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  • Enough is enough. Israel is committing war crimes | Opinion

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  • But they don't. There's Jewish voice for peace, there's Norman Finkelstein, Code Pink, and so on. Countless Jews oppose settler colonial Zionism, and many more oppose the genocide. Do not fall for the lie that Israel and Judaism are the same thing.

    I don't fault you for thinking what you do though. The propaganda that tries to equate antizionism to anti-Semitism is incredibly insidious and convincing. A German Christian man gets murdered for collaborating with this genocidal state, and all mass media outlets call it antisemitism. The planes that drop the bombs that have murdered tens of thousands of children have the star of David painted on them. The moment anyone criticizes Israel, immediately folks bring up the Holocaust as a counterargument. What are people supposed to think? Everything is geared towards making people believe Jews are Israel and Israel is Jews.

    I recently saw a photo of a hand drawn picture here on lemmy protesting the genocide. It was very heartfelt and nice. I don't fully recall, but it had a girl in a Hijab in the center holding hands with people next to her, and it said things like "not in our name", and 'stop the genocide". Along the center of the picture, they had drawn stars of David. And my immediate gut reaction was to think that this was incredibly distasteful; it was like drawing swastikas on a picture remembering the Holocaust. I had completely forgotten that the star of David is a religious symbol, and that it is not owned by the Israeli state. The propaganda has worked on me too, and I know better.

    The person who had drawn this was convinced that the genocide was wrong based on her Jewish identity. Her religious beliefs told her that what Israel is doing is wrong. And my instinctive reaction on seeing a symbol indicating this was disgust. I felt so ashamed when I recognized what I was feeling. This is what people mean when they say Zionism breeds antisemitism. This is what people mean when they say Zionism makes the world less safe for Jews. An entire generation is growing up watching a livestreamed genocide, and CNN, Fox News, all politicians, the entire nation of Israel are all telling them "this is what Jews want". How could they not grow up to be antisemites?

    Your comment is incorrect and immoral. But I hope the mods keep it up as an illustration of what Israel has really done for Jews after all these years.

  • I don't do culture wars

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  • Sure, but there's a difference between being at an advantage and being the politically dominant class. The crucial thing about the working class owning class divide is that the owning class essentially has all the political power, and uses it to subjugate the working class. So what you're saying is a truism, but it misses the point that the interesting thing isn't the classes themselves but rather the power relations between them.

  • European Festivities

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  • They're a European settler colonial project. I'm surprised Canada isn't part of Eurovision.

  • do you think freewill truly exists?

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  • "Such weather we're having huh?"

    Truly peak romance

  • corporate greed $

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  • How did we get rid of the hole in the ozone layer? Did we all individually cut down on our individual halocarbon usage, saw the hole shrink, and all held hands and sang kumbaya? No, we listened to scientists, and we took action on a government regulation level, and we solved it. Now compare that to oil companies wrecking the planet. We went the individualist route there, and it's done nothing to solve the problem. You're even admitting yourself that your individualist fairy tale nonsense is a distraction! "We can have a whole other discussion about raising minimum wage" (emphasis mine).

  • corporate greed $

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  • Generally the slightly more expensive shit is cheaper in the long run that’s the thing

    I hear what you're saying, I really am, but please be aware that you're coming from a place of privilege, and that this kind of line hits just as tone deaf as telling a single mother working three jobs to feed her kids that "gee don't you know it's better to have a varied home cooked diet than microwave Mac and cheese?" Ultimately you're putting the blame on the communities themselves with this kind of argument, which plays exactly into the personal responsibility myth that places like Dollar Tree and Shell live on. You're distracting from actual solutions by doing this. It does the same as what carbon footprint and recycling do for oil companies, which is distract from real solutions.

    Telling people to buy more expensive shit would work if there weren't gigantic swathes of the population who literally cannot . They can't do this. It is not possible. And then there's the part of the population that won't. It is not a solution. And Shell and Dollar tree understand this, and they welcome your free propaganda to distract from raising the minimum wage, corporate taxes, and enshrining workers rights. You're damaging the cause. You truly are.

  • corporate greed $

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  • There are no individualist solutions to systemic problems. Voting with your wallet is a lie, and ethical consumerism is a joke. You cannot fault someone who lives paycheck to paycheck, or people saving up for their kids' college education, or paying down their chemo debt, for buying at the cheaper store, which Dollar Tree typically is, compared to local operations. The only solution here is strict government imposed regulation, and going "no u" at consumers is counterproductive as it only serves as a distraction from the real problem.

  • Uh oh, somebody's not following best practices, that's a paddlin

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  • In theory, yes. But unintentional bugs and security flaws exist (cf sites like have I been pwned), and by storing old passwords next to new ones increases the impact of such bugs and flaws significantly, precisely because folks use the same password for different services. Of course people shouldn't do that, but they do, and as a dev you should be mindful of that.

  • Uh oh, somebody's not following best practices, that's a paddlin

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  • I'm struggling to figure out what the problem is, aside from UX annoyance (like the IDE panicking before you close a brace or sth). Eventually whatever you end up typing is being sent to the server anyway, and if that's not inherently problematic, what's the problem with intermediates being sent? Is the problem XHR requests on events other than clicking? Why?

  • Protestation

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  • Given the fact that the strongest economic power in the world has been fucking with them for decades, and they still manage to keep up on things like life expectancy and education (at times even surpassing the US on the life expectancy), I'd say they're doing pretty well. And looking at neighboring countries with similar histories that aren't getting fucked by the US, but chose capitalism (or had it chosen for them in case of countries like Chile), I'd say Cuba's a pretty good argument in favor of socialism.

  • Top German lawmaker: Public criticism of Israel has 'zero' effect

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    I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide

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    I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide

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  • That is the way

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  • ..... for zsh users

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    I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide

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    I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide

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  • What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?

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  • People who deny genocides (either the current ongoing one in Palestine as committed by Israel, or the one carried out by the Germans in WWII) are the lowest of the low. Absolute scum. To see people make excuses for atrocities as the Nakba, Sabra and Shatila, and the Holocaust in real time, as one is happening has been the most disturbing development of our age.

    I don't think downloading things illegally is OK, and I also don't think spending money on genocide deniers like Irving is ethical. I also don't think reading Irving will help you in any way, because genocide deniers are pretty much all the same, and there's not a shred of credence or validity to what they have to say. If you still wish to see genocide denial and defense of people who say stuff like "Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live", and the denial of that which is obvious, you'll find plenty of it available for free in modern day conservative shitrags talking about the ethnic cleansing Israel has been carrying out for 77 years.

  • to be fair, you must have a very high iq to understand dialectical materialism

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  • They're centrist, which in a country with a right wing and a far right wing party, equates to being right wing. In general they have this smug sense of superiority, shitting on anyone taking a stand for anything. I really can't stand the show's attitude, because it's exactly like that mac from it's always sunny quote: "I play both sides, that way I always come out on top", except with this completely undeserved arrogance and smugness on top of it.

  • to be fair, you must have a very high iq to understand dialectical materialism

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  • The two of you are saying exactly the same thing, except you're being a bit more weird and bootlicky about it.