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yeah!

Hear hear. One of the most dispiriting aspects of the response to Oct. 7 has been that everyone seems to want to relitigate 1918, 1948, 1967, all of modern history to decide which group "deserves" that patch of land, with the implicit assumption that whoever has the stronger historical case is more justified when it kills a whole lot of the other side's innocent people. As if the answer to "it's ok to kill a lot of innocent people because ________" could ever be just. As if some ethnic group or worse state has rights that supersede mere morality. May we be blessed with a better world.

and before you know it, you're committed to the idea that the only just world is one where we're each a state unto ourselves, perfectly safe in absolute isolation from one another — no society, no coming together across difference to lighten the burden of living, just infinite atomization, the perfect unending unwinnable war of all against all

this part really really resonated with me. it's so good and applicable to so many political theses. it really gets to the self-destructive core of that ideology. love this post sm ❤️

this whole post is great but i want to specifically call out footnote 6 about fear as being really really good. my conservative/fashy family live in a state of almost constant fear and horror.

This post is really good but it was hard to read some of the longer footnotes with no paragraph breaks