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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
You might want to review the HN guidelines yourself. You shouldn't be complaining about snark right after writing > your good faith arguments have convinced me! > Silly me, how could I even argue about this? It’s just so damn obv
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
You're just changing the topic with unrelated accusations. How nice or mean you think a military is irrelevant to the fact that they don't like random journalists tweeting photos of their military assets.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Universally, modern militaries don't like journalists wandering around near their assets. > and Russia enforced press restrictions across all of Ukrainian territory Your analogy isn&#x2
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
"Judaism" sometimes refers to the religion, but many Jews are not religious. Jews are a group of people from Judea, hence its historical name. Some dispersion to other regions doesn't change where a group of people is from.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
1. It's pretty much the same - no press in dangerous areas unless invited and escorted by the military. The only major difference is that Ukraine is >1000x larger, and has safe areas far from any fighting where such press restrictio
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
It’s perfectly normal for militaries to have press restrictions in conflict zones, for opsec among other good reasons. No one bats an eye when Ukraine does it for example.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
The next census will be in 2027. No one knows the population until then. It’s not clear that Hamas limits their counts to excess deaths. Even if they intended to, a lot of it is based on a web form, with not much validation besides basic ch
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
Zionism is a political view; a Zionist can be from anywhere just as a socialist can. Jews are indigenous to Judea though. Others have a right to live in the region too, hence proposals to share the land, such as the partition plan or the 20
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
Most Zionists have a goal of preserving a Jewish majority for pragmatic reasons - history has shown that it's the only way to ensure the safety of Jews. That's not a supremacist ideology at all. Moreover, no country is perfect, an
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
There are a couple problems with this view: - You could say that antisemites are a cause of Zionism, but that doesn't mean they intentionally support it. Not all antisemites are of the "go back to Palestine" type. - Just as &
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
There's nothing supremacist about Zionism, it's just the support of Jewish self-determination. Efforts to twist it into something nefarious are just propaganda with no etymological basis.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
> Israeli estimates put the military wing of Hamas at having up to 17,000 Where did you see that estimate? Some estimates were ~40k, with many more recruits added during the war. And not everyone attacking the IDF was Hamas-affiliated. P
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
> but they have chosen not to I disagree with this premise. There are many examples of Russia striking civilian gatherings or infrastructure. For example their Hroza village strike killed 59. If we're trying to be charitable to Russ
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
The Ukraine war has a better civilian casualty ratio for a bunch of reasons that are not "Israel is evil and trying to slaughter civilians": - Soldiers on both sides wear uniforms. - When they can, Ukraine defends from trenches aw
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
> Forced displacement is a war crime With a very important exception for the security of civilians. It's much better to ask civilians to leave before a major military operation than to just start the operation with all the civilians
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
How exactly do you expect Israel to fight a war without creating dangerous areas? The target population they sought to evacuate is just whoever resided in the combat area, which is not an ethnicity.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
> So the Warsaw ghetto wasn't ethnic cleasing because they stayed in Poland? I suppose you have a point, my framing was off. But the IDF asking people to leave a dangerous area is much closer to a fire evacuation than a ghetto where
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
How could relocation within the same territory be ethnic cleansing? By that logic, I was ethnically cleansed by our fire department due to an approaching wildfire. Ethnic cleaning also wouldn't imply genocide anyway.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
"UN" is a vague term for a bunch of forums and other bureaucracy, so "UN-recognized" doesn't really make sense.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
Considered by who? Earlier you claimed by the ICJ, but as I pointed out, their opinion did not in fact say that.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
From 2005-2023, the whole period where there were essentially zero Jews or Israelis in Gaza. Of course parts became occupied in response to Oct 7.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
You didn't answer his question.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
> Israel was still occupying Gaza, according to an ICJ ruling That's not what the court said. Its language was > In light of the above, the Court is of the view that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has not entirely releas
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
IPC had to ignore their own definition to declare a famine though. An actual famine involves at least 2 starvations per 10,000 people per day, among other requirements. According to Hamas' own data, Gaza was always several orders of ma
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
It's absolutely an issue, although this is outside the visible spectrum and degradation may be a bit less severe compared to visible light.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
As the sibling comment notes, these days 400a residential service is available as an option in many places. One home actually consuming close to 400a is pretty rare, but it's possible mainly in gas-free builds, if using things like ele
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
Is that output power of the laser? If it's input power, it doesn't really seem that high. Some US homes could draw 100kW if charging multiple EVs etc.
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
Gaza's "air defense" is hundreds of miles of tunnels, civilians just aren't allowed to shelter in them. Hamas having better technology wouldn't change the fact that they're not interested in protecting civilian
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by FunnyUsername 9mo ago
I think you have it backwards. Israel tolerated something like ~30k rocket attacks from Gaza (between 2005-2023) before finally launching a major military campaign that sought to remove Hamas from power. It would normally be absurd to expec

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