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snek , 8 months ago

I am yes to see that on Lemmy in the way you describe /: seems like everyone agrees that killing civilians is wrong, including when Israel does it.

snek , 8 months ago

Somehow whenever this is shown it’s almost like saying the Gazans deserve it. Do they really deserve to be between a rock and a hard place every day and forever?

snek , 8 months ago

If Palestine stop fighting there would be peace.

How do you mean? Peace in an apartheid state where they are always behind a separation wall or a checkpoint?

snek , 8 months ago

or when you compare them to Israel

Killing others, because of some “fairytale” religion or book that justifies dehumanizing the other side? That’s not like Israel? In what way?

snek , 8 months ago

I thought he was on the right side of history. Looks like he took one big step to the wrong side.

snek , 8 months ago

Yes, standing with an apartheid state aggressor and occupier (aka Israel) is standing on the wrong side of history. It adds to the irony that Russia is doing the same to Ukraine.

Being Jewish doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to support Israel’s “right to self defence” which doesn’t mean what you may think it means. We discovered (over several decades) that Israel “defending its borders” means killing and oppressing disproportionately more civilians and children than it does killing “terrorists” and keeping Gazans in an open air prison. In essence, every country has the right to self-defence, this statement is true. However, no county has the right to commit one war crime after the other and get away with it.

snek , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

But how is Hamas the same as the entirely of Palestine? Ukraine is a country, Hamas is a military group that hasn’t held elections in 16 years.

Also could you explain how exactly this always boils down to Israel VS Hamas and not Israel vs Palestine? Because last time I checked, when you rape, kill, and murder people and keep them in prison with no fair trial and no means of peaceful protest, things will eventually backfire with an extremist group taking over the steering wheel. We have Israel to blame for Hamas. If they had not created such impossible circumstances for Palestinians and especially those in Gaza, no one would have to stand behind an Islamist organization that effectively detached itself of all other Palestinian resistance groups.

snek , 8 months ago

How do you mean?

snek , 8 months ago

What does cooker mean?

snek , 8 months ago

Why not just explain the word you are using?

snek , 8 months ago

Or maybe Israel could use all that money they have to remove the separation walls and allow Palestinians to integrate into society and return lands that settlers recently took. That’s a start.

snek , 8 months ago

A lot of militant groups use civilians as human shields to either completly prevent a strike or a least create bad publicity to spin their propaganda.

I honestly don’t know why they do that because Israel clearly doesn’t care and will shoot a child or journalist or doctor any day of any hour.

snek , 8 months ago

Are you sure it’s a communication tower? If they flattened “Palestine Tower”, then that’s a mix of commercial and residential apartments. Apparently it had 14 stories and also housed clinics and media agencies.

(Wiki page is in Arabic)

snek , 8 months ago

to let the Palestinians have their bit of land and be done with it

That is such a weird way to phrase it. A “bit of land” like Palestinians were some kind of barbarian spawn that just showed up there.

It makes it really hard for me to feel sorry for them.

As a Palestinian I want to personally say to you that no one needs you to be sorry for us so you can stop worrying.

snek , 8 months ago

This has always been one of my major issues with Hamas. The powers are disproportionate and “showoff resistence” won’t get them anywhere.

snek , 8 months ago

Hamas is technically a militant group.

snek , 8 months ago

And who will protect the innocent civilians from Israel?

snek , 8 months ago

On a purely practical sense, ending the siege on Gaza would improve the lives of about 2 million people squeezed on a piece of land with a clean water crisis and no medical supplies. Israel, however, is unwilling to take such a step, and the stronger Hamas is, the less likely Israel is to compromise. The reality is grim, not because “either side” won’t budge, but because the situation is becoming increasingly impossible.

I’ve always hated Hamas’ tactics. They could have been a better resistance group, they could have not had an extremist idieology. And they could have stopped gambling with the lives of Gazans. All in all, Israel is an apartheid state and this the result of apartheid and decades of collective trauma.

snek , 8 months ago

Could you source that?

snek , 8 months ago

When the fight stops

Palestine has been occupied since how long? Israeli aggression never ended.

snek , 8 months ago

I saw one completely out of context today and the person didn’t provide a source even when asked. So I ask you again, can you source these?

snek , 8 months ago

What is Funker?

