Your one experience does not invalidate the many atrocities committed against innocent civilians. Both by US army and contracted mercenaries.

I’m not devolving this into an endless cycle of you reiterating the same propaganda espoused by zionism. I have no interest in platforming you. But I will respond to this sentence in particular.

“You think because they were children, the soldiers should have allowed themselves to be killed?”

But they weren’t in any danger, were they? They saw a brown kid and shot them. Killing black and brown people is an American institution. America and its military are racist. They are Islamophobic. Muslims were literally portrayed as terrorists so pervasively in our media that Muslim people existing in public get murdered on a routine basis across the country. The American soldiers and hired mercenaries there literally went on killing sprees up and down the country mass murdering innocent families. They made impromptu mass concentration and torture camps. They laughed at what they did. They thoroughly enjoyed it. We made video games and movies and tv shows about it because the narrative was so pervasive that killing Muslims became a popular American pass time.

Again, you’re spot on comparing the mass murder of innocent civilians in the Iraq war to the ongoing slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine. Just not at all in the way you think.

The fact that you would reference the inhumane slaughter of children during the Iraq war as a defense of the inhumane slaughter of innocent civilians in this exact context is absurdly oblivious to the reason those children were inhumanely slaughtered to begin with.

It wasn’t just a tragedy. It was an outrage. They shot kids cause they were Muslims. They shot them because they were black and brown. No part of it was a mistake. The soldiers and mercenaries deployed there by the United States military were racist. They were indoctrinated with racist ideology and literally told that the lives of literal children were expendable and, in fact, should be expended.

You unknowingly made the perfect comparison. The IDF is literally doing that exact thing. They’re spreading the same racism, the same Islamophobia, the same violent hatred. Which is exactly why they are just as condemnable and should face serious consequences for committing acts of mass violence against civilians - against literally children. This isn’t a mistake. It’s not an accident. You don’t bomb innocent men women and children for 2 months straight by accident.

It’s so insanely ahistorical, so utterly unaware of its own biases, so flagrantly dismissive of a the seriousness of the crimes being committed that I’m almost inclined to just call your post pointlessly inflammatory and intentionally cruel and walk away. But people are actually using the excuses you are in real life. With real lives involved. And so I think even if it were true that you’re just here to start a pointless argument, it is still worth it to respond to you. So that the people exposed to your propagandizing can see it for what it is.

A lot of people are responding to the title, not to the body of the post.

Why was there no napkin dispenser? Dunno could be a lot of things.

Why does everything get progressively shittier under capitalism? It’s probably not related to the napkin dispenser specifically, but everything under capitalism gets progressively shittier.

Eh. Rise of fascism is a pretty big deal. Not really an opinion thing either that is factually what he is. The republican party released a document outlining how they plan to implement fascism in the US government.

Conservative economic policy is literally, entirely, “make the country nicer for rich people”.

Socialism centre’s working class people. It advocates for the dismantling and end of the upper class. Rich people should have their wealth taken from them and redistributed to the people. Socialism is the polar opposite of an ideology of the rich. At its most radical Socialism advocates for… getting rid of the rich people by any means necessary. That’s all I’ll say on that.

Leftism is based around the tenants of Socialism. George Soros and Bill Gates are capitalists. Capitalism is why they are wealthy. Conservatism and more broadly neoliberalism (the modern day ideology of most Conservative and liberal parties) promotes capitalism and the free market. Rich people are decidedly neoliberal. Socialism stands in direct opposition to neoliberalism, advocating instead for heavy regulation of every single industry and the public acquisition of all infrastructure and industry. This would be taking the rich people’s assets, their companies, their means of production, and nationalizing them such that they are collectively owned and benefited from by everyone.

Liberals and Conservatives are identical in terms of economic policy. They only differ in terms of how authoritarian they believe the government should be, and how much minorities should be made to suffer in society. Economically they are the exact same. Look at Biden, for example. Look at new labor. Liberals and conservatives are largely allies, and their best friends are rich people. Leftists seek a society where rich people do not exist.

Greta is one of the most influential people of her entire generation. She is a powerful orator who has already had major impacts on climate policy around the world, and she has a massive audience.

You’re not the entirety of the world.

You can’t just spout off a buzz word as tho it’s an actual argument.

She’s standing with Palestine against those who are mass murdering them. She has powerful influence. Her choosing to say this legitimately will influence public opinion.

Greta, like many climate activists, is not appealing to rich people. Rich people will never comply with climate regulations. They are almost all sociopaths who do not fucking care if global warming continues to worsen or not. Greta is appealing to the people of the world, people of the working class. There are many of us and the rich are very few. Billionaires and the wealthy will have to be forced to stop destroying the environment by the nation’s they exist in.

She’s also a socialist. As most climate activists are. We don’t give a shit what rich people think. They should be forced to comply. They will never comply of their free will.

It is extremely valuable. She has a powerful voice and far-reaching influence. She is using her voice to advocate for the voiceless. Israel is an apartheid state, and they must be held accountable for the crimes against humanity they are committing and have historically committed against the people and nation of Palestine.

Nah. She is spot on when she says that a movement for climate justice cannot ignored the marginalized, the oppressed, and those fighting for justice and freedom.

