As far as I’m concerned they’re there the same reason; ethnonationalism is a coherent ideology. But explaining that to them is not going to get me anywhere.
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It’s possible that his views were conflicted.
I have family whose politics I understand pretty well, and I don’t know who they voted for. What I do know is that they were torn between: “Trump’s blatant antisemitism is a danger to us here in America” and “Trump is good for Israel”.
homura1650@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was bornEnglish2·9 days agoThe problem in Gaza is not a lack of money; or even a lack of food. It is the regional superpower using its overwhelming military support to block food entry and distribution. While explicitly blocking all organizations with a history and track record of successful aid provisioning in challenging war zones. Then replacing it with their own potenkin aid agency as members of their senior leadership talk openly about using starvation as a weapon of war.
Even in the most charitable reading, donations like this do nothing to help on net. Assuming it is not an outright scam, you are just giving this one family some of the limited supply of food in Gaza. That means that you are depriving someone else in Gaza that food; because you did not actually introduce more food; and, one way or another, that food was going to get eaten.
Adding more money to the equation does help fund the gangs running the food black market. I don’t mean to imply that such gangs are responsible for the crisis (they are not), or even that they are inherently bad (in a well run system, profit oriented local groups providing last mile distribution can be helpful). But, in this case, they are at best neutral.
homura1650@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was bornEnglish11·9 days agoIf by “Nazi”, you mean the ~8 million registered members of the Nazi party, then to a first approximation, we left them alone.
And people do not simply die of hunger. A healthy human can go about a month without food. Granted, your body will start eating itself, and you’ll be more likely to die to all the other things that can kill in a warzone. But starvation itself takes ages to kill; and will do massive damage to you prior to being lethal.