Congrats Never Genocide people posing as Progressives. We fucking warned you that exactly this was going to happen. Trump and his cult would side with Russia and throw Ukraine under the bus.

Great fucking job.

And great fucking job, Mods, for protecting those fucks in the name of civility.

We are the baddies now. And we got here because you’d rather protect Nazis from being punched in the mouth for their words and actions in the name of civility.

Rofl. Biden/Harris trying everything they could to circumvent the blockade to get supplies into Gaza. Trump literally saying he wants to expel the remaining Palestinians and take their land for himself.

You will never admit you were wrong. You will go to your deathbed self assured with yourself that you never compromised on your ideals no matter what actually happens to Gazian Palestinians.

If it wasn’t abundantly obvious to the rest of ya’ll before, these soapbox “never genocide” bad actors never gave a single shit about what happens Palestinians.

Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they’d be fucked in today’s housing market if they didn’t already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.

To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.

Former smart TV app developer. I’m going to drive my old dumb lcd TV into the ground before I’m forced to use a “smart” TV.

I prefer casting, but for convenience for my wife, we have a fire tv stick.

I want my panels rendering, not thinking / reporting.

Best to just call it in. Even for pick up, all these online providers take a huge cut, eating the profit margin from the people actually making the food you like.

I try to only use online orders for restaurants that have their own website cart. I do sometimes resort to the big ones when I’m busy / lazy, but I make a point to try to make sure the actual restaurant gets my money, because I want them to survive and keep making me tasty food.

I consider it animal abuse, but I can understand that there’s an argument that it’s not. I think the distinction of requiring scientific evidence supporting their claim is a reasonable requisite to allow the discussion.

It seems like things worked out here. My knee-jerk reaction would be to classify vegan diets in carnivor pets to be animal abuse and probably would have reported. But discussion happened to allow for discourse, and they rolled back the decision to at least allow for transparency.

And to be clear, I still think it is hands down animal abuse and hope that others come to the same conclusion. Animals don’t have the ability to make an informed choice. Subjecting them to a dangerous diet to satisfy your own niche moral compass is evil.

It’s not about you, it’s about the animal. Get over yourself.

But again, I think it’s OK to have the discussion, and I hope the community buries their side into oblivion.

I also thought VLC was a bit shaky on their legality as well, but since their HQ was in a Nordic country (iirc) with more lax copyright laws, they got away with it.

So I wouldn’t blame an app store for not wanting to take on legal gray area risk.

Factor in non-combatant casualties, and it will be even more disproportionate.

Yeah, there were a lot of civilian deaths in ww2. But they largely at least tried to minimize the non-military casualties. That isn’t even a factor for IDF

I would think much of their supply chain involves the use of US military logistics infrastructure. If the US military is prevented from funding these pipelines, they may find it cost prohibitive to even get the supplies there.

They don’t even have the uniforms to spare to stuff with hay

That’s because it set the mould, and dozens of copy cats followed the formula thereafter.

I think freezing assets is a common practice when said assets may be put towards restitution for the victims if found guilty.

I have no idea how Romainia does it, or if they can be trusted to actually put the money towards the victims. But on paper, it seems like it could be for good reasons.

Or it could be for civil forfeiture kind of abuse of authority. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Iirc, sardines require cool currents to get through warm(er) water. There’s a thing called the sardine run, where a specific area in the migration path has a (relatively) narrow cold water current that forces them into a bottleneck, and predators feast in a huge spectacle.

What I’m guessing happened was these poor guys were following a cold current that disappeared, and died of heat exhaustion. Which iirc isn’t that uncommon of an occurrence

Israel has said it makes every effort to avoid killing civilians and accuses Hamas of putting them at risk by operating in residential areas.

I.E. they will bomb anywhere in Gaza, innocents be damned, if they suspect Hamas might be there.

In other words, it’s your fault for being bombed for existing in Gaza.

Russian government is not the Russian people. For the last 30 years or so, the only bad coming out of Russia was trade wars and proxy wars, all exclusively perpetuated by the elite. The general masses were innocent.

The problem now is that the general public is complicit with this war war. Those that haven’t fled or rioted.

And their soldiers are committing unspeakable horrors beyond the bare “necessities” of war. Torture, rape, genocide. It’s sadistic what they have done.

I felt compassion for the first wave of unwitting soldiers who suddenly found themselves in a war, many from poor rural territories where joining the military was the only feasible way to provide for their family.

Now? Not so much.

I’m sorry, but while you seem to be an intelligent and thoughtful enough person, your arguments seem to be in bad faith.

The article is specifically framed as since the Hamas / Isreal conflict began. That’s specifically Isreal related. It’s in the title.

I never claimed, nor would I ever, that attacks on innocents because of their religion/ethnic background, is valid criticism. Nor did I chime in to justify it. You’re intelligent enough to understand my prior point, but you intentionally misrepresent it.

And my comment clearly made a distinction between jews and Isreal as a state. To me, that’s at least implying that I show solidarity with the Jewish people, because I do not lump the actions of the Isreal government, which I condemn, to be representative of the Jewish people. That was more subtext, so I’ll give you that one.

But, this all goes to reinforce my earlier assertion that “the boy who cried wolf” is in full effect here. This is all very exhausting to dive into the minutiae of stances in every comment thread related to Isreal or Palestine. And I can forgive anyone who glances at a topic related to either with antisemitism as the topic to approach it with skepticism.

You are the problem highlighted by this thread.

You’re missing the point. The overuse of accusing others of antisemitism for simple, honest criticisms of Isreals actions and/or expressing support for the people they are committing genocide on, is why the word is being devalued.

You are correct that the article makes it clear that actual antisemitism is on the rise. But it doesn’t change the fact that “antisemitism” accusations are being overused, and that people are naturally suspicious at every claim.

The boy who cried wolf.

Or you can just buy one for < $60 to fit your particular use case exactly

They like the idea of a catastrophic event out of their control, or caused by sinners. They don’t like to be the cause because of their own greed and indifference.