Those who would hate her for being anti-genocide and anti-apartheid are already very unlikely to be allies to the climate justice movement, a movement that highlights the way that impoverished peoples and nations, especially non-white non-european equatorial and global south nations, are uniquely suffering the consequences of climate change.

I dont even have root. You download the apk for the recommended version of YouTube, which the revanced manager app tells you, select it - it auto picks all the patches - hit apply, wait - then hit install. Takes maybe 2 minutes to install. Then you’re done. Never once had any difficulty beyond that. One time I used a different youtube version than what was recommended, worked fine just didn’t have all the patches.

I dunno why you were trying to sideload it. That’s not necessary. You can do all this in, I’ll be generous and say 15-20 minutes. I’ve done it a few times now and done it for others too, so it usually only takes me 5 to 10. Depends on how fast their phone is to patch the apk.

Throw in another minute to fully disable the official YouTube app and route all YouTube links to open with revanced and you’re set.

My revanced setup literally shows as “Youtube” and functions identically, with sponsorblocking and adblocking. It let me disable shorts entirely and use the click-bait thumbnail circumventer. Took me 5 minutes to setup. I see a video on any app and click on it and it opens up in revanced no problem.

People act like 5 seconds of effort is worth what, 120$/year? After googling, closer to 160$/year? Lmao I wish that amount of money was inconsequential to me

You don’t have to always be ahead. I’ve been using revanced for years now without problems. Before that Vanced. My computer has had ublock origin with 0 issues for years prior to the recent changes. To resolve those I literally had to click 2 buttons in the UI. Bam no ads. Have had no problems since. The time I’ve invested in configuring adblocking since I started watching YouTube, sometime around 2008-9, has probably amounted to 20 minutes of time.

Didn’t they release a document this week being like “Yeah we want all Palestinians to get the fuck out of Israel, they can go to Canada or some shit”?

I mean it’s no surprise. They have never been subtle about their genocidal intentions.

The ideal situation really and truly would’ve been to never deprive Palestinians of their rights in the first place. This situation isn’t some byproduct of time and chance it was built this way. Palestine was colonized. They were forced out of their homes. And ever since their human rights have been increasingly infringed upon. Up to massacres. Where is the shock and outrage from western leaders? Where is the UN? Why is it when white people are unjustly murdered the entire world stops in its tracks and illuminates their monuments up with color coded flood lights, and when brown and black Muslims are murdered its a bullet point on a news broadcast? I’ve watched it happen year after year ever since I was a child. Every single time, brown and black people suffering unbelievable pain and torture and mass murder barely gets any acknowledgement from western democracies. But when it’s white people suffering cruel torture and mass murder its a cause for war. For invasion. For bombing.

The double standard is there, has always been there, and I genuinely think that the Israeli state is so brazen about committing genocide that those of us who care are tired of it. I’m done pretending like Muslim lives matter to Americans. That lie doesn’t work anymore. We know exactly how America views Muslims, and it couldn’t be any more plain than if they declared “war” on Palestinians and started bombing family homes and shelters themselves.

I also really dislike the way you’re framing the necessity of a state with state religion. That’s a fucked up concept that in explicitly Muslim states is a huge problem. State religion should be condemned. But anyway, that exact framing is how Netanyahu justifies genociding and forced relocation of Palestinians. That they can’t be there and don’t belong there because Israel is a nations for Jewish people and Islam cannot exist there. Even though Palestinians were there already when the nation was founded.

This entire disaster is a great lesson in why when your engineers say “This site isn’t suitable for a reactor” or “this seawall is insufficient to prevent a tsunami from overwhelming the reactor” you really should listen to them.

The real solution to nuclear disasters is not having them to begin with.

You say this like there’s never been an attempt at resolving the apartheid state of Israel. There have been many attempts at diplomatic solutions. For the last 30 years, Netanyahu himself has done everything he can to prevent any kind of diplomatic solution from ever happening.

Specifically a spongiform encephalopathy. Completely incurable and universally fatal. If you contract a prion disease medical science can only ever prolong the inevitable, and it is extremely unlikely that will ever change barring some unknown hyper futuristic nano-machine technology.

The United States government is quite possibly the least trustworthy organization in the entire world and I have absolutely 0 faith for them to accurately provide any information that would in any way be detrimental to them or their allies.

The Israeli state is an active apartheid state that confines Palestinians to large ghettos and legally deprives them of their human rights. They have spent the last 70 years continually committing atrocities and war crimes against Palestinian men, women, and children. Their defense minister recently referred to Palestinians as “human animals,” and they are being led by a man who has been openly genocidal towards Palestine for the last 30 years. I literally do not trust a single word that comes from the Israeli state on absolutely anything. They have lied continuously since this conflict began and are openly racist and discriminatory towards Muslims. I have no doubt in my mind that a military that routinely shoots journalists and medical staff would bomb this hospital. They have already bombed other hospitals since this conflict began.

There is a huge difference between the intricacies of biology and of where a fucking missile came from. They would provide proof if they had it. They have every single reason to want Israel’s name cleared. Even cropped video footage or whatever data they have. I will believe it when I see it.