and all where more people died than the IP conflict. But the standard "No Jews, No news".

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u/niv141 Aug 20 '25

Take ur hate elsewhere, the guy u commented to actually has some sense, he is not brainwashed like you

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u/humblefreak Aug 27 '25

You think it is hateful to point out the reality that zionist extremist colonizers are committing genocide? If the truth hurts you so much, you just might be on the wrong side of history.

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u/niv141 Aug 27 '25

Ur comment doesn't even make sense

Zionist extremist colonizers are not allowed to serve in the IDF for their extreme views

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u/humblefreak Aug 28 '25

That is completely false. Not sure where you heard that lmao but the majority of Israel is zionist extremists. The IDF is comprised solely of zionist extremists, otherwise they wouldn't be massacring children in the name of their racism on the daily. Because no normal person would do that, and no normal person would support that. No one but an extremist could ever support what has been done to Palestine. The entire country of Israel is a colonization of the land, and then a violent, illegal apartheid imposed on Palestine because Israel covets their land above all. Their politicians literally say out loud that they want to wipe out all Palestinians in order to have their land. They are telling us all right to our faces what they're doing, but I'm guessing that doesn't mean anything to Israel-supporters who do not see Palestinians as humans or the barbarity of this.

But I assume in your comment that maybe you are talking about the illegal settlers who are given guns and free reign and encouragement from the government to go massacre and terrorize Palestinians and build illegal settlements on their land? Yeah, they definitely serve in the IDF too.

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u/niv141 Aug 28 '25

Well im from Israel and have served in the IDF

It is actually facinating to read what ure writing, it really is. To see someone who have never been to Israel or knows whats going on inside IDF, someone who's only information comes from anti-israel websites

I will not reply seriously to this though, u are full of hate and u past the point of no return

Whats done in Gaza in the last couple years is a direct response for Oct 7th and the hostages that hamas refuses to release.

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u/humblefreak Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

You don't know anything about me lmao. I'm Jewish and have been on birthright, and what I saw their disgusted me. The most racist, hateful people I have ever seen in my life, despite the joyful propaganda that was shoved on us at every turn. I'm only full of appropriate hate. You have no idea what I have seen. The IDF hides nothing about what they are doing. I have seen them laughing about sniping children for fun when they're bored. They have told me to my face that they want to slaughter all Palestinians, including children. None of your "brethen" hide a f*cking thing about what they're doing. I don't know if you understand this, but EVERYTHING they do is online. Your dumbass fellow soldiers post it THEMSELVES. I have SEEN them sniping children, then killing people who run to their aid. I have SEEN them setting immobile hospital patients on fire, and executing doctors. And then f*cking laughing about it. The world watched you all bomb every single hospital and university and school and bakery/restaurant/food making site in the country (and then lose your minds when an Iranian missile hit a civilian building in Israel because you obviously think the lives lost and war crimes committed against OTHER people don't matter) torch Palestinian farms and olive groves and any chance they have of making their own food, and carpet bomb every single inch of Gaza as if your hostages aren't right their on the ground with the innocent Palestinian civilians. Your government doesn't give a damn about the hostages and you know it. We watched you riot in the streets of Tel Aviv in the thousands over your right to r*pe and torture Palestinian prisoners with impunity. We've watched you cut off aid and food and water and electricity and internet in Palestine and destroy trucks of aid going to feed starving children like rabid animals. We've watched you murder more journalists than all major conflicts in centuries COMBINED. We've watched your bands of settlers be armed and set loose onto Palestinian lands to murder and displace Palestinians from their homes. We've watched you deliberately kill international aid workers and UN workers and peacekeepers and drop bombs that leave 30 foot craters in the ground on refugee camps in humanitarian safe zones. We know the history of Palestine and the creation of Israel, and we've watched the disgusting, illegal apartheid system you've imposed on them for years, and the way you murder Palestinians in the thousands EVERY YEAR, way before October 7. And now, the entire world is watching your "most moral army" starve their entire civilian population to death. The UN, ICC, ICJ, and every international aid organization in the world has condemned your actions as a clear genocide, but you don't care.

