• Ibex0@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The fog of war is thick in Gaza; we should be careful what we believe.

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      Which part are you trying to be careful with believing? The dead bodies are on camera.

      If the part in question is who killed them, there are multiple witnesses saying it was Israeli forces. But let’s assume they are all lying, or were deceived by Hamas: why would Hamas interrogate and kill Palestinian women and children? If anything, they would use them as body shields, no? They can hide out in schools and hospitals so that in order for Israel to attack them, they’d have to kill innocent people too. And to think Hamas would do it to make Israel “look bad” seems interesting. It’s not like any war crime charges are going to be brought to Israel. Maybe they want more citizens of other countries to get riled up to get their governments to stop funding Israel, but that seems like a lot of forethought for Hamas, no? And to also guarantee all the witnesses would claim it was Israeli forces?

      Does it not make more sense for it to have just been Israeli forces? Do you sincerely believe some Israeli troops would never do such a thing?

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      6 months ago

      In great part thanks to israel killing journalists and otherwise impeding their journalism.

  • Armok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    People here really will just believe anything anyone says as long as it supports their worldview. This place is no different from Reddit.

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      Al Jazera say they have video and pictures. Are you saying AJ are making it up, or Hamas killed the Palestinians? Maybe they all shot themselves?

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      It’s this community. It’s brigaded by hamas supporters. Earlier they were posting that IDF is harvesting organs. It’s mostly rage bait headlines

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        It isn’t brigading when a majority of the world wants Israel to stop genocide and they say it.

        Just because the majority opinion is against you doesn’t mean it is being brigaded.

  • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world
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    Not to be nit picky but point blank is “within lethal range”. If it can kill you it is within point blank range. You could be half a mile away and still be within point blank range.

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        Who’s defending what now. I just want people to use the correct wording. Stop using words you think you know. Keep it simpler. I’m so tired of reading trigger words just because they help the Luddites.

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          Point blank by civilian definition is barrel close enough to the skin for the flash to burn it. By military definition it’s about 25 meters. You’re the one fucking with semantics to defend war crimes.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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      “Not to be nit picky” proceeds to nit pick and be wrong about the subject you’re nit picking…

      • Merrium Webster: a: marked by no appreciable drop below initial horizontal line of flight; b: so close to a target that a missile fired will travel in a straight line to the mark

      • Cambridge: aimed or fired directly at from a close position

      • Dictionary.com: aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.

      Imagine a journalist using a dictionary.

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      Please explain, how does posting content provide a “terrible experience”?

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        If you’re subscribed to this community, the hot sort was overwhelmed by your posts. Of all the communities I’m subscribed to, I was only seeing pages of your posts.

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          You have me confused with OP.

          But either way, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing? It’s temporary, right? Doesn’t happen everyday, does it?

          Even if it does, they are posting relevant world news, which is the topic of the sub… I seriously don’t see the problem. Would it have been okay if it were from different users? Would it then just have been considered “high activity” and a positive thing? I just, do not get it.

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        You have to space them out or post them to different (relevant) places or it just becomes spam at some point.

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          (relevant)

          This is World News, yes? Sometimes there’s a lot of news about a topic… 🤷‍♂️ People dying and being ethnically cleansed and children being bombed to smithereens and y’all are like “😢 there’s ten posts on this sub from a single user and I won’t have it ☹️☹️☹️”

          Fuck’s sake, guys.