And there it is, you say all citizens, even those that object to the government, are fair to hold responsible for the actions of the government. YOU lumped them all together. Unless this is a special carve out for Jews, I hope you apply that to all nations. The Uhygurs being genocided in China? Fair to hold accountable for China's hostilities in the south China sea. American socialist protestor who hates Trump? Valid military target for the attacks off the coast of south america. Average starving Palestenian? Directly responsible for the murder of civilians on Oct 7. I am obviously being absurd... You have been programmed to treat all Israelis as a monolithic thing, AND THAT IS ANTISEMITISM.
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I think you are being deliberately obtuse, the rhetoric I shared is antisemitism, but since you have adopted a narrow definition for what antisemitism is derived from who knows where, rather than listening to Jewish voices, this is going to just have to remain an impass. Thought experiment, imagine going up to a black person and telling them that their perception of American police racism against black people is made up and they have to provide examples, all of which are dismissed as being justified or not counting. I understand there is nuance in protesting things the Israeli government is doing, and I acknowledge that they certainly leverage antisemitism as a victim shield.... That doesn't apply to average Jews, or many Israelis, but the rhetoric has no acknowledgement for that. If those links above can't provoke a "ok, I see it, maybe he could do a better job of making sure average American Jews and Israelis are carved out" response, then we will never see eye to eye, and here we are arguing when we probably agree 99% of the time. Again, making enemies out of allies.
Welp, Hasan said things would be the same in Gaza under Harris or Trump. Trump won, the military is invading US cities and black bagging citizens, the stock market is higher than ever for the hyper capitalists and people can barely afford to survive. Bibis approval is higher than ever. https://www.jns.org/netanyahus-approval-ratings-at-all-time-high-poll/
I think you should consider if his rhetoric has actually helped or hurt the principles he claims to support. Hasan repeatedly said Kamala would be no better than Trump (on Gaza, which he painted as the only issue) and he directly moved the needle on low turnout from the left.
BTW, I am saying that the only power we have to remove Bibi is by appealing to opposition in his own country, that's why I am talking about rhetoric he is eschewing, in a clip where he is talking about all Israelis as IDF members, about Israel, not all Jews. Hasan has many viewpoints that alienate Jews and many that alienate Israelis, where those communities overlap and where they don't. Above is a clip where he alienates Israelis that would oppose Bibi, here is one where he is purity testing Jews worldwide: https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/1k8k8ul/hasan_says_anyone_expressing_any_bit_of_positive/
BTW, that clip is from the H3 subreddit, which is likely a kneejerk dismissal. You can like Hasan, I don't care. I like Ethan a lot. I also politically agree with Hasan a lot. Ethan is a chaos gremlin and I disagree with how much he accuses people of being pedophiles and uses certain terms, but I like his silly surrealist nonsense and his non-political stuff. People who like Hasan and his orbiters seem to be incapable, in my experience, with acknowledging criticism of them, which is dangerous, it's when discussion turns to dogma. The whole discussion here is that a lot of people, including both American and Israeli Jews, feel there is a rise in antisemitism and are being silenced, which is alienating allies, and if you can't acknowledge that, maybe consider if you are becoming mindlessly dogmatic.
Took me 6 seconds https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1msloso/hasan_piker_says_that_hila_klein_is_a_valid/
Edit: I don't know where you're from, but in a country with mandatory service, this rhetoric is straight up dangerous. To take a teenager and say they are forced to go into the army or go to jail...they're all gonna go and do it, even if they don't like the government, don't support them, and are dragging their feet the whole time. If this rhetoric is allowed to continue, you have shunned any possible allies that actually have power to overturn the Israeli government.
