• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    That’s because all of that is immaterial to my point which is that any opposition party in the USA should not be lead by people who think the Houthi Militia are worth supporting.

    The Houthi have no moral high ground in a war they started just like America could have no high ground in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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      That’s because all of that is immaterial to my point which is that any opposition party in the USA should not be lead by people who think the Houthi Militia are worth supporting.

      That’s a very convenient principle to have when opposing the indiscriminate bombing of civilians is conflated with support for terrorism. Just because I don’t think we should be bombing them doesn’t mean I support the Houthis, and I don’t have to align myself with them to acknowledge that they are right to enact an economic blockade against Israel to pressure them to stop their genocide.

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        8 days ago

        Again my point was that I would want any opposition party in the USA to have enough awareness of global politics to know The Houthi Militia will not get US support

        The Houthi are not making a blockade. They are murdering sailors on boats and claiming solidarity with Palestine.

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          Again my point was that I would want any opposition party in the USA to have enough awareness of global politics to know The Houthi Militia will not get US support

          And again, there’s a whole lot of room between giving the Houthis US support and bombing every civilian who happens to be in close proximity to them.

          The Houthi are not making a blockade. They are murdering sailors on boats and claiming solidarity with Palestine.

          Which is worse, violently resisting a genocide or enacting one? I don’t think the Houthis should be murdering sailors, but even though they are overzealous in this instance they still clearly have the moral high ground, not because they are particularly moral but because the bar has been set so low.