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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you so much for bringing us the funeral,mourning and great respect given to these brave and beautiful Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine. Such an enormous loss! Just seeing the numbers gathered and reading the words of strength and heart spoken by the countless Lebanese who support them, like the people of Gaza and Yemen, gives me hope.

The US/Israelis have all the latest AI, drones, and most lethal death machines, but they are essentially cowards, without heart, without soul, and with all the hatred building towards Israel/US around the world - in spite of their insatiable greed and bullying tactics and threats - I believe their days are numbered.

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Martin Krisko's avatar

Why are you idolizing a death cult that throws away its young and bright for some abstract religious cause? There is nothing brave about this. They can sustain it because they have one nearly limitless resource—young men who willingly get slaughtered for nothing.

And about bravery—can you name a single public speech from Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis that didn’t have children standing around the speaker? There’s a very specific reason for that, and it has nothing to do with bravery, honor, or family values. It’s about using children as human shields. These leaders know that standing alone makes them a legitimate target, so they surround themselves with kids to reduce the chances of an airstrike.

Also, let’s be real—no one is abandoning Israel, and far less so the U.S., over a handful of death cultists. Geopolitics doesn’t work that way. Countries act in their own interest, and no serious power is going to bet its future on groups whose entire strategy is endless self-sacrifice.

If you actually listen to what these groups say, analyze their rhetoric, and strip away the romanticism, the only logical conclusion is that they operate as a death cult. Even Deutsche Welle (DW), a German news station, did a documentary on Hezbollah trying to paint them sympathetically—and it ended up being one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. The glorification of martyrdom, the obsession with death as a political tool, and the constant use of civilians as human shields—it’s all there, laid bare.

And for what? Not for a better life, not for prosperity, not for progress. They are doing this for abstract ideological nonsense because they were brainwashed into a death cult. It’s destruction for no rational purpose.

I don’t care about glorifying Israel or the U.S., but your response is pure bullshit.

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VVV's avatar

I’m curious to hear your take on whether or not the USA is a “death cult.”

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Martin Krisko's avatar

Why would the USA be a death cult? Hezbollah isn’t a state, so the valid comparison wouldn’t be a nation-state vs. a militant group, but rather a movement vs. a movement. If you really want to draw a comparison, a better question would be: Is MAGA a death cult?

Personally, I think they’re deaf cunts more than anything else—stubborn, loud, and detached from reality. But as far as the core elements of a death cult go—glorification of martyrdom, indoctrination toward self-sacrifice, and an obsession with destruction for ideological reasons—there’s not much to work with. MAGA thrives on delusion and identity politics, but they’re not throwing themselves into suicide missions or sending their kids off to die for a prophecy.

So unless you have specific criteria that would make the comparison valid, the whole premise is just lazy rhetoric.

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