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They’re feeding the genocidal fear mongering rhetoric of the Israeli far right, effectively becoming useful idiots for Netanyahu and his fascist buddies.

They’re also killing civilians.

Hamas can fuck right off along with Netanyahu & co.

The famous terrorist organization known as the Red Cross.

Anti-Semitism is used for people who dislike Jews, anti-Zionism is opposition to a political ideology. One of these is deplorable, the other is vital to any non-totalitarian society, whether you agree with it or not.

By blurring the line between the two you are at best either legitimizing anti-Semitism or pushing towards a totalitarian mindset where political ideologies cannot be challenged. In reality you’re doing both. And even worse, I think you know what you’re doing.

So what is it?

Anti-fascism and anti-semitims are also not mutually exclusive. Anti-communism and anti-consumerism are not mutually exclusive. Anti-war and anti-liberalism are not mutually exclusive. Anti-abortion and anti-gay rights are not mutually exclusive.

Hell, few things are mutually exclusive. You had a handful of god-damn Jewish Nazis and one fucking honorary aryan during the war. So not even Semitism and anti-Semitism are mutually fucking exclusive.

Things not being mutually exclusive is a pretty fucking moot argument.

I’m currently seeing a girl I started dating after she had problems with her regex and I helped her out.

So far so good.

Thanks - here’s a direct link to the conversation, for anyone interested.

There’s brutaldon, but it requires you to sign in unfortunately.

I was one of those pedantic assholes arguing that one shouldn’t use the term genocide too quickly, as you could have pretty fucking awful crimes against humanity without meeting the definition of genocide.

But yeah, at this point the line has been crossed a long time ago. It’s genocide.

To be fair to the israelis, pregnant ladies are the two for one discounts of bulldozing people to death.

Nothing short of heroic - too many people in a similar situation find themselves saying that it’s awful what’s happening, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

Well, it turns out there is. Inspiring as hell.

Does someone know if anyone maintains a list of companies or organizations where this kind of bullshit has gone down, with link to sources? Could be useful to keep track.

I can’t believe how quickly we went from pretending we thought murdering civilians was a bad thing to concluding it’s merely a matter of killing the right civilians.

There’s a lot of less resourceful russian men who fled to escape the draft as well, generally to countries in Western Asia rather than in Europe. But they had better reasons to leave then most.

At my old job they were singing Hallelujah at an event because someone had required more secular holiday music.

Which… I mean… yeah.

Love the song though. Best song ever written about faith, God, and sex in juxtaposition.

Not necessarily more strict, but joining the Union would open the waters for European fisheries which is politically unpopular.

It’s not. He wants to create a social media that exploits its users without being accused of monopolistic behaviour.

Also searching for #sup in Mastodon has been a good way to find information about developments. Not so necessary now that there’s an official account I guess. :)

Ah, yeah, sorry - that was badly phrased. I shouldn’t have included Kbin on that list. I’m on Kbin myself, just worded myself poorly. :)

Sure - if your alternative is doing nothing. It’s not like he’s saying giving money to beggars is immoral, it’s just amoral.

On the contrary. Many charities benefit from volunteer work hours that simply would not be possible on a normal government contract. The efficiency of some charities simply cannot be matched by State institutions, as people don’t want to volunteer working for the state.

Some volunteer positions could possibly be replaced with well-paying jobs to lower unemployment rates at the benefit of the economy, but people also get a sense of purpose from volunteering. The charitable economy ran by volunteering and donations is an incredible asset for any society, no matter how great the social security net is. And in my experience, a better security net is often correlated with more charity.

That’s not to say shitty charities don’t exist. But good luck financing all the activities of the Red Cross through a state budget, paying everyone for their work.