Wrong. Hasan is an opportunist that is so blinded on a single issue he says antisemitic things without realizing the consequences of what he is saying, and as he is increasingly radicalized on the Gaza issue (which is justified radicalization) he is losing the plot on being able to police himself, and is sliding headlong into rhetoric that has extremists applauding. He has done more to alienate Jewish allies who actually have voices and stakes in getting Bibi out of power by allowing his community to impose purity tests on Jews for their reaction to everything following October 7, and it's directly strengthened Bibi's support by turning allies into enemies. He has promoted us-vs-them rhetoric on IDF members with no nuance about the fact that they have mandatory conscription, so according to his rhetoric, it's impossible for any Israeli to be an ally against the people in power creating the genocide. But, in my opinion, there's this circle-jerk of outrage about Gaza that is so profitable to that community that the knee-jerk reaction to terms like "Israel", "IDF", "Zionist" etc gets views and donations and you can just spout things for clips without any nuance to literally watch money roll in. If you want the genocide to stop, Bibi has to get out of power, and you do that by creating allies out of the people that can actually vote against him and his regime, not hand-waving it away when they say "hey we're getting freaked out by what sounds to us like racism."
Hasan. Many of his adjacents like Mike from PA, Denims, Noah Samsen, then some featured collaborators like Bad Empanada.
This is insane to me, listen to any mainstream leftist twitch streamer right now. All Jews are held responsible for the actions of the government of Israel, and all Israelies are valid military targets because of mandatory IDF service, If they say nothing they are criticized because their silence is equated with complicity, and if they voice objection to the Israeli government they are criticized for not saying enough. All Jews seem to be slowly grouped together as Zionists by the left, where they then give themselves a pass to say horrific stuff. Then, talking about antisemitism gets them criticized as being perennial victims, hand-waving any actual discussion on it away. It is insane to me to hear leftist streamers objectively say identical things to Kanye and Nick Fuentes, things like Jews are indoctrinated from birth, or there are secret back channel communications where they coordinate on talking points, or they have a coordinated campaign to control the US government (once again equating American Jews with the Israeli government). Seeing the blind anti-Semitism happening in the US and the absolute refusal to confront it is so disheartening, and it has in my experience pushed several vocal leftist anti-Israeli government people I know to simply retreat and become non-political, silencing the voices of people who would have been powerful allies for Palestine.
I promise you my literal across the street neighbors, who are Jewish American Democrats, didn't stop putting up their inflatable menorah for the holidays because they support the government of Israel, they did it because they fear for their family because they were being harassed, and we live in a dark blue area.
That is a fantastic level of dishonest cherry-picking of a starting point. Democracy is under attack due to Trump and Republicans in other states already forcibly gerrymandering, pretending that CA is doing this in a vacuum to be evaluated on its own as a statement on democracy is so disingenious it can't be a serious position and can only be willful partisan instigation.
We steered the kids away from Minecraft YouTube, but I actually watch it myself. And I would say Mumbo is good if you have a kid that likes technical stuff and contraptions. Grian is good if you like pranks. BdoubleO100 is an absolute artist, and I think he's my pick, especially his Hermitcraft Season 10 complete season. GoodTimesWiithScar gets into a lot of silly chaos. Hermitcraft gets a new world every season, and so, picking a hermit and watching a whole season of their content actually may be a fun family activity. I get a lot of inspiration from what they do.
We started with Win10 e-waste, and started with Ubuntu Mate. Java Minecraft was the trick. Got them motivated, reading, doing math. Then wanting to install mods taught them about the filesystem and such. Age 4 and 6, they both got on board and are now top tier computer users. Giving them access to gimp, inkscape, and tinkercad got them using it for art and 3d modelling to get involved in the 3d printer, and they use blockbench to make custom models...which you configure with json in a resource pack. They're now 9 and 11 and are motivated to play on computers.
This is objectively a great thing. If you look at bukkit/spigot/paper development, you can see they have to do mojang mappings to deobfuscate and do all kinds of NMS stuff. There will be a pivot period where the mod engines need to catch up, but in theory this should make time between updates faster and easier to untangle when there's a bug.
Pretty straightforward; you need a tube that is 4x4 blocks. I did single clear glass panes every 3 underneath, and a roof of slabs/stairs. I contained the water stream with glow lichen; the single water stream won't drown them, and will push them. If you get in a boat that's dangling it will fall, but if you saddle pigs and ride them in the boat, it's fine.
