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What a sociopath.

Someone that acts confident when they shouldn’t, is colloquially known as a “conman”.

No, that's incorrect.

A "con man" aka Confidence Trickster is a grifter who gains your confidence in order to scam you.

Having false confidence in itself does not mean someone is necessarily a swindler. It could just be that they are delusional or misinformed.

I think they like it for some reason.

Thanks!

Probably both. The circular logic and redundant headings scream AI but presumably a human compiled it together and may have written what they thought were bridging sentences.

I hate how all the top google results these days are the self contradicting ramblings of LLMs.

We are all familiar with the genocidaires' explanations/pretexts for why they are blockading humanitarian aid, thanks, you don't need to rehash them here.

Egypt doesn't want terrorists

More to the point Egypt doesn't want to give Israel a pretext for constant drone strikes in Egyptian territory now that every Palestinian refugee child is supposedly "Hamas".

But either side can close a border, that's intrinsic to borders.

Don't think so, kbin's not stable yet.

I'm a bit out of the loop though because I prefer mobile interface.

Just any kbin account will do it. The info is there in ActivityPub so sooner or later there will be a client that includes it, if there isn't yet.

(My main's at kbin.social but we are temporarily on read-only here at lemmy.world due to our servers going haywire, so to comment here I have to use my lemmy account).

It's nice that you visited, but I believe people like Desmond Tutu, who actually lived through Apartheid in South Africa..

There's a reason why South Africa are the ones with the case against Israel in the international courts. They know what this is.

Honestly, just get yourself an account that allows you to see who votes and vote order, it will save you a lot of paranoia.

3 of the first 11 upvotes are people I recognise and have interacted with. It's obviously not sockpuppets.

If the downvotes I can see, two of the first 3 are people I've recently interacted with as well.

I'm a non-US fediversian and I upvoted it because I thought the headline was funny and because I sympathise with Americans for having to choose between these two old men (who aren't even Bernie Sanders, which would have been more understandable).

It's a point that only makes sense if you don't pay attention to international geopolitics.

Small countries have a vested interest in the upholding of international law because they are vulnerable, so they quite often stick their heads up above the parapet for it. E.g. when the Rohingya Genocide occurred in South East Asia a small country in West Africa, The Gambia, are the ones who took them to the ICC.

As for South Africa, it has a very long history of criticizing Israel for its apartheid. Bishop Desmond Tutu made international headlines by calling it an apartheid after his visit to Israel and Palestine. Moreover, during Apartheid South Africa era, Israel was one of the big weapons suppliers to the Apartheid regime (which was at war with its neighbour) when many countries were boycotting it.

The entire African Union are quite sensitive about what Israel does.

If you know anything about history, it makes perfect sense that South Africans would be leading the charge here (which they have done consistently).

The UN officials aren't saying any of those things. Here's a tldr of the issue

• The platform is meant to be in Northern Gaza where the worst of the starvation is
• Israel wants it to be moved south to an Israeli choke point
• Israel is about to close the crossings in South Gaza so it can attack Rafah
• If the tiny amount of aid that can come in is able to be diverted to South Gaza then Israel may face less international condemnation over this phase of the Gaza genocide.

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

If there is a starving child and you can choose to deliver them the nutrients they need but instead you choose to give them half a peanut instead, in a really theatrical way, that's obviously bad right?

That's what's happening here.

I'd never heard of Ed Zitron but this is the second good blog I've seen by them this week.

they could sedate him, clean the wound, and administer antibiotics for just over $2000

OP I don't know how long it will take you to get the money but please clean the wounds as best you can yourself in the meantime.

I remember someone in your other post said it's probably dog bite abscess. I have cleaned those before. You will need warm water, put a little betadine iodine in it and use soaked cotton wool to very gently "lick" the wound as if you are another cat.

Wrapp the cat's body securely in a towel first.

I would phone another vet and ask for a quote as what you have been quoted sounds insane to me especially since they didn't even tell you what the wounds are.

Depends on the genre.

BRB just off to write my bestseller Financial Secrets: How To Get Rich From Being A Stepdad

UNRWA also said that its staff had been detained while carrying out their duties in Gaza, being held in the same conditions as the other detainees.

They were interrogated about their work and threatened to make false confessions about the UN agency, including that it had links with Hamas.

Among the forms of torture the UNRWA staff were subjected to were severe beatings, being forced to strip naked, threats of rape and electrocution, threats of violence and murder at gunpoint, attacks by dogs, and threats against the lives of their families.

I don't think you have to "listen to Iran" to know Israel attacked their embassy compound.

I mean, to the standards required for a court of law (e.g. forensic proof that these were patients) but I take your point.

Objectively, Spez. [I changed my mind, see edit]

Subjectively, in my personal experience the worst mod I ever encountered was Ghislaine Maxwell Maxwellhill.

There are whole articles out there about how bad their moderation was.

They somehow had enough people convinced that their sockpuppet "Anutensil" was a separate user that it joined the same mod teams and constantly advocated for them. Which is crazy because a utensil literally means a tool (that they were using to consolidate power).

Edit: actually objectively it's probably someone like CarlH who was the mod of carlhprogramming but also irl turned out to be this pedo guy who kept his own young son in a basement and tortured and abused him.