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Hezbollah Chief: US “Directly Responsible” For Gaza Atrocities, Will Soon Pay “Heavy Price”

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Hezbollah Chief: US "Directly Responsible" For Gaza Atrocities, Will Soon Pay "Heavy Price"

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- In a representative democracy, the people being responsible for their government is kind of the point.
  
  Yeah. But we are an oligarchy.
  
  Except representative democracy is a myth… Majority rule ≠ representation. Non-majority groups are unaccounted for. Plus, while the people may vote for representatives, they ultimately have no control over what said representatives decide to actually do. They can campaign for and promise all they want, but once they’re in office, they’re there.
  Citizens are not responsible for the actions of their government.
  
  Direct voting is the future.
- If your first thought from reading this is that "evil muslims will bomb me in acts of terrorism" then your brain has been irreparably poisoned by US state department funded Hollywood movies
- How do I make this atrocity all about me, a westerner
  
  Excuse me?
  I feel like being nervous in response to blatant threats to my nation - and by extent its populous, including myself - is fairly reasonable
That seems like a bad idea? I don't know what antagonizing the US would help with in the current conflict. I'd think they want US support/compassion for Palistine to be higher not lower, and attacking is a sure way to plumit it.
- That's the thing. It literally does not matter how much the American people support Palestine because the American government is going to do whatever the American ruling class wants.
  There is no chance in hell Americans would vote to send aid to Israel if it was a referendum.
  
  I don't think you're wrong about the first part, but I disagree that Americans wouldn't vote to support Israel. Many Americans support Israel for religious reasons, and many more see the nation as the only ally we have in the Middle East. It's a dramatic oversimplification of the reality, but nobody ever lost an election underestimating the American voters.
I'm looking forward to "War on Terror II: Electric Boogaloo"... The last one was a resounding, several-trillion dollar, success.
So... should the Americans blame their government for Muslim retaliation?
Just like Gazans should blame Hamas for Israel's retaliation?
Nah. That's not gonna happen, lol.
Here is the full speech of Hezbollah Chief from Al Jazeera english : https://youtu.be/SsvgLuIaDgs?si=ESnMKscavqNPKhJv
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