Both Israel and Hamas have blood on their hands. I know we all like the whole Good vs. Bad but in an eye for eye situation, they are both wrong.
People, on both sides, suffer.
If the politicians would fight on the front, they would be less eager to create these situations.
I hear at least one of the Jedi was a Sith, good thing they were defunded. Now if we could only defund all the conspiracy theorists about the emperor being a Sith as well.
Mods are for enforcing community rules. This is a shitpost community, not a debate community. The rules are very clear on the sidebar and 'bad faith arguments' is not one of them.
Feel free to find a different community if you want to report 'bad faith arguments' multiple times. If you do it here, I'm going to tell you to stop before I act. Because I prefer give warnings.
And you can't enforce ANY rule without protecting your people against bad faith arguing. It's a foundation of ALL communities, whether explicitly written in its guidelines or not, because meaningful debate is the foundation of ALL human interaction and is primarily what abuse and harassment is.
The needs of your people are more important than your laziness, selfishness, and unwillingness to do your job. Don't like it? Step the fuck down. You go find a different community to play king over if you don't like it.
Okay, I think you need to take a break. We'll see you in a week. I wouldn't advise telling another mod to 'step the fuck down.' They might be less lenient.
Your feelings are noted. If you don't wish to join them, you will let the subject drop.
This is Lemmy Shitpost. You are allowed to have as many bad faith arguments as you want. If you keep flagging people for it, you'll be asked, politely, to stop. Which is what happened.
I'm sorry that you both find this so ridiculously unreasonable. What's interesting is that the person I asked to stop did not.
Yup, it's a drag. We need to do something about it though, it's like a rash. It doesn't go away until you see the doctor, or in this case vote in someone willing to tell other countries they can't do this shit with our weapons.
It's destroying my mental health and I can't cope with it. Not just the war but the constant anger. Everyone is angry about everything all the time. I hate it here. Not only that, I hate my own life too. My life is in shambles and it will take tremendous effort to repair, just so I can stay on this dying planet...
Seriously, what's the fucking point? I don't eat anymore cause of the stress, I don't sleep anymore cause of the nightmares. I wish aliens would come and euthanize our entire fucking planet. I can't take it anymore
Try to remember that the internet is not fully representative of real life. The world outside will hopefully feel less angry and stressful than this online one.
Definitely avoid social media doomscrolling. It's fucking toxic.
That I understand. Maybe you could try a browser extension to block text or news based on keywords? One parental control extension helped me filled out news from rich people that piss me off
Maybe. But doesn't help that I can't go to store to buy food without seeing 10 different types of propaganda and vitriol... I can't take it dude. I want to go to sleep and never wake up
I think that’ll eliminate at least 95% of the problem here.
Also don’t forget we live in a simulation / you’re the only person who exists, so you can smile best you can at the war news and ignore it best you can.
I hate Israel. I hate Palestine. I hate the discourse. I hate fucking EVERYTHING.
Being made to think about war every day for years on end is destroying my mental health. I can't use a computer, watch TV, or go outside without it shoved down my throat. I can't even go to sleep without having nightmares about it. I want off this fucking ride. I hate being alive so fucking much.
Palestine supporters are fairly unique in the fact that not caring or not having a position is unacceptable to them. You must care, you must share their viewpoint, nothing else is possible.
You didn't see the same reaction to, for example, Ukraine being invaded. Indifference was acceptable.
You didn’t see the same reaction to, for example, Ukraine being invaded. Indifference was acceptable.
In the example of Ukraine, countries have taken countless measures to pressure Russia. In this case, counties are complicit in the genocide. There's a difference. People don't protest when politicians do at least the bare minimum.
I assume they were alluding to the kidnapping, raping, beheading, etc perpetrated by the terrorist organization Hamas, done as a tactical move to draw a disproportionate response from the IDF in order to win the propaganda war.
I don't think this is unique at all, it's the core of all politics both left, right, authoritarian, liberal, etc. No matter what you believe, even if it's nothing, there are always twice as many people against you than with you. It's enough to make someone withdraw entirely.
The evidence provided by Israel alleging that roughly a dozen UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught is “highly credible,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, as media outlets published additional details on the implicated employees, including photos from an Israeli dossier.
“We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” Blinken said during a press conference
