Yeah they’re definitely not used to that

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Ah sorry, I kind of figured that between the NSFW tag and their warning that would cover it

You mean they didn’t double-tap themselves in the back of the head and throw themselves in the river?

This has been the inevitable result ever since the US blocked ceasefire/peace negotiations back when they had a chance of working. Why would Russia stop when they’re winning? They’re a capitalist country now; Amerikkka got what it wanted.

Fuck up your economy harder Amerikkka

Cry harder for me Erdan

But doing nothing about right-wing violence is a proud German tradition!

Of course they wouldn’t. Putting lebensraum in front of a fascist state is like putting a child in front of Epstein.

Well this inspires confidence in the Netanyahu Administration.

Unfortunately it’s nothing new. They’ve already banned journalists in any place they could get anything revealing human rights abuses. If anything it’s a portent of further Likud-led fascism cracking down hard within the borders of Israel itself.

Also unbelievably adorable

The liberal will finally be scratched by their lack of access to wine.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 strikes, you’re out

Agreed, but it’s more important to them that they look like they’re fair. You see, they had this really bad PR period during the whole colonial era and they’re really working on their image.

Hard to say, I suspect people decide on a case by case basis, though I myself often hear the term genocide used after the group targeted or the location. The genocide in Germany and its occupied territories during World War II was uniquely historically bad to warrant its own terminology (hence “Holocaust” in many instances).

Most genocides actually don’t have as high a percentage of people killed as the Holocaust did, the Armenian and Greek genocides by Turkey during WW1 are actually more historically representative in that significantly more of the population are displaced, assaulted, and/or culturally destroyed than outright killed. The Holocaust combined the typical traits of genocide with a truly monstrous murder-industrial complex.

This is also why the Gaza genocide is particularly worrying, because unlike many other historical genocides (and none are acceptable), the people of Gaza are boxed in to a very small space, told to migrate to different parts of it, and then attacked in the places they move to. There is no escape for them, and this situation was entirely manufactured by Israel. Whatever the official death toll is at this moment, the real death toll might never be known and is likely significantly higher.

I’ve considered making a comm, possibly something that would be ideal for these kinds of posts (maybe where I could normalize the titles), just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I am noticing that text articles do definitely get more positive engagement, possibly because people can scroll through them at work here and there and quickly pick up where they left off, whereas videos can only be viewed at work in the background at office jobs while other things are getting done, and people have to be extra careful about video links they click at the office. Youtube doesn’t make that easier, for sure.

On that you’ll have to blame Breaking Points, I just copy the title from them per most communities’ recommendations. They’ve explicitly stated in the past that this is a tactic geared to youtube where their main hosting is and wouldn’t do it otherwise (and used to not do it). I don’t like it any more than you do but it’s a pain to change it for a few specific communities’ tastes.

They really don’t want to do that last little push do they? Just to hop that little hill into non-complicity in a genocide?