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@victorkafati @HuntersOfNazis The violence began in April 1920 in Jerusalem when Arabs launched the Nebi Musa riot. 9 years later was the Hebron Massacre where Arabs murdered 67 Jews. After that the state (which belonged to BOTH groups) was split. Jews accepted it peacefully, Muslims didn't and waged war.

Which war? 1956, 1967, and 1982 were initiated by Israel. 1948 was the war around Israel’s creation and the Nakba. 1973 was Egypt and Syria trying to retake land lost in 1967. Blaming “the Muslims” is a grotesque conflation of a religion with multiple states and military decisions.

Did you know how absurd the UN’s anti-Jew fixation gets? Here’s a ‘fun’ fact about the so-called “settler violence”: When Jews visit their holiest site, the Temple Mount, the United Nations logs it as “settler violence.” Not attacks, not riots, not actual violence—just Jews being guilty for the crime of existing. Even when they are literally the ones assaulted for trying to pray, it still gets recorded the same way: Jewish mere existence is violence. And this is not fringe or isolated. There are OVER 1,300 such “incidents” in UN records, including cases of tourists visiting the site, it gets recorded as “settler violence.” At that point, ‘violence’ is simply being redefined to mean “I’m triggered by Jewish existence.” If that’s not a classic blood libel, what is?

@kangminlee Money

What is behind the increasing simping for Islam on the right? It's truly bewildering

@victorkafati @HuntersOfNazis It is- by definition- not "resistance" when the Muslims started every single war.

@Galactic_1225 @Andr3jH Because there are more factors to consider than economic output

@Andr3jH China is capitalist when someone points at its growth. China is communist when someone proposes adopting its policies. The label doesn't describe the system. It describes which argument you're trying to win at that moment.

> See rapid development in a "communist" country > Ask if it's actual communism or just capitalism with a thin red finish > He doesn't understand > Pull out a graph comparing Mao's China and Deng Xiaoping's reforms > He laughs and says "it's good communism, sir" > Look inside > It's capitalism

@reddit_lies It should also be noted that slowed scientific progression was also caused in part by the Black Death, which would've still spread if the Roman Empire never fell (if anything the Black Death would've spread faster if Europe was more united under one empire)

>be Christ >come to Earth >establish the Church >400 years later >Rome collapses, its schools along with it >warrior-kings conquer all of Europe >only the Church survives >general literacy drops to near 0% >only the clergy are widely literate >only 14% of leaders can read >leaders need the clergy to read their own laws to them >literal idiocracy >copying texts becomes a core monastic duty >Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, the Bible, and more all copied by hand >90% of surviving classical literature today was saved by the Church >Painstakingly do this for 500 years >Church saves literacy itself from extinction >fast forward to 2026 >Atheists on the Internet: "Christians caused the Dark Ages" >yfw:

@EYakoby Pro-terrorist defenders in the comments are demonstrating that they have no understanding of what is or isn't exceptional in warfare. Remember: More German civilians than UK civilians died in WW2.

BREAKING: Hamas has released an updated casualty list, and it completely vindicates Israel. The majority of casualties were military-aged men. If Israel were indiscriminately bombing Gaza, we'd see equal distribution. Another one of Gaza's viral lies, debunked.

@ShitpostRock Status effects in a turn-based RPG that cause a character to lose multiple turns. A single-turn Stun is fine. An enemy using one action to deny your Healer of their next four actions is not.

@DataRepublican @mattvanswol I'm posting this reply just to hopefully push this comment above the current top comment on this post.

I've never been part of that kind of political bubble, but I have been inside similar ones in the corporate world. At a certain level, being in that bubble is almost a requirement for success. You have to repeat the right slogans. You have to say the right words. You have to come up with the right indices and follow through on them. You have to protect everyone's ego. It seems obvious to everyone outside that bubble but to those inside it, they really do believe the words they're repeating because the system rewards them for that belief. It takes an epistemic rupture and getting pushed out. For you, that was being attacked for showing Hurricane Helene damage. For me, that was trying to advance a particular tech vision. It'll take trial and error to operationalize more Matt van Swols, but there is a way.

