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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Qassam rockets are not "useless." They've killed multiple people, including kids. They are relatively low-yield compared to later Grad/Fajr/M-75 type rockets Hamas used, but to say they're "useless" i
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
They were weaker than most European countries in their air power. Stronger in manpower and in munitions, which included tens of thousands of rockets.
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
I claimed Hamas had a larger and more powerful military than many European countries. This is a fact. > What? You mean countries like Monaco and Liechtenstein? No, my claim is much stronger. I mean Hamas's army was comparable to cou
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Yes, Israel and Egypt together controlled what Gaza was allowed to import and export - not as a form of collective punishment, but to ensure its own security. There's a huge difference between that and a "full blockade" (whic
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
I dispute your claim on genocide and the purposeful killing of kids. so the only impact your words have on me is that I see you inventing crimes My grandmother is a living Auschwitz survivor (one of the last, she's nearly 100). I'
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
I don't see how that's relevant to the earlier claim, but even this claim of yours is a gross overstatement. There was a partial blockade , not a full blockade, and this partial blockade came after Palestinians launched the secon
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Gaza began the war with a more powerful army than many European countries: more soldiers, more rockets, more war-fighting infrastructure. Gaza wasn't a particularly poor place before the war, certainly not by the standards of the middl
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
You wrote: "You make sure to avoid mentionning that hamas is not only a terrorist organization. It is also an administrative body which has been bringing employment and services to a significant portion of the palestinian population wh
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Nobody is justifying Palestinian deaths, whatever that means. You don't know my position on the war, since I haven't articulated it here. I'm simply refuting your earlier claim that only Hamas and Hezbollah is dedicated to th
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
There's no sleight of hand, just a horrifying reality. It's not just Hamas and Hezbollah. Civilians from Gaza participated in October 7 and poll after poll shows broad palestinian support for the destruction of Israel. Support for
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Finally, a refutable claim. Can you name me a hospital in Gaza that didn't have a Hamas presence?
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Yes, it's specific. It's also a fact that is in direct contradistinction to the OP's claim. Israel has also not fired any missiles at hospitals, with one exception (a small diameter bomb aimed specifically at Hamas that cause
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Hamas has weaponized every hospital in Gaza. By contrast, Israel has not dropped an aerial bomb on any hospital building in Gaza. What has happened is Israel has attacked hospitals with Hamas presence using ground forces, and they have drop
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
indeed there are.
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
I appreciate it, thanks.
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Thanks for posting this.
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by richardfeynman 8mo ago
Thanks for this post.
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by richardfeynman 9mo ago
Yes, of course there are sources that aren’t actively manipulated by groups of activist editors whose goals are to obscure the truth. Have you tried ChatGPT?
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by richardfeynman 9mo ago
You are getting bad information. The Wikipedia pages on those specific topics (Ukraine, Gaza, BLM) is known to be have been manipulated by groups of editors acting in coordination to advance political narratives.
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by richardfeynman 9mo ago
This whole affair should get much more attention. If one topic on Wikipedia can be so manipulated, any topic on Wikipedia can, and it's no longer a reliable source of knowledge. I hope The Wikimedia Foundation can get its act together,
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
"But the holy church of england says the earth is the center of the universe!"
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Appeal to authority. Nullius in verba.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You’re still arguing with a sentence I did not write. I did not use a “religion-specific metric to argue about hate crimes in general.” I said, explicitly, “69% of religious-based hate crimes.” Then, when you insisted on the “general” denom
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
A series of unsupported claims.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Never happened.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Thanks for the correction, I appreciate you owning it. But the rest is just another goalpost move. Quoting a clearly labeled subset is not “transparently misleading,” as you put it It’s how statistics work. I said “religious-based hate crim
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
He's saying Hamas lost a war, that's all that happened. You're making an unrelated point, which is that genocide is often carried out in the context of war. That may be true, but that doesn't make the hoax that Israel&#x
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Of course it's not and never was a genocide. But jimbo808 wishes it were, because he thinks that will help him justify the very rise in hate crimes against Jews that he also tries to downplay. jimbo808 wrote: "The most generous st
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You’re accusing me of “not mentioning the subset” while quoting a thread where I literally wrote “religious-based hate crimes.” So either you missed it or you’re pretending you missed it. But it's here in this exact thread for anyone t
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You’re not “correcting” me. You’re swapping denominators and then accusing me of misrepresentation. The ~69% figure is not “probably based on” anything. It’s directly from the FBI’s 2023 hate crime data as summarized by DOJ: 2,699 religion-

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