Horseshit, don’t equate this with collateral damage. The difference is nations generally minimize civilian death, not make it the sole purpose of the offense. It wouldn’t be a war crime otherwise.
A study covered by Ha’aretz: the civilian deaths account for 61% of deaths from air strikes in Gaza.
This makes the Gaza slaughter more fatal to civilians than any other conflict in the entire 20th Century. The century that included many genocides and both world wars.
Eh there are some cool churches. Eliminate the conservative doomsday cult ones
Cool genocide justification bro. About half of respondents to some poll supported the biggest political force in Palestine.
What if america was being bombed because there are so many republican voters, and that party harbors dispicable terrorists who do mass shootings.
Its wild how right wing entiries have eachothers back in a way the left rarely does. Even when they fight eachother, it’s a tide raising all boats (and drowning innocents).
Domestic fascists took some notes from their buddies abroad.
(The note was, “but hamas”)
That blame cuts both ways. Biden neglecting the progressive leaders if the party is his own undoing. The right is happy to sink centrists, and thats why the US is drifting so far right.
Honestly he’s probably going to win anyway. Biden has only courted the centrists whi will vote based on gas prices and inflation. Progressives withdrawing support may at least show the next round we cant be taken for granted.
As an american jew, hostages don’t justify genocide. Never again means never again.
They’ve already killed more Palestinian civilians than Russians did Ukrainian civilians. In one month.
If one side can turn off the other sides water and communications at will…it’s not a war. Hamas is a fractured and opportunistic militia, without enough sovereignty to actually govern.
To also highlight, half of Palestinians are undrr 20 years old, so at most 4 years old when Hamas was elected. Hamas supporters also represented about 45% of the votes, compared to the 42% voting for the progressive party. They spoke for half of a mostly dead generation, and have since been left holding the bag as the only defense force as palestine is fractured by illegal settlments and bombed to hell.
I really struggle to see what leverage Hamas gains by fudging their numbers. It feels like a talking point to reduce the fatality count.
This number, half this number, quarter this number… the political reality is the same. Murmurs of condemnation while the US keeps the money pump going, Israel keeps commiting war crimes, and Palestine shrinks into nothing.
Hope you remember in 20 years you were posting genocide denial rhetoric in your free time and feel ashamed. Same points used un many other genocides.
Zero evidence, and portrays how little you know about the organization. Nice knee jerk against defending human rights though
Imagine having the time and resources to be such a shit in this way. The main thing is don’t be a transphobe, but then a substantial secondary thing is get a life.
Unfortunately we need more militantly anti-white-supremacy institutions to make a dent in the problem, and what we get is an occasional report acknowledging the issue and candle vigils to ‘raise awareness’.
To be a bit more precise, Signal is against federation from two angles:
Innovation: Signal values absolute control over the protocol so that they can more rapidly implement UX experiences scene in other modern messaging apps. It also eliminates malicious or outdated servers changing the UX between users. Ultimately folks won’t blame the servers, they’ll blame the app, and stop using it.
No rope for users: They seem pretty confident that the Apple-style of software and UX is right— if a user can change stuff enough to break it, they will. For secure messaging, they’d rather users have fewer choices to be sure it is secure.
I find it funny that Lenin, love him or hate him, had the definitive take on The Economist 100 years ago.
They also have lesson plans if you wanted to teach others: https://sec.eff.org
Though I haven’t seen a cryptoparty near me in ages :(
Instead of “people are too lazy”, can we acknowledge how unnecessarily difficult it is to vote?
You dismiss gerrymandering, but we can’t exactly vote in a district we’re not a part of, or rely on convincing the biggest supporters to flip their politics.
Meanwhile, mostly targeting minorities, voting is made overly complex with people waiting for hours after work to be told they need a document or didn’t register correctly.
No wonder only retirees in affluent areas vote, they’re the only ones not jumping through hoops to do it. We need voting to be handled federally, with universal registration and mail in voting. Election day should be a holiday, and the polls should be open for a week.
THEN we can complain about people being too lazy.
Thousands of Palestinians held without trial for years.
Tens of thousands dead Palestinians, most of which children.
Many more displaced, being pushed out of Gaza to be refugees.
For months, they have been denied food, water, electricity, and Internet.
Meanwhile,
Israel uses AI to find 100s if targets daily, using drones and aircrafts. No boots on the ground. Billions in international aid. The people living life largely uninterrupted. Settlers getting more and more “free” land.
Can you piece together why the focus is on Israel?