“But but… what about shareholder value?”
- East India Company, United Fruit, and plenty others.
And God said go forth and multiply profits for the pharaohs, priests and tax collectors.
Sounds like something The Profits would say.
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I just imagined Kai Winn as middle management and… yikes.
And kill the firstborn (who are my children, whom I love) of every tribe member (who are my children, whom I love) because the tribe’s leaders (who are my children, whom I love) were big meanies to my chosen children (whom I love the mostest)!
What value did your children provide to the profits? Let he who provides nothing to the shareholders die without healthcare. So let it be written so let it be done.
“But but… what if some of them are terrorists?”
>“Nothing justifies genocide.”
>Proceeds to make arguments justifying genocide
I have no idea how you could possibly think this supports your position on things.
If Major Kira was living under a government that offered no alternative to genocide, she’d take up a phaser and start killing government officials, you know, like she literally did, in the show. She’d never condone someone who supported genocide, even if it meant resorting to violent opposition instead.
Proceeds to make arguments justifying genocide
“Justifying genocide is when you oppose genocide, and the more you oppose it, the more you justify it” - Very Serious Lemmings
Alternatively, “The prospect of an eventual violent revolution justifies genocide” - Very Serious Lemmings
Or more realistically, “I think that the prospect of virtue signaling without affecting government policy justifies genocide, because that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside” - Very Serious Lemmings
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I’m not accusing you of supporting genocide for voting against a fascist, I’m also voting against a fascist. I’m accusing you of supporting genocide for voting for a candidate that supports genocide. There’s nothing “secret” about it, it’s your openly expressed position.
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So are you not voting Biden, or do you deny the genocide being done to the Palestinians?
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Without saying what they are, cool. I guess I’m rejecting your false dilemmas, lies, and accusations too, then.
Will Trump getting into power make things better for people in Palestine?
No. That’s why I’m not voting for him or helping him get into power.
“Justifying genocide is when you oppose genocide, and the more you oppose it, the more you justify it” - Very Serious Lemmings
“Opposing genocide is when you vote for someone doing a genocide and the harder you post about supporting them the more you oppose it” - Very Serious Lemmings 🤡
It’s very funny to me that you received friendly fire because people on your side saw a simple “genocide is bad” meme and just assumed it was about them. You’d think that would lead to introspection but what do I know lol.
“Opposing genocide is when you vote for someone doing a genocide and the harder you post about supporting them the more you oppose it” - Very Serious Lemmings 🤡
Ah, the good old “Thoughts and prayers to LGBT folk who are going to be genocided in the US under a Trump regime”, how classy. You’re literally just endorsing fascism with extra steps, but I’m sure we’ll have great fun in the camps together when you say “AT LEAST I DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS”
The democrats aren’t going to coerce me into voting for genocide no matter how many far-right politicians they fund and support to threaten me. After all:
The democrats aren’t going to coerce me into voting for genocide
Oh, cool, so you’re not voting for the option that intensifies genocide, right?
… right…?
Oh, who am I kidding? You’ll do whatever you can to ensure a Trump victory and the total genocide of Palestinians.
Oh, cool, so you’re not voting for the option that intensifies genocide, right?
Yes, obviously. I’m not voting for either of the options that intensify genocide.
Oh, who am I kidding? You’ll do whatever you can to ensure a Trump victory and the total genocide of Palestinians.
This coming from someone who literally eats babies. See, I can make shit up too.
Yes, obviously. I’m not voting for either of the options that intensify genocide.
The classic “I’m going to uproot the tracks!” answer to the trolley problem, while sitting by and doing nothing of the sort. A fascist’s best friend. :)
Oh, look. Another hopeful leader for the resistance when the red hats take over. Like we ain’t got a million of those lying around somewhere. Have fun getting caught and thrown in a camp.
If you comment more, people will forget your bad takes and agree with you. Surely.
It’s very funny to me that you received friendly fire because people on your side saw a simple “genocide is bad” meme and just assumed it was about them.
I think it’s more that OP has made numerous comments in this thread arguing that we should vote for Biden.
OP’s vibe seems to be “Yes, I really really really do oppose genocide… but the responsible thing is to vote for Biden, and people who won’t support him are the true genocide enablers.”
Right, he’s a Biden stan and other Biden stans are attacking him for posting “genocide is bad” with one even calling it a “fascist dogwhistle.”
“Are we the baddies?” moment.
Oh, right. Now I follow.
Yeah, the Biden supporters are all doing ridiculous mental gymnastics. I’m not sure I’ve seen mental gymnastics like this outside of a cult.
And the commander of DS9 literally poisoned civilian settlements in one episode.
Yeah I mean fiction isn’t always the best guide to real life situations.
I don’t recall this, do you know which episode it was?
Season 5, Episode 13 For The Uniform
He does this to a Maquis settlement after they had similarly poisoned two Cardassian planets.
I’ll dig around, TBH I saw it on a YouTube clip a few months ago. He was chasing a terrorist I think in the defender and he retreated to this planet. And sico? was like if you don’t give up I’m going to poison the atmosphere with blah blah, and then he did it. And was like holy fuck did a star Trek Captain just commit genocide/war crimes? WTF…
AppleTea beat you to it. Season 5 episode 13 For the Uniform.
Despite the trolls accusing people here of justifying it- I do t see anyone here is doing that. I’m pretty sure they know this, and this is what makes it hard to call them out for what they are doing. It’s like arguing with Christians.
They just misinterpret your words, rewrite them using their English-to-Troll filter, and shout them back at you once they say essentially the opposite of what you’re saying.
Example:
ME: “of course I don’t support genocide. But not voting for Biden isn’t going to stop it, and Donald ‘finish the job’ Trump is going to be far worse on Palestine than Biden could ever be!”
TROLL: “See! You support gEnOciDe!”
Now, you could accuse me of doing exactly what I’m accusing them of, but I’d urge you to look through my recent comment history. Somewhere between yesterday and today- you can see this exact thing happening.
The point is. From what I can see, NO ONE here is supporting genocide. The ones in other communities that do, get banned pretty quickly. And anyone that is accusing people of it, are proving to everyone that they aren’t here to discuss things rationally- because they’re starting from a complete and total lack of rationale.
Meanwhile:
“I support the Green party.”
“So what you’re really saying is, you think everyone should not vote on election day, or vote for Trump.”
We have First Past the Post. You support Trump, Biden, or violent revolution – those are the choices
Trump supports violent revolution, just the wrong one.
Nope, that isn’t how math works. A vote for the Green Party is equivalent to not voting at all. Lying about it and stamping your feet won’t change anyone’s opinion. Also you guys always assume the GP voters are a subset of democrats when in reality most of them are not. Most would not vote for democrats if their first choice were taken away.
They’re just a convenient excuse for you whenever Dems lose because it’s easier to blame them than to hold dem leadership accountable for their very obvious and repeated failures. And it’s surely easier than holding yourself accountable for constantly nominating weak candidates. I mean you all got handed fucking Obama and still fought tooth and nail against him in the primary because you’re so scared of even slightly rocking the boat. Dem voters are gigantic cowards and enablers
You will not shame people into voting for Biden, it’s actually insane to see you all trot out this failed tactic yet again
This seems like a misplaced rant? But anyway, go read up on First Past the Post and understand why it is the shittiest voting system. We will never make real progress as long as it is in place.
