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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:25:07 -0700
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:28:55 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 6/7/2024 1:01 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>
>>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are
>>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for
>>> Hamas, killing is always win-win.
>> 
>> The Muslims don't describe Jew as heretics (which is pretty much a term 
>> used only by Christians to describe other Christians). Jews and 
>> Christian are seen as also people of the book - if not quite of the same 
>> book as Muslims - and don't get persecuted by Muslims on theological 
>> grounds.
>> 
>> Hamas doesn't make any kind of sense, any more than Donald Trump does. 
>> Like him, they are performance artists who will do pretty much anything 
>> to get the attention they crave.
>> 
>
>But for better or worse if Trump's supporters violently butchered 1300 
>people in the US (not a difficult event to imagine...) every Democrat 
>would be demanding an immediate cease fire and asking for unity and 
>sending thoughts and prayers, not dispatching the strike fighters out to 
>level the Mar-a-Lago Club and half of Palm Beach along with it.
>
>The right's politicians have spent 30 years playing to Republicans most 
>vicious and violent revenge fantasies while the Dems always tell me why 
>I can't have what I want because it might anger the wingnuts (they 
>always are.) the Dems could learn a bit about how to run a campaign from 
>them.
>

Tribal ranting is always easier than thinking.