tocopherol

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[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Abbas is not necessarily the best source to quote, that quote in particular was something like 30 years ago and he had clarified his stance later emphasizing the horrific crime against humanity that the holocaust was, but he sucks anyway and has very low approval in Palestine, with a reported 90% of Palestinians wanting him to resign. But it is unfortunate that antisemitism like you describe is very common in the Arab world.

This is pure conjecture but it could be possible Palestinians would have a more accurate view of the situation because of their proxmity and history and therefore have less explicit antisemitism versus anti-Zionism, recognizing the distinction.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What is the 'benefit of the doubt' you want me to give? I'm talking about a system, a bourgoisie state protected by militarized security forces, that is what the police are. Their primary function is the protection of capital and the capitalists in control of the state. Plenty of cops are honorable and wonderful people, it is the state that is the bastard.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Not the best sources, a phone smuggled by a South Korean-based organization that is funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy and reported by state owned BBC, both of which are enemies of NK, and nothing in this article is verifiable. I'm not saying this to promote anything about NK but just from a journalistic perspective this article doesn't prove much.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

Has everyone forgotten about the NSA and their absurdly massive data centers? At least a portion of the US population likely has substantial data from their tech in a database we can't access.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

They don't see 'jews' attacking them and hate jews, they know what the IDF and the US is, of course there are likely antisemitic people there as there may be anywhere, but most people know the difference between Jews as a group and the people they see shooting and bombing them wearing the flag of Israel or the US.

Why do you think they wouldn't make a distinction? Islamic texts reference Jewish and Christian prophets, they don't just naturally automatically hate each other.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They lived together fine for many years. People are concerned about Palestinians because there is accepted scholarly consensus that they are being killed en masse in a genocide waged by Israel and supported materially by the US and it's allies. Likely at least 100,000 Palestinian people have been killed since October 2023.This isn't a competition for who is the most worthy victim historically between Muslims and Jews, innocent families, entire neighborhoods are being obliterated by Israel right now. Thousands of children are at risk of starving because of the total blockade by Israel. Many Jewish people disagree with what is happening and would prefer to share the space in peace.

Supporting Palestine and recognizing this as genocide has nothing to do with recognizing the horrors of the holocaust and feeling sympathy for the Jewish victims of antisemitism, they are not contradictory positions.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

'Pro-Israel figures' as the headline says are the terrorists they are probably referring to, the ones threatening to kill people on a humanitarian aid mission.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

How do you expect him to take a bite out of crime? I think he was just true to his word, police aren't stopping the real criminals so he just got more serious.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never actually done coke, would that add a subtle numbing effect on the mouth? It sounds 100x better than snorting it, I could see it being massively popular if not illegal.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a famous quote from Schwarzenegger as CA governor where he said "It's not a drug, it's a leaf."

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well yes, in practice that's not feasible, but we should be giving land back to native groups. In reality humans have migrated throughout history, I don't disagree with the concept of settling necessarily but groups that were subject to genocide and forced expulsion deserve reparations.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

True, drones are changing the way things are being done, and a plan like you're saying isnt necessarily impossible, people should be doing everything they can so even if it might not be the best it could help. I'm curious how feasible it would be to help militarily with consumer drones, if they could get in to give aid then maybe they could get in to disrupt IDF operations.

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