• Harvey656@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    While the real life situation this is based off is quite sad and upsetting…

    This is hilarious beyond belief.

    • zmrl@lemmy.zip
      5·
      10 months ago

      How are you using lemmy? I use Connect on android and it has a setting for word filters that filter posts you dont want. This drastically improved my exerience once i started using it to filter trump posts.

      • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        820·
        10 months ago

        It’s not about who I disagree with, I can’t take the animosity anymore. I’m tired of thinking about war every day.

        • المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.worldOP
          6·
          10 months ago

          That I understand. Maybe you could try a browser extension to block text or news based on keywords? One parental control extension helped me filled out news from rich people that piss me off

          • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            35·
            10 months ago

            Maybe. But doesn’t help that I can’t go to store to buy food without seeing 10 different types of propaganda and vitriol… I can’t take it dude. I want to go to sleep and never wake up

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
              7·
              10 months ago

              :( sorry.

              You can’t filter IRL yet but what about only subscribing to wholesome communities?

              I think that’ll eliminate at least 95% of the problem here.

              Also don’t forget we live in a simulation / you’re the only person who exists, so you can smile best you can at the war news and ignore it best you can.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          14·
          10 months ago

          Yup, it’s a drag. We need to do something about it though, it’s like a rash. It doesn’t go away until you see the doctor, or in this case vote in someone willing to tell other countries they can’t do this shit with our weapons.

          • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            97·
            10 months ago

            It’s destroying my mental health and I can’t cope with it. Not just the war but the constant anger. Everyone is angry about everything all the time. I hate it here. Not only that, I hate my own life too. My life is in shambles and it will take tremendous effort to repair, just so I can stay on this dying planet…

            Seriously, what’s the fucking point? I don’t eat anymore cause of the stress, I don’t sleep anymore cause of the nightmares. I wish aliens would come and euthanize our entire fucking planet. I can’t take it anymore

            • in4aPenny@lemmy.world
              3·
              10 months ago

              Doesn’t have to be the whole planet, just the top 400 richest people would do wonders though. Most of us are just trying to get by, put the blame on the one misusing “human resources”.

            • HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca
              4·
              10 months ago

              I’m sorry you feel this way.

              Try to remember that the internet is not fully representative of real life. The world outside will hopefully feel less angry and stressful than this online one.

              Definitely avoid social media doomscrolling. It’s fucking toxic.

        • abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml
          114·
          10 months ago

          Indifference about genocide is not just unacceptable, it’s evil, you piece of shit.

          • crapwittyname@lemm.ee
            73·
            10 months ago

            You are simultaneously denying the Uyghur genocide on another thread, you fucking nasty little hypocrite.

            • abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml
              16·
              10 months ago

              Palestinians are being murdered and ethnically cleansed in the tens of thousands. Thousands are dying weekly and this is being documented. We are seeing the people dying. We saw with our eyes Israel destroy all requisites for life in the Gaza and prevent all food and water from entering.

              On the other hand we have seen quite literally nothing supporting the claim that China is committing Uygher genocide. Literally nothing. Uygher people continue to live normally in Xinjiang. They continue to practice their allegedly repressed culture. They continue to communally practice their allegedly repressed religion. Uygher genocide only exists in the propaganda of the United States state department and the minds of those it influences and those it employs.

              • crapwittyname@lemm.ee
                42·
                10 months ago

                We haven’t seen “literally nothing”. That is a flat lie. There is a ton of evidence, presented by organisations who you choose to call liars because it allows you to deny the truth. There are non US affiliated organisations calling the Party out, too. A true humanist would not dismiss the evidence of the Xinjiang genocide. Both the Palestinians and the Uyghurs are facing genocide, and you’re petty enough to be tribal about it. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on you monstrous cunt.

      • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2333·
        10 months ago

        I hate Israel. I hate Palestine. I hate the discourse. I hate fucking EVERYTHING.

        Being made to think about war every day for years on end is destroying my mental health. I can’t use a computer, watch TV, or go outside without it shoved down my throat. I can’t even go to sleep without having nightmares about it. I want off this fucking ride. I hate being alive so fucking much.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          31·
          10 months ago

          The only escape from something you cannot escape is to embrace it. The thing that degrades mental health is being unwillingly exposed. If the thing cannot be avoided, the only other move is to willingly expose yourself to it.

        • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
          62·
          10 months ago

          That must be nice, not having your life put in danger so you can feel depressed about hearing other people’s life being put in danger. Hope it lasts for you, but predictions for this century say war is going to become pretty rampant globally, so I’d recommend you find a way of coping with it better.

          • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            17·
            10 months ago

            Not like you give a shit at all but hate crimes against my kind have skyrocketed in the past few months and I was assaulted by a stranger in public about two weeks ago so I don’t appreciate the implication that this doesn’t affect me personally

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
          27·
          10 months ago

          Palestine supporters are fairly unique in the fact that not caring or not having a position is unacceptable to them. You must care, you must share their viewpoint, nothing else is possible.

          You didn’t see the same reaction to, for example, Ukraine being invaded. Indifference was acceptable.

          • smotherlove@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            I don’t think this is unique at all, it’s the core of all politics both left, right, authoritarian, liberal, etc. No matter what you believe, even if it’s nothing, there are always twice as many people against you than with you. It’s enough to make someone withdraw entirely.

          • المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.worldOP
            61·
            10 months ago

            You didn’t see the same reaction to, for example, Ukraine being invaded. Indifference was acceptable.

            In the example of Ukraine, countries have taken countless measures to pressure Russia. In this case, counties are complicit in the genocide. There’s a difference. People don’t protest when politicians do at least the bare minimum.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
            14·
            10 months ago

            Dude, most of us are on the other side of the world, living in countries that can do little more than send a sternly worded letter to Israel.

            Being constantly reminded of that shitshow doesn’t help.

        • abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml
          51·
          10 months ago

          It’s not Palestinians’ fault for being occupied and mass murdered. How are you so shameless centering and victimizing yourself for being forced to hear about people suffering genocide? This shit is unbelievable.

    • harry_balzac@lemmy.world
      182·
      10 months ago

      Leave Lemmy? Use a front end with filtering/blocking? Change communities? Plenty of options if you just take a hreath and think instead of whining.

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
      71·
      10 months ago

      It’s making all of us sick. I wish I could ignore all this too. I actually tried to, but then my government decided to step in on the world state and loudly pronounce “there is no genocide!”. And then cut humanitarian funding after the international court of justice anonymously found “credibly risk of genocide”. Which makes my country now complicit if this genocide is allowed to continue. Which makes me deeply ashamed and angry.

        • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
          6·
          10 months ago

          I’m basing this on the facts as presented by Israel themselves and judged practically anonymously by 15 judges of the highest court of the world. Sure, but have YOU considered you could be wrong?

          If you’re wrong you’re aiding a genocide. If I’m wrong I’m just another “anti-semite”.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      4·
      10 months ago

      The weapons embargo in Alderaan prevented those people from handing over the Jedi. The Empire itself maintains that embargo! What were the people of Alderaan to do?

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Here are 10 Myths of Israel (archived) by Ilan Pappe

      1. Palestine was an empty land

      2. The Jews were a people without a land

      3. Zionism is Judaism

      4. Zionism is not colonialism

      5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948

      6. The June 1967 War was a war of “no choice”.

      7. Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East

      8. The Oslo Mythologies

      9. The Gaza Mythologies

      10. The Two-State Solution is the only way forward

      This article, Examining the 10 Myths of Israel is a shorter version of the main points

      The book is too detailed to summarize each chapter on a comment, but it’s not too difficult to find independent sources to verify each of them

    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
      11·
      10 months ago

      Lol samharris.org

      What kind of pretentious loser names an opinion blog site after himself, and bestows a “.org” at the end

      The more I read this crap the more obvious it is this bullshit article relies on lengthy annoying paragraphs that no one wants to read and a “.org” at the end to sound more official

      Myth #1: Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza.

      The term “genocide” has a clear meaning—it’s the destruction or attempted destruction of a whole people.

      Yes , 95% of people starving in the world were in Gaza when Israel chose to withhold aid to them. That is the attempted destruction of a whole people

      Myth #2: International Humanitarian Law Requires that Israel’s response to Palestinian aggression be “proportional.”

      I’m as anti Israel as it gets, and I’ve never heard this argument that you’re legally bound to proportional, sounds like this author really likes the title of the blog counting up to 5.

      That said, there are tons of MORAL arguments against disproportionately killing civilians, but the only legal one that comes to mind is when Israel evacuated Gazans to a region in the south, then bombed that region with white phosphorus https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-white-phosphorous-gaza-palestinians-amnesty-hrw-reports/

      Myth #3: The Jews Are Colonizers and the Palestinians are Indigenous People.