In a perfect world, that option would be viable. However, if you look around- and pay attention, it’s not. And it’s not even remotely close.
I’d be all over a third party option if there was even a small chance they’d succeed. But they can’t. And this isn’t an opinion. Vote third party and yeah- hate to say it but you are throwing away a vote. And it’s not a big stretch to understand how a non vote or a third party vote FACTUALLY benefits Trump.
I fucking hate that this is how it is, but I’d rather live in the real world than believe in my own reality.
You lost me when you lied about non-votes “fAcTuAlLy” benefitting trump. That is a blatant falsehood that assumes people would automatically vote for Biden instead. Your fear mongering and dishonesty won’t win over a single vote.
It’s not a lie. It very much is a fact:
Read this when you get a chance. It explains it much better than I could.
Shut the fuck up troll
Sure but because of my begged question, you’re actually saying something else.
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They’re not who they pretend to be, they’re right-wing trolls from /pol or wherever trying to influence the election for their side
Some of them certainly are.
It’s pretty easy to tell by the way they write. The sort of pseudo-clever, meme-y, derivative Twitch-speak you’d hear among gamers and mgtow types, mixed with a feeble attempt to sound like a tankie
Time Traveller from 1993 (when this episode aired): “So, what’s 2024 like?”
“If you say you won’t support genocide, you get accused of being a Russian asset.”
Also an anti-Semite.
Or a sinophobe or a russophobe, or a bad sport depending on which genocide you deny.
It’s a fucked up state the world is in when all great powers have their own genocide which they deny.
I see tenforward is leaking…
I approve.
The only thing that shocked and appalled Riker was Picard pulling the women he really wanted.
Yep, this is definitely Ten Forward. It’s a bullshit dogwhistle designed to help Donald Trump get elected and do more genocide, so it can’t be from Risa, it must be from the crappy one.
No, it’s not. I’d suggest you look into OP’s post history and maybe delete this dumb accusation.
A rabid dog growls when nobody’s whistling, so to speak.
Imagine being so demented that you think genocide is a dog whistle
Hey at least I’m not a genocide supporter like all the people on Lemmy who pretend to complain about Biden’s genocide so they can get Trump to do more genocide
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Lul, didn’t even notice this is politicalmemes
Much like the federation, it’s their duty to explore and trade culture with far away, strange cultures. Much like here in our c/politicalmemes, a lot is different but there are many similarities to the c/tenforward they call home. They have families, jobs, sometimes get trapped in the pattern buffer, cloned, or stacked by a macrovirus . . Just like here.
Whichever way you vote, this will continue to happen. Sobering thought, eh?
This isn’t totally true, but it’s partially true. If Trump wins the American election, he will double down support for Israel and completely write off all those who oppose them as terrorists.
Biden is just kind of apologetically supporting them because he’s a weak leader that can’t afford to rock the boat. He does weakly push back often, it’s just nowhere near what we want or need.
If Biden actually wins the election, he may actually end American support. I’m of the opinion he’s afraid of offending democrats and independents that support Israel, thus losing him the election (since he’s barely ahead in the polls.) Most of us are still going to vote for him despite this, because Trump is far worse… You can’t say that about the people who support Isreal.
Biden is just kind of apologetically supporting them because he’s a weak leader that can’t afford to rock the boat … If Biden actually wins the election, he may actually end American support
No, he is ideologically committed to supporting Israel. He has said this multiple times and I see no reason to disbelieve him. I think it’s equally likely Trump would stop supporting Israel because of America First/antisemitism, which is to say, so unlikely as to be impossible.
Yeah, Trump himself has no policy commitments. He’ll say whatever he thinks is popular biased on the last thing he’s seen on television. In office, he delivers bog-standard republican policy because that’s who his cabinet gets filled with.
I don’t see Biden changing his stance on arming Israel. Trump could, but the question is whether would it last long enough to actually affect policy.
Biden is the #1 whore of israel. He’s been sucking their dick for his entire career.
There are no quick solutions or permanent victories, unfortunately. Which is why civic education is so important, and so frustratingly undertaught.
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I think I could find it in me to justify geocide of the Jem’Hadar.
(Since this is not a Star Trek board: The Jem’Hadar are a genetically engineered race, made by the Dominion. Their purpose is to be ruthless soldiers. They are engineered without emotions, or any care for human-like values, and so they inevitably have no sense of ethics. They are managed in two ways: first, the need for a drug-like protein that only the Dominion can synthesize; and second, a predisposition to recognize the Founders of the Dominion as their slavemasters.)
But any race, even a race with a proven tendency to be assholes, like the Cardassians, deserves a chance.
As for Palestinians, it’s not even close. They should obviously be considered innocent civilians. If I were to make inferences about who was the more evil race based on the current war, I would be much more likely to pick Israelis because of their current kill count of civilians.
But we don’t make such inferences. They’re all humans. They’re way more closely related than Bajorans vs Cardassians. They all evolved on the same planet, are the same species, with a very recent common ancestor. It’s due to their upbringing, education, and circumstances that Hamas and IDF both wish to commit genocide, and it’s due to external funding that IDF has been more successful at it.
You need a revisit of DS9.
Jem’hadar had their own set of internal rules and even disagreements on how to interpret or execute orders. The drug was used to ensure absolute control because they could evolve in a cultural or spiritual sense.
The Jem’Hadar were capable of going against their programming once their Ketracel addiction was treated. You don’t need genocide.
The Jem’Hadar were not without emotions. In Hippocratic Oat we see that. I’d argue that the fact that they’re an enslaved race Surely it’s better to be working to break them free of that enslavement, rather than committing genocide.
But then again I think Janeway’s genocide of the Borg was wrong too.
I tend to agree with don’t genocide The Borg, but how do you deal with The Borg? The just keep coming back stronger, and they’re kinda antithetical to the whole idea of free will.
Generally a good take, I just wished you hadn’t used the word “race”, because the concept of race itself is only a thing among racists, and we should not use that kind of language.
This is super hypocritical coming from pugjesus. Yikes.
Posting memes about tankies isn’t committing genocide. He’s metaphorically burning people, not literally.
That’s pretty hypocritical coming from a .ml user.
I am shocked and appalled by this grotesque show of antisemitism. Shocked and appalled I tell ya!
EDIT: /s…obviously
well it seems you‘ll all be voting for it
Welcome to democracy - where the ignorance and malice of the politically uneducated majority force the politically educated minority to make shitty and immoral choices.
It’s better than the alternative, of course - the ignorance and malice of a politically uneducated minority forcing everyone else to support one shitty and immoral choice.
This isn’t democracy. If ending genocide was actually a choice on the ballot instead of two ghouls who both support genocide, I bet most would vote to end genocide. What we actually have is a representative system where we’re told that we vote in politicians who represent us, but in reality they represent the plutocracy and the plutocracy wants genocide.
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Thinking most people would be against genocide is spreading misinformation?
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx
I remember pointing out this poll to you before months ago, but you decided to ignore it because you’re like a republican who loves projection. Turns out you’re the one who spends their time spreading misinformation. You’re also defending genocide with your misinformation while calling me a fascist. 🤪
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so what are you saying? the majority of US voters forced the government to support the Gaza genocide?
and if not? are we already living the alternative?
