richardfeynman

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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
No, I don't. I include only FBI statistics of hate crimes targeting religious groups in the United States. Jews are 35x more likely to be victims of hate crimes in the US. Nothing to do with Gaza. Some people refuse to acknowledge this
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Thanks for this thoughtful comment. I agree.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Yes, American media is anti-Israel, which is why we've seen daily accusations of genocide, forced starvation, and other absurd allegations for what was a totally normal war, much less destructive than the war in Iraq or Afghanistan or
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
There is no global hate movement against lefties that encourages and relishes in their pain. There is for Jews, who despite accounting for only 2% of the US population are victims of 69% of religious-based hate crimes. Doing the math, Jews
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Another data point is that Jews are getting killed and assaulted around the world. With that said, I agree that for now there's no actual evidence supporting this allegation. But I wouldn't be totally shocked to learn that his eth
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
There's no burden of proof on me, it's all on you. You're the one claiming Israel purposefully killed Hind Rajab and yet you refuse to answer the specific questions I asked you about the incident. You say this is because yo
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
This is you admitting you were never discussing history in good faith. You started with “adequate evidence of the Truman bombing attempt.” When asked for records, you pivoted to “it would certainly be classified.” Now you say you “don’t rea
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Nice dodge, but switching from “Jews” to “Israel” does not make you more precise. It makes you chronologically wrong. Israel did not exist in 1947. And the sermon about “conflating Jewishness with Israel” is rich coming from the person who
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Thanks for finally stating your epistemic standard out loud: “credible hearsay and correlating patterns” is enough for you to accuse Jews of trying to assassinate a U.S. president. That is not “knowing history.” That is how conspiracy theor
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You simply invent crimes and claim Israel is guilty until proven innocent. That's not how it works.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
“Obviously” is a nice rewrite, but you did not say Holodomor. Holodomor or Holocaust, the move is the same: you are trying to smear “denialism” over a claim you cannot document. Denialism is rejecting mountains of primary evidence. I am ask
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
The “20th century atrocity denial” comparison is disgusting and transparent. Holocaust denial is rejected because it contradicts a mountain of primary evidence. You are doing the opposite. You are trying to manufacture certainty where the d
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Correct. I am taking a denialist approach toward an absurd conspiracy theory that has been thoroughly debunked. What you’re doing instead is substituting facts for relevance. You went from a false claim (“Israel mailed bombs to Truman”) to
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
So you weren't able to propose a solution that would have led to less collateral damage because no such solution exists. You know it. I know it. Everyone reading this knows it. Instead of answering directly you make a comment about def
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
@Cyph0n, if you think Israel's approach led to too much collateral damage, why don't you propose a solution that would have led to less collateral damage while still taking the Hezbollah leaders out of action? I bet you won&#x27
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
This is what you call "well-documented"? Did you even read the article? This 1972 article cites unsubstantiated claims from memoirs written decades after the fact — not verified evidence. There is no solid historical documentation
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
I, like roughly 90% of the world's jews, am a zionist and I care about civilian casualties. In fact, I don't know a single zionist who doesn't care about civilian casualties. You just made up this racist nonsense, and your co
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
The ICJ has not said Israel's response is a genocide - not in Lebanon, which is what this thread is about, nor in Gaza. “…the court decided that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide and that South Africa
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
timing - The fact that they were triggered to explode en masse does not imply there was zero consideration to minimizing civilian harm. However, the fact that only Hezbollah leaders had these pagers, and the fact that the explosives were sm
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Premise 2 is false. The vast majority of the injured were Hezbollah terrorists. You say The Times of Israel reported "many of the injured were civilians, including children, women, and non-combatant" - show me a source, please. It
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
This has not happened anywhere other than your imagination. You mean "if" not "when."
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Perhaps it's worth considering an algorithmic review of flagging abuse. You can feed a table of flagged comments with the user, the comment the user flagged, and the context, as well as HN's rules, into GPT or a similar AI to get
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
@dang Here is another comment of mine on this thread that is substantive, responding directly to the issue, and not a personal attack, but was still flagged. I'm an HN user for 15 years, have reviewed the rules, and don't think th
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You seem to think that asserting something makes it true. I particularly love that you call yiddish speakers, americans and dutch "germanic people" - a novel claim, haha.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
Hi there, I see you too trust Hamas sources (the origin of the Hind Rajab sotry) and not Israeli sources, so you too are in the camp of "believe hamas" and "doubt israel". 1. Hamas used World Central Kitchen vehicles, ac
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
The timing was during a war, the location was in a belligerent country, and the pagers were only and exclusively given to hezbollah leadership. The very definition of discriminate. Also, Israel has not "self-evaluated" a >80%
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
The attack was by definition discriminate. I don't think there's an attack in modern history that was more targeted and had less collateral damage. The attack targeted hundreds Hezbollah leaders, who bought and used those pagers.
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
1. There aren't a lot of dead civilians given that this was a 2 year war fought in a built-up urban environment fought against a plainclothes terrorist enemy that violated every law of war, including using hospitals and schools as mili
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by richardfeynman 10mo ago
You are exactly correct, and this is all 101 level stuff. I wonder where they get their confidence from.

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