• flandish@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    israel only exists because of capitalism, and i’d be pissed if ireland installed malware too. except … see… ireland isn’t doing terrorism or genocide. so… there’s that

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      8 days ago

      Nations in their modern form all exist because of capitalism. Israel is actually “special” in that way, because it’s the Wests last mostly settler-colonial project, which results in all kinds of strange and anachronistic contradictions.

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      8 days ago

      In this hypothetical, not Ireland, an Irish company. Would you blame the Irish government for actions of an Irish company?

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        8 days ago

        …yes. Not “company from ireland” but “company run by the irish gov.”

        because that’s what israeli companies are.