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I got banned from a sub for saying a video of a russian soldier shooting himself five feet from his troop was sad. I dont like Russia right now, but that is still sad and fucked.

The removal of a Russian army function is not sad, but the death and suicide of a human being is very sad. If the person saw desertion as an exit strategy, they might have saved and turned their life around, but there probably were reasons that they didn't see that as viable or desirable.
- They were like laying there all half dead already. It was just a video of the end of a life we don't know.
Having sympathy for Vietnam vets is the same thing, except culturally acceptable for Americans. You can root for Russia to lose and also mourn the lives lost in a war that civilians were forced to participate in.
Dumb mods!
I have seen that video, I do understand your feelings

The moderation of Lemmy is equal parts inconsistent and arbitrary. That said, it's all unpaid volunteer work so you gotta cut em a little slack.

The moderation on any platform is inconsistent and arbitrary, it's done by humans after all
with lemmy it's at least driven by volunteers as you say, and we have the option to switch or create our own community/instance if we don't like the moderation 👍
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  humans after all
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

With all the bad transphobic takes I've seen on this platform in the past couple of days, I think there's a real need for gender studies

I noticed this too, did we get raided by terfs or something?

Whoever says Hamas and the IDF are the good guys must love the mass killing of civilians happening right now.

Still have never encountered nobody literally saying 'Hamas are the good guys'. But I guess any purely causal pondering on understanding what takes a human being into joining terrorist ranks is banned in this society. I don't wanna understand, just bomb it flat.
- That's because your instance defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad.
- Check out hexbear from your anonymous tab, you'll be glad they got defederated.
Just yesterday a comment where I said Hamas and the Israeli government are equally shitty got removed (edit: I can see it again now) from a WorldNews community. Sure, Israel is killing way more civilians right now and that is an absolute atrocity that must stop right now. But if that makes you turn around and pretend Hamas isn't a bunch of murderous cunts, then you got your head screwed on wrong. Israel is ahead in numbers because Hamas lacks the opportunity to get even.
- The current minister for national security is a straight-up blood and soil fascist, both him and Netanyahu are implicated in calls to assassinate Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu himself is in quite some legal trouble over corruption, not to mention that he should be in trouble over, at the very least, overseeing systematic war crimes (settlement in occupied territories). Plenty of Israelis, especially family of Hamas victims/hostages (largely lefties btw) right-out blame him for allowing the attacks to happen -- Israel had the intel, yet the IDF was withdrawn from the Gaza border to back up settlers harassing Palestinians in the west bank. There's no chance in hell they're going to survive the next elections.
  It may be a bit of an edgelord take but as long as there's Kahanites in Israel's government calling them a bunch of murderous cunts really isn't off-base: Kahanites definitely are that and the rest are tolerating it and therefore at least complicit.

Can you please provide urls to posts saying hamas are good guys?

Link
Your wish has been fulfilled! https://lemmy.world/comment/5655749
Picture in case it is deleted later:
- I got into a huge argument with that fuck, ended up blocking them because I just couldn't deal with the sheer Hamas ball gargling/anti-Semitism/general racism they espoused. That user is not a good faith arguer, they'll shout racist bullshit and then call you racist for calling them out.
- One post, and refer to my “what are Palestinians to do” comment.
  Thanks for the link.
- White supremacist my ass the people voting extreme right in Israel aren't the Ashkenazi.
Anyone saying they’re the bad guys is armchair quarterback-ing a people’s fight against annihilation.
If YOUR people lived in a militarily patrolled, constantly surveilled, walled off piece of your former homeland, from which you couldn’t leave to go visit a hospital without your oppressor’s army’s approval, and that same army tried to calculate food rations to keep you only just above starvation to keep you passive, and could arrest without cause and indefinitely hold you….would you really say that a group of your people were wrong for lashing out? Now on top of that, the civilian populace can be given permission by that same government to take arms and evict you and your family from your ancestral home. Are you wrong for lashing out?
What a fucking joke.
- Raping women and little girls isn’t “lashing out” or “taking arms”. Neither is murdering children. Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been, and still is, abhorrent. But let’s not pretend that rape and child murder are a necessary part of struggle against oppression. Hamas aren’t the only bad guys, but they’re definitely bad guys.
- lashing out
  This is soft selling war crimes. Shame on you.
- They're bad guys because they murdered a bunch of families and young people minding their own business. They're bad guys for weaponizing rape. They're bad guys for knowingly bringing the wrath of the Israeli military down on Gaza. They're bad guys for using money given to them by Israel and other nations to do those things instead of helping Gazans.
  Note that I'm calling them "bad guys", not "the bad guys", because they don't hold the monopoly on being bad. The IDF are also bad guys for their willingness to bomb buildings full of civilians for the chance of maybe killing a Hamas member or collapsing a tunnel.
- That’s a whole other discussion, but what are the Palestinian people to do under an illegal occupation that aims for genocide? That said, Palestinians are not Hamas, and Israel did a lot to support Hamas to thwart the Palestinian Authority. The history is long and complicated, but I just asked for links, since I have not seen those posts.
- Right. Why not peacefully protest? I'm pretty sure that the desperation needed to throw a rock at a tank is incomprehensible to entitled Americans who have never missed a meal out of necessity. There is very little real support for the Palestinian genocide, but a strong false narrative. This article has some descriptions of the day to day struggle of Palestinians living under apartheid.
- Chivalry is dead long ago

I haven’t looked at the lgbt spaces on Lemmy. Are they as bad as Reddit was?

Where people don’t understand what a definition is and say everyone is whatever they feel like that particular Tuesday?

I left so many spaces when they got taken over by people who just wanted to collect labels without understanding what they meant, and instead just morphing labels to mean whatever they wanted.

Oh please fuck off.
I can't figure out if you're English is shit or you're really bad at communicating.
- I mean it's pretty clear what he is talking about, might not be palpable for some, but it's pretty clear.

Terminator 1 is better than T2 and Aliens is better than Alien.

Mods will be mods... Doesn't matter the platform. Gotta gate keep those opinions.

My opinion is the legal opinion

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Well I dig gender studys especially studying the female gender

wouldn't that fall under human studies? imo this is more a problem of splitting classes into more categories so you gotta pay more time/money for the same amount

Saying Hamas are the good guys is an opinion, albeit a shitty one.

Saying gender studies aren't studies is just factually wrong.

Pretty easy to see why one would be treated differently from the other even if most people won't agree with the first

Even if they're both wrong, aren't they also both opinions? People can have (an express) opinions that are factually wrong. I think the community should just downvote those kinds of posts instead of them being removed by mods.
- An opinion that is just a factually wrong idea isn't an opinion, it's just a false belief that something is true
  Actual untruths should be removed by mods, they only serve to trick the uninformed into believing false shit. Down votes mean very little, many times someone who's 100% factually right gets down voted because the community just doesn't like what was said

Che confusione sara perche ti amo

Gender anything is navel gazing masturbation, and I'm fucking tired of hearing about it.

So if we arent open to understanding something as important to being human as gender, why not toss out all other fields that also study human social lives. Bye to anthropology, sociology, etc.
Do you think we should abandon all gender entirely?

Fight hamas, fight gender, so fund gender studies.

fight gender
But I like gender. Some of my best friends are gendered.
- Which of the following best describes your gender:
  male gender
  female gender
  fight gender
- Gender studies might help us understand why and how though. I'm trans myself, but I do not like gender. Most of the time, gender is not actually what we're talking about. I try to replace gender with ability, recognition, variance etc. whenever possible and not erasing.

As it should be.