This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I’m convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      Oh I got banned from one of their communities today for comparing shooting down Russian drones to skeet shooting

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          Genocide denialism is probably one of the least objectionable reasons to get banned from a community.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              Yeah. Unfortunately. All we can do is voice opposition to whichever one is achieving its goals at any given moment - Hamas in the immediate aftermath of October 7th, and Israel now.

              Maybe someday they’ll sit the fuck down and figure out that this conflict can’t continue forever. Well, Hamas and Bibi never will, but whatever representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli people emerge from the other side of this phase of our everlasting Israel-Palestine conflict.

              • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago

                The fault is on both of them, really. Israel had plenty of warnings from Jordan, Egypt, the US, the EU and their own security agency about an attack in October.

                Of course, there is always an attack, and Israel is also not allowed to stop an attack before it happens, instead only after it happens.

                  • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                    01·
                    2 months ago

                    Well they were actually attacked from more than just Hamas, but it is Hamas that perpetrated the massacres. It doesn’t help that Hamas took hostages. If there were no hostage-taking, none of this would be as messy as it is.

                    In my personal armchair opinion, I think Israel should’ve waited before immediately going for the hostages to get some international support. But then again, that’s giving Hamas power.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              22·
              2 months ago

              A genocide isn’t waging war, a genocide is actively hunting civilians and making life impossible.

              Yeah, that’s what Israel is doing

              I don’t know what else you get from Israel’s actions and stated concerns. In a year, they’ve killed a greater percentage of Gazans than Coalition forces killed Iraqis in all ~10 years of the Iraq War. And Coalition forces in Iraq were (rightfully) accused of being metaphorically trigger-happy.

            • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              02·
              2 months ago

              A genocide is what hamas did on 7th October

              Okay, so you’re just making shit up as you go along.

              One attack cannot be a genocide.

              An ongoing campaign to deprive an entire population of food, water, medicine, electricity, and any route to escape is pretty fucking obviously within the UN definition of genocide.

          • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
            24·
            2 months ago

            It’s the objective truth. Yes, the IDF could probably do more to protect civilians but at the absolute worst what they’re doing is comparable to the conduct of the Western Allies against Germany in WW2.

            • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              Israel dropping unguided bombs from 10k feet from prop airplanes is certainly an “entertaining” thought but so far removed from the reality of precision guided missiles hitting hospitals and snipers shooting unarmed civilians and journalists in the back that it loops back around to being funny in a very morbid way.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          Saying, there is no genocide in Gaza in your opinion, or making an assertion about the subject? There’s a big difference between the two.

          Edit: Ah, yeah. That explains a lot.

            • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              “At least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention,” the judges said.

              …

              A majority of at least 15 out of 17 judges voted in favour of imposing the so-called provisional measures, including the court’s president, Joan Donoghue of the United States.

              From your source. 15 out of 17 judges agreed to tell Israel to stop committing acts that “[fall] within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention.” You realize that phrasing is the diplomatic way of saying “stop committing genocide,” right?

            • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              2 months ago

              they both don’t target civilians and they do their best to keep civilians out of harms way

              Are you sure you’re up to date on the war? Because this is not as true as one would hope.

        • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
          25·
          2 months ago

          Thank you! Reading lemmy, you’d think the IDF was Hamas or something.

            • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
              07·
              2 months ago

              Yup, by not committing a genocide and reclaiming their homeland, they’re much worse than the invaders who already committed one.

              (Israel is the ancestoral homeland of the Jews, Muslims committed a genocide when they conquered the area)