Being incapable off distinguishing between Hamas and Palestinians in general reveal your racism.

If you understood the distinction, your understanding someone can hate Hamas while still carrying about Palestinians.

In fact, how Hamas oppressed Palestinians is a big reason I’m so much against them. If you cared about Palestinians, you’d also hate how they prevent democracy and torture Palestinians that speak out against their oppression.

But you don’t care about Palestinians, you’re just here to push propaganda to further the interests of authoritarian regimes.

As you were typing out your comment, who will be leader of Israel will be determined by whether or not an Arab party will be accepted into a governing coalition. They always exclude Arab parties from being in the coalition. Because racism and shit.

That’s proportional representation. You have lots of options for who to vote for, but if the majority wants to lock out a minority group from power they can. All power is determined by backroom deals between parties.

But there is a chance the Arab party may be allowed to be part of the government. It all depends on whether the leaders of a bunch of parties are willing to allow Netanyahu to continue to rule over them or allow an Arab party to join them. Nothing anybody can do about it, the lives of a lot of people and the future of the middle East depends on the results of some backroom deals.

Fuck proportional representation. It’s so obviously a stupid system. If Netanyahu didn’t get enough votes to continue to be PM but he may still continue to be PM because of some bullshit backroom deal, while you watch him do whatever he’ll do next, will you still say “but proportional representation of good?”

Proportional representation gives all power to the parties and they decide policy in backroom deals when forming coalitions. It’s the system Israel has. Do you really want to have Israel’s system of government? A lot of oppression can happen when a party has to to make deal with radical nutjobs to form a coalition. Why do you think that’s a superior system? Do you like oppression?

“First Past the Post” is a term coined by intellectually dishonest people that say they want “electoral reform” when really they just want to change the system so their preferred party will have more power. We should call it what is really is, a community representation system. Because you’re voting for someone to represent your community. But that sounds nice and is more difficult to argue against, isn’t it?

I’m well aware of instant runoff system, and I think that would be ok. But a two round system is better than instant runoff. S-tier is two round community representation, instant run off community representation is A-tier, one round, one selection traditional community representation is C-Tier.

Israel style proportional representation only seems good to people who think of things from the perspective of a spreadsheet (the numbers all line up… yay) and have no understanding of power dynamics… F-Tier. Close your spreadsheet and look at how proportional representation works in the real world. How much oppression will you tolerate just so that two columns in a spreadsheet will have the same numbers in them?

Inside the tech industry, the company with the biggest payoff in this is NVIDIA. With another smaller payoff for AMD. That’s about it.

It’s like a gold rush for fool’s gold. The only ones making money are the guys selling shovels.

In that circumstance I would check the voicemail immediately. Sorry, best I can do, Morpheus.

Sounds kinda like the Tale of Foolish Curiosity from Don Quixote. Spoiler: the wife was a good woman and wouldn’t have cheated on the guy… until he started being an asshole by subjecting her to endless tests to prove her virtue.

Yeah, the AI companies have said that there’s a 10% chance AI will try to kill humanity. That sounds malicious to me. It’s could become malicious software. Malware.

I think they’re over-estimating the capabilities of their algorithms and greatly underestimating resilience of humanity. I’m not afraid of the clankers.

But I do take note that they’re saying they aren’t in control of this software and there’s a significant probability it will turn into some pretty powerful malware. I don’t think it’s going to kill me but it might try to delete all of my data.

So following the basic fundamentals of IT, we should not be putting data on any cloud server that AI on the network. That would be exposing the data to significant risk of being compromised by malware. Are there any cloud servers that are purely for data and have no AI integrations in the mix? Hmmm…

So the logical conclusion to this is we need to move all data from cloud servers onto our own servers to ensure there’s a firewall in between the data and potential malware on the cloud networks. Cloud services are unsafe and should not be trusted because at any time they may become malware.

Was that the conclusion these AI companies wanted us to get to?

Social media is all emotional manipulation all the time. Are you capable of thinking of the Gaza war in rational terms or only in emotional terms? Why is it you can only think of it as an emotional issue?

The social media algorithms send you a constant stream of content that keeps you emotional all the time. They aren’t trying to inform you of anything, they want to keep you emotional so you’ll keep on doomscrolling so they can keep on showing you ads.

You’ll never know what’s happening in a conflict on the other side of the world. You’ll only get curated emotional content. That doesn’t result in any kind of understanding.

Constantly consuming this kind of content will turn you into a hateful person. The tech bros don’t care, as long as you keep consuming, they keep making money.

