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"Once you've been to Gaza, you'll never stop wanting to beat Benjamin Netan

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Sorry, isn't this like, a fallacy? I couldn't help but post to be honest.

But like, so they support what you believe in, what does that mean? Does that make you correct? Does that make them correct?

You might be right. I found this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Goldman

... so this isn't really a viable solution.

Money is making them say this.

What is this from?

You largely can choose the provider of this service,

Really? I'm from the Middle East, took me fucking ages to "change the provider".

If you’re in a country with compulsory military service, make yourself interesting for other countries and leave.

Literally not an option for 99% of people.

us comparatively free thinking westerners

For myself, I grew up with the Islam kool-aid in the Middle East in an Islam-majority country and though the journey was troublesome, I very much managed in the end to shed religion and tradition off my shoulders and unlearn all the crap I was indoctrinated to believe in, including layers of anti-semitism. I felt like I lived in a similar kind of propaganda machine and managed to find my way out. If I can do it, hopefully, anyone can do it given the right opportunities, support, and time.

You're right, I'm being immature. To be honest, reading about this genocide day after day, seeing Palestinians like me denied self determination and having their voices silenced... it frustrates me.

Your attitude and bad logic (which I'm sure you know is my opinion... stemming from denial in my view anyway), makes my frustration even deeper. It irks me when seemingly normal people repeat empty hollow IDF propaganda.

The truth is however that most people on the globe are decent and value the lives of others, so there is no need to get myopic about opinions like yours that deny a clear genocide... Most people I will meet in my life would not think it's okay if the IDF killed me and demolished my house, and they would call a spade a spade. I think you going as far as calling Bibi's Amalek comments as "cherry picked" is what made me realize I have better things to do, and that you represent the opinion that will hopefully end up in the dustbin of history as examples of human beings at their shittiest.

I'll stop now. Let me know if you need help blocking me though. It must have been pretty shit to keep getting messages from someone you weren't able to block.

Ah, I understand.

You're right, choosing prison over killing innocent civilians requires first understanding what is going on, something which indoctrination is meant to hinder. I think what I meant to say is that it's weird not more people have been able to escape this indoctrination and choose prison instead of service. Then again, Israel has been successful at this genocide thanks to their incredible propaganda machine, so I shouldn't underestimate the effect it has on people.

just a bunch of indoctrinated teens

But yes, I absolutely agree.

You have tried to block me?

Did you try going to my account from the web interface and clicking "Block User" shown in the top right? Otherwise, tell me what app you're using and I can google a method for you.

We gotta admit that a large portion of the IDF are just a bunch of indoctrinated teens who had no choice. They are victims of Israel too.

I'm surprised she's the first woman to be jailed for this... really thought this was more common than that. I would totally do months of even a couple of years of prison or whatever just so not to kill X number of civilian men, women, and children on Gaza... simply because that's not something I'd be able to live with.

No, seems like an overall okay place. But this particular article seems like propaganda. I think that's what that person meant.

I don't like Hamas, but just a reminder that it's very legal to fight against an illegal occupation.

Either he was taking some really strong drugs or he was just plain stupid cause a leopard never changes its spots.

Neither, it seems. I don't think he was taking any drugs. His plan was clear: divide Palestinians then conquer their lands.

@JustZ@lemmy.world sorry, no response on this yet??? Is this also an "opinion piece" from "Qatari run state media"? Or is this just another piece of reality that you want to ignore?

I have lots more btw. You don't like the NYT? no problem, I got the same piece of news from a lot more outlets spread over many dates.

GPT4 (the preview) still produces code where it adds variables that it never uses anywhere... and when I asked one time about one variable, it was like, "Oh, you're right, let me re-write the code to put variable X into use", then just added it in a nonsensical location to serve a nonsensical purpose.

Good for him. I like Nvidia and use one, but I have the rest of his company to thank for that.

I think for me it was a combination of:

< Name of person I don't know > says < big unhinged sweeping generalization > for < reason that makes no sense to anyone in the field >

My first instinct is not to click stuff like this altogether. I also think that anyone trying to preach what kids should or shouldn't do is already in the wrong automatically by assuming they have any say in this without a degree in pedagogy.

No worries, I understand.

Same here... for me it's that the pretends to respect Palestinian life then says something that amounts to excusing genocide and 75 years of Israeli opression all in the same sentence.

I used the search functionality, they have a degree in criminology, history, and law. I don't know how common that combo is, neither do I want to cast doubt on this person's comments... but it doesn't help that the majority of them defy logic at every turn.

Just yesterday, @JustZ@lemmy.world told me they know more than South Africa about apartheid, and thus Israel cannot be an undemocratic apartheid state. They also told me that when America didn't allow women and black people to vote, it was "still a democracy". But they also said that an apartheid rule is when a minority has control over a majority (this is the only definition they offered)... that would mean, by @JustZ@lemmy.world's own definition, that America before suffrage for women and black people was an apartheid state.