Surprisingly, yes. as AIPAC said, they got a 100% ousting of all candidates who were “anti-Israel”(translated to normal speak: against slaughtering Palestinians because Israel embraced the 14 words), this is a very clear democratic mandate to support the slaughter of innocents, so the land can be used for more settlements.
That just proves how easily swayed the public is by money. Which makes sense, with money, you can drown out opposing arguments and squash the truth. It’s not really a democracy as long as the Citizens United ruling stands. It’s a plutocracy.
What does it mean: they got a 100% ousting of all candidates…? I am not a native speaker. Who is they?
AIPAC is a very public Zionist lobbying group working on behalf of the most radical elements of the Israeli state. they were founded to help smooth out Israeli US relations after the Qibya massacre in 1953.
Look two words to the left.
Are you voting for time travel so you can travel back to the 1940s, become supreme leader of Israel, and change the 70 years of Israeli domestic policy that has led us to this point?
are you saying that the only choice we have is genocide?, that is sick, twisted, and wholly untrue.
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jaded and entitled children that think our every want and need will be addressed
Yes, how spoilt we are to not want checks notes genocide.
and so what if we watch a few animal (yes, members of the Israeli ruling coalition have called the Palestinians animals) die in Gaza? it’s good for our geostrategic interests in the region.
Tf are you even talking about?
about how we’re just going to sit, watch and fund a genocide? or the thing about multiple Lukid cabinet members labelling Palestinians as “human animals”? I mean, there wasn’t more than those two points, so not much to get confused about…
Dude. Genocide is happening whether you vote or not. Why not save the LGBTQ+, stop Arabist from abusing America, and help protect women’s rights instead of being smug and pouting that you’re not getting everything the way you want.
The simple fact that by now it’s fucking impossible to not know rust Donald “finish the job” Trump is going to help decimate Palestine.
And the fact that YOU FUCKING KNOW THIS-
Shows exactly what you’re up to. And I’ll call what shit out every time I see it until Evertone see what you’re up to.
Don’t use LGBTQ+ and women’s rights as a shield for genocide. Also, what is “stop Arabist from abusing America” supposed to mean?
I’ll use whatever is factually true to illustrate what’s going to happen if Trump is elected. Especially against bots that clearly don’t give a fuck.
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What’s hilarious is how you continue the ruse that you actually give a shit about genocide while purposefully not doing the thing that is going to keep it from becoming much worse
No on believes you bud. So just stop.
You just proposed killing people based on the color of their skin as a solution.
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Oh joy… I guess watching liberals pearl-clutching themselves into supporting colonialist genocide is going to be the dominant spectacle on this community until the hammer drops in November.
Yay.
Now do conservatives…pray tell where does trump stand on genocide…to shreds you say.
You’re a fucking idiot.
Now do conservative
Which part of…
I guess watching liberals pearl-clutching themselves into supporting colonialist genocide
…didn’t you understand?
So-called “conservatives” are liberals, Clyde. So-called “conservatives” buy into the exact same pro-capitalist, pro-colonialist ideology of liberalism that you buy into, Clyde.
The only difference between the people you call “liberals” and the people you call “conservatives” are that the latter is further along the “liberal-to-fascist” pipeline than you are.
The only difference between the people you call “liberals” and the people you call “conservatives” are that the latter is further along the “liberal-to-fascist” pipeline than you are.
For me to believe that, the fascists pipeline would only make aesthetic differences while you’re traveling inside.
It’s like the anarchists say - scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.
Oh look over there! Anywhere but at the thing we could meaningfully stop right now!
right now!
How, pray tell?
I remember Democrats told me that they would hold Biden’s feet to the fire. What happened with that?
They told anyone who tried that they were trump supporters, traitors to the country. A page straight out of the Bush White House during the Iraq War.
Biden can stop the military aid. Indeed continuing to send aid is illegal under the Leahy Law and Foreign Assistance Act.
Ah my favorite self flagellating liberal! What’s keeping you around this community, then? Is this easier than finally facing the mirror?
Ah my favorite self flagellating liberal!
Oh, you remember me? How flattering.
However, I don’t remember you… you liberals all sound the same to me, and, of course, that’s a you problem.
OP who has been spam posting pro Biden memes for the past month in this sub
lmao, I checked my last month of posts in this community, let’s go over them, shall we?
For those who are wondering but don’t want to go down through, it’s 1/18 pro-Biden posts, in the past 30 days. How strange that a tankie would make such an easily disproven lie! Totally unheard of! /s
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Anti-genocide (this one)
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“Based leftist president tells coup leader to fuck off”
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Pro-ranked choice
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“SCOTUS is fucked”
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“FORM UNIONS”
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“Fetishization of Russian politics is incredibly transparent and you shouldn’t fall for it”
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Anti Ukrainian genocide
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Anti Ukrainian genocide
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An ACTUAL pro-Biden post [That’s 1 so far, for those counting]
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“Trump speaks like a particularly troubled third grader”
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“Capitalism is fucked”
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“Trump speaking on history is fucking bizarre”
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“Not everything bad is fascism; some things are bad but NOT fascism”
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Criticism of China’s anti-LGBT policies
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Anti-genocide
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“Why do right-wingers always have anime profile pics”
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“Reagan was a shitbag”
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“MAGA doesn’t know what socialism is”
Oh I’m sorry I should have said the past 3 months of your terminally online ass
A personal screw you for putting Pakistan on the wrong rail for this one:
spoiler
some lazy paste post links in case someone else actually sees this reply https://lemmy.world/post/15388460 https://lemmy.world/post/15423884 https://lemmy.world/post/15534543 https://lemmy.world/post/15653486 https://lemmy.world/post/15661013 https://lemmy.world/post/10309731 (you get the idea)
Also bonus meme
Oh I’m sorry I should have said the past 3 months of your terminally online ass
Eight Biden posts over the course of three months - what a horrific torrent of spam! Lmao.
A personal screw you for putting Pakistan on the wrong rail for this one:
Aw, you think the Republican Party will be sweeter on Pakistan than the Democrats? How adorable.
We lost an entire populist party due to Biden, with thousands of citizens arrested, several MPAs & MNAs assassinated, and the former PM in jail on phony charges. Oh and the internet still half banned.
Conveniently Trump had no issue with said PM, either due to his former ties as a cricket captain or because for some reason he thought he should maintain foreign relations through the civilian government like a normal person and not negotiate with the insane pakistani army.
so yes
they were sweeter on Pakistan, as much as that pains me to say
Of course it was probably a one time wonder, but that doesn’t change the fact that Pakistan’s last cries of democracy were finally executed because the USA once again loves to protect its foreign power, and it totally wasn’t a coincidence it was from the former VP under the Obama administration that already did the exact same thing of bribing some army generals to do some dirty work.
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Lol no, not “The Americans”, I’m American myself. Not to mention Pakistan itself had some very good relations with the USA in the past.
More like average day DoD shenanigans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettergate
https://theintercept.com/2023/12/18/pakistan-cypher-imran-khan-charges/
Again, not that surprising considering Obama did similar things both before and after capturing OBL.
While I’m aware of the ‘Lettergate’ scandal and have different conclusions than you on the matter, upon reflection, I’m being tetchy above and beyond even what I normally am because I’m in pain today. That’s no excuse for my dismissive rhetoric, and I do apologize.