Wonderful, set precedent that the 2nd amendment is totally subject to the whim of the president. Then let's flip all of government in 2028 and work on fixing this gun problem once and for all.
I really dislike this headline. A vulnerability was found, responsibly disclosed, and the vendor was responsive and is planning/pushing a fix. The headline drowns a successful mitigation in flowery language of controversy. The article also shows how this can happen on other vendor devices, but the headline here looks like just Framework messed up, when they're the only vulnerable vendor with a fix in the pipeline (based on the info in the article). I really hate headline-bait journalism.
It's our family server, so it's just my kids, their cousins, and friends, but the maps are made downloadable via script every day:
World: https://home.surfrock66.com/maps/world.zip
Nether: https://home.surfrock66.com/maps/world_nether.zip
This is hopefully going to be great, preventing the NIMBY's from stopping higher-density housing focused near public transit. I am in a Sacramento suburb and there's huge empty lots right near the bus lines near the freeway; if those can become high-density housing for people that can have less reliance on cars, it'd be huge for this area. Even a small % nudge would be beneficial.
I think the scenarios where a gun helps me defend against any sort of organized fascist government are nonexistent. My local police effectively could assault a small nation with the equipment they have, no amount of handguns/shotguns/rifles can combat that, let alone the national guard who have access to drones, planes, surveillance, armored vehicles, body armor, and the ability to effectively infinitely resupply. There is no guerilla winning a hot war against a fascist government in 2025 unless you're willing to sacrifice a generation of lives.
I think the % likelihood of scenarios where a family member or child defeats the security and has access to something that can do unnecessary harm are well above zero. I think the scenarios where I bring a gun into a situation that MIGHT warrant it, but that would result in an escalation instead of a de-escalation, are equally likely.
I figured out my dad's safe combo and had access to his guns when I was an early teen. I expect my kids to have the same capabilities and curiosities. This isn't a movie or a book, the real risk/rewards clearly make firearm ownership a non-starter for me.
I wouldn't say I've given up, but I think my forms of resistance are invisible. We're seeing a ton of censorship and media repositories and resources being attacked. My spouse is a physician, and they may have been part of some groups of physicians on Facebook that did peer organizing, and that is no longer a safe space, so I use my sysadmin skills to maintain private social networks for them to collaborate on; I am also doing a large archiving service that is semi-private using zimit and mwoffliner to go into kiwix so the government can't kneecap their ability to provide medical care that may include things dis-favorable to the regime. I regularly snapshot and offline critical resources to them via a network of crawlers I maintain.
Can I ask honestly what you think we should be doing? I'm a traditionally Democratic voter in California, I have 2 kids, I don't own guns. Should I go buy guns and wage a 1-man war against a military with tanks and drones a thousand miles from my house? Should I tell my kids "sorry, I know you like going to the park with me, but I have to go on a suicide mission because the principle is more important than the chances of success." I think the concept that Americans have rolled over to fascism is pretty unfair; we're a country as big as other continents and just because a strategic selection of districts were targeted by the minority in a way that "won the game" doesn't mean people aren't on the precipice of participating in something that actually looks like it would have a chance at success. There are no options for resistance right now that feel like the would even come close to be worth the risk to my family.
I've lobbied, marched, donated to causes, had honest talks with people on the other side trying to convince them empathetically rather than berating them, and to be honest, getting anything I've done hand-waved away by passive aggressive comments is as defeating as anything else. I'm pretty sure a big reason fascism is taking over is because people get their energy out by making increasingly vitriolic internet comments which is as inconsequential as it gets. Americans don't organize until things get truly intolerable, and this frog boiling going on hasn't crossed the line enough for people to reach critical mass.
Purity testing everything you use means you have to get off Lemmy, if you look at the statements from some of the core devs. It is no way to live and is pretty much incompatible with being on the internet. Framework is clearly doing more good than harm, and while no company is perfect or immune from critique, feedback from customers does more than knee-jerk comments from people with no stakes.