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I'm tired of this kind of lazy rhetoric.
Why are the Houthi's committing violence?
I have a feeling it has less to do with a foundational nature of evil, and everything to do with a population being impoverished, oppressed, and forgotten.
Instead of spending 1.2 billion dollars bombing them, maybe purchasing 600 million dollars of their chief export would be a better idea.
Empower the legitimate businesses and the people in the region who aren't launching missiles instead of ravaging the region and creating a new generation of 'militant rebels'.
Instead of trusting your feelings and alluding that the Houthis launch missiles "because they're forgotten", you could list the actual reason they've given, which is enforcing a blockade against ships trading with Israel.
Given that statement, I'm sure that the Houthis will stop their strikes when Israel stops their ongoing genocide. The US could have their shipping lanes back if they stop funding and arming a genocide and force a permanent ceasefire.
This.
This what? These people are religious fanatics so self absorbed in superstition and nonsense that they will literally blow themselves up and kill a bunch of people just out having breakfast because they don't like the hours of operation one group sets for a pile of rocks some other group wants to visit on one day but not on another day. It is their utter lack of empathy and rationality that makes them evil pieces of shit. They aren't fucking freedom fighters standing up for innocent people. They are morons who want religious control over their own people and every other person, absolute male domination of women in society, minority rule, and the ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from the middleeast.
With the support of useful idiots as you, of course.
Which books or sources have you read or studied to classify a sub set of people in such a precise manner?
They who, first of all
Come on man you don't have to murder him like that.
The Houthi are the Proud Boys of Yemen.
After 1/6, instead of arresting the insurrectionists, maybe we should have bought more Proud Boys merchandise? That's your solution to religious extremists attempting to overthrow the government?
Yemen's chief export is Proud Boys merch?
Didn't know that.
Thanks for informing me and not just being a murderous troll.
If that's the case, just nuke Yemen. Explosives are the only real fix for social issues.
I was comparing religious extremists in the US who attempted to overthrow the US government with the Houthi who are doing the same in Yemen. The Houthi aren't the official Yemen government. They are a religious faction who are attempting to overthrow the Yemeni government.
Then why did you take my point, employ and empower legitimate Yemen businesses and buy their chief export, flip it around, and say that I was suggesting buying Proud Boy's merch?
Sorry, I interpreted it as supporting the Houthi. That is buy Houthi products from Houthi businesses.
You didn't say Yemeni in your reply.
But we got there eventually. All good bro.
Spending 1.2 billion on bombing campaigns keeps 1.2 billion in the American economy. Giving another country 600 million only exports money from their grasp.
Peace is not the point of the war machine.
Me when i label the people i don't like as terrorists so I don't have to think about the conflict and can bomb their entire country to dust while feeling good about myself
This but unironically
I want to stop murdering bad people and I want to start rewarding good people.
Nowhere did I suggest giving the bad people money.
Watch a man get strong and push thugs out when he has a dollar to defend.
Ok. You're right.
Compassion is futile. Just nuke em.
You keep goalpost moving and acting obtuse.
Your bombs have collateral damage. Your bombs kill the little girl. Your bombs create more extremists to perpetuate what you (very disingenuously) object to.
The bottom line is you just want to perpetuate suffering, kill people, and keep military contractors rich.