jameshilliard

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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Was Britain at war with Northern Ireland? Not formally. > I've come to believe that it's pretty impossible to understand Israel-Palestine without the lens of religion. From my understanding according to common Islamic teac
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> You are basically arguing that you can never have genocide during a war because otherwise legitimate acts of war, committed with genocidal intent, don’t count even if they are enumerated genocidal acts in the convention, and war crimes
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> I don't care what they built. If you want to fight them, man up and go get them! US forces did this in Iraq. Let's see gods chosen people be so brave. It's a war, military strategy doesn't tend to put much emphasis
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> I don't think even I would think surrender, in those circumstances, makes a great deal of sense. Why not? That's what typically happens when one side loses a war, I'm not sure how prolonging the conflict is helpful. >
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Hamas isn't Gazans. Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza and retains a high level of support amongst the population. The population could put more pressure on Hamas to disarm but so far it has been fairly minimal
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Defending your home and against genocide is not "extremism". The Nakba is not genocide, it might be considered ethnic cleansing but that's not remotely the same as genocide. It also wasn't just one side doing ethnic
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> The state of Israel. Just as an example hypothetical, if there were evidence that the Israeli government was implementing as a clear matter of top down government policy the deliberate extermination/targeting of Palestinian civili
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> acts that are war crimes or crimes against humanity AFAIU per international law either war crimes or crimes against humanity do not by themselves mean there is a genocide. Almost all wars will see these crimes in isolated instances at
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
In terms of an individual or a state itself?
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> If you lock women and children in a ghetto, then bomb and shoot them relentlessly for months and years, people are going to want to know what book you are reading. This is an absolutely insane comparison, Hamas is free to surrender and
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Gazans are being exterminated regardless of their actions. That's simply factually inaccurate, Hamas started the latest war while the population of Gaza was growing. The Jews started the Warsaw Ghetto uprising while they were bein
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> I'm pretty sure French guards didn't prevent movement between Germany and the rest of France. I'm pretty sure the Israeli border guards didn't entirely prevent movement between Palestine and Israel either, at least
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> That there were wars going on at the time does not make it any less of a genocide. If some act is in pursuit of a legitimate war goal then that typically negates it being considered an act of genocide from my understanding of internati
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Two, the intent is clearly genocide. Listen to Ben-Gvir. Saying Ben-Gvir has genocidal intent(which I'd probably largely agree with) is not remotely the same as saying Israel has genocidal intent. The power dynamics in Israel are
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Don't we typically call that ad hominem? I think we'd typically call that bias. > And secondly, is your claim that every single one of these hundreds of large orgs are historically politically or religiously anti Israel? P
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> There's plenty of evidence that the Israeli government is composed of people with a similar outlook, just with a power imbalance that affords them the opportunity to be more politically sophisticated. Israel does have some problem
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off in November 1940 by a wall more than 10 feet high, with barbed wire and guarded gates. France was sealed off in 1938 by a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations called the Magin
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Just so I understand correctly, are you implying here that you consider the persecution of Uyghurs a genocide? Based on the publicly available evidence I would consider it to potentially be genocide, certainly it's more plausible
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> A lot of Jews in the Polish Ghettos were pretty extremist. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were not going around killing German civilians.
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> But we typically don't call oppressed peoples "extremists". Many groups are oppressed to various degrees for various reasons but restoring to terrorism(especially against civilians) is arguably an extremist response. The
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
Hamas built a tunnel network under most of Gaza, obviously since Israel wants to destroy that tunnel network(which is clearly a legitimate war goal) there will be severe infrastructure damage to the buildings above the tunnels. Destroying t
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> Not at all obviously. Israel is committing a genocide. This is not really a matter of discussion... you think several parts of the UN, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the international association of genocide scholars,
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> The existence of the support for those extremists has the same root cause that I stated in my original message: the artificial and strategic neocolonial state propped up by outside financial support with the expressed goal of establish
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> No one is comflating war with genocide Anyone claiming Israel is committing genocide is quite obviously conflating the two.
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> There's no such thing: the separate authority in Gaza was produced by Israeli military isolation of the separate parts of Palestine nominally administered by the PA, and how that facilitated Hamas local victory there in the intra-
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> You can defend yourself without genocide. People also need to stop conflating a war with genocide.
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> If you think having a particular ethnicity in charge is equivalent to endorsing genocide, you miiiiiight be a little bit racist. The democratically elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza(Hamas) has for a long time quite openly
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> I don't view Ben Gvir's rise to a position of powers as a product of democracy, as much of a product of artificial states, neocolonialism, ethnostates, and apartheid. From my understanding Ben Gvir(who has very little overall
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
Would not surprise me if a DOCSIS modem driver bug could be causing this sort of issue, fiber router/modems like the Q1000K from AT&T/Centurylink/Quantum Fiber have all sorts of crazy driver bugs[0]. Some of which I know
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by jameshilliard 2mo ago
> They will remove using external SMTP servers to send emails from external, third-party addresses. What about using Gmail's own internal SMTP servers(i.e. smtp.gmail.com) to send emails from external, third-party addresses?

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