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You can say that all you want as long as you accept you have to vote for it.
Let me put it this way - there’s no justification for what Israel is doing or our continued support of Israel. There’s also no justification for welcoming fascism into the US.
This whole shitshow is a stain on our souls, collectively and individually. It’s all we can do to make the least bad choice, and then work towards it not being forced on us again.
Then we can enjoy some entirely new and unforeseen shitshow to torment us.
It’s shitshows and stains on your soul until you die.
it’s not controversial, what is controversial is what is being defined as genocide. Classic mischaracterization.
Now i’m not going to get into the immediate debate about whether or not this is an active genocide or not, because frankly, not my fucking problem.
what i will get into is the commonly accepted definition of genocide, which is in past tense. It’s also commonly used to specifically denote a certain ethnicity, which considering that israel is indiscriminately bombing, i’m not sure how much that applies. I feel like considering palestinian an ethnicity would be like considering a US state to be an ethnicity as well. Though i’m sure there is historical merit to that statement, the complexities of it are not something i’m intimately familiar with so i won’t say much on it.
Regardless, I think palestine is realistically entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be. Israel, arguably is also entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be either.
It’d be cool if israel and hamas stopped committing war crimes, but considering that this is a war in the middle east, i don’t know when that will happen.
ethnicity
¦the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
Of course it’s an ethnicity. The mental fucking gymnastics you genocides defenders come up with.
because frankly, not my fucking problem.
We live in a global, interconnected society. Yes, it is your fucking problem, no matter how indirectly.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
so technically this more closely matches the definition of ethnic, rather than ethnicity, but ethnicity is just the specific designation of an ethnic group, so meh.
from my understanding around the local area to Palestine and Israel, is that Palestine (and Israel as well) are more legally and specifically defined, than ethnically defined. You could argue that Palestinian would be an ethnicity, but like i said, is the entire state of Wyoming also an ethnicity? Indiana locals are Hoosiers, yet they don’t ascribe to a certain ethnicity. Like i said i just don’t know enough about the local area to be able to classify it more properly.
In fact, the basic internet resources seem to affirm this, googling Palestine brings up two primary results (for me at least) Palestine: the geographical area (unrelated to ethnicity) and the state of Palestine: the country (presumably also unrelated to ethnicity)
“Half of the Palestinian population are diaspora and refugees.” also pulled from the same resource, uses Palestinian to refer to the people who “are a member of Palestine” rather than an ethnicity. Historically this is what ethnicity means, but i don’t believe that Palestine, over the last 50 years of it’s literally global timeline, has remained to be Palestinian, i’m almost certain it’s floated away over time, as things tend to do in systems of entropy.
this is from wikipedia, so not a guaranteed source of truth but it seems that Palestine is Arab, which would make Palestine ethnically Arab, ignoring the minority communities. From what i can tell, and from what i expect, Palestine seems to be a cultural melting pot of sorts, so i’m really not sure the term genocide applies here at all.
The mental fucking gymnastics you genocides defenders come up with.
it’s really not, is an individual state in the US considered to be it’s own ethnicity? Genuine question.
We live in a global, interconnected society. Yes, it is your fucking problem, no matter how indirectly.
and yet, i only speak English, how many languages do you speak? I only live in the US, where do you live? I only have experience with western US society because i haven’t been anywhere else. Where have you been?
With all due sincerity, i do not fucking know shit out most of the world outside of the US, it’s literally not my place to make governmental decisions for the UK, or Ireland for example. Do i want Israel and Palestine to be at war? No, same as i don’t want Ukraine and Russia to be at war, am i going to tell them what to do? No, it’s not my fucking land, and it’s not my fucking government. This is literally not my problem to answer.
The western society, the US in particular has issues with over projecting power and influence into eastern society and expecting it to work, it doesn’t time after time. Why are we expecting this to be any different?
genocides defenders
also to be clear, you are quite literally pulling this out of your ass, because i’m not even sure this would be classified as a genocide, it might be. And here you are arguing that i am quite literally defending it, even though the only thing i contest is what these actions are constituted as. Whether or not i think it’s genocide or not doesn’t magically make all the people dying go away. You’re the one doing that conflation here, not me.
also, cool reference to the nazis, once Israel turns to Egypt and starts bombing them indiscriminately or something, i’ll believe you.
You genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach.
“More legally and specifically” as if “ethnicity” isn’t well defined in international law. gtfo noob.
it’s really not, is an individual state in the US considered to be it’s own ethnicity? Genuine question.
Does the state share cultural and historical background with the rest of the NATION-STATE they belong to? Yes. They do. They share a cultural and historical background.
am i going to tell them what to do? No, it’s not my fucking land, and it’s not my fucking government. This is literally not my problem to answer.
So if you lived a hundred years ago, you would say that the Nazis aren’t on “your land” and thus “literally not your problem to answer”?
We live in an global interconnected world and you bet your goddamn stinky arse that it’s also your problem, no matter how indirectly. The war in Ukraine isn’t your land, thus “literally not your problem”, right?
Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused significant disruption to global wheat markets. Wheat prices are estimated to increase by around 2% globally.
And that’s a very simple example (for what I assume is a very simple person), but people could list literally thousands of ways how this is your problem as well.
because i’m not even sure this would be classified as a genocide, it might be.
Do you live under a fucking rock?
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
The motherfucking INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT has said there are “reasonable grounds” for a genocide, and their standard of proof is a bit higher than some random asshole online who admits they don’t know anything about anything that’s outside of America.
In the South Africa v. Israel Order, the Court was unable to draw on reports from UN human rights investigative bodies for its factual assessment, as none exist yet. However, for potential incitement to genocide and possible genocidal intent, it referred directly to statements made by Israeli President Herzog, Defence Minister Gallant, and (then) Energy Minister Katz. Furthermore, the Court took into account statements by UN bodies (such as OCHA, WHO, CERD), high-ranking UN officials (like the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Commissioner-General of UNRWA), and UN experts. Overall, plausibility emerges as a notably flexible standard, contingent upon the specific rights, claims, and factual circumstances presented before the Court.
ICC case-law aligns the ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ standard with the ‘reasonable suspicion’ benchmark used by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in cases concerning pre-trial detention (for example, Abd Al Rahman, §28). According to the ECtHR, Article 5(1)© ECHR requires sufficient elements ‘to satisfy an objective observer that the applicant could have committed the offences of which he was accused’ (§32). In Şık v. Turkey (No. 2), the ECtHR emphasised that ‘it is essential that the facts grounding the suspicion should be justified by verifiable and objective evidence and that they can be reasonably considered as falling under one of the sections describing criminal behaviour in the Criminal Code’ (§§121-122). Notably, regarding the factual aspect of the existence of the ‘reasonable suspicion’, the Court required the government only to demonstrate (which it failed to do) the ‘plausibility’ of the acts described in the charges. In this case, at least, the Court suggested that plausibility may be sufficient to establish a reasonable suspicion.
The ICJ’s determination that there are plausible violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza could therefore carry weight in the ICC’s assessment whether reasonable grounds exist to believe that a crime within its jurisdiction has occurred. Although mere plausibility of the criminal acts may seem too low a standard to accuse an individual of grave crimes, it is important to recall that proceedings under Article 58 of the Rome Statute represent an initial phase. Only at the trial stage does the Prosecutor need to establish that a crime within the Court’s jurisdiction has occurred.
