I think this guy is an entertainment puffball who is not cut out to have sophisticated opinions on anything or any opinions about sophisticated matters, but he is fast becoming a textbook case on how that doesn’t matter because you can’t simply throw up your hands at genocide and say “I’m not a political person.”
World War II was also the most geopolitically complex issue on the planet.
“genocide bad” is not complex at all, actually.
I always try to give people the benefit of doubt. But now he’s said too much for that to apply.
The entirety of Palestine, Gaza, and Israel is complex. Though, it has to be said, part of that is because Israel has done everything in their power to keep it “complex”. When serious progress was being made in the early years of their nation. Their response was to assassinate the mediator. Yes. Really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte (Oh I mean… It was totally these extremists, a rebel group, and in no way was Israel involved, they investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing!)
The Israeli genocide in Gaza however. Is not very complex. It’s quite simple. It’s a genocide. And they need to be held accountable. Though I wouldn’t hold my breath.
It’s not that complex Ed, just look at Elon Musk and Steve Bannon. They know how to express exactly what they mean.
Almost sounds like you have reservations about being a spineless pos.
The only thing making it complex is that Jews were the victims of a genocide too. Nothing more to it than humans not learning from history.
Solving the conflict between a poor and powerless Palestine and the nuclear power of Israel IS one of the most complex political issues. Not only, but also because of the power-imbalance and generational hate on both sides.
The genocide in Gaza is decidedly NOT complex though. Yes it is a part of that entire thing, but the fact that the IDF is committing crimes against humanity is as simple as can be.
Also : He tried playing the victim for a bit.
Why is anyone surprised?
At least he didn’t support this guy:
Person A: You don’t love me anymore?
Person B: It is complicated.
Person A: really!?
Yep. Gaza is not a complex issue. It is overwhelmingly simple. Genocide is a black-and-white issue with zero wiggle room. It is unquestionably evil. Israel has been committing genocide for decades.
The intention of the Zionist movement was to displace Arabs in Palestine since the very beginning. (Ze’ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923.)
If anyone calls Gaza a political issues they are already taking a stance. Genocide isn’t political.
Hey Ed, you are talented but you are a horrible human being. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart.
My first thought when he said that.
Kids dying isn’t complex bro. Like isn’t he fuckin Irish?
Kids dying is the end product of an extremely complex political situation. What’s difficult for you to understand here?
Israel is murdering children daily, intentionally. Please explain how that is complex? Just follow your own fucking ceasefire and stop murdering children and let fucking aid in and stop murdering journalists. See how un-fucking-complicated it is?
Or is there a complex reason that should keep going?
Israel is murdering children daily, intentionally. Please explain how that is complex?
Reducing the whole problem to “Israel is murdering kids” is, ironically, childish. Do you think that adults are not suffering over there? Does kids dying diminish the deaths of adults? I don’t think it does.
Fixing that problem is not “just stop murdering children”.
Should Israel respect the ceasefire and let humanitarian aid in? Absolutely true, unequivocally. Does that have any bearing on the fact that fundamentalists of the region (on both sides) will still do everything in their power to cause chaos and death, and further divide between the people living in the region? Also absolutely true.
And that’s why this is a “complex political situation”. Because fundamentalists in Israel want to eliminate Palestinians, fundamentalists in Palestine want to eliminate Israel, russia and Iran are funding the latter to sow chaos and destabilise the region, Saudis and the West are supporting the former because Israel is the stronger power and overall more stable (if nothing else: it had a couple of elections since 2006), and there’s probably a billion other elements at play here.
