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A senior member of Hamas has hailed the systematic slaughter of civilians in Israel

When asked whether this meant the complete annihilation of Israel, Hamas replied: “Yes, of course.”

who still thinks hamas are the good guys?

an escalation of asymmetric warfare? sure, why not? the issue is more of a technical one, you have to hold the laser beam on the moving target for long enough for it to heat up the missile casing enough that it goes kerplodey - but hey, if you've got that covered then why stop there? I wouldnt mind having a beam rifle, would make sniping a dream...

little clarification here - humanity isnt native to anywhere other than Africa. the people that were in the American continents prior to the arrival of Europeans might not have taken boats to get there - though some clearly did as there were multiple waves of settlement over a few thousand years.

if their ancestors walked over the land bridge during the ice age and that somehow qualifies them as natives, then what about the ones whose ancestors took a boat across where the land bridge used to be and sailed down the coast? if they qualify, then why dont the people whose European ancestors took boats qualify as native? is it because the last round of people had vastly superior technology? because we speak the same languages they did? because we're the same ethnicity they were? is this a racism argument? I didnt get that memo.

is this a branch of the "noble savage" theory? there was a lot of war between various tribes in North America - generational warfare usually, where one tribe would traditionally raid another for resources or for women. this is well documented and had been occurring for as long as anyone could remember - long, long before the reintroduction of the horse into North America.

I tended some goats a few times as a favor to a neighbor - well, made sure they didnt get out of their fenced off area of 3 acres. honestly found it to be very dull and uninspiring. perhaps I was doing it wrong? maybe there's a way to spice it up? do you dress up in a wolf costume to keep things lively? toss lit fireworks at the sheeples?

do tell, I'm sure the stories you've got will be absolutely riveting!

I agree - jet's been a fun opponent to spar with. I wish everyone held themselves to his standard (her's? their's? pronouns are weird).

notice me senpai!

not trolling, trying to engage in a discussion. I could easily say "no, you're wrong" & then move onto the next thing, whatever it may be. I could be insulting, as many here default to, but I'm better than that - and so are you. or maybe not! difficult to tell really. eh, I'm probably wrong about you.

ah, makes sense then - he was the leader of the ANC and the ANC actions included acts of terrorism. I guess he mellowed in old age? time/reflection will do that to a person.

it's unfortunate, but many just devolve to their base instincts. yes, yes, I see your point - and I'll admit that you've got a point. I was/am/have been attempting to engage a diverse community in discussion. too often it seems that "discussion" in these threads is "X is bad" and then a bunch of folks chiming in "I hate X", "X stole my lunch money", "X slept with my wife and she left me because of Y reason", etc, etc. there's no actual discussion in the sense that we're exchanging ideas or broadening each other's worldviews. it's just supporting criticisms. maybe that's what people learn these days in colleges?

other than our linguistical expertise, our prose, it could easily be a transcript of insults between a few younger children on a playground somewhere. and I find that depressing. so I attempt to engage - but more often than naught it's like screaming into the dark & praying for a response - any response, even just someone else screaming back.

anyway, I digress.

skimmed the article. something about relations in the cold war or something. was the why buried down at the bottom? I didnt make it that far

when has that ever happened?

no real debate at all, just... arguing, then insults fly when they discover arguing isnt working. it's a sad state of affairs.

you know, I've never tried savory! I will give it a try next time, thanks for the suggestion!

yep. the ideological warfare is largely electronic these days, fought in forums and threads. a battle waged by paragraph. where. every. word. matters.

i have some idea. do I know where every cent goes? no. the government, most governments, are these giant ponderous masses of interwoven bureaucracy, striving to complete many diverse goals. the various goals are often at odds with each other.

it's the real downside of democratic governance.

huh. that UNESCO designation must have some monetary compensation that comes with it, like a package deal or something.

wasnt he all about peace - resisting, but peacefully? Gandhi did something similar - of course, it ended badly for him.

Erdogan is sort of an odd choice here.

you're right. I'm not. you gotta buck the trend, for novelty's sake if nothing else - it keeps the squares on their toes. I find it sad that you got downvoted (not not voting means anything on this platform) for disagreeing with the herd mentality, so I didja a solid and poked the updoot button.

was a fun discussion, for a little while. it seems to have devolved into the insulting phase now. always does. it's like... we (humanity) just cant rise above our base impulses. if someone refuses to listen, they start getting insulted - like, subconsciously some people just cant accept that their opinion is literally meaningless. it's just... weird.

anyway, toodles!

and yet you keep returning, like a moth to a flame. sort of poetic. sad too - you've not grown at all

you know, what I find really interesting is that's there's basically no discussion on the news subs until someone espouses a comment that's basically against the policy that everyone appears to blindly abide by - but then an absolute mass of people chime in about how the offending comment is wrong, or how they're a traitor for not being willing to toe the party line, or are just flat out insulting.

it's really kind of hilarious - and it indicates that lemmy really isnt the next big thing, not like reddit was or digg before it. the decentralized nature just works against it. the expected response is that "you just need to find the right community" - but it really seems that a lot of people on the news subs just want to argue. the politics subs are even worse - they're basically echo chambers for the small minded, and they're proud of it.