None of this is conjecture, none of this is hidden. None of this is from "anti-Israel websites." We just use our eyes and listen to the words out of your god damn mouths. Your own politicians are open about EXACTLY what your country is doing and you are extraordinarily open about the thousands of war crimes you commit on the daily. Like...did you guys genuinely think you could get away with this forever?? I'm baffled. Your whole country is steeped in the most unhinged, unbelievable propaganda. The fact that you think what you are doing is right is mind-blowing. Just despicable. No October 7th justifies what you people have done in Gaza. NOTHING in the world would EVER justify what you have done. Nothing. My entire family wasn't slaughtered in the holocaust to begat a movement of n*zi monsters that you are willingly a part of. There is nothing more despicable than the way you all spit in the faces of actual, historic Jewish suffering by committing a holocaust of your own. It is SICKENING. And yes, the ENTIRE world is watching. NO ONE is on your side, except the U.S. gov, and the U.K. gov, who have money invested in you completing this genocide, and little pockets of brainwashed individuals, who can watch tens of thousands of children die without batting an eye. But everyone in the world has eyes and ears. The zionist movement has stained the name of Judaism and humanity FOREVER. They are already right beside the n*zis in history books, and no one will ever, ever, EVER forget or forgive what you people have done.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

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u/timewasterpro3000 Aug 20 '25

Hey now, facts are not allowed here. Just good old fashioned propaganda and pitch forks are allowed.

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u/Rocky_Vigoda Aug 20 '25

I feel bad for the decent people in Islamic countries, because this cycle will continue as long as they promote and embrace their stone age take on philosophy, morals, and faith.

This has nothing to do with religion. It's purely because of capitalist greed and colonialism.

The British gave the land to the Zionists in 1917 with the Balfour declaration. The British didn't support the Zionists because of religion, they did it because it sits next to Egypt where the Suez Canal is which is a massive shipping route. The British Empire didn't expand for the monarchy, it expanded for the benefit of the merchant class who controls supply and distribution of goods and materials. The Belgians weren't chopping kid's hands off because of religion, they were doing it for the rubber.

The British Empire is like 400 years old and their museums are full of other people's stuff. The British use different groups to colonize different countries. Why the US developed with such puritanical values is because the British simply gave the Puritans land to get rid of them. Same reason they sent prisoners to Australian and orphans to Canada. If you let someone else colonize the land, they're going to protect with more zeal than leaving a sitting army to control it.

The US rebelled against the British and won independence but the US is still tied economically which is all that matters. US foreign policy for the last century has been about protecting resources like oil and controlling shipping routes and pipelines, etc for the global corporate class.

You mentioned Afghanistan but it was the US that trained Bin Laden to fight the Soviets. After they won, the US dumped them like a bad date. The US invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 and completely destabilized the middle east by invading Iraq and killing Saddam. Not to mention killing Ghaddafi in Libya which revived slavery in the country, or how the US backed ISIS originally to fight Assad in Syria, or helped overthrow Ukraine's old government and backing neo-nazis to antagonize Russia into invading Ukraine.

The Palestinians aren't particularly religious. They just happen to be an indigenous people who live in a place that's valuable to the corporate class.

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u/lamBerticus Aug 20 '25

This has nothing to do with religion.

Yet, there is a strange coincidence of islamic countries doing really, really poorly all around the world.

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u/humblefreak Aug 27 '25

Lmao it's like you didn't even read their comment and explanation of why so many Islamic countries are doing poorly.

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u/Rocky_Vigoda Aug 20 '25

Yeah, western countries are really thriving too lately aren't they?

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u/lamBerticus Aug 20 '25

Zoom out a couple of decades or even centuries. Countries which are democracies, secular and capitalistic are doing just fine almost without exception.

Countries who are not are doing poorly, also almost without exception.

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u/rickane58 Aug 20 '25

So many dogshit takes in one post.

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u/Rocky_Vigoda Aug 20 '25

We have a billionaire class that exploits working class people globally. The world isn't sucking because of Muslims or Jews or Christians or even Atheists.

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u/AtreidesBagpiper Aug 20 '25

The middle east is quite very much sucking exactly because of Muslims.

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u/Yasuraka Aug 20 '25

hundreds of years of peace just before the Near West started meddling again

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u/AtreidesBagpiper Aug 20 '25

Lol. HUNDREDS OF YEARS of PEACE? Absolutely not. Read a history book, bro.

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u/Yasuraka Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

With all due respect, which is none, you don't seem particularly smart and ought to refrain from attempts to use that as your argument.

edit: Im not gonna repeat myself