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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> What else are they going to do with their time, after all? ONE OF the main functions of the prison system today is access to prison slave labor, so I imagine they'll keep him busy.
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> On the other hand, there is virtually no chance that the US could have forced Israel to stop the war because Israelis view this as an existential threat. No threats or measures the US would take would override that view. This is likely
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> Remember, Germany is a real democracy with freedom of speech I don't know about that. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/30/germanys-crackd... https://www.aljazeera.com/n
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> Being against the Al-Sauds means being against Islam (according to the Saudi government) Pretty much every of the hundreds of millions of muslims who live outside Saudi Arabia (and probably a large number of those who live inside it) l
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> Then let me go on record as saying that I fully support my government and my army's efforts to return the remaining hostages [...] This is a common talking point that makes no sense when you think about it. Could you please explai
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> I'm not labeling the "whole protest movement" as anything. Ok maybe not. What you did do, however, was accuse a person of misdirection, when your initial comment is itself a misdirection from the greater issue -- ~34 tho
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
Full focus on unsavoury comments, or even actions, by one out of a thousand protesters (I'm taking a guess at the rate here; might be even lower than that) in order to label the whole protest movement as hateful, violent, and whatnot,
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#By_c... You're going to have to come up with an incredibly convoluted definition of terrorism in order to have it include only people, groups or co
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> no sane person who is not a psychoapath will say "Oh, are they anti-LGBT and they may kill LGBT people? I guess its okay for Israel to murder their children then..." I'd like to strip that sentence of the LGBT context, a
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> look at what hezbollah has done to lebanon It played a major role in ending the occupation of the southern half of Lebanon by Israel [0], has since repelled another invasion [1], and now serves as a strong deterrent to any further inva
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
TikTok does not actually have many such videos since they get taken down far more aggressively than they do on, say, X/Twitter or Telegram. However, TikTok has the eyeballs of the vast majority of the young people and they talk about t
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
You just described every superpower, global and regional. Or do you have a very narrow internal definition of what "ideology" means? Maybe that's the subjective part.
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 2y ago
> hm.. i don't think iran destabilized syria, iraq, yemen, and most of all lebanon, to "protect themselves" from anybody If you read even the basic Wikipedia historical last-few-decades overviews of those countries you men
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> I'm surprised this passed (in the house at least) at this point in the election cycle AIPAC is willing to sacrifice Biden's re-election chances for this short-term victory because the other candidate and his whole party is al
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> I know there are plenty of hyper puritanical people who would disagree with me [...] If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robber I'd just want to get a beer and hear the crazy stories. Absolutes do not work and det
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
All that is just an internet search away, and provides an endless list. Let us ignore the major bombings of Gaza in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022. How about the following few: Jewish Voice for Peace giving a timeline of major vio
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
I would strongly argue that even being able to prove that a human might perform worse is not an acceptable excuse for the reasons I will outline. The bar for a computer needs to be significally higher than that of a human. We know that huma
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
Alternative to accomplish what exactly? To get hostages back? Hostage exchange. To dismantling Hamas and armed resistance from Palestinians? Stop ethnically cleansing the West Bank and remove the boot from their necks so that people in Gaza
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
I never understood why the argument that only war can bring hostages back, or that it is the most reliable way, was allowed to be propagated in public for so long. > but I imagine the residents of kibbutz be'eri and the 100+ hostage
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> Of the 32,000 Hamas stated deaths, 13,000 are terrorists 13k out of 32k is around 40%. The estimates for the number of murdered children and women have been about 70% [1] for months, so the "40% are terrorist" claim already d
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> If the Palestinians stop defending themselves with terrorism would Israel play nice? I’d love to see that scenario. That's easy -- just take a look at the West Bank. The response to Palestinian "pacifism" (or whatever we
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> we've had genocide in Cambodia, Serbia, [...] Just to correct you, the genocide was in Bosnia, not Serbia, as a culmination of years of ethnic cleansing of the muslim (and to a smaller extent the ethnic Croat) population of Bosnia
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> Hamas though is a terrorist organization. Internationally recognized as such almost universally. I have to correct you on the latter because these details matter. According to the Wikipedia page about it [0], it is designated as a terr
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
From the article: > One employee asked about Gemini's bias. Specifically, the person wrote that when asking Gemini, "Do women in Gaza deserve human rights?" the chatbot didn't have a response and directed the user to
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
Are Five Eyes trying to stop genocides? To my knowledge, the systematic destruction of Gaza and the horrible death toll that accompanies it is still fully supported by the Five Eyes, three and a half months later. They are also expressing o
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
Do American people generally place more value on the ability to call elected officials names, rather than having proper health care, and solving regulatory capture and corruption? Is such a stance wise?
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> Some innocents are dying It is estimated that about 70% of killed people (which has gone over 20000 recently) are women and children. Those are not Hamas fighters. Even if you assume that every adult male that has been killed was a Ham
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
I will reply mainly to your point (2) first, as I see it often repeated. > Israel for years had the means to completely exterminate Gaza many times over, but they never did In a theoretical sense that Israel had the means to, sure. But i
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
> Unable to think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid. By writing this blog post, you have already done something extremely significant and noble. You are giving a voice
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
A fair question, but it is really not difficult to see why the claim must be true. Here [1] is one source for the death toll in Gaza by direct military action (not including people burried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, dying of s

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