this precedent is going to help a lot of people in difficult housing situations, which is a very serious problem right now.

 "Violence never brings peace. History proves this, yet years and years of conflict seem to have taught us nothing." - the pope, recently, when speaking about the oct 7th terrorist attack on israel

what an utterly stupid statement. i would suggest burying the pope in the Neville Chamberlin Cemetery for Failed Statesman when he finally dies. he's going to finally die, right?

history demonstrates that violence is required to protect the world from barbarism and that, without violence, barbarism always wins. the primary recent example is the second world war, which the event he's talking about has some context within, and which the papacy has some responsibility for.

just another nazi pope?

don't listen to the fucking christians, please. they've cause enough fucking problems.

when i talk about decolonization, i'm talking about marx.

when you talk about decolonization, you seem to think it's a code word for "hate whitey".

i support actual decolonization in it's actual marxist meaning, which, in the levant, means kicking the muslims out. to be terse. the muslims are the invaders and the colonizers. the indigenous groups are all christians, pretty much everywhere in the fertile crescent, turkey and egypt (but not in arabia proper or iran).

support for islam in the region is support for imperialism, not some kind of fight against it.

this is a part of the reason that the "nationalist" groups (which were all fascist groups) the soviets used to support in the region were all secular groups. the soviets at least realized the hypocrisy of supporting muslim groups in the region and arguing it's "anti-colonial". the contemporary fake left has no interest in whether it makes any sense or not and doesn't care if it's a mess of incoherent contradictions. it has no real theory.

you have to get the muslims out before you can build a free society, and this is what the anti-imperial movement in the region needs to be about. the fake left has lost the plot.

i'm being obtuse about this to smack you up the head and get the fucking point across.

to be clear: people are talking about the displacement of muslims from southern lebanon as some kind of bad thing. but, that's the outcome i want to see because it's the easy way to decolonize the region. if a million people have really left, they are almost all shia, and that would be pushing to 20% of the population. there's only around five million people in lebanon, and only around two million shia. that would be half the shia population that has left. that's great news.

the mass removal of shia invaders and colonizers from lebanon, where they are not indigenous and do not belong, is what i'm defining as a just outcome. that's why i'm supporting this.

decolonization, in the context of the levant, means deislamicization. that's the proper meaning of the term. by targeting these colonizing invading shia, who are being protected by iran via hezbollah, israel can potentially tip the balance of power in lebanon back towards the indigenous inhabitants and decolonize the region of islamic imperialism. that goal is worth supporting, on it''s face.

to those muslims fleeing lebanon, i say to you: good riddance. don't come back. go back to where you came from.