• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I remember how German citizens were forced to see the concentration camps when the Nazis were defeated.

    With that in mind, Israelis must be forced to see what they have done. All Israelis have to be forced to see the concentration camp. Conscript IDF members to dig bodies out of the rubble. Make them learn the names of the people they murdered. I don’t think support would be nearly as high if they were actually looking.

    Sure there’s some psychopaths but I really think the majority are just indoctrinated and insulated. They could be reeducated.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Sure there’s some psychopaths but I really think the majority are just indoctrinated and insulated. They could be reeducated.

      Nah, Stalin got it right the first time when he said they should execute 50,000 Nazi officers; apply his thinking here and maybe this time don’t be so conservative.

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        9 months ago

        And instead of killing them Dulles and the rest of the Nazi US government gave them jobs in NATO, the CIA, the West German government etc. very cool.

        The more you learn the more the phrase “Nazism wasn’t defeated in WW2, it was internationalised” makes sense.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      They sit on hills in lawn chairs and laugh and cheer as they watch bombs land on children! They have no morals, they are evil and should be executed, they will not feel bad for what they’ve done

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        Imagine for a second what a mass execution on that scale does to the society that perpetrates it, especially those directly doing it. Killing hollows people out. No matter how justified. It hurts the person doing it. I mean thats an underdiscussed problem with the death penalty, the fact that it turns the executioner into a killer. I dont want to share space with someone capable of the coldness necessary to carry out state murder.

        Its simply not practical, even if you think it is justified (and as a strict rehabilitationist, i would argue against that too).

        Also institutions of mass execution have a way of self perpetuating.

        Im fucking infuriated by this article too. And my first gut is blood for blood too. But when i think about the consequences of that, I know its not right.