GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Dead meme goes brrr

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discussion of the helicopter story, linking directly to a Hebrew article on it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/11993

And a version of the tank story, though you can even find writers on Haaretz complaining about it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/15975

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One of the really fascinating things about October 7th was that Israel's top priority was openly "preventing Hamas from getting in", with all other considerations, like the preservation of Israeli life, coming second. Then you read stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside, and it becomes an inevitable conclusion that the civilian death toll (such as it even existed, since there was a heavy military presence there) was almost entirely Israel's fault on an immediate level, even before getting into "Their policies made the attack inevitable" and such

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Using human shields implies that you don't have many years of evidence that said shields won't be shot straight through. The IDF doesn't even let Israeli hostages slow their butchering, much less any Palestinian. Anyone still saying the "human shields" bullshit to defend carpet bombing is deranged and probably not worth your time.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's my favorite thing when reactionaries post something cool and call it bad.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Associating a millennium-old Jewish name with pedophilia because of one dude is bad, actually

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The thing about a lot of non-Hebrew Jewish names is that they linguistically come from the German language, but are connected, down to their origin point, with Germanophone Jews in Germany, Austria, etc., whether it be a toponym of a medieval town or an early modern ornamental name. "Epstein" is an example of the former, it seems. So the pedantic characterization is also that it's a Jewish name and I reiterate that we should not be connecting every instance of this name which is probably like 900 years old to a particular sex offender.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I think this is mystification of the mechanisms of belief. My favorite essay has a better account for explaining how it is both very stubborn and very Protean:

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He basically argued that the majority of people there wanted to be independent

Taiwan's current status is not independent, it's in a weird in-between state. Polling has shown over and over again that the people of Taiwan mainly support the continuation of the status quo. This person is provably wrong and has no idea what they are talking about.

taiwan wasn't settler colonialism

Also absolutely false. It was settled by the KMT circa '47-'49 when it became clear to them they were about to lose the Civil War. A huge number of KMT-aligned people went to Taiwan and the KMT established a brutal military dictatorship that slaughtered natives and dissidents for decades in the White Terror. That's part of the reason that indigenous people make up only like 2% of the population there (though much of the population is the much older wave of Han Chinese).

Not that any of this is particularly worth arguing to your friend about.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Unless she's actually related to Jeff, all you're doing is jumping at a generic Jewish name

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Seems like a good chance to radicalize him, since Biden has loudly supported this

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

It's not what you're looking for, but there's an old browser game that got rebooted into a Steam game called Super Fighters Deluxe that is pretty similar and I think it's still being updated.

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