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Knightfox

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  • What my own eyes see? You then sent a video where you can't see shit, half the video it looks like he's on the floor and they're kicking the shit out of him. Also in another comment I stated that a big part of my difficulty to believe the issue is as wide spread as you are saying is because the overall poor standards of evidence and shitty journalism.

    The incident of supposed rape started with a report that a prisoner had been transferred from the Sde Teiman camp with anus and rectal injuries, but every article I can find (from Haaertz, Times of Israel, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, and People's Dispatch) only reference a report without saying where the report came from or who released it, it's just a report that's out there but no one knows where. Secondly the IDF went to the prison as part of their investigation and fought the guards because they were refusing to cooperate with military police. Yes right wing Israeli's rioted, but that's hardly proof that the entire country is onboard with that and each picture of the riot it's like 50 people. Furthermore the IDF put one reservist in prison in February 2025 for punching handcuffed and blindfolded prisoners. To prove the point, there are cases going through the Israeli Supreme Court right now to potentially close the prison. The court has not yet decided to close the prison but they phased out long term detention in June 2024, issued a compliance order in September 2024, and in September 2025 made rulings that the government is intentionally denying prisoners adequate nutrition and must meet required prisoner standards.

    Are some Israeli's or members of the IDF doing these things, probably so, but I have a hard time believing it's a systemic problem throughout their whole culture especially when no one can seem to provide any actual evidence, the IDF appear to be acting how they should to such allegations, and the country's supreme court is actively making rulings against the government for the treatment of prisoners.

    The standards of evidence/proof are so shitty that one person can say something on twitter, a journalist uses it as a reference for an article, their article gets copied a dozen times, and suddenly that counts as proof. Then a claim like this escalates with the logic that if it happened over here then it must be happening everywhere.

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  • Here is Obama's stated daily schedule in his first year as president. Take it with a grain of salt since it is a self report, but it's probably not miles away from the truth.

    Quick Summary:

    • Routinely only got 5-7 hours of sleep
    • Woke up 7 am and would straight away exercise for 45 minutes
    • Into the office between 8:30-9:00 am
    • Work until 6:30 pm
    • Dinner and family time until 8:30 pm
    • Review briefings and do paperwork until 11:30 pm
    • Read in bed for 30 min before going to be at 12:30 am

    Maybe Obama is just built differently, I know some people have genetic differences that mean they need less sleep, but that's a hell of a schedule for your baseline everyday schedule. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the White House had a doctor that prescribed/administered some sort of stimulant.

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  • Largely in part because of an overall poor standard of evidence and multiple different forms of bias to perpetuate "proof." A lot of people, even here, are pointing to the UN commission reports, but they don't really look beyond the legitimacy of the UN to determine if it's accurate.

    The commission is made up of 3 people, at least one of which has made statements about jews controlling social media. In their report on their findings they state that their methodology for their reports was by pairing digital content with victim and witness testimony, but then state that the standard of proof was if 1 or more testimonies corroborated the digital content.

    That's not proof in my eyes.

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  • These are disturbing links, if at face value they are true then this is truly disturbing. That said most of the information comes from second or third hand sources. It's entirely possible that some Israeli's are doing these things but it's hard to believe that this is happening systemically throughout their entire military organization. It's not forgivable and anyone doing it should be justly punished, but it seems crazy to assume that the mistreatment of prisoners is across the board as others have alleged.

    I might be on the wrong side of history here, but it's a bit hard to believe that jews in Israel are raping men, women, and children left and right.

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  • Nursing homes and welfare homes are good at getting rid of bedbug infestations

    They're only good at it because without getting rid of bed bugs no one would choose to live there. If prisoners got to pick between prisons that had bed bugs and those that didn't I would imagine prisons would get good at removing them as well.

    And Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinian detainees is well documented with even video evidence shown on TV.

    Ok, then give some evidence to support that, that's what I asked for.

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  • Let me just say, earnestly, THANK YOU. I haven't read your link yet, but you are the first person to respond with an actual response to the given question. I'm gonna take a few minutes to read what you linked, if I have any thought's I'll post an edit.}

    EDIT: This is disturbing news, but it's hardly evidence of systemic actions. I like the BBC a lot, but the testimonies given aren't surprising. I'm all for condemning the actions stated, but they are also second hand accounts. For example the account of sexual misconduct comes from only one person interviewed. I'm not unwilling to believe that some Israeli's have done something illegal, but I'm not surprised either. Rage all anyone might want but the laws of war only matter if someone is willing to enforce them and it seems like the world won't enforce them here, much to my disappointment.

  • We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.

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  • Let me start by saying I'm 100% against fascism, but... we do have a terminology problem. The left overall has a messaging problem, "Oh Black lives matter, so that means White lives don't?!?" Words do matter, but it's because they matter that we have a problem. The left seems to ebb and flow on vibes ("Just because we say Black lives matter doesn't mean other people's lives don't") while the right seems so much more literal, but the subtext is maybe even more implied. For example, they might say "They [people not like us] are taking our jobs," but what they really mean is that they are taking the jobs we want (office jobs, trade jobs, etc), but we don't mind them working the jobs we don't want (basic construction, farm hands, etc), all the while their vibe is wrong and that's not really happening.

