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  • A lot of them also seem to refer to earlier forms of 1080 etc. Given the "silent seas" I suspect what this is really about is a sort of folk response to climate change and ecological collapse.

    But the rabid activist ones seem to have linked the "Agenda 21" conspiracies, chemtrails etc with 1080. The covid/5G stuff as well, Sue Grey (antivax lawyer) was mixed up with the ban 1080 movement.

  • They did protest Hamas before the war. I can't tell if you're lying on purpose or just ignorant about Gaza.

    Times of Israel, August 2023:

    On July 30, thousands of people throughout the Gaza Strip took to the streets demanding better living conditions, in a rare display of public anger against the Hamas regime. The following Friday, August 4, hundreds of people rallied again in various parts of the enclave.

    Popular discontent with the Hamas regime in Gaza has been simmering for years. Since the group wrested control of the coastal strip from the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority in 2007, large-scale protests have taken place on several occasions, most recently in April 2015, January 2017 and again in 2019. Each time, protests were repressed by Hamas security forces and did not lead to any significant changes for the local population.

    Here's Human Rights Watch in 2019 reporting on the violent way Hamas suppressed protestors with beatings and arrests:

    The crackdown isn’t an aberration. In October, we published “Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent,” a report showing that Hamas authorities routinely arrest and torture peaceful critics and opponents with impunity. We found Hamas often holds detainees for short periods, sometimes just hours, but during that time taunts, threatens, beats, and tortures in order to punish critics and, apparently, to deter them from further activism.

    Immediately after Hamas was elected in 2006 there were protests and violent reprisals. Surely you should know this.

  • Edit: Btw, Gazans voted for Hamas, too.

    Interesting point. Far fewer Gazans voted for Hamas compared to the number of Israelis who voted for the current genocidal government of Israel.

    Let's see... the median age in Gaza on Oct 7 was 18. The last election in Gaza was in 2006. That means half the people now in Gaza weren't even born yet.

    Of the 50% who were alive then, only around half were of voting age in 2006. Therefore 25% of the current population were eligible to vote in 2006.

    According to Wikipedia, turnout in Gaza was around 74%. 74% of 25% = 18.5% In other words, just 18.5% of present day Gazans actually voted at all in the last election.

    In that election Hamas won 46.5% of the vote, winning in North Gaza, losing in places like Rafah.

    So the number of Gazans who actually voted for Hamas is probably somewhere around 10% and mathematically can't be above 18.5%.

    If you don't support sanctions against Israel on the grounds that not everyone voted for this then you shouldn't support Israel's collective punishment of Palestinians either.

  • Then Israel will have a strong incentive to stop the Gaza Genocide and trigger the end of the embargo long before it runs out of military equipment.

    That's how sanctions work.

  • Someone should pitch it to Netflix.

  • It's unclear to me. As far as I can tell they think the United Nations/Illuminati wants to poison the humans, birds, and mammals and ... maybe get rid of farmland? Repurpose New Zealand somehow.

    Some of them have physically attacked Department of Conservation staff, sabotaged vehicles, etc. They're passionate about it.

  • My guess is probably what's happening with these 4-account people is they have them all open at the same time in different browsers, and since they only use them to upvote one account's post submissions they just have to follow that account.

  • I hate to break it to you but Buddhists killed those Buddhists.

    Myanmar is 90% Buddhist and in the middle of a brutal civil war after over 60 years of military dictatorship by Buddhists, against a civilian population of mostly Buddhists.

    Myanmar is also home to a sect of violent extremist Buddhists who supported genocide.

  • Sorry if this sounds rude of me but that suggestion is absurd. Myanmar is 90% Buddhist. The monastery was attacked by the junta (government military). The junta also attacks Muslims. From your own link:

    Soldiers and police sometimes stood by "while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs," said the rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana. "This may indicate direct involvement by some sections of the state or implicit collusion and support for such actions."

    Which of course was confirmed later when junta soldiers began giving testimony about their role in killing Muslims in the Rohingya Genocide

    @saltesc

  • @That edit was your attempt at some dark humour?

    If Gazans stand in a big group anywhere without permission from the occupiers, they can get bombed and sniped and chased with drones.

    The majority are internally displaced and homeless. A significant number are now starving to death. We know from doctors - before the IDF rounded them up and imprisoned them in Sde Teiman (Israel's version of Abu Ghraib torture detention) - the number of burn injuries, amputations, etc civilians are facing.

    And you dare to sit there and compare these to the uninjured, well fed citizens of a richer nation that all have their own homes to sit in and organize their protests about how they want their hostages back?

    Palestinians want their hostages back too. The thousands of children whose parents have been killed and vice versa want their loved ones back too.They are HUMAN BEINGS just like you. If Israel had treated them as humans and observed international law instead of turning into a rogue genocidal state the civilians of Palestine may have had the same chance for expression that you do yourself.

    Try for some compassion.

  • The white South Africans did not starve to death when we boycotted them over Apartheid. The Israeli people can stand a few sanctions over their democratic choice to allow openly genocidal actions.

    Personally the first sanction I would like to see against Israel is a complete embargo on buying or selling any weapons, armaments, or other military equipment. This would not hurt the innocent but it would hurt arms dealers and genocidaires alike.

  • I've noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.

  • Sure. But votes aren't private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it's easy to spot.

    It's only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

  • There's nothing unhinged about Time Cube. It's just so obviously true. 4 similtaneous rotations, 4 corner earth days. Circle times square.

    Either you need to read it again, or else you're part of the conspiracy of suppression.

  • This is the crux of it:

    The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.

  • Narrator: "...it was."

  • dangerous precedent, where the US government shows complete disrespect of international law

    With all due respect the US has been in open contempt of international law for the past 20+ years.

    Guantanamo for example is completely illegal.

  • Ethnic cleansing is the part where they displace the target population.

    Genocide is the part where they kill the target population.

    Obviously there's a fair bit of overlap between the two.

  • Your rights end at the point where they infringe on someone else's rights.

    Like, it's my right to walk where I want but it's not my right to walk into your house. Because it's your right to own private property.

    Secondly, authoritarianism is not about how many people the law affects. It's about style of governance.