Edit: yeah, I did DuckDuckGo’d it in both English and Arabic when I first saw it. Accessing Twitter isn’t exactly easy now. The only place I saw it on was reddit with no source. Chances are it was too early before the Telegraph or whoever wrote on it. So, I’m so fucking sorry for asking you to cite yourself when you are on the internet.

snek , 8 months ago

Absolutely agreed. Peaceful resistence in Israel only helped a handful of towns not have their land destroyed by the separation wall. And even then it was totally shit for them and they pay the ultimate price.

snek , 8 months ago

Are there any sanctions at all on Israel, given the fact that every major NGO and human rights org has declared them an apartheid state?

snek , 8 months ago

Hmmm, I wanted to ask, when you went through my profile, did you see all those comments about me not agreeing with Hamas, in between all the tech joke comments? Or did you just get a glimpse of me being Palestinian and threw your arms up and were like, of course this terrible person wants a source for this piece of information I claimed, it’s because they hate Israel!

Like seriously, could you describe your process? The video of this woman personally horrified me this morning on Reddit like I said. No source, no one writing about it, long before any news of it hit. I wanted to know who she was and what on earth had happened wrong and why she is there and whether she’s alive or not and how she is involved (or not). I already dislike Hamas, they drag ‘traitors’ around on MCs. They aren’t exactly doing god’s work. So which part of me asking for a source led you to believe I’m somehow okay with this or unable to watch this because it will change my world view. What world view exactly?

I think it’s lame to think that people asking for a source somehow are ready to pound on you and disagree.

These videos are powerful and they can be powerful in the wrong way if used as disinformation and aren’t relative to the current thing at hand. That’s why I asked for a source.

Also listing Hamas’ crimes does not in any way justify Israel’s actions that they take against civilians. Vice versa.

snek , 8 months ago

I think you’re right. In 2021 only 14 died on the Israeli side with a number of Hamas missiles landing inside Gaza by accident (according to Israel). In 2022 Hamas fired about 1k rockets and it caused one Israeli death.

snek , 8 months ago

Because the hate is based on their shitty OS. They did a fairly good job with VSCode. Our hate isn’t blind.

snek , 8 months ago

And what would that DRM do?

snek , 8 months ago

Exactly. The victims are the Palestinian people and Israeli people who can’t stop those in charge from doing what they are doing. The vast majortiy of victims that disproportionately suffer more are Palestinians, a clear consequence of continued Israeli aggression and occupation, police-protected settler violence, and relentless land-grabbig. Israel put itself, it’s citizens, and all the Palestinians under the bus by committing apartheid.

snek , 8 months ago

Even if Hamas is wrong (and they are wrong to attack civilians), the comparison between Russia and Israel in terms of being an occupying power is still a totally valid comparison. I think this is what your point is missing.

snek , 8 months ago

I used Twitter Scraper to get twitter data for my thesis. Shortly after, it became obsolete.

github.com/taspinar/twitterscraper/issues/368rip twitter scraper

snek , 8 months ago

The Quran can be a terrible text but criticizing it won’t get us that far. Better focus on actual law like you said.

snek , 8 months ago

Let’s do some more outrage over Israel’s apartheid crimes

snek , 8 months ago

Plagiarized books entirely written by an AI are nor far-fetched. Get ready for a shitty reality.

snek , 8 months ago

I got myself a proper camping radio. It lets you charge your phone on it too, and recharges with solar panels AND a manual dynamo hand crank where working it for ten minutes gives you an hour of radio.

snek , 8 months ago

This one is a Sangean MMR-88 (cost me 1000 SEK). I think the price range is wide and it’s cheaper outside Europe.

snek , 8 months ago

What sort of dev anarchy is this

snek , 8 months ago

Why, that could only mean that micro plastics have always been around. /s

snek , 8 months ago

…uncertain, and the end is always near?

snek , 8 months ago

Excuse me, is this in Sweden by any chance?

