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Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread II

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To me it seems like Gaza had no intention to get rid of Hamas though at the same time bombing is unnecessary.

There hasn't been elections for 16 or 17 iirc so how can Palestinians "get rid of" Hamas?

Hamas was supported & funded by Netanyahus likud party specifically because it drove a wedge between those in Gaza and in the West Bank. Classic divide and conquer technique.

As for what Israel can do? They can get rid of the genocidal crook that's running their government and his two murderous far right henchmen and grasp that he had concocted this situation for several reasons:

To divert attention away from his corruption and fraud indictments

To quell the protests that have been going on for months against him because of the corruption and legislation he has passed to curtail the supreme courts ability to hold the executive to account.

To level Gaza, ethnically cleanse it & genocide the Palestinian people so he can get to the natural gas and oil reserves there.

Yes, there's a lot Israel can do and it needs to be quick about it.

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Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently

When I used to be on twitter and in response to idiotic comments like that, I would post the video of the guy cycling with a fridge on his back, one of someone moving a piano, several tradesmen that quit their vans to use cargo bikes, the pedal cab company in London (proper cargo bikes not the shitty tourist things) and the mother of 6 from Portland that had a cargo bike to take them all to school.

It used to shut them up

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Concerned message from CEO of Telegram about privacy and censorship

The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets.

What an absolute loads of bollocks.

There has recently been 1 woman jailed for her tweets where she admitted to inciting violence, not because of free speech issues.

These libertarian wankers love citing that sole case (and make out that it's "thousands, I tell ya!") but will overlook that several Just Stop Oil protesters were jailed for 4 years just for holding a zoom call and anti-genocide protesters are being arrested and charged with terrorism offences just for writing on a bit of cardboard.

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Ikea

In the UK before Ikea, it was MFI (colloquially known as 'Made For Idiots') that was even lower quality chipboard horrible furniture.

Yes, Ikea isnt some handcrafted solid wood furniture but until most people can afford that stuff, it will do.

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Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance.

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When can we stop inserting politics into every little thing?

When I see comments like this, it makes 2 things plainly obvious:

  1. The commentor is naive and doesn't understand that fundamentally 'politics' is the power dynamic in every relationship, be that between people, groups or with structures or things such as food.

It is in everything and connects everything. It defines your relationship and how you interact with the world and it's relationship to, and interaction with you.

  1. The commentor has enough privilege that they don't have to worry about politics/power structures on a daily basis.

Some people can't see the wood for the trees

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[Video] NSFL GORE: Charlie Kirk gets shot in the neck at rally

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On his weekly panel discussion, "ThoughtCrime," Kirk was discussing death penalties of those convicted of crimes, adding that not only does he believe there should be public executions, but that children should watch them.

"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Kirk asked.

His wife & kids were there to watch. It what he would have wanted!

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Far left intellectualism

This is classic liberal brain worm nonsense.

Blue maga cultists world rather blame leftists than get your shitty candidate in line with her genocidal policies.

It's not a difficult situation to resolve: stop supplying Israel with weapons and support.