I was in the workforce at the age of 10 and can read at a post secondary level so I am unsure what this has to do with literacy rates.

I was pointing out why they were wrong, not that it cannot happen elsewhere.

21% of the country is clinically illiterate. In the remaining 79%, 54% read at or below a 6th grade level. This means that about 75% of US adults are functionally or clinically illiterate.

This impacts their ability to think critically because they cannot comprehend the “facts” they are told to read because the language is above that of a 6th grader allowing propaganda to flourish.

Not every country has an illiteracy rate of 75%, so it isn’t a shock that US citizens were wrong about something.

The reason I brought up the countries you aren’t willing to talk about is because the parallels are important. What is happening in Israel is no different than any of those other countries, and the “reason” you are looking for is simple and you seem to want it to be complicated. It isn’t.

Whether it is Russia, Israel, North Korea, China, USA, Iran, or any other hostile nation is unimportant and they are all the same when boiled down. You can claim it is entrenched in Russians, but I wonder why you don’t make the same claim for the other countries that are just as entrenched in their beliefs. Modern Israelis and Palestinians included.

Radicalized populations don’t just appear out of thin air, requiring intense propaganda and violence to work. There isn’t anything more to understand that the narrative is what it is, and it is repeated ad nauseam by ignorant populations because they think it will keep them safe. They don’t care what you or the “world” thinks of them when they believe they are in an existential crisis.

I don’t think you will get a good faith answer so I will try to help. I don’t support what Israel is doing, but I am technically “Pro-Israel” because I believe in a two state solution. This means I am also very Pro-Palestine, just to be clear and we should be celebrating a Palestine independence day in 2025 with no excuse for why we shouldn’t be.

The explanation for the behavior and defense of Genocide is simple: willful ignorance due to unwavering support brought on by a massive propaganda campaign both locally and globally. It is very easy to fall for that sides rhetoric because of how complicated the history of the area is, and to be frank, most people aren’t intelligent enough to get into the conversation but do it anyways without a single fact to back up their arguments.

What is happening is no different than Russia, US, China, North Korea and the like. The majority in those populations follow the leader, allowing those leaders to commit atrocities.

The Likud party doesn’t expect anyone to interpret that rhetoric as anything else but what it is. At this point they are fully backed by the US in what they are doing and no longer give a fuck about global support because they don’t need it.

There is no good faith argument to support Israel actions, and anyone arguing for the Likud party is always on the wrong side. It will always be bad faith and in support of monsters.

He likes to dine with Nazis, and we all know the old adage about Nazis at a dinner table.

Who would have thought TikTok was feeding information to the Chinese Government as required by Chinese law in order to be a Chinese company?

Oh right…

Everyone who isn’t an addict.

You sure do like to cherry pick and blast incel rhetoric eh?

Don’t worry about further response, you aren’t worth the time.

Victims of abuse are victims who need external assistance.

You may better understand what someone is saying if you respond to their whole sentence and not just the part you wanted to attack.

Abuse is abuse regardless of how small you as an outsider perceive it. Women in relationships with assholes who believe they should have no rights are always being abused by the aforementioned asshole.

I have a feeling if we ever get to speaking with whales they are going to have a lot of words for us.

No one values human life in this situation.

If anyone did they would pull support for both parties, step in with a coalition of 3rd party military and mediators, and handle the situation like it should have been handled for the last century.

Unfortunately that would upset the UAE if we took their geopolitical pawns off the board and the only thing “Western” governments care about is oil and money so we cannot be doing that.

The question is, what isn’t?

I would bet good money on this having come up in the conversation as a “valid” argument. Mother fuckers probably gave the guy a standing ovation. haha

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years.

Nice analogy.

…against a backdrop of questions about Joe Biden’s mental sharpness.

How to spot a worthless article 101:

Step 1: It includes absolutely irrelevant information designed to push a narrative at all times.

Step 2: It was published by “The Guardian”.