<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 12:06 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The current troubles in Gaza, you may recall, came out of a government<br>
that was voted into power. That's not to say Israel doesn't perform<br>
their part of the escalation dance... but Hamas was elected.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At first. They then consolidated their hold on power, preventing anyone else from running, similar to (but more brutally than) the Nazis.</div><div><br></div><div>But yes. Similar to Trump, they were seen as less bad than the alternative - even though a government that actively oppresses its people and augurs for war as a means of staying in power is, in fact, predictably worse than a merely corrupt but somewhat just and not-warmongering government.</div></div></div>