DdCno1 @ DdCno1 @kbin.social

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A flawed democracy is still a democracy - and Germany is widely regarded, despite some corruption, as one of the best-functioning democracies in the world (5th best according to the Democracy Matrix - which is admittedly from a German university - and 12th best according to the Economist's Democracy Index). There are no serious scholars doubting this.

Ideally an independent party, like an NGO with no affiliations to Hamas and Israel.

It's fine to admit that we simply don't know until the war is over. Only then can a true count be possible, without terrorists interfering.

They are relying entirely on numbers provided by Hamas. There is no independent third party counting casualties in the strip.

Just like the SED.

Yet people still uncritically believe in casualty numbers provided by Hamas - and you get shouted at for pointing this out.

Why not both?

Very interesting. Lots of news websites are operating on a very similar principle, with the user having to either accept all cookies or pay for an expensive subscription that allows them to opt out of tracking cookies. I've always thought that this couldn't possibly be legal.

If you think you are impervious to this, then I got news for you.

The problem in both cases is that people remember these artistic depiction as real, even if there's a disclosure.

One of few good aspects about it, but only if you don't think about it too much. The question remains is if you can actually trust this, because there is no physical button disconnecting microphone and camera. It's all just in software and could be unsafe.

It's not for "uncensored pro-Palestine activism", it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html

In case of paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162338/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html

What the article doesn't mention is that there is pressure directed towards Marques Brownlee to get him to alter or remove his review by implying that reviews like his kill companies.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/marques-brownlees-humane-ai-pin-review

What they are currently doing is still sending unguided rockets towards Israel, rockets that have an accuracy measured in kilometers and can thus only be used as terror weapons. Is Israel just supposed to eat those? Their defenses aren't perfect and every single alert means that people have to interrupt whatever they are doing and rush into shelter within seconds.

slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian children

Because every single death in Gaza is either that of a child or a woman. What a ridiculous claim. Here's another reminder that the only numbers we have from Gaza are those reported by Hamas themselves. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't even trust them as far as I can throw them.

There are legitimate forms of resistance, both armed and unarmed. Neither Hamas nor any other militant Palestinian organization has ever focused on legitimate resistance. It's always been terrorism. The difference between Israel and its enemies is that civilian casualties are an unintended side-effect to Israel, one which they are trying to minimize through all sorts of measures, whereas for Palestinian organizations, it's the main goal. Had the October 7 attacks limited themselves to military targets like border fortifications and command centers only, that would have been legitimate armed resistance. But they did not, they only did this in order to enable the murder, rape and abduction of civilians.

Not whatever Hamas is doing.

I've seen this pop up a few times, so it's likely (hopefully) something you are just ignorantly repeating, but it has to be said that the entire idea of reframing a well-established term like antisemitism, as helpfully laid out by @Vorticity, is extremely damaging and troubling. Whoever came up with it in very recent years solely did it in order to hurt Jews, in order to downplay the very real issue of exploding global antisemitism (even before the October 7 massacres) and sow confusion.

I'm impressed. Every single thing you just wrote is incorrect. That's a rare achievement, even around here. "Israeli's [sic] are mostly German" takes the cake though.

Obligatory, since people are not getting it:

https://youtu.be/SZE4pEKc6WY

There can not be a "cost of doing business" for the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Has anyone here ever wondered why Hezbollah are so tame in this conflict, why they are so deathly afraid of an escalation? Hint: They are seeing the footage from Gaza too, they too are keeping track of how every single Hamas commander is being systematically hunted down, how Israel is willing and able to level an entire apartment block just to get one of them, global public opinion be damned - or, if they are feeling particularly humane that day, sending a small missile or drone precisely into the window that commander happens to be sitting behind.

How anyone expected anything but pure hellfire in response to the October 7 massacres and rapes is beyond me. No nation on Earth would have reacted any differently. The likes of Switzerland or Denmark would have gone medieval on the perpetrators in a situation like this. Iran is playing a very dangerous game. One "lucky" hit by one of their missiles or drones, e.g. into a busy crowd, school or hospital, could spell the end of the regime in Tehran.

Why should HK care about third party accessories? Those do not matter at all for large military contracts.

Take a look at where you are.