aleph @ aleph @lemm.ee

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All they heard was the word 'activist' and it sent their tiny minds reeling.

Hexbear are not right-wing in the slightest. They're basically Lemmygrad but with even more shitposting.

I often think back and wonder about the 5G = COVID people on Twitter and r/conspiracy. Where are they now? Do they even feel in the slightest bit silly? Were they even real? So very many questions.

As an addendum, the idea that a vaccine can produce side effects years down the line is a myth. A vaccine is a one-time payload - if any side effects are going to crop up, they will inevitably be in the few weeks following vaccination as your body processes it. After that, if nothing has gone awry, you're good.

The term 'genocide' might be contentious, but 'ethnic cleansing' and 'occupation' shouldn't be. They literally describe Palestine since the creation of the state of Israel itself.

*than the less restrictive states in the US.

What sets the US apart is how wildly the laws vary by state, with 10 states currently allowing no exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother, i.e total, or near-total, bans.

In contrast, while many countries in Europe limit abortions to a point between 12 and 20 weeks, there are almost always exceptions and circumstances where an abortion can be granted medical approval.

Two volunteer doctors working with Doctors Without Borders were killed by a direct hit from an Israeli airstrike on Al Awda hospital back in November, so that's at least one example.

https://www.msf.ie/article/msf-doctors-killed-strike-al-awda-hospital-northern-gaza

Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also added certain details that didn't seem based on anything like actual evidence. Although I admit it wasn't anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.

If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.

In that case, they would have used the present simple, "Hamas don't take hostages", but they didn't.

I think you simply misunderstood the original statement.

The temporal qualifier is inherent in the grammar of the statement. Perhaps you didn't notice it?

In English, the present perfect continuous has/hasn't been taking implies a frequent and repeated action since a fixed time in the past - in this case, presumably, the start of the current conflict until now.

Since Hamas only took civilian hostages on one occasion, i.e. October 7th, and not again since, it is not true to say that Hamas "has been taking hostages". They took hostages. Once.

Israel, on the other hand, have been taking Palestinian civilians captive, repeatedly, since October 7th. That's the difference.

I was also banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml and had comments removed for "Re-enforcing neo-liberal cultural hegemony" and "Believes in objectivity in media lmao".

My offense? Saying that a report sourced solely from an eye-witness account via Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact. The irony is I'm very much pro-Palestinan.

According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly accept any anti-Israel claims without question.

Is there any evidence that Hamas has taken new hostages since October 7th? Because AFAIK there isn't.

Oh, it's true alright:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67600015

Are you talking about Lemmy.ml specifically or Lemmy in general?

That hasn't stopped Republicans in ten states from pushing that extreme position into law, though.

https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html

Those sound like extremely edge cases and are not a good reason to not justify not reporting anything.

Moderators are volunteers and most of them simply want to make their communities better, so they do take these reports seriously. Plus at this stage Lemmy lacks robust tools to help them accomplish this. The very least general users can do is flag problem comments and accounts to help them out.

Technically, Endeavour does have its own repos but they only contain a relatively small number of non-essential packages. But yeah, other than that it's basically pre-configured Arch with great defaults.

Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I'm clearly having one of those days.

That's cool, though. I haven't been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.

Thanks, that does look nifty, but unfortunately I was thinking specifically for Android.

I just figured that out, thanks!

From what I can see, there's no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?