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Wait til you hear about the anti defamation league

not a legal expert and I doubt you are as well, but if you search the 'net there are plenty of articles from respectable news sources covering debates and discussions over whether it's legally genocide or not. I'm not going to debate it with you; I'll leave it up to those who are qualified to determine if it is truly genocide, and pursue war crimes charges as necessary. I

That's exactly my point. The "legal definition", if for some reason it doesn't apply, is just an excuse to avoid confronting the atrocities we are complicit in committing. If the "legal definition" isn't met, then it's simply wrong. Some court case isn't what determines whether it's "truly genocide", it's that Israel, with our support, is and has been trying for decades to eradicate an entire people and culture.

a pretty good assumption that some portion of the cries of genocide are the result of foreign propaganda to both garner support for Hamas and the continuing disruption and outside influence of US politics.

I do agree with this, and it's really unfortunate. But yeah, if I was Hamas I would use the fact that Gazans are being genocided to drum up support too, it's a pretty good argument. To avoid creating a situation where Hamas looks like the good guys, I think the best thing to do would be to, you know, stop murdering Palestinian children.

questionable whether what is happening in Gaza is genocide from a legal perspective

Firstly, no it isn't. Secondly, resorting to "a legal perspective" so that you can choose the specific definition that makes it technically kinda not qualify if you squint hard enough is a really shitty, bad faith debate tactic. The stated wishes and goals of average, mainstream Israelis is to kill all Palestinians, burn Gaza to the ground, and take it over. That's genocide, plain and simple.

Nor the first part...

I think they understand that concept fine, it's just that getting 97¢ out of twenty thousand $1 donations is better than getting $18k out of $20k, so if we're making up numbers it can go either way.

Joe Biden and the leadership of the democratic party are nowhere near left. Centre right at best.

A simple tomato sauce is not any harder than plenty of other suggestions in this thread, e.g. tuna melt, and easier than carbonara.

Straw man, nobody is saying to vote for trump

I thought it was about having some browser extension that clicks ads on sites without showing the ads to the user. Like a kind of "best of both worlds" for adblocking. So if it's some blog they read often the ad revenue is probably more like $1 per year.

If you were to use Facebook they can make money off your views even without clicks, just not as much.

Far from true depending on where OP lives. High profile sites (e.g. mainstream social media or streaming) can make $ 5-15 USD per user per month if that user is in favourable demographic (mainly living in a rich country, US or EU). A blog without registration will make way less than that, obviously people are viewing way less ads there than sites they stay on for hours, but it's still much more than $1 per lifetime.

Google pays as much as 2c per page view for North American viewers in some categories (but realistically more like 0.5c). So $1 is good for a few hundred page views.

30 years between beyond thunderdome and fury road

Endeavour is better for that, after the install you'll have plain arch but with a bunch of stuff installed and already set up

First of all, why the fuck would all names for people be equal? That's insane. Do you think that the n word is equally offensive as those slurs you listed too? Or you just think it's fine like calling someone Frenchie? Either way doesn't look good.

Secondly this shit is so established there's a Wikipedia page about it. Just cos you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's just being made up, there's no need to go on some anti-woke crusade.

Are you being for real? You dont understand the difference between calling an Asian person rice, and "Frenchie"? Smh my head

I think if you make sure to call someone an "igg", or preferably, a "bliddy igg", then should still be fine

I agree slurs refer to people, but if you call a Japanese car a "rice cooker" (which is where this comes from) that's insulting the people...

And, yeah, at least originally. "Kraut" is one of those things that really has evolved somewhat, especially through krautrock in the 70s and other things. And whether it's racist is complex depending on definitions and blah blah blah. But it was definitely 100% coined as a slur.

I don't, though. Pointing out that something is derogatory doesn't require the people it's directed at to have any opinion about it one way or the other.

It clearly wasn't "determined". Asian users can speak for themselves, they don't need you to do it for them.

That acronym was made up way later, and making up some acronym for an existing word it doesn't magically make it ok or wipe out what it already meant. Sure language isn't static but it still means that thing.