No, I mean the people that pulled trigger did and that is their blanket excuse for inexcusable actions.

So you mean like the 13 pages of innocent 1 year olds that Israel killed in Gaza....

The censored the words "jews" and "jihad" used by people they interviewed, because it proved the opposite of their agenda.

Rape. Zionist militias and settlers have been raping Palastinians since 1948. Literally only months ago, Israelis protested en masse for the rights of their thug army to rape Palastinian prisoners to death.

Way to support the genocidal thug state bro!

The 75 years of Israeli genocide, theft, deceit, rape and massacre against the Palestinians definitely make Israel the good guys!

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Eric S. Raymond is an open source legend, author of the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”.

Attached is his opinion on the US elections which I consider very valuable.

by @esrtweet

I hear Kamala Harris has conceded. For just a moment, I'm going to abandon the high-decoupling rationalist stance I normally post from and talk about what I personally wanted from this election and now hope I might get.

For me, a good outcome in this election meant not Trump winning, but his enemies losing.

I'm not MAGA, and not a tribal conservative of either the old-school or new-school kind. I'm a libertarian, and have some serious differences with substance with Trump and his partisans.

Also I have never much liked Trump as a person. He's vulgar and under-controlled; he talks and postures too much and, I think the charge that he's a narcissist has some weight. But...he chooses his enemies well.

I will also admit that I think better of Trump now than I did three months ago. He has demonstrated literal courage under fire, which is an important quality in a man who may need to make life or death decisions about the fate of a nation. I went to see him speak, and I saw a man much calmer and more together than I was expecting.

But I'm not really posting about Trump today, and the only other thing I'm going to say about him is that his most valuable quality is that he enrages evil people into unmasking themselves.

I have believed for decades that the central problem of American politics is defeating the Gramscian long march through our institutions. Covert and not-so-covert Marxists have waged a remarkably successful memetic war. it has many manifestations - blatant bias in the mainstream media, welfare statism, DEI, climate alarmism, transgender ideology, open borders - but the goal is always the same. To cripple and destroy the Main Enemy, the United States of America and everyone in it who loves liberty.

Trump's victory is the worst defeat of the Gramscians in my lifetime. They went all-in with an unprecedented campaign of lies, vitriol, hate propaganda, lawfare, and election rigging. He beat them anyway, and for that he has my respect.

What I want from the immediate aftermath of the election is to rejoice in their agonized screaming. What I want from Trump and Republican control of both houses is follow-through:

1. Impose election security measures so we can't be frauded again.

2. Abolition of every federal firearms law and regulation, including the disbandment of the ATF. We must restore the proper Constitutional order in which the government is frightened of the people, not the reverse.

3. Massive cuts in the reach and power of the administrative state. No unelected bureaucrat should ever have the power to effectively make law.

4. A concerted and conscious attempt to drive the Communists and Communist tools out from everywhere that they have burrowed into our institutions, perhaps starting with the complete defunding of any educational institution that harbors academic Marxists.

Yes, I know, many of these people don't know they're Communist tools. I'm past caring. I've been ready to throw them out of helicopters with my own hands since about 2014, hoping against hope that something would happen to make that kind of violence unnecessary.

Now, maybe, we have a path to defeating them peacefully. I'm not sure Trump fully understands this necessity himself, but there are people close to him - notably Elon Musk and Ron Paul - who I'm pretty sure do.

The first thing we need to do is be able to name the enemy. Conservatives have been cowards about this ever since the Army-McCarthy hearings a few years before I was born. They became afraid to speak about or explicitly oppose Communist infiltration, and we have been paying an increasing price for that cowardice through my entire lifetime.

Conservatives? MAGA people? If you really want to make America great again, make defeat of the Gramscians your cause. Name the enemy. Expose them. Defeat them. They have crippled, divided, and corrupted us for far too long. It's time to take our country back.

What if WOS stopped fearing the US government and let US citizens use their software again?

it is not complicated.

You described an imperative. That does not mean we should glory in or assign moral rectitude to the ritualized (rules of war) mass slaughter of human beings.

This is not some deep philosophy. Life is good. Death is bad. Avoid war. Dont call for it if you are not ready to die in it. this is very simple.

People can't do the kind of math you're talking about because we don't know the future. You can't say this will save 900K lives. The world would be a better place if governments weren't in the business of industrialised, ritualised killing of poor people to make the rich richer, aka war.

What if a war would kill 100k but would save 1m in the long run? What if it kills 1 innocent for every 10 innocents it saves? I just don't get why you have to simply something that is notoriously complicated.

you are playing word games now i think but I will try one last time in case you really dont get it.

avoid war if you want to protect the max number of human lives fren. Life is the ultimate aim. Life and thriving. We need to cheer that.

ok am gonna assume you are sincere in wanting to know the difference.

1. Imperative: In this context, an imperative means something is necessary or unavoidable due to circumstances (e.g., self-defense, protection of innocent lives). This doesn't necessarily imply moral approval or justification for war.

2. Justification: Justifying war implies that the act of waging war is morally acceptable, which can be problematic. War often leads to significant human suffering, and it's essential to question whether the ends (whatever they might be) justify the means.

If I am forced to kill then I will. That is different than saying it was right.

OK then let me explain. Murder apologist is someone who justifies war. That is what you are. There is sometimes an imperative but that is not justification. War is the ritualized and industrialiized slaughter of humans. Do you not grok?

Was not a bug, it was the feelings of conscious people.