This is painful to write, but I need to get it out... For years, my “news” came almost entirely from left-leaning podcasts and media outlets. The other day I scrolled back through my podcast history from that era and it honestly made my stomach drop. Thousands of hours of my life, just gone. Hours I’ll never get back, the vast majority of it I know now wasn’t even information… it was just propaganda packaged as news. I’m writing this because I want to warn you, because I wish someone had warned me. It’s hard to explain to people who haven’t lived inside it just how insanely bubble-like the grip on your perception of reality becomes. How it doesn’t feel AT ALL like you’re being shaped to think a certain way, it just feels like you’re being informed and in the process... you feel morally superior and smarter than "them" (the conservatives). For me the routine was simple: A couple minutes of CNN with my morning coffee. A “breaking news” push notification from the NYT. Pod Save America or The Daily on my commute. They all said the same stuff!!! Same framing. Same villains. Same moral conclusions from the news. It's literally the right-wing meme of "the script has gone out!" It's so so true. Yeah the companies were different, but they all had essentially an identical script, all corroborated by experts. In hindsight, it's a freaking miracle I ever broke out of it. It's a near-perfectly-sealed echo chamber. And now, as I'm scrolling through my past, it looks like a record of someone slowly being put to sleep. Episode after episode. Commute after commute. Day after day. Just thousands of hours of my life with headphones in, letting someone else narrate reality to me. And I'm sick with regret. Because I know that a part of me liked it. Like I was smarter, kinder, and more evolved because I just knew so much more, and was on the team of empathy! I was wrong. And I can’t rewind who I was in those years. But I’m writing this because I KNOW there are people still living in that trance. I talk to you (yes, you know who you are) often. And I know you think you're just “staying informed,” and I hear in your voice the moral superiority, the immediate reaction to take offense on behalf of some group or people... Please. Please wake up before you lose years of your life the way I did. Because one day you’ll look back and realize the biggest thing they stole from you wasn't just your time... They stole the truth.

@EYakoby How is this person any different from leftists?

Nick Fuentes says that America is “The Great Satan” and an “Evil Empire.” The Groypers are just a third world demoralization op.

@solviturium @HenMazzig No they aren't. Both Russian and Palestine are the aggressors who refuse to end the wars in their respective scenarios. You're argument entirely consists of making inaccurate comparisons and declaring yourself correct because you made a comparison.

It’s striking how often Israel’s 🇮🇱 founding year is used against it. The truth? Many countries younger than Israel exist today without controversy. No one argues that India’s 🇮🇳independence in 1947 makes it less legitimate, that Morocco 🇲🇦 lacks legitimacy because it became independent in 1956, or that Yemen 🇾🇪 shouldn’t exist because it was founded in 1990. These states are accepted as normal products of modern history, and no one questions their right to exist. Yet only Israel is told its existence is up for debate. If “youth” only disqualifies one country, the issue isn’t age. It’s who we’re talking about. Selective standards aren’t historical analysis. It’s a double standard.

@cremieuxrecueil Semi-related thing I've wondered about. Is the civil war between Daniel and Saul in the Bible the only time in human history where two armies of Jews fought each other? I can't think of any other time it happened, or any period/location where it could've happened.

Huh! Despite being 3.3% of the U.S. population at the time, Jews made up 5.2% of America's soldiers in World War One!

@HenMazzig These people never specify "Freedom to do WHAT" whenever they say that. Because the answer is "Freedom to kill Jews without consequences"

A man approached two young, visibly Jewish children playing video games and said, “Are you going to free Palestine?” before taking the console away from them. The children clearly didn’t speak English, but they tried to interact with him kindly. I can only hope that spared their innocent eyes from understanding the hatred being directed at them. Bullying Jewish children will not “Free Palestine.” Video: @mishtal

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@aziz0nomics @IhabHassane I've both seen people share polls where the majority support hamas and polls where the majority do not support them. However, I do personally see the latter as more believable as people living under an authoritarian regime are scared to criticize the regime.

If you believe that all Palestinians support Hamas, you are wrong. In the latest poll from ISEP, Hamas had just 12.2% of support from voters, which would put them in third place. Chart via @IhabHassane

@JamesOKeefeIII Back in the 80s, McDonald's had complete control over the narrative in their hot coffee lawsuit. Even TIME Magazine and famous musicians were on their side. But in the present day- decades later- people now know that they were in the wrong. Eventually, the truth always wins.

The world is ugly we’re headed towards dark times and it’s going to get worse. What makes you not stop fighting for truth/justice and just live like a normal person? I have my reasons but want to hear yours

@shitpost_2049 This feels like dead internet theory

@ShitpostRock I don't think Undertale quite meets the feeling of being the LOTR of video games because Undertale is drenched in irony while LOTR is defined by the lack of it. So I would say a game like Xenoblade Chronicles would be a better fit for the title.

@EliAfriatISR I am

194k Followers. Who is real?

@DetvanS @Pirat_Nation Final Fantasy.

@Pirat_Nation Challange is not name franchise that does that. Challange is name one that never done this and is not just few movies/series long, but actuall long franchise.