      Not the Jews, but, the Israelis are colonizers. Biblically they were a nomadic war faring tribe. They never were a country. The west created a colony to project power in the middle east because they had no other allies there. Israel is a country in a region called Palestine. Palestinians never formed a government that resembled something the west could do business with

      In colonialism, the colony has superior technology. The middle east just industrialized, how the hell could Palestinians have been anything but natives the last few thousand years

      Myth #4: The atrocities committed by Hamas (and over one thousand Palestinian civilians) on October 7th were a legitimate response to oppression.

      Israel left Gaza in 2005—forcibly removing thousands of its own citizens—and billions of dollars in international aid have since been spent there. So the “oppression” of the Palestinians in Gaza—by Israel—is at least debatable.

      This is so fucking stupid I’m just going to leave this here. “Oppression” lmao, why the air quotes? Being born in a ghetto doesn’t count as being oppressed?

      Myth #5: The two sides in this conflict are equally civilized, equally entitled to respect, and equally worth protecting.

      I actually agree with this. You can’t compare violence between two groups when one group (Israel) is occupying the other (Palestine). The violence from Palestinians against Israel is like violence from black people to the police. It’s not good, but it’s not the same. One group is oppressed and radicalized from that, the other group is systematically oppressing the other

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    401·
    10 months ago

    I feel like this is a little too accurate for shitpost. I don’t know the proper sub for it, but it’s pretty true.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        136·
        10 months ago

        “Bad faith arguments” is not a reason to flag people in Lemmy Shitpost. Please do not abuse the flagging system again.

        • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
          520·
          10 months ago

          Then what good is your moderation? The whole fucking point of having you around is TO police bad faith arguing. That’s what mods are for

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            186·
            10 months ago

            Mods are for enforcing community rules. This is a shitpost community, not a debate community. The rules are very clear on the sidebar and ‘bad faith arguments’ is not one of them.

            Feel free to find a different community if you want to report ‘bad faith arguments’ multiple times. If you do it here, I’m going to tell you to stop before I act. Because I prefer give warnings.

            • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
              620·
              10 months ago

              And you can’t enforce ANY rule without protecting your people against bad faith arguing. It’s a foundation of ALL communities, whether explicitly written in its guidelines or not, because meaningful debate is the foundation of ALL human interaction and is primarily what abuse and harassment is.

              The needs of your people are more important than your laziness, selfishness, and unwillingness to do your job. Don’t like it? Step the fuck down. You go find a different community to play king over if you don’t like it.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                147·
                10 months ago

                Okay, I think you need to take a break. We’ll see you in a week. I wouldn’t advise telling another mod to ‘step the fuck down.’ They might be less lenient.

                • groet@feddit.de
                  513·
                  10 months ago

                  I wouldn’t advise telling another mod to ‘step the fuck down.’

                  “Dont tell people abusing their power that they are abusing their power or they might abuse their power”

                  Yeah you should probably step down if that is your opinion…

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      @snek@lemmy.world Maybe you could Crosspost this to !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca if you’re on mobile and don’t have crosspost button just make a new post using the same link as this post https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/20e095d5-b044-4e69-b1d7-486f63ac3037.png and it’ll count as a crosspost. So long as it’s the same link.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
    1227·
    10 months ago

    BRB, on my way to withdraw all funding for an UN agency with 30.000 employees because 12 of them have been denounced by Israel.

      • Toldry@lemmy.world
        15·
        10 months ago

        The evidence provided by Israel alleging that roughly a dozen UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught is “highly credible,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, as media outlets published additional details on the implicated employees, including photos from an Israeli dossier. “We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” Blinken said during a press conference

        https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-says-evidence-of-unrwa-staffers-oct-7-involvement-highly-highly-credible/

        • bobalot@lemmy.world
          41·
          10 months ago

          “We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” Blinken said during a press conference

          This sounds like something The Onion would have written.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          Otoh, Blinken and Biden have parroted everything the IDF feeds them until independent journalists debunk it.

          So we’ve cut funding without conducting any investigation. Great.

          • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
            5·
            10 months ago

            I used to have faith that bad people will eventually pay for their crimes. That the weight of their sins will crush them eventually. But these past decades have taught me that the new response to crushing weight of sin is to simply get a stronger spine.

        • capital@lemmy.world
          19·
          10 months ago

          The israeli “evidence” has been leaked and confirmed fake

          Are the quotes you provided supposed to support the “confirmed fake” part of your comment?

          Because “has not seen proof” and “provides no evidence” do not equate to “confirmed fake”.

          The number of very online people who think countries share their intelligence with every Channel 4 news who asks is a little surprising.