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> if the Israeli people really wanted anything different, it was their human duty and utmost responsibility to stop this by now It’s wrong to single out Israel. The US is funding this mass murder of children and blocking attempts to stop
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> A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider on Tuesday that its soldiers found the decapitated corpses of babies https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-says-hamas-decapitated-b... > deputy commander of th
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Being attacked by a genocidal regime and the country paying for the genocide. Appealing to a moral high ground in this conflict is pretty ridiculous.
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I was using famine colloquially to mean mass starvation in a wide area. But your comment prompted me to educate myself more about the IPC classification system which depends on 1) 20% of the population face catastrophic food insecurity) 2)
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Now you’re dismissing all food scarcity concerns, including ignoring the recent intensification of food scarcity under the blockade, because supposedly a subset of humanitarian concerns expressed earlier in the genocide were overstated. But
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Starvation shows every sign of worsening under this system. Rather than aiming to resolve mass starvation (manufactured by Israel’s policies in the first place), it should be seen for what it is, part of Israel government’s very consistent
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A long as we continue to prioritize industry over general well-being, then yes.
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The politifact page isn’t a news source. It presents a straightforward argument. It deconstructs the most substantial evidence I could find that the Gazan population is growing amid the genocide and quote population measures - basically som
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The death toll reflects the early stages of war not the choice of targets. And we know that the targets include residential areas.
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The aid distribution “challenges” are because Israel is blocking all aid except that which comes from the GHF itself. Israel has created the conditions for starvation by destroying agriculture and blocking all aid except for four GHF aid s
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Israel government justified its genocide of Gaza with its supposedly targeted strikes of Hamas. This narrative has lost all credibility. And we have seen with Gaza what effect “PR” has on stopping the atrocities committed there - none. The
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Genocide is human beings at their worst. Suppressing the condemnation of genocide means any speech can be suppressed.
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“Flattening” implies damage more widespread than I have described. My statement, sourced from numerous credible news organizations, which I have linked, is that Israel has attacked residential areas. As for Israel’s air superiority over Teh
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There are numerous reports from a variety of credible sources of attacks on residential targets. Your argument, as far as I can tell, is a vague armchair hunch.
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> Not only would it be a horrible thing to do and of no military value, they simply don't blame the people of Iran for the IRGC's actions. So then it’s remarkable that it’s nevertheless occurring. I posted this elsewhere ITT bu
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Israel wants a regime change, that is clear. However it’s absurd to suggest the Israeli government has benevolent intentions toward the Iranian people considering that it is bombing people living in residential areas (never mind the Israel
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International news organizations reporting on this conflict incorporate accounts of residents and human rights organizations. It’s simply not true that the Iranian and Israeli governments are our only source of facts on this matter, or that
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> Shock, fear in Tehran after Israel bombs residential, military areas https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/13/shock-fear-in-tehra... > Today, Iran is once again under heavy bombardment with Israe
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The idea that Israel is trying to help the Iranian people is a falsehood. Israel is bombing residential neighborhoods. This is cynicism on the part of the Israeli government, something we should be well aware of now as they are completing t
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Globalization broke the unions in the US, the main site of organized popular power. While it’s true that the current state of affairs is part of a longer slide toward authoritarianism, a more accurate etiology would be that it’s the congeal
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With rising authoritarianism in the US it is highly likely the military will be increasingly deployed against US citizens. Replacing the humans in the loop with AI removes a key safeguard. We’re heading down a very very dark path.
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Free speech is a human right not a right of citizens. You conflate several issues here under the notion of national rights: legitimate border concerns, deportation of students as retaliation of free speech (under your umbrella term foreign
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Eating more prebiotics in the form of unprocessed plants is much more effective at improving gut health than probiotic supplements or even probiotic foods. (Of course you can do both.)
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Thiel has explicitly advocated for the abolition of democracy and is funding contemporary efforts to do so. What privileges our students enjoy only exist because he hasn’t succeeded yet. You pose a false choice between authoritarian regimes
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Anti-capitalist revolutions of the past all relied on a strong workers’ movements. Revolutions don’t make themselves. If you believe the answer is replacing capitalism then I think the best place to start is labor organizing. A general str
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I guess my concern is about the living standards of workers not creation of wealth. I think your argument is that growing wealth helps the working class as it creates more wealth, and thus a bigger pie. My argument is that a bigger pie does
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If you were a handicraft worker and a factory opened, your old livelihood was destroyed. You may be making optimal choices for yourself by shifting to factory work, but to claim that factory life was better because people chose it obscures
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If you look at the decline in poverty since 1980 most of that is due to China’s policies [1] which have combined social programs, central planning, with, yes, a portion of the economy running in market economics. And note that this occurre
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You’re right that technology is a necessary ingredient in some cases such as medical treatment. However workplace safety and 40 hour work weeks are not good examples. In the 1800s factory owners extracted as much value from their workforce
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My position is more nuanced that you present it to be. I’m arguing against Altman’s notion of progress as being driven by scientific and technological achievements. Looking through your list it’s social policies which either drive or are ne

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