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Israel-Gaza Megathread #2
This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
Just open free Halal McDonalds and Pizza Hut, free supermarkets packed full of goods with high fructose corn syrup and give out free Steamdecks and Starlink access and flat screen tvs. Free cellphones with TikTok and Insta and Tinder baked in. Free condoms, free birth control pills. Start up the Real Housewives of the Gaza Strip and make a whole bunch of tv shows ostensibly set in the Islamic Middle East but pushing Western sexual mores. Open free pharmacies giving out opiates and antidepressants. We can do so much better than blue jeans and rock music nowadays.
Bring the full force of Western Decadence against them, and see who the strong horse really is.
As much as I expect the occupation of Gaza to be a disaster in every way, if Israel went this route for a decade or so, it might have a fighting chance of withering Hamas on the vine. High speed internet, porn, drugs, and obesity for all. Build an indigenous class of entrepreneurs and bureaucrats of decadence who'll act as an organic counterweight to Hamas.
I think we could say, they already have most of those things, even in the US welfare will take you a long way towards most of them. Subsidized internet access is available in my state at least. In the Gaza case we're just not allowing them to pick what they spend the money on, so it doesn't end up buying AK's and so on.
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Just open free Halal McDonalds and Pizza Hut, free supermarkets packed full of goods with high fructose corn syrup and give out free Steamdecks and Starlink access and flat screen tvs. Free cellphones with TikTok and Insta and Tinder baked in. Free condoms, free birth control pills. Start up the Real Housewives of the Gaza Strip and make a whole bunch of tv shows ostensibly set in the Islamic Middle East but pushing Western sexual mores. Open free pharmacies giving out opiates and antidepressants. We can do so much better than blue jeans and rock music nowadays.
Bring the full force of Western Decadence against them, and see who the strong horse really is.
As much as I expect the occupation of Gaza to be a disaster in every way, if Israel went this route for a decade or so, it might have a fighting chance of withering Hamas on the vine. High speed internet, porn, drugs, and obesity for all. Build an indigenous class of entrepreneurs and bureaucrats of decadence who'll act as an organic counterweight to Hamas.
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Sounds like an incentive for western NEETs to go full pepewar on society so they can have all that appeasement too.
I think we could say, they already have most of those things, even in the US welfare will take you a long way towards most of them. Subsidized internet access is available in my state at least. In the Gaza case we're just not allowing them to pick what they spend the money on, so it doesn't end up buying AK's and so on.
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