MyEdgyAlt

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

What exactly aged like milk here? She’s right - there are multiple factors, and the disillusionment of a large portion of Americans is probably a bigger factor than Comey, Russians, etc which likely moved things onto slightly (which was enough to get him the last bit past 270 electoral votes). But without the disillusionment the other things wouldn’t have remotely mattered. That the disillusioned are in many cases ignorant racists doesn’t invalidate the fact they they lost faith in both Democrats and Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Source that they’re pets and not cattle? My farmer friend had a pet cow; they didn’t eat that cow. They ate other cows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They employ 30,000 people. It’s only natural that after decade of abuse, at least a few will use force against the blockading super-power that periodically kills their children at random.

And Israel made allegations against 19, only 9 of whom the UN found good evidence for so there’s a better than 50-50 chance a given “Hamas” UNRWA employee is perfectly innocent. Most “western democracies” wouldn’t take a 50-50 shot at killing civilians but Israel’s so called “precision strikes” demonstrate they’re perfectly happy to murder arbitrary numbers of children in the process of killing a maybe-terrorist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That’s fine, but I think you’ll be able to reach/influence more people with intentional source selection.

In this example, if Iran claims the UN said that, I’d still go and confirm it (which I did). If Al Jazeera or Reuters says he said it, I don’t feel the need to double check; I know they won’t flat out lie. Someone lazier than I was here might just remember this story as a “maybe” if they didn’t bother checking the source themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Then use Al Jazeera. But if Trump Media tells me it’s rainy in the Pacific Northwest I’m going to have doubts, and if Iran says Israel’s doing Israel things… I’m going to have doubts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

While there’s nothing about the story that’s hard to believe given Israel’s love for genocide and harming anyone who cares about the humanity of Palestinians, can we get a source that isn’t literally Iran?

Edited to add:

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-09-10/statement-attributable-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general%C2%A0–%C2%A0-gaza

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/shots-fired-bulldozers-rammed-cars-during-un-standoff-with-israeli-military-2024-09-10/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/09/middleeast/israel-gaza-united-nations-convoy-intl-latam

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

That’s one heck of a crater for a strike on tents. I’m sure they’ll release footage of the strike showing that it was secondary explosions, and not that they used enormous munitions to obliterate bodies so the reported casualty count from bodies at hospitals is lower.

My tax dollars at work, funding genocide, and nothing I can even do about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

That’s a big crater for some tents. Does it help reduce the documented civilian body count when you just turn them entirely into mist and they become missing instead of killed?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey now, we’re also going to deliver another shipment of 2000lb bombs to use against civilians in tents, but with a strongly worded letter attached.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Source that the Palestinian victims of Israeli settler violence are the same ones using violent resistance against the occupation?

 

The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

But per the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been widely adopted (and here), anti-Zionism is antisemitic. Why do you hate Jewish people?

  • Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

  • Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

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