    When you call someone or something fascist they probably won't believe you because fascism equals Nazis which equals antisemitism in most of the common people's view. I'll assume that anyone who has found their way to Lemmy probably understands the difference, but at the same time many of this platform don't seem able to understand that the common person doesn't know the difference.

    There is a big difference between systemic racism vs open bigotry. A bigot is much harder to turn from racism than a person who grew up in systemic racism. It still might take decades to turn someone who is systemically racist, but a bigot will likely take longer. The same applies to a fascist; like a systemic racist they might not understand that they are racist or what racism even is. Education or experience are the two avenues people escape those avenues, but it's especially hard if you're doing it alone and if you feel attacked by the terminology.

    Fascist = Nazi = Jew hater

    "Well, I don't hate jews, I'm not a Nazi, so I'm not a fascist" -common Fascist

    I've had plenty of discussions with Conservatives where I took the discussion to a rich vs poor direction or a a personal rights vs governed rights direction and they suddenly become liberals without acknowledging it.

    Honestly it's the same hurdle that the left has had for decades, just because you're a leftist doesn't mean you love Stalin and Mao. Messaging is important, one of the most recent persons to break that mold was Bernie Sanders who made it at least semi acceptable to be a Democratic Socialist.

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  • No, you're making a lot of unsubstantiated statements. Am I willing to believe that Greta is being treated differently than Gazan prisoners? Yeah, I can believe that. I could also believe that Greta is being treated similarly to how anyone without Hamas affiliations would be treated. What I don't believe is that just because Greta has bed bugs in her cell Gazans are getting raped and electro tortured. Like I said, I don't have a dog in the fight, but just because Greta is being treated like a prisoner doesn't mean she's being treated differently than other prisoners. Furthermore, having bed bugs doesn't mean shit when bed bugs are a problem in every prison. Having bed bugs doesn't mean other people are getting raped and electro shock tortured unless you have some evidence of that, which is the evidence I asked for.

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  • I'm honestly curious how long Trump is gonna make it. Realistically he's probably running on a bunch of drugs at this point. No shade here, I assume Biden and maybe even Obama were the same. How do you work that much and not sleep? The answer is drugs!

    Even if they are "relaxing" the president has a lot of stress, the job physically ages you. Trump being on a golf course is still probably stressing out even if he doesn't give a shit about the US; whether it's about how his personal investments will work out or about his personal vendettas the job is stressful.

    Trump was also severely stressed while out of office due to the pressures of the lawsuits he was under. With 12 years of stress the man may be 79 currently, but he's probably way older physically. I don't see him making it through this term and the only way he's made it this far is drugs and a good pharmacist.

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  • Can't you see that that is a very different argument? Just because Greta has bed bugs in her cell doesn't prove that other prisoners have worse conditions. The OP said:

    As a foreign famous activist she probably has a “good” treatment for a detainee. Imagine what the Gazan child hostages go through in Israeli prisons (spoiler: reported electrical shock torture and sexual crimes)

    So the OP has setup a binary situation where Greta is getting bed bugs while Gazan's are getting electrical shock torture and sexual crimes. I asked if the OP has any evidence to that because they created a false equivalency. Just because one prisoner has bed bugs doesn't mean everyone else is getting electro shocked and raped.

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  • Do you have any evidence to support that or are you just using conjecture? I don't have a dog in the fight, but you're literally making shit up out of thin air. Given how persistent bed bugs are I would imagine they are a significant problem in any prison in the world. Keeping bed bugs out is probably like trying to keep a cold/flu/covid out of any concentrated living facility (prison, nursing home, welfare home, or homeless shelter).

    If hotels struggle to prevent bed bugs then you can be assured that prisons will too. If you're gonna peacefully protest with the knowledge that you will be detained then you should also know that you're gonna deal with jail/prison conditions which include bed bugs.

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  • There is no university in existence that would stop taking your money.

  • Why u mad?

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  • Yeah I came to the same conclusion, either a student or at a workplace, either way depicting someone getting hung isn't gonna fly even if it were Hitler himself. Cool shirt though.

  • Too gay to work

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  • Idk what you expect me to say, I put in my comment that it does happen especially at big publicly traded businesses. As I said in my comment only a third of the US works at such companies and Walmart doesn't even represent all of that third. There are 163 million people employed in the US, Walmart employs ~1.6 million people in the US. That means Walmart represents about 3% of people who work at publicly traded business or 0.9% of people who work in the US.

    Honestly though, most people look at Walmart jobs as the bottom of the barrel, Walmart needs you more than you need them. I just looked up the career page for my local Walmart and they have 32 positions they are currently hiring for, with how few employees I see I wasn't aware 32 people even worked there.

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  • It depends really, for something long term you would typically take FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) which gives up to 12 weeks of unpaid protected leave. For income during such a period you would either use up your sick or vacation time, file for short term disability (SSDI), or you would have short term disability insurance which would cost between 1-3% of your annual salary.

