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I'm comfortable with my level of engagement thanks.

You seem to have used personal insults on half the people in the thread at this point, and you keep complaining about Lemmy.

I get that you're frustrated that we're not talking about whatever it is you want to talk about, but that's life sometimes.

If I had to guess I'd say the brain worm has a grudge against the Museo del Cerebro in Peru, which is a museum that houses hundreds of human brains including some with brain parasites.

Anything which helps us study and eliminate them is its natural enemy.

Yeah, I'm in New Zealand and from here their election looked like the main thrust of most of it was about forcing Democrats to vote for the establishment warmonger Hillary instead of their best candidate Bernie Sanders.

Trump was sort of just a meme candidate for a long time because analysts didn't realise he'd been gifted the pre-Trump Cambridge Analytica package (drain the swamp etc) by disaster capitalists.

They are pointing out that it was intentional and part of a widwr pattern.

That genocidal ghoul Netanyahu is 36,000 deep in corpses right now, many of them children. He hasn't suddenly grown a conscience or empathy. Something else is going on.

They are. This is why the deranged idea that being Trans is somehow a "lifestyle choice" doesn't make any sense. It's literally life on hard mode.

With Time Cube? I didn't know that. You're right, people who get really caught up in conspiracy theories can be vulnerable.

Pol Pot springs to mind...

Thanks, fantastic article, nice to get the BBC perspective on this as I wonder sometimes about The Irawaddy's possibly being a bit optimistic.

Thanks, you just made it crystal clear to me how we get from here to full on Idiocracy.

Anyone reading along in this thread should probably check the veracity of these claimed ratios. Wikipedia has an okay overview.

It's also worth noting that the Russian wars in Chechnya were particularly notable for their brutal war crimes.

@FlyingSquid

@Linkerbaan aah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I couldn't work out what on earth they were getting at.

@TheFonz I'm sorry but you haven't expressed your position clearly enough for me to summarize and I'm not interested in trying to forensically reconstruct it from your comments as it's too ameliorised.

Like I said above, this conversation isn't some kind of game for points. It's just us talking about our views.

or do you only like to hear yourself

False dichotomy, and a bit of a swing and a miss.

Dresden was a horrendous war crime too.

I can see how it's harder for you to argue against war crimes from other nations if you're an apologist for war crimes committed by your own ancestors.

But many of us don't need to jump through those particular rhetorical hoops. The barrage of war crimes in WW2 was part of the impetus for strengthening international law against that shit.

@TheFonz I'm finding this conversation a bit puzzling.

You sort of sound like you want this discussion to cover all those tired Hasbara "talking points" and their common rebuttals on Americam discuasions or something, hence IsRaEl HaS A Right to DeFenD ItSelf.

This isn't a game or a logic 101 essay though. It's ordinary people from multiple countries discussing a humanitarian catastrophe that has killed over 37000 people.

Thanks, have updated my link.

I'd be amazed and impressed to see the Psychedelic Furs are playing.

Honestly I'd mostly be upset about people who have died. Bowie. Prince.

George Michael dying of a heart attack on Christmas day was pretty out of left field given that he wrote Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart. I probably would have to see a newspaper to believe it.

Link for kbin/mbin

Because it's a sound principle.

Genociding tens of thousands of people, half of whom are children, is not self defense.

In my country we have a law that self defense has to be proportional and you are only allowed to use enough force to stop the attack.

It can't be like "the guy down the street threw a rock through my window so I go and kill his whole family in their beds".

I'm glad that you don't support collective punishment of Palestinians.

That's the common ground between you and me. Where we disagree is in what steps to take to stop it. I'm so old that I boycotted Apartheid and later had the very moving experience of being thanked for my country doing that by people who had lived through it.

From some of your comments in here I think you have trouble seeing the enormity of what is happening to your fellow human beings in Gaza right now. In recent years sanctions have been used to halt an attempted genocide in Ethiopia and to weaken the power of the genocidaires in Myanmar. It's actually usually only when superpowers (China, USA) stand in our way that they become less effective.