Only the “radicalized” think of politics in religious terms. The radicalized are capable of doing horrible things to people because they have a cult-like zealotry that makes them think any action against the supposed enemy is justified.

The radicalized left and radicalized right are the same kind of people. The enemy is arbitrary. The point of a radicalized movement is to make people stupid enough they will give the demagogue leader all power to defeat the enemy. But in the end it’s all the same, people being oppressed by an authoritarian.

I have less concern about the most boring man in BC politics oppressing people than I have about people like you who think of politics as being similar a holy crusade against the evil other.

So after the events of October 7, you’re still dredging up old arguments about how putting up a fence to protect people from Hamas is wrong?

Sorry to break it to you, but the actions of Hamas kinda rendered a lot of your old propaganda arguments to be wrong. Open up Photoshop and make some new propaganda images, this is just being lazy.

I guess this is your first time on lemmy. If you browse this site more you’ll see a lot of content that’s just propagandists doing the stochastic terrorist thing.

You can still be the guy selling chilli to the teenagers on a road trip before they head down the road and later find out where the meat for that chilli comes from.

Yeah… for like five minutes. And four of those minutes would be smoking a holo-cigarette.

After October 7 it will be at least a decade before Israel can come out of bunker mentality. You might be ignoring how horrific the actions of Hamas were on that day. I admit I couldn’t get though all of the horrific things they did that day, it was insane. But Israelis are well aware of what happened. Having millions of people typing on the internet sympathizing with Hamas probably doesn’t help in getting them out of the bunker mentality. We’re still a long way from the truth and reconciliation that’s needed, but any step in that direction (even a baby step) is something that should be welcomed.

I don’t want to see another Gaza war in a decade or two. We’ve already seen how that works out, it doesn’t go well for anyone, especially for Palestinians. But on the internet it’s just a constant thirst for more violence, as long as it’s someone other than the person posting the comments that’s going to die because of it.

All I ever see is propaganda design to foment hatred of Israel which could lead to more violence. Do you think continuing a violent struggle against Israel is making the lives of Palestinians better?

A non-violent resistance movement would work. Violence obviously doesn’t favour Palestinians.

A lot of words about destroying Israel, but they have have a lot of firepower that disagrees with your words. But on this site people continue to promote violence towards Israel, all too happy to throw away Palestinian lives purely for the sake of their addiction to hate. You are addicted to seeing images of dead Palestinians so you can get a rush from your daily two minutes of hate.

It’s obvious to anyone that Israel will not be destroyed by violent acts. That only results in Palestinians dying. I want an end to this war and a Palestinian state living in peaceful co-existence with Israel. Do you want that, or do you want more Palestinians to die while pretending that if you just one more another generation of Palestinian as cannon fodder it will work? Truth and reconciliation is the actual pro-Palestinian stance, not pushing hatred of Israel that will just get more people killed and accomplish nothing.

My post got 18 upvotes and yours only got 8, so therefore I beat you at this lemmy game!

Though maybe with lemmy, the only winning move is not to play…

In most states, primaries are how a party picks its own nominee.

Uh yeah? Pick one of the two the parties that’s closest to your views and vote in the primary to pull them closer. Be prepared for the possibility that other people in that party might not quite agree with you. That’s just how it goes in a democracy.

Being butt-hurt over people having different views from yours and therefore voting differently than you’d like is a property common to MAGAs and leftists. Maybe the majority of people will never agree with you. It’s up to you to convince people of your views. If you can’t do that, you have to accept that either you’re not good at convincing others, or it might even be possible that you’re wrong about some things. Either way democracy isn’t about you getting your way every time.

Voting third party in a system that doesn’t allow third parties (but does allow you to vote for the leader of one of the two parties) or being “uncommitted” is just immature. Throwing a temper tantrum ovet the majority of people not agreeing with you so wanting to spoil everything for everyone.

Dehumanizing people by just thinking of everyone as categories and not as individuals is what lays the groundwork for fascism. Isn’t that what you’re doing right now?

Yeah that’s just what I heard years ago, so take it with a grain of salt I guess. But yeah, fuck that guy, so I choose to believe it.

lemmy.ml will always promote strategies which results in fascists winning. I’d like to think it’s because they’re just really naive and don’t understand how anything works, but it’s getting really hard to to keep thinking that’s what’s going on when their content is basically all about attacking the political opposition to fascism and they don’t say a peep about actually opposing the actual fascists.