It beggars belief that people like you exist; saying that what is very clearly an intentional genocide isn’t one and that no-one should do anyone about it. Do you have no fucking morals? Were you just brainwashed so horribly on your Birthright?
If this were real life, you wouldn’t even dare to say aloud that “why would it even be considered a genocide”, because you’d be so ashamed because everyone would look at you like the drooling moron you are.
Educate yourself https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
You genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach.
if this is what does you in, you won’t have a very good time on this little thing here called the internet, again, you keep saying shit i don’t say. Stop putting words in my mouth.
While we’re here, let’s play a game. one of my personal favorites
“More legally and specifically” as if “ethnicity” isn’t well defined in international law. gtfo noob.
alright then big man, link me to the resources that define these things.
Does the state share cultural and historical background with the rest of the NATION-STATE they belong to? Yes. They do. They share a cultural and historical background.
most of palestine is partially arab, therefore, palestine is arab in ethnicity. There are a few religious minorities, but that’s typical, though i’m not familiar with most middle eastern states so i wouldn’t know if any of those are illegal elsewhere.
Also if this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, i will simply point you to asian, european, slavic, african, all of these are arguably ethnicities, though broadly defined, as there are usually more specific subsets for these. Palestinian is arguably a subset of these more broadly defined groups (though i left out the middle east)
The reason that the holocaust was considered genocide was because it was literally targeting jews, for no reason other than cleansing them. (also it had a kill count in the millions) If genocide is considered to be killing people of an ethnic group, than would you classify the US bombing of japan during ww2 to be an ethnic cleansing? because as far as i can tell, that would not be what that is considered, even remotely. Even though we literally bombed hundreds of thousands of japanese people over the course of the war. Presumably genocide has to be defined by a percentage of the total population, given a motivation to “cleanse” said population, the boulder shooting for example would that count as a genocide? What about the florida church shooting?
in fact, according to the genocide convention it’s an extremely broad definition, including almost nothing specifically, other than the fact that it must be “… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:” it doesn’t specify military operations, and i am almost sure there are exceptions to this clause in the definition of military operations, because this is law we’re talking about. In fact, this is also so incredibly broad, that the only way it could reasonably be defined, is in a court of law, specifically an international one, only then would we be able to determine what the answer is here.
So if you lived a hundred years ago, you would say that the Nazis aren’t on “your land” and thus “literally not your problem to answer”?
you forget that this is basically what the US did up until germany threatened attack on the US. The nazis were also operating differently, unlike israel, who is actively engaged in war, germany sort of just, walked up to people, waved, said hello, and then invaded them and overthrew their governments within about a week or two. (highly verbatim, don’t take this literally, since you probably know fuck all about ww2 lol)
Nazi germany was also literally a fascist dictatorship, israel is quite literally a democratic country. These are quite literally two incomparable situations.
We live in an global interconnected world and you bet your goddamn stinky arse that it’s also your problem, no matter how indirectly. The war in Ukraine isn’t your land, thus “literally not your problem”, right?
the war in ukraine literally isn’t my problem, i have no control over it, i have no authority over anything related to it, the best i can do is vote. That’s it. Does it affect me? Yes, so do tornados, and hurricanes, and floods, and fires, are those my problem? No, i literally can’t do anything about them. I just have to live with them.
And that’s a very simple example (for what I assume is a very simple person), but people could list literally thousands of ways how this is your problem as well.
yeah and the OPEC founding caused the energy crisis of the 70’s. I’m almost certain i could list more ways that the ukraine russia war effects the global economy, i’ve been around the topic extensively and i am rather familiar with the effects of trade on a globalized economy. My point here is that i did not create OPEC, i literally have no control over what russia decides to do, it doesn’t fucking matter what i think.
Do you live under a fucking rock? https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
did you just link the ongoing court case? I’m not up to speed on it as i don’t turbo nerd follow every global political event unfortunately, i have to spend time playing factorio and shit, i’m a person after all. So i’m not sure if this has had a legal conclusion (though i would have almost certainly heard about it) This is literally the equivalent of me suing you for “raping me” that doesn’t mean that you raped me, or that i lied, it just means that it has to go through court, it has to be tried, and it has to be ruled on, to some degree. To my knowledge, none of that has happened yet considering what most of those links appear to be are “motions filing for the convention of genocide”
The motherfucking INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT has said there are “reasonable grounds” for a genocide, and their standard of proof is a bit higher than some random asshole online who admits they don’t know anything about anything that’s outside of America.
and i don’t disagree? My problem here is that there is no “proven genocide” it’s “reasonable grounds for genocide” those are two very different things. And yes, the standard of proof IS higher than my dumbass self saying shit on the internet, you’ll notice i have literally NEVER said that this is or isn’t a genocide, i’ve just said that i’m not sure what this would be classified as, because this is a rather unusual proceeding in modern politics.
also here’s a little fun fact if you’re linking israeli officials that go against netanyahu. Have you ever considered that they may be doing it as an act of political posturing to gain support from opponents of netanyahu? If i were a political figure in israel that was opposed to him, i would absolutely be doing the same thing.
“plausible violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza”
plausible does not mean confirmed, it just means likely possible. Not that it even happened, but that there’s a likely chance that it could’ve happened Plausible is barely any more sound than 'maybe" or “possible” or “technically a possibility”
saying that what is very clearly an intentional genocide isn’t one and that no-one should do anyone about it.
wow… you are, uh, very bad at reading comprehension, like really bad. Are you chatGPT by chance? Llama model? What flavor of generative AI are we speaking here?
To cover this one statement by statement here:
it is not “very clearly an intentional genocide” it’s a war, between an organziation that has literally (according to your standards) committed an act of terrorism against israel “At least forty-four nations have publicly expressed their unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and explicitly decried its tactics as terrorism.”
“isn’t one” Show me one message where i have explicitly said “israel is not committing genocide against palestine” Across my ENTIRE account history, please, show me one.
“no-one should do anyone about it” this one isn’t quite true, it’s more a mischaracterization than anything. What i’m saying is that we you and me, have almost nothing that we can do, other than say “hey i don’t like this, don’t do that shit.” but that’s about the extent of it, our elected officials can do more, and doing this “genocide denial” shit, doesn’t fucking help. Because at the end of the day nobody fucking cares whether it’s genocide or not they want the war to stop
Do you have no fucking morals?
i do have morals, they’re just rather minimal, and weirdly enough, don’t include the very specific designation of “ISRAEL BAD PALESTINE GOOD” anywhere in there, it does have shit like “war crimes bad” “war not good” “crime bad” “don’t murder” though.
Were you just brainwashed so horribly on your Birthright?
homie you are the one putting words into my mouth here. Please, if you’re going to accuse a degenerate furry of being “brainwashed” at least be clever about it.
If this were real life, you wouldn’t even dare to say aloud that “why would it even be considered a genocide”, because you’d be so ashamed because everyone would look at you like the drooling moron you are.
this literally is real life, and i’m right here, and you’re right there, unless you’re chatgpt. Why would i be ashamed? This is a very standard practice in the field of philosophy, especially sociology. Clinical analysis of these types of situations is the only thing that provides meaningful results. Also cool adhom, should i call you removeded now? Is that how this works? I would rather not though, because that’s extremely rude.