Scratch that, just saw OP say it’s Germany. Goddamn, they look like the lights next to my apartment block rofl plus the nordic feel

snek , 8 months ago

I believe the majority of adult Swedes are like that, but the welfare system is not getting a decent budget, the healthcare system is overworked (especially in niche areas like child psychiatry). The current government has abandoned all of these important aspects and instead focused on wasting people’s taxes, creating confusing and unsatisfactory budgets, ruining the climate goal for 2030 (which Sweden was going to meet) and focusing solely on linking immigration to crime (as the sole cause) and mistreating immigrabts even though they make up 40% of the medical workforce.

snek , 8 months ago

Over-representation in crime has a lot of reasons. Yes, one of them is the cultural dimension, but every single time these statistics are normalized for socioeconomic status, it drops immediately to levels extremely close to those of Swedes born to Swedish parents. Time and time again these statistics come to the same old boring conclusion we all know: poverty, lack of integration, having no way to enter the job market, discrimination. These are the reasons we see the results we see today.

“Immigrants” is not the reason for crime. This is flawed logic. What is the reason immigrants are overrepresented in statiscis? That’s the real question. You comment ignores what immigrants have brought to Sweden which has been extremely positive.

Immigrants in Sweden have higher education and yet only end up in low-paying jobs. . Despite these difficulties, they have in finding jobs that fit their qualification level, and as of 2020, “34 per cent of all practising medical doctors and 12 per cent of all nurses in Sweden are immigrants. Sweden’s most common profession is personal care worker or assistant nurse (undersköterska). Of all 183,000 assistant nurses, 48,329 or 26 per cent were born abroad. The most common region of origin of assistant nurses was Asia, which includes the Middle East.” (source). I work in tech and we constantly have a “shortage of talent”, and a large portion of programmers I know are non-Swedish. We could go on about this for days.

Basically, if “immigrants” in Sweden (however you may like to define it and however many people you can lump into that term) were to not go to work tomorrow, Sweden would stand still and the clinics won’t function.

snek , 8 months ago

This is the conclusion from the study you linked.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/90a6929c-f11c-4381-b64e-1d9a114172d2.jpeg

One thing I’ve seen often is that people who claim “certain types of immigrants” are problematic don’t read studies properly or cherry pick what they like.

no one is complaining about them

No, they just complain about people who look like them, have the same skin color as them, and sometimes them (by mistake, I suppose?). “No one” is a huge generalizing in this time when even the highly-skilled “right” type of immigrants are now having problems thanks to this SD rhetoric, and some are even considering leaving the country.

Unfortunately a lot of those committing those crimes now are teenagers who have lost touch with society and they are most likely Swedish citizens by now. So how do we go from here?

snek , 8 months ago

You and I read the same conclusion. You took out the single part that supports your claim and ignored the rest. The whole study is about how socioeconomic status related to crime and that the factors and explanatory models are varied with no consensus among researchers. The idea of the correlation being weak is that you cannot predict criminality risk with only socioeconomic. Instead, the chain of cause and effect is much more inderect and nuanced. Look at this paragraph:

However, a shared feature of all these explanatory models is that socioeconomic background is not in itself viewed as having a direct causal effect on the risk for criminal behaviour, but that this risk is rather affected by a chain of other factors, whose strength varies more or less systematically between individuals located at different positions along the socioeconomic scale.

You are misreading it and possibly misinterpreting what a correlation entails. If I wanted to predict the criminal risk for a person, I cannot rely on socioeconomic alone. That, however, does not mean that socioeconomic reasons don’t contribute to this, and if that was part of your conclusion then I think you are seriously misinterpreting this meta study…

snek , 8 months ago

No one gave them too much power. They just woke up early and took it before anyone else could.

snek , 8 months ago

Why let me tell you, I wake up early but around lunch time I pop my first joint. I work until five then do chores and game until 10-11 PM.

snek , 8 months ago

I’m surprised at this. A lot of the people getting killed are family members of people affiliated with the gangs. Pretty crazy that some of these have also attacked people at the wrong address. This is like Breaking Bad but for real and the people involved are not particularly smart nor spectacular.