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[a military jet flies in the sky, with ISRAEL labeled on it]
[a bomb falls from the plane, with the word NUANCE labeled on it]
[a kid looks at the bomb coming at it, with the label PALESTINIAN KID above him]
https://thebad.website/comic/a_nuanced_take_on_the_israelpalestine_conflict
Some people really be seeing genocide images and saying "yeah this is why the left lost an election", then complaining there's not enough nuance in the Israel/Palestine discourse when their shit take is called out for being a shit take.
This one was made in reaction to Contrapoints' take on the topic, but sadly, it's not just her.
Do you still have the link to the Contrapoints video? I usually like her takes, so this sounds disappointing.
Not a video, it was this Reddit post by Contrapoints.
She doesn't really seem to be saying there's much nuance. What she is saying is she doesn't know how to make an entertaining video with the mess, she doesn't want to accidentally contribute to anti-semitism (by having it lumped in with anti-Zionism), and she feels like just screaming about it online doesn't actually help Palestinians. You can argue about whether these points should really stop her from making a video, but it doesn't mean she thinks Israel is justified from some angle.
My issue is "the real issue is people who are doing activism wrong (but I won't do any activism on this topic myself)" and the whole bit about hurting zionist feelings.
Being a jew who lost a lot of his sense of community as zionism took over following oct. 7, I don't like her take at all.
This is pure propaganda to slander the Israel army. They do not drop bombs on kids standing in open fields. They drop bombs on hospitals and homes to make sure that one bomb kills more than 1 child and even if it doesn’t kill them, it destroys the economy.
Yeah, they're not that wasteful with the bombs we buy them!
This meme is totally ignorant slander against israel.
That child would be gut/genital shot by a sniper and left screaming to attract medics for a secondary strike. Obviously. It's an open field.
Dont worry I'm sure the EU/US condemning netenyahu the 34861th time will fix this, I'm sure of it
Honestly I'm not surprised they're doing jackshit, after all, why would the US/EU want to sanction its own colony in the middle east?
One more strongly worded letter.
"we cant put sanctions. If we put sanctions we close channels of talking with the Israelis" Unfortunately the actual "argumentation" of the German government.
Gosh some of my siblings keep going on about nuance and how well researched they are (implying I am not) and then telling me palestinians are just as bad as israel (they both do violence, and violence is always bad actually 🙄)
nuance is when both sides bad!
Yooooo what's that smug emoji I love it
Use :smug: and it should do it (I think only the default UI supports this sadly)
I randomly add emojis sometimes for fun, I oughta make a community for users to make their own lol
Awesome !
There's a bunch of smug emojis here, if you want more : https://thebad.website/comic/custom_emojis
Yes please 
Beautiful!
9/10
you forgot the fact the land isn’t flat but already full of bomb craters and rubble
Yeah was just a quickie that I sketched in a hurry so I could post it in a Reddit thread… but the thread got locked before I could.
Said thread (warning, links to Reddit) : "canceled for nuance"
Otherwise I'd have added all the crumbling buildings, bomb craters, and a whole family of kids. Sadly, that's how it really is.
I didn’t seriously mean you shoyld have added that lol. Like it’s tough to draw. Mostly just was adding that context in a weird way ahah. Continue like you do. Your postings are good!
Thanks❤️
I get that it's a slight against enlightened centrists huffing on their "civilized debate" fumes they just breathed out, but how much does it really matter?
It's not like if everyone magically acknowledged that Israel is committing a genocide, we're all going to organize just for that and overthrow our bourgeoisie states just for funding them. Having a couple more activists doing adventurism or protests won't do anything either as history shows time and time again (in fact, the former tends to make things worse).
Both workers and influencers are powerless in this regard, unless the state of current things changes.
I thought this was c/noncredibledefense at first