You trust fire to keep you warm when you’re camping, even after all the people it’s burned to death?
Trust is not a binary, and talking about “trusting” a government like I would trust a friend is classic liberal political illiteracy. Plants, animals, natural phenomena, laws of physics: I trust everything to act according to it’s nature, and in the case of thinking beings and organizations I trust them to act in their interests. If I know what their interest is, I can trust my predictions. Where those interests overlap, there is a basis for cooperation. This is why, for example, leftists are able to critically support groups like Hamas while liberals remain hamstrung by racist suspicion: leftists understand that despite the differences we have these groups can be trusted to act against our common enemy out of a shared interest in survival and self-determination. Liberals demand impossible perfection from resistance while tolerating outright fascism from their own side, but delude themselves into thinking they are “equally critical” of all sides. Nobody believes you when you do this.
Oh that’s right, just YOUR selection of governments would never lie nope. Only the Americans ever lie lol
Yet more projection from the “facts are Russian propaganda” people, the people who conveniently believe every atrocious lie their government tells about the designated enemy of the week when it’s important, only to turn around when it’s too late to matter and say “well of course I never believed that.” Opposing every aggression except the current one, pretending to be impartial while acting predictably as “reluctant” cheerleaders of empire under the Churchillian delusion that “our government is the worst, except for all the others”. It would be so much less disgusting if you would simply be honest with yourselves about being partisans for western empire like the rest of the right wingers, but instead you cling to this threadbare pretense of being above political struggle when anyone with eyes in their fucking head can see exactly what side you’re on. People might be less sick of you if you didn’t insist on endlessly projecting your bashful supremacist mindset onto people with actual morals and knowledge, who practice actual criticism instead of just cosplaying it.
Go read a single book and evolve out of the larval fascist stage your political development has been arrested at, and leave geopolitical analysis to the ideological adults.
You trust fire to keep you warm when you’re camping, even after all the people it’s burned to death?
Trust is not a binary, and talking about “trusting” a government like I would trust a friend is classic liberal political illiteracy. Plants, animals, natural phenomena, laws of physics: I trust everything to act according to it’s nature, and in the case of thinking beings and organizations I trust them to act in their interests. If I know what their interest is, I can trust my predictions. Where those interests overlap, there is a basis for cooperation. This is why, for example, leftists are able to critically support groups like Hamas while liberals remain hamstrung by racist suspicion: leftists understand that despite the differences we have these groups can be trusted to act against our common enemy out of a shared interest in survival and self-determination. Liberals demand impossible perfection from resistance while tolerating outright fascism from their own side, but delude themselves into thinking they are “equally critical” of all sides. Nobody believes you when you do this.
Yet more projection from the “facts are Russian propaganda” people, the people who conveniently believe every atrocious lie their government tells about the designated enemy of the week when it’s important, only to turn around when it’s too late to matter and say “well of course I never believed that.” Opposing every aggression except the current one, pretending to be impartial while acting predictably as “reluctant” cheerleaders of empire under the Churchillian delusion that “our government is the worst, except for all the others”. It would be so much less disgusting if you would simply be honest with yourselves about being partisans for western empire like the rest of the right wingers, but instead you cling to this threadbare pretense of being above political struggle when anyone with eyes in their fucking head can see exactly what side you’re on. People might be less sick of you if you didn’t insist on endlessly projecting your bashful supremacist mindset onto people with actual morals and knowledge, who practice actual criticism instead of just cosplaying it.
Go read a single book and evolve out of the larval fascist stage your political development has been arrested at, and leave geopolitical analysis to the ideological adults.
Free Palestine.