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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 117 points 1 year ago (56 children)

This is so strange. How can people have so little empathy for the lives of innocent people?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israeli citizens are subjected to daily propaganda (e.g. "there are no civilians in Gaza", "Hamas is ISIS", "Hamas wants to murder all jews", etc.) to legitimize their fascistic policies.

There are a lot of parallels to the US short/y after 9/11.

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[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago
[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's part of Israel's propaganda to make this about religion to invoke irrational "War on Terror" sentiments in people who haven't looked into it that deeply.

In reality, they're dehumanizing and targeting all Palestinian Arabs, including Christians. Hence the shooting up and bombing of churches along with everything else.

Some of them are Kahanists but I don't think religion figures into their motives as a wider group except for scapegoating purposes.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just need to convince people that the "innocent people" are not people

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well to quote the Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

They think Palestinians are subhuman. Israel has become the evil it once fled.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It amazes me officials can speak like this, yet there are also the widespread reports of organ theft (esp. skin and corneas removed from bodies). Even some reports of blond babies being kidnapped from their families because they're assumed not to be Arab. Where is the cognitive dissonance?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people's hearts are too full of hatred to hold anything else.

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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

5% of the population is psychopathic. Folks forget this stat. They also forget that moral competence exists on a spectrum, so that even regular people are capable of great evil, especially in service to their religion.

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[–] pop@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only a genocide if the west disagrees with it.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genocide has a pretty strict definition.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But yet the West refuses to apply it to Gaza, which clearly qualifies...

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (12 children)

All religions are shit. Humanity really needs to shed this primitive baggage already.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not about religion. It's about settler colonialism.

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A bunch of terrorists

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All the righties in any other situation would be screaming that protesters blocking a road should be run over.

I don't really agree but perhaps we should respect their wishes this one time. 🤔

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect every country has their MAGA. And the problem is when it gets to big.

I think when people feel survival precarity, its easy to get into their head they have to hoard what they got from the Others.

That figured pretty largely into the story of Sodom, it didn't end well, albeit by deus ex machina.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The problem also exists when the middle is content, asleep, or paid off.

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can anyone provide further information?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Kerem Shalom crossing: Israeli protesters hold up aid trucks to Gaza

TLDR: According to Israelis all Palestinians are Hamas so they're justified in killing them through starvation.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A "rave" in the barest sense of the word. That's got to be the shittiest "rave" I've ever seen in my life, and I was barely coherent or intelligible through most of them.

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[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's not a rave. That's fascists celebrating preventing aid for people who they hate because they believe in different skydaddies

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