    For something short term you might just take unpaid leave, but without FMLA your job isn't federally protected. Contrary to popular belief most employers won't just fire you the first chance they get and shitty behavior can really come back to bite them in the local culture. Where people typically get fucked is if they don't communicate to their management what's going on or if they abuse the system. No call, no show, and no explanation you'll probably be in trouble, but if you call and tell your boss that you're sick they'll typically tell you not to come in, but might want a doctors note if you're out for a significant time (3+ days). Also, if you call out every other Monday "sick" then you're also probably going to get in trouble eventually.

    Big corporations, especially publicly traded companies, are where the cut throat behavior is more common because they are beholden to the shareholder rather than actual people. That said, only about a third of the US work for such companies.

    That said, the US work culture is such that people typically come to work despite small illnesses because they aren't seen as serious. If you have the sniffles, a soreness in the body, maybe a scratchy throat, or a headache the people around you won't be surprised if you come in still and will probably just give you extra space.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • At the very least, I don’t think OP deserves to be dragged like they were for what is to me a pretty reasonable take. In Lemmy, blocking someone acts like getting blocked on pretty much every platform, which is going to be confusing for many

    I can agree that I understand the confusion and I also don't think the OP deserves to get dragged for their initial post, but I think their opinion is fundamentally flawed and the reason they got dragged is mostly because they went in the comments trying to defend their opinion. The problem is that the term "Social Media" has gotten so hackneyed that multiple different things are all called Social Media and the rules of the most common version are expected in the others.

    Growing up Social Media referred to Social Networks which are user-centric platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace (I guess potentially TikTok) where you create an account which is central to your experience on the website. Connections on these platforms are made through creating individual friends lists and following specific users which makes it super easy to block someone in the manner described. Now basically everything is called Social Media, including forums and image boards. On an image board or forum you might have to create an account, but the experience was more defined by going through an index of posts not connected to your account. Places like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, 4chan, and any random ass forum functioned pretty similarly to how blocking works on Lemmy. In most cases the blocked user can still see any public posts you make; they may not be able to search for your posts within their account or respond to your messages directly, but they typically could still see your posts and respond to other people in a thread (even your own). The only exception to this is if they posted on a forum (or subreddit/instance/board/blog) you moderated or otherwise controlled. In some cases Social Networks and image boards are similar, if you run a blog on Tumblr it functions more like a Social Network but if you only browse other people's public blogs then it functions like an image board

    The whole argument is basically "Why don't forums work like social networks?"

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  • Looking at the post you reference the person you talked to is a transgender person who moderates both LGBTQ+ and Transfem in Lemmy.blahaj.zone, they provide more than enough evidence of their minority status, but that wasn't really needed. The question was what group was being harassed and thus this interaction would imply that the LGBTQ community is being harassed on Lemmy.

    What I feel like you missed in your previous discussion is that the other person was talking about privacy in the context of being outed in the real world. The harassment being referred to was in the context of your real life identity being revealed or connected to your online conversation.

    There’s no such thing. They are mutually exclusive. Take queer folk for example. We need privacy to be able to talk about our experiences without outing ourselves to the world. It’s especially important for queer kids, and folk that are still in the closet. If they don’t have privacy, they can’t be part of the community, because they open themselves to recognition and harassment in offline spaces.

    Under this context they are looking for a feature similar to how Facebook (at least previously) allowed you to pick who could see your post as you were posting it. That way you could individually disallow specific people or groups from seeing them.

    This doesn't imply that the issue is that someone is being harassed on Lemmy and thus we need better blocking options. It's really only an issue for someone who wants to dox themselves and still have private conversations, in which case Lemmy and most online forums can't accomplish that natively across all instances/subreddits/groups. The only solution is to have a private instance with vetting and heavy moderation. If you don't dox yourself you can generally avoid the whole issue here.

    Based on this I think you're making a different argument than what the block feature is or ever could be.

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  • I'm sorry, but I feel like you need to support the statement "This comes from discussions I’ve had with minorities about the harassment they face on Lemmy and mastodon" a bit more. Your whole argument for limiting the speech of others is predicated on this statement.

    I'm not saying that minorities couldn't face harassment on Lemmy, but Lemmy is by far the most liberal and minority supportive online forum I have ever experienced. Part of the reason Lemmy is so niche is because it doesn't have the mainstream attention other platforms have and is heavily moderated.

    If you are engaging in an instance where harassment is occurring the moderators generally ban the person quickly. If the moderators of that instance aren't doing their job people generally leave and the instance dies from lack of content (there just aren't that many people on Lemmy). If someone follows you from a different instance to another the current instance moderators will likely ban them even if the one you met them on doesn't. Finally, if they are direct messaging you you can block them, they can continue to message you but you won't see their messages and neither will anyone else.

    What minority group have you talked with that are receiving harassment and what extra protections were needed that aren't already here?

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  • How anyone can sympathise for him I don’t know

    At the end of the day he is a human being, that's why. I'm not trying to defend the guy, but fundamentally that's what is supposed to divide the progressives/liberals vs the conservatives. The conservatives don't care except when it's their own while the progressives and liberals are supposed to care about all people supposedly.

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  • All I have to say is get fucked loser