Educate yourself https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
again, i think you need to actually read what it says, because it’s pretty explicit about what it says, and what it says is that “it is possible that genocide has been committed in gaza by israel.” If it said anything else, there would be an arrest warrant out for netanyahu, most of the upper political government, as well as most military leaders, and perpetrators of the “genocide” weirdly, there seems to be a distinct lack of any of this happening, and i’m not sure why, it’s almost as if nobody really knows what the status of what is currently happening is.
Like I said, people like you make me sick to my fucking stomach.
alright then big man, link me to the resources that define these things.
So… either you’re completely incapable of using Google, or you’re arguing in bad faith, because you just don’t even want to try and look up the definition. I can’t know for certain, perhaps you’re just so stupid you literally have never used Google?
https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.41/2014/mtg1/10_E_0718.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethnicity-and-international-law/ECF719C31352BA6F65CF54A887B9E384 https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ethnic-minority-lawyers/a-guide-to-race-and-ethnicity-terminology-and-language
Also if this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, i will simply point you to asian, european, slavic, african, all of these are arguably ethnicities, though broadly defined, as there are usually more specific subsets for these. Palestinian is arguably a subset of these more broadly defined groups (though i left out the middle east)
Your childish word-salad is making me laugh out-loud. You don’t even get a “good try”. Sorry boy-o.
So you deny the Genocide in Gaza?
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
You need to read it more clearly. Your grasp of language is horrible. You don’t understand the differences between terms like state, ethnicity, nation, nation-state, and refuse to even read about them, the PROUDLY IGNORANT American you are. It’s not my fault that you can’t even grasp your native language on a level that you’d be able to have this conversation.
You don’t understand what it takes for the ICJ and the ICC to admit that there is a case here. They do not admit to genocide lightly, and the trial is still open.
WHO is arguing that there ISN’T a genocide?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/ https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
A majority of countries have decided that yes, it is indeed a genocide and yes, Israel is criminal scum and only a tiny minority of countries (like the US) deny the genocide.
There are THOUSANDS of experts on international law who don’t hesitate a second to call it what it is; GENOCIDE
But you stand on the side of the Nazis. Fucking disgusting.
this literally is real life, and i’m right here, and you’re right there
Alright, come have an actual voice chat and webcam with me which I will record it and post it here. With your own name, of course, as this is real life we’re talking about.
But you won’t do that, because you’re a scared little kid who has been brainwashed and is unable to question said propaganda, which is why you push it despite not really believing in it, which is why you have to argue in bad faith, which is why you pretend Lemmy is "real life"* and which is why you pretend you don’t know how to Google and which is why you equivocate two pages of utter gibberish.
So, you would outright deny that there is a genocide in Gaza, is that right?
You’ll equivocate a bit more while denying the genocide and avoiding showing your face, just like the sick nazi fucks perpetuating it.
Like I said, people like you make me sick to my fucking stomach.
reading the english language makes me nauseous, oh woe is me my head hurts now.
Your childish word-salad is making me laugh out-loud. You don’t even get a “good try”. Sorry boy-o.
damn, the words, what do they mean. A question for the future times i suppose.
So you deny the Genocide in Gaza?
I’m not saying anything in specific with regards to the israel palestine situation other than the fact that “shit’s fucked” right now. Could there be a genocide? I suppose so. I would need more definite proof before coming to that determination. You keep pretending like not having a binary answer going one way or the other is literally impossible. It might be if you have the collective reasoning and critical thinking skills of a toddler, unfortunately, i have been blessed with the mental faculties, of a grown adult human. and therefore i have to contend with the realities of the world, because they are simply a thing that exist.
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
what the fuck do you mean? I have explicitly stated what my stance on this is, multiple times, it’s the same everytime, if you think it’s any different that’s a problem with your comprehension. You have probably gaslit yourself into thinking that i have an opinion on something, that i genuinely do not have an opinion on other than “idk war bad” I would go into it with more depth but clearly that would confuse you, since you seem to lack the capability of interpreting a non binary answer.
You need to read it more clearly. Your grasp of language is horrible. You don’t understand the differences between terms like state, ethnicity, nation, nation-state
perhaps, one could argue that i was making a point about the intricacies in small things making determination of larger concepts a much harder process. Seems like you have that part ironed out, though it seems you’re more set on yelling at me and calling me a “genocide defending fuckhead”
You don’t understand what it takes for the ICJ and the ICC to admit that there is a case here. They do not admit to genocide lightly, and the trial is still open.
yeah i don’t, and you probably don’t either, what i do understand is how the court works. Once there is a set ruled verdict on this case, it will be a settled matter, and i will not have to expend energy on it, as it will be decided in the global court of law as it should be not on the internet, by angry people who may or may not even be real.
WHO is arguing that there ISN’T a genocide?
oh i don’t know, let’s see here, a significant portion of the media, a good chunk of israel, a good chunk of the israeli population, probably a pretty big segment of the jewish population as well. Idk man, seems like quite a few people here to me.
A majority of countries have decided that yes, it is indeed a genocide and yes, Israel is criminal scum and only a tiny minority of countries (like the US) deny the genocide.
There is no decision here, unless we are talking about the court case, and if we’re talking about the court case, then no, there is no decision because it has not run its due course yet. This is the entire point of the case. You don’t build a global legal system intending to prevent things like genocide, and then ONLY use it when there is 100% provable, for certain genocide going on. Because then it would, ironically, miss genocide. The whole point of it is to be a check and balance on the various members of the international community hopefully ensuring that something like ww2 never has to happen again.
These countries might publicly report that they believe this, but this is also just that they believe it, and i would presume it’s probably “we believe that israel might be perpetrating genocide” rather than the aforementioned 100% affirmative, you seem to continually and regularly use.
There are THOUSANDS of experts on international law who don’t hesitate a second to call it what it is; GENOCIDE
oh cool, so you probably have a document included the signed, consented opinion of thousands of international law experts saying verbatim “i believe that israel has 100% committed genocide” that isn’t just going to be a 300 hundred page document about the potentiality that israel has committed genocide? I find it curious that you don’t link anything the first time around, seems like you’re here to yell at people first and provide sources later, seems rather irresponsible to me.
But you stand on the side of the Nazis. Fucking disgusting.
i literally don’t, and you can’t prove otherwise, and you haven’t proven otherwise. Try harder kiddo.
