Unaware7013 @ Unaware7013 @kbin.social

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Idiocy is a core tenent of the Republican platform and has been for years. Intelligence has been looked down on by the Republican party for the 20 odd years I've been paying attention, and it's only gotten worse as they've cozied up to the insane authoritarians and leaned into the bugfuck support of 'religion' to get their way/keep themselves in power

That's interesting, considering Israeli government officials wouldn't confirm the veracity of the photos, and after the US Whitehouse made the same claims, they were also walked back because they saw news reports and not photographic evidence. Same with multiple news orgs.

Given the amount of walking back and refusal to verify, along with going radio silent about it, means this is a BS story in my mind. If this had really happened, Israel wouldn't be able to stop themselves from plastering it across every news feed that would run them as evidence of hamas' barbarism.

That was already confirmed, including photos.

[Citation needed]

I went looking and there isn't much being returned short of 5-6 days ago, but I've seen no proof that it happened, only people walking back that they never really saw photos and were taking Israeli spokes-heads at face value. Here's a Boston globe opinion piece from today that still claims the information is/was unverified.

Edit: from 5 days ago: Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

I think it's probably safe to say that the vast majority of music that is listened to today would not exist if the artists couldn't financially support themselves from it. Do you really disagree with that?

Of course not, and I clearly called out that there would be less music if there wasn't an monetary incentive to do so. But at the same time, record industry titans falling would leave a massive vacuum that would be filled by more independent artists and labels. In the end, there would be less music overall, but there would still be some way for artists to get their cut.

Industry titans aren't music, they're merely the middlemen who craft what they think the public wants to hear and leech money from artists. Them falling would be a boon to the smaller and more niche acts who don't get the chance to explode because they don't have the weight of a major label to push them into the spotlight.

Yes, you can of course always pirate if you want to deal with the hassle of that, but you should at least keep it in the back of your mind that, if everyone did that, we wouldn't have any music to enjoy at all.

This is bunk. If people pirated the record labels out of business we would have less music sure, but there will always be people who make music for the love of the craft, rather than just to line an executive's pocket.

I'm all for directly supporting artists (and I buy albums and merch directly from the band wherever possible), but let's not pretend like the people pulling the strings aren't also responsible for the shitty situation they're in.

Fuck the recording industry and how they treat artists. And I say that as a premium streaming service customer.

You know you're on the (alt-)right side of history when you have to consider arresting people for saying true things about your murderous and oppressive regime.

Are actually dead children worse than fake children that were beheaded??? /s

Agreed. I found my current gig on LinkedIn and got like an 80% raise a few years ago. I stay off it unless I need to go job hunting, and I have no complaints, but I treat it just like facebook and ignore the feed/random bullshit pushed to me.

I'm not convinced she wasn't a sadist and got joy from the suffering of others.

If they do, I can almost guarantee it will favor the Republicans like it generally does.

Let me just simplify the headline

Will the Supreme Court Make Life Worse for America?

The answer is yes, that's basically all they do for 99.9% of Americans.

If you go back and read, they didn't accuse China of anything. They only stated that if they felt the need to have bombed the peoples, they would have. But maybe you're right that China would not have done that, so I'll just keep looking for the wiki page for NOTHING-BAD-HAPPENED Square.

“We may have to provide some additional support like we’ve traditionally done, but I think mostly it’s just the moral clarity to say, ‘They don’t have to live like this.’”

Live like what? Illegal settlers who steal land/homes and oppress a people in an apartheid state until those people feel they have no other recourse than to violently resist their oppressors?

I'd agree with that. Would probably solve a whole host of problems too.

Amazing what being the only realistic alternative to naked fascism will do for your fundraising numbers.

You're shifting the discussion

L. O. L. What happened to the cOmPlIcAtEd HiStOrY argument you were just making while failing to refute the point that Israel supported/funded Hamas?

This thread started with OP saying Hamas is a necessary evil 8 days after they slaughtered 1300+ civilians in cold blood and abducted 100+ more.

Is that what they said? Because you're leaving out the very important end of the comment that I was specifically replying to:

More like they’re the last ones left after all the alternatives got killed/bulldozed.

And you want to accuse me of shifting the discussion?! You need to get over yourself and realize that Israel's very recent funding is absolutely and directly material to the discussion at hand.

Cool story, but what does that have to do with Israel funding them in 2010s?

I get the point you're trying to make, but I'm honestly not sure how it relates to mine. The fact they used to be a charitable organization is immaterial to Israel funding Hamas well after they became militant against Israel, and them doing it for the purpose of helping delegitimize the PA and sabotage Palestine as a state.

Hol up, is your argument is that Hamas was a charitable organization in 2019 when they were funding them to delegitimize the Palestinian Authority with the express purpose of sabotaging the Palestinian state?

Because if so, that's a big fucking yikes bruh.

(They were also supported by Israel to weaken and delegitimize other Palestinian political factions)

100% delusional

"It's strange that people think they can enjoy life in ways that I don't enjoy" is definitely a take.