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[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The recent US and UK actions can be taken as examples on how to cure the symptom while making the disease worse

[–] BB69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Here’s an idea:

The Houthi’s can just not launch missiles at ships

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.

Why are the Houthi's committing violence?

I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.

Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.

Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren't launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of 'militant rebels'.

[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This what? These people are religious fanatics so self absorbed in superstition and nonsense that they will literally blow themselves up and kill a bunch of people just out having breakfast because they don't like the hours of operation one group sets for a pile of rocks some other group wants to visit on one day but not on another day. It is their utter lack of empathy and rationality that makes them evil pieces of shit. They aren't fucking freedom fighters standing up for innocent people. They are morons who want religious control over their own people and every other person, absolute male domination of women in society, minority rule, and the ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from the middleeast.

With the support of useful idiots as you, of course.

[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which books or sources have you read or studied to classify a sub set of people in such a precise manner?

They who, first of all

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 4 points 1 year ago

read

Come on man you don't have to murder him like that.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Houthi are the Proud Boys of Yemen.

After 1/6, instead of arresting the insurrectionists, maybe we should have bought more Proud Boys merchandise? That's your solution to religious extremists attempting to overthrow the government?

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yemen's chief export is Proud Boys merch?

Didn't know that.

Thanks for informing me and not just being a murderous troll.

If that's the case, just nuke Yemen. Explosives are the only real fix for social issues.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was comparing religious extremists in the US who attempted to overthrow the US government with the Houthi who are doing the same in Yemen. The Houthi aren't the official Yemen government. They are a religious faction who are attempting to overthrow the Yemeni government.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then why did you take my point, employ and empower legitimate Yemen businesses and buy their chief export, flip it around, and say that I was suggesting buying Proud Boy's merch?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I interpreted it as supporting the Houthi. That is buy Houthi products from Houthi businesses.

You didn't say Yemeni in your reply.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren't launching missiles

But we got there eventually. All good bro.

[–] Szymon@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

Spending 1.2 billion on bombing campaigns keeps 1.2 billion in the American economy. Giving another country 600 million only exports money from their grasp.

Peace is not the point of the war machine.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

And the US could just stop funding Netanyahu's war in Gaza.

[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good idea! Here's another: UK and US stop interferring in middle east (FYI the palestine problem was worsened by magnitudes by the UK mandate)

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't even know where to begin with this idiocy.

[–] MSgtRedFox 7 points 1 year ago

Hey, the navy needs to keep their button pushing skills sharp /s

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Ansar Allah are acting in accordance to international laws and treaties and are trying to stop the genocide in Gaza.

[–] MSgtRedFox 1 points 1 year ago