Alright, come have an actual voice chat and webcam with me which I will record it and post it here. With your own name, of course, as this is real life we’re talking about.
you are literally asking me to doxx myself, very cool. Super cool, perchance can i have your full legal name? Also why would i? Doxx me and come say hi :)
But you won’t do that, because you’re a scared little kid who has been brainwashed and is unable to question said propaganda, which is why you push it despite not really believing in it, which is why you have to argue in bad faith, which is why you pretend Lemmy is “real life”* and which is why you pretend you don’t know how to Google and which is why you equivocate two pages of utter gibberish.
just for the record here, i’m not going to do it because i have nothing i want to say to you. Nor do i care enough about this ordeal to deal with someone on a level like this. But yeah no i guess the “nuance” propaganda has really gotten into my brain and it has really affected me now. It’s affected me so deeply that i’ve completely broken down my entire life view, and rebuilt it from the ground up, just so i could have a view on life that wasn’t defined by any existing structure or ideology in particular. I guess that propaganda has really worked it’s way in huh? The years of isolation in pursuit of meaning have culminated in the end result of nothing after this long period of time. (i also do not have a webcam, so)
You’re sitting here pretending that discord is real life, why are you accosting me for saying that lemmy is real life (ignoring the fact that this is a blatant mischaracterization) lemmy would be considered to be an extension of life, arguably, an extension of the socialization of life specifically. Since most people don’t use lemmy much outside of socializing. But that’s clearly too much of an abstract concept for you.
also i don’t think you understand what the definition of equivocation is, you’re the one equivocating my statements lol. Equivocal just means that something is “not clearly defined/stated” an equivocation is using that specific mechanism to work around a certain thing, most commonly a question. If you were to ask me a question, to which i was to respond with something that isn’t an answer, that would be an equivocation. I however, am responding with an answer. It’s very clear.
Also i like the little extra asterisk after the quoted italics section, very cute, i can see you were rather angry when typing that section out.
So, you would outright deny that there is a genocide in Gaza, is that right?
to rephrase this a little bit, since you’re very clearly loading the statements here. Just because i feel a little bit generous.
“so, would you consider what israel is doing in gaza, to be equivalent to a genocide?”
my short answer would be “no, because i do not have a clear understanding of the situation to a point where i can make a reasonably informed decision on the matter.”
My long answer, would be: Given the historical contexts of what is currently going on in israel/palestine at the given moment, it is extremely difficult to give a concise answer to the question, adding all of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation out there on the internet, from both sides (we know this part from the ukraine, russia war, it’s very apparent) that there is almost no reputable source of information regarding any one topic on the matter, as it differs from person to person. Combined with the given definition of genocide being a particular action, and this being a very definite war. It’s hard to delineate between where war stops, and genocide ends. When we include middle eastern culture into this it only gets less defined.
In short, i have no reasonable way, manner, or method, to make a well informed opinion of the events taking place, including my understood lack of knowledge on the topic, such that i wouldn’t be disseminating some form of misinformation, or disinformation, which is not something i wish to do. Combine that with the general stance i have on providing other people free will, and not trying to influence people in any particular manner, it would not benefit me in any manner either. The best i can do is to coalesce my known information into one place, and collect my thoughts in a manner that allows me to best express my understanding of the situation, in hopes that it gives other people insight into what’s going on, on some rudimentary level, while on top of that, instilling in them a healthy dose of nuance.
although i’m sure nothing i could say would satiate your desires for conflict.
avoiding showing your face
oh please, show me your face! I’m sure it’s pretty. Or will you not, because you don’t stand for your own morals? I will continue to not, because my morals are simply different from yours, and that’s ok. That makes me no less of a person than you, just anonymous. As i prefer to be on the internet, presumably, like you currently are, and will continue to be, because you have no interest in revealing your identity to me as it could bring unforeseen consequences. Which, is fine. Though hypocritical given your previous statements. Perhaps you could even do some equivocation of your own there?
And how exactly did you get “I hate reading” from “I hate genocidal fucks like you”?
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
What the fuck do you mean? I have explicitly stated what my stance on this is, multiple times, it’s the same everytime, if you think it’s any different that’s a problem with your comprehension.
Weirdly you keep avoiding actually mentioning any, just going on with vague “both sides” bullshit and “not enough evidence” patheticism.
Since it clearly missed you; DO YOU THINK THERE’S A GENOCIDE GOING ON IN GAZA?
Do you think Israelis are at an equal risk of being the victims of genocide as Palestinians are?
ANSWER CLEARLY; since I’m clearly incapable of perceiving anything other. (Or you just equivocate because you know what is the right side of history but you don’t actually want to go against your brainwashing of DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL.)
perhaps, one could argue that i was making a point about the intricacies in small things making determination of larger concepts a much harder process
You didn’t read it, got it. You skimmed and concluded “there’s no sentence” and thought that’s it. That’s exactly my point about the way you “argue.”
just for the record here, i’m not going to do it
Yes, I knew you wouldn’t, because you don’t have the spine to stand behind this garbage with your own name, face or even voice. Probably because it’s high and crackling. You can’t put your money where your mouth is, because you don’t believe or even understand what you’re pushing.
it is extremely difficult to give a concise answer to the question, adding all of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation out there on the internet, from both sides
No, it isn’t, unless you’re pushing Israeli propaganda.
Again. Literally the vast fucking majority of the world agree it’s a genocide.
Algeria[179] Bangladesh[4] Bolivia[180] Brazil[181][182][183] Chile[184] China[185] Colombia[181][186] Comoros[187] Cuba[188] Djibouti[187] Egypt[189][190] Indonesia[191] Iran[192] Iraq[191] Ireland[193] Jordan[194] Lebanon[195] Libya[196] Malaysia[197] Maldives[198] Mexico[199] Namibia[4] Nicaragua[4][200] Pakistan[201] Palestine[4] Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[202] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[203] Slovenia[204][205] Spain[206][207] Syria[208] Turkey[197] Venezuela[4] Zimbabwe[209][210] African Union[211][212] Arab League[213] Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[214] Non-Aligned Movement
Some more alliances, less stately:
Al-Haq[277] Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights[277] Amnesty International[278] Boycott from Within[274][276][279] CodePink[280][272][273] De-Colonizer[281][274][276] Democratic Socialists of America[274] Human Rights Watch[27][282][4] International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network[274] International Peoples' Assembly[131] Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions[274][276][283] Israelis Against Apartheid[274][276][284][285] Jewish Voice for Peace[274] La Via Campesina[131] National Lawyers Guild[272] Nelson Mandela Foundation[286] New Zealand Labour Party[287][288] Palestinian Centre for Human Rights[277] Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions[131] Palestinian NGO Network[131] Progressive International[280][272][273] RootsAction[280][272][273] People's Forum[280][272][273] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom[289] World Beyond War[280][272][273] World March of Women[131]
These are just the ones officially supporting South-Africa’s ICC case. Not every country which condemns Israel.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid
The Assembly adopted the resolution titled “Admission of new Members to the United Nations” (document A/ES-10/L.30/Rev.1) by a recorded vote of 143 in favour to 9 against (Argentina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, United States)
You know why a majority is for giving Palestine official UN status and Israel and other removed-states are against it? Because as soon as it goes through, it’s much simpler to show that the legal definition of a genocide (which you tried looking up on fucking wikipedia :DDD, here have an actual document lol.
Here’s the Israeli Defence Minister directly announcing that they are fighting “HUMAN ANIMALS”. (Perhaps google the word “dehumanisation”.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk (edit forgot to add this link)
In short, i have no reasonable way, manner, or method, to make a well informed opinion of the events taking place
Yeah, because you’re **PURPOSEFULLY IGNORING ALL THE INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS LOUDLY CRYING GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE GENOCIDE." You’re like a Flat Earther insisting he’s using objective science. You’re like a scientologists, denouncing psychiatry. You’re like a transphobe screaming “there are only two genders.” ALL the fucking experts disagree with you, but you’re not man enough to admit when you’re wrong, or even man enough to understand you should stop shaming yourself online.
