I don’t think it’s a BRICS thing at all. It’s what their own population want. South Africa has long been critical of apartheid in Israel.

Moreover back when South Africa was under Apartheid, for a long time Israel was one of its main trading partners even after the west had imposed sanctions, and it also contributed directly to the white military. They eventually joined the boycott but the damage was done.

I saw the word “survive” and for a second I thought we were talking about Threads, the postapocalyptic movie that scarred a generation.

I need more coffee.

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@Synthead what if 8 out of 10 of you want to vote for a third part candidate but you won’t in case they lose.

Honest voting might look like Candidate A = 2 votes, Candidate B = 6 votes, Candidate C = 13 votes

But status-quo voting gets you Candidate A =10 votes, candidat B = 11 votes, Candidate C = no votes

One of the golden rules in life is you should act like you want everyone to act.

If everyone voted for what they truly wanted and believed in, there would be no more political duopolies.

I know that’s easy for me to say because I have proportional representation, but I don’t think you should ever try to shame someone for voting with their conscience.

Even if Europe never offers any refund or repair, Africa would still be much better off if only the neocolonial West, Russia, and China would just stop interfering in African nations and exploiting them.

Unequal distribution of the world’s resources, exploitation, the Resource Curse (which leads to external input fuelling wars), climate crisis.

@mrnotoriousman yeah it’s aesthetically pleasing too.

You’re on kbin though, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

This Dr Potokar is a real hero.

The nurse who had helped him with the three-year-old double amputee was killed three nights ago along with 12 members of his family, Dr Pokotar says. A senior plastic surgeon, who was also a colleague, was killed with 30 members of his family in an airstrike four weeks back. Every day, nursing staff and surgeons are treating family and friends that are brought into the hospital – many do not make it.

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@BraveSirZaphod I think a lot of it’s just the human tendency to be lazy about sourcing.

Once at a dinner party I overheard someone confidently telling the people at the other end of the table something that I’d just told him about 20 minutes earlier. There’s no way he’d had time to verify it but he was already treating it as factual.

@Stovetop which the British should not have done. But this is not an isolated incident; it’s in a wider context of civil architecture destruction:

Among the buildings destroyed or partially destroyed are the main Palestinian court in Gaza, known as the Justice Palace, the Palestinian Legislative Council complex, 339 education facilities and 167 places of worship, while 26 of the territory’s 35 hospitals are not functioning.

Hugh Lovatt, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, suggested Israel was “deliberately and methodically destroying the civil institutions and infrastructure that will be needed to govern and stabilise post-conflict Gaza”.

This is giving Terezin inspection energy, especially the part where he says they are overpaid and don’t do much work.

@BraveSirZaphod unlike the person above I don’t think that’s a very good comparison.

When citizens affect a regime change of their society themselves, they are in a position to decide which amenities to keep for their future use and which they can do without.

When a hostile outside force is affecting a regime change, destroying civil infrastructure so that whoever is left can’t use it after the war, is a form of salting the earth.

@Stovetop it doesn’t make any sense.

Buildings are inanimate parts of civil infrastructure. They don’t have allegience to whichever administration is currently using them.

@Auli the last time Hamas was even voted in was back when George W Bush was still president in America.

@GBU_28 I see what you mean!

The smaller tech communities seem to have a better signal to noise ratio, I was in !technology@kbin.social the other day and it’s mostly posts about actual tech.

@FlickOfTheBean the ICJ and the UN have been mixed up in this for a long time and have a binding ruling, so UN intervention is not out of the question imo.

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