“NO WAY OF KNOWING :///////”"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9950n003yo
https://turkiye.un.org/en/263401-gaza-number-children-killed-higher-four-years-world-conflict
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/10/un-expert-warns-new-instance-mass-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-calls (and that’s from last october)
Ah, there’s nothing I can do to fix a sick puppy like you, so I don’t know why I’m wasting my time on a propaganda-troll. You will never admit Israel is raping and pillaging Palestinians, and it’s disgusting and it should make you really, really fucking concerned about your own psyche that you have this sickly desire to acquiesce to shit you know isn’t real.
But I guess those UN offices are just “anti-semites looking to genocide Israel”, huh?
For the record, I love reading. It’s just that you’re not producing text. You’re producing gibberish you think is convincing rhetoric. It’s sort of like watching a five-year old play kitchen. You have absolutely no idea of the words you use and your rhetoric is elementary.
You ignore the evidence , then you equivocate and move the goalposts.
You ignore the fact that ICJ and ICC courts take a significant amount of time. If you were right now being held for trial for allegedly having raped 800 children and there were hundreds of hours of filmed evidence of you doing it, do you think it’d mean you’re innocent because you’ve not yet got a guilty verdict?
You’re despicable. And it shows from you getting so utterly pissed when I sussed out so easily that you’re probably part of this group and of Jewish American descent, went to your birthright (because you couldn’t afford a holiday anytime else) and got brainwashed so bad that now you’re getting literally cross-brained trying to not to admit what the scum of Israel are doing.
Why do you ignore all the evidence?
I read all your childish garbage utterings. None of them have a lick of an argument behind them. It’s like piss-poor rhetoric from a malnourished Soviet official who started vodka on an empty stomach; zero literacy and stumbling all over in a panic because they know they’re in trouble.
If you took this out of the context of being on lemmy, it would be impossible to tell which side this came from.
What the fuck are you smoking?
Outside of shitty Israeli propaganda, no-one thinks Israel is under the threat of genocide.
And who think that Israel is committing one? The rest of the fucking world.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
“What the fuck are you smoking” is an ad hominem designed to distract from my undeniably true point, specifically: that both sides are similar in using unfair allegations of defending genocide to dismiss more nuanced beliefs of the other side.
Outside of shitty Israeli propaganda, no-one thinks Israel is under the threat of genocide.
This is called a motte-and-bailey fallacy. You’re taking my point implying that both sides accuse the other of defending genocide and then wanna say I’m suggesting Israel is under threat of genocide. These are different things. You use a different thing because if you were to address the actual point, which again is undeniably true, you would have a very hard time.
To be clear, the “genocide” Israel supporters (unfairly) accuse others of defending is the Hamas attack on Israel, where Hamas killed unarmed civilians at close range, proudly recording it on video. I don’t mean to imply you can’t figure that out on your own, but you kinda forced me to point it out.
And if you say “but people who are protesting Israel aren’t defending Hamas attacking Israeli civilians, but are defending the right of the Palestinian civilians to remain alive”, then you understand completely. Now try swapping the relevant ethno-religious tribes.
You don’t understand what tbe words “ad hominem” or “genocide”
Mean.
You’re a little kid larping a philosopher. Badly.
To be clear, the “genocide” Israel supporters (unfairly) accuse others of defending is the Hamas attack on Israel, where Hamas killed unarmed civilians at close range, proudly recording it on video
In a highly charged ruling in January, the court ordered Israel to do everything in its power to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza
Again, you don’t seem to understand what “genocide” means.
It’s not “both sides”. “Both sides” do not have cases in the ICC about being accused of genocide. Both sides do not have convictions from the ICC that they need to do all the can to stop genocidal actions being undertaken.
You genocide defenders make me fucking sick. Grow some balls and question your brainwashing.
Ad hominem = attacking the person rather than the argument. Like “you’re a little kid…” The fact that you feel the need to accuse someone you’ve never seen of being a kid instead of pointing out what’s actually wrong with what I’m saying should be seen as evidence that you are desperately flailing, pathetically grasping for straws to build an argument from when you clearly have nothing. Instead, it’s getting upvoted, for some reason.
Everything else you say is completely and absolutely non-responsive, internet tropes in place of argument. You completely ignore the whole point of my argument, which is that you replaced my argument with another argument and argued against that instead, and proceeded to argue against an argument that was never made in the exact way I described.
Forget Israel and Palestine, the fact that this illogical Trumpian debate tactic shit is getting upvoted is the new thing that disturbs me. We’re truly fucked as a species.
Yes, “rather than”. Do you know what those words mean?
It doesn’t mean the same as “in addition to”, does it?
“Everything else you say is completely…”
You are the one pulling an ad hominem, not me. You ignore my answer to your “argument” and go on to attack my person. Your entire argument is “without the context of the site we’re on, no-one could know what this is referring to”, as if this was some sort of “both sides” bullshit, which you claim to despise.
It’s not. Everyone knows Israel is genociding Palestine and not a single reasonable person would argue that Palestine is trying to genocide Israel.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
During the day-long discussion, speakers were near-unanimous in demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and warning against the catastrophic consequences of Israel’s assault on Rafah, where more than 1.5 million have congregated. Many underscored that while the adopted resolution represents the first step towards fulfilling the international community’s obligations to Palestine, ensuring its full UN membership is imperative.
Israel’s assault on Rafah.
Fuck your equivocating teenage propaganda bullshit.
You are the one pulling an ad hominem, not me. You ignore my answer to your “argument” and go on to attack my person.
No I didn’t, everything was specific to your argument. I said nothing about you. As for your argument, well I guess I’m glad that I’m promoted to teenager now.
Your entire argument is “without the context of the site we’re on, no-one could know what this is referring to”, as if this was some sort of “both sides” bullshit, which you claim to despise.
But the argument I’m making is that both sides are guilty of claiming the other side is defending genocide not that both sides are guilty of committing genocide right now. The argument that one side is defending genocide is bad faith, as other than a few extremists nobody on either side is actually defending genocide.
id…” The fact that you feel the need to accuse someone you’ve never seen of being a kid instead of pointing out what’s actually wrong
INSTEAD OF
I very clearly pointed out what’s wrong with your.
But the argument I’m making is that both sides are guilty of claiming the other side is defending genocide
“Both sides”
See. You’re pulling the ridiculous “both sides” bullshit.
The argument that one side is defending genocide is bad faith
No it isn’t. You’re just pretending it is, willfully ignoring the reality of the situation. Israel is most definitely defending a genocide.
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba.
“We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Accused of committing genocide against Palestinians, Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court Friday that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.
More than 23,000 people in Gaza have been killed during Israel’s military campaign, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory. That toll does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Nearly 85% of Gaza’s people have been driven their homes, a quarter of the enclave’s residents face starvation, and much of northern Gaza has been reduced to rubble.
… this amounts to genocide and is part of decades of Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
“The scale of destruction in Gaza, the targeting of family homes and civilians, the war being a war on children, all make clear that genocidal intent is both understood and has been put into practice. The articulated intent is the destruction of Palestinian life,” said lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, adding that several leading politicians had made dehumanizing comments about people in Gaza.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976
#Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
From the river to the sea, Israel shell be free!
I’m joking but Israeli politicians do use similar rhetoric to justify wiping out Palestine