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  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the significance of calling it "Israel-Hamas War" vs "Israel-Gaza War"?
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    2 years ago

    Gaza was given to Arabs for self rule and determination in 2005, all Jews left Gaza, even Jewish graveyards were dug up and moved, it was theirs to do with as they liked.

    They’ve spent the last 18 years making into a terrorist Disneyland with a dozen Islamofascist terrorist organizations with the stated goal of killing Jews and destroying the state of Israel, they’ve fired hundreds of thousands of missiles into Israel indiscriminately targeting civilians, and launched countless cross borders attacks against Jewish civilians, including one that caused the largest loss of Jewish life in any single day, anywhere, since the Holocaust on October 7th.

    They were given Gaza to live in freedom and self determination, they used it to kill Jews. They were warned. They chose to ignore the warnings.

    These acts of terrorism were perpetrated by the entire Gazan community, they voted for Hamas, and allowed Hamas to rule their government for the last 17 years, Hamas and all the other Islamic terrorists in Gaza are not outsiders, they were born in Gaza of Gazans, they were raised in Gaza, they were educated in Gaza, they married and had children of their own in Gaza, their Parents, teachers, mosques, hospitals, are all in Gaza, from which they use to hid and store weapons to attack Jews, Hamas, PIJ and all the other Islamic terrorist in Gaza ARE Gaza, there has been no uprising in Gaza, there have only been attacks on Israel. This is what Gazans have supported and sacrificed for in every way they possibly could.

    And now it’s here. I do hope they enjoy what they’ve worked generationaly to achieve.

    There will be no ceasefire this time.

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
    21·
    2 years ago

    they sure do, but that isn’t what’s driving the Republican attempt to destroy egalitarian, secular, representative Democracy, which is what the original post, as well as my comment, was about.

    you can try to shoehorn it in, as an aside, but you were trying to make a point countering mine about American original sin, in relation to today’s political dysfunction, and I said, and still say it’s Slavery

    party on garth

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
    21·
    2 years ago

    Well, to be contrarian, I’d argue that indigenous genocide was the original sin of the colonists, English, French, and Spanish, but not of the United States, who of course continued and expanded the pain and death upon the indigenous populations, but again, in this citizens opinion is Slavery, which not only caused so much pain, suffering and death it visited upon the Africans stolen from their homes, and their descendants, forced to work until they fell down dead, but was the root cause of the united states only civil war to date, yet still, rightfully, informs the American political sphere, whose civil right successes the white supremacists continue to fight so hard against, and why were seeing the continuation of the same racist policies seeking to dismantle the entire democratic experiment at it’s core

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    This is not a recent occurrence which just sprung up from the blue out of nowhere. It’s been building sine the end of the Civil War. This is the original sin of Slavery which continues to damage the nation upon which it was built, root and branch. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how “conservative” Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn’t a symptom, it’s result. These are " The South Will Rise Again" assholes, rising, once again.

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•subredditstats.com now promotes Lemmy and the Fediverse
    510·
    2 years ago

    I’d suggest Mastodon to anyone looking for a new social media platform to join, but I can’t suggest Lemmy/KBIN as they don’t have legitimate blocking in place, as theirs is simply the same bullshit Reddit like “masking” where you can no longer see who you blocked, but they can still see, and reply to whatever it is you post, which of course is rife from abuse from the people you want to distance yourself the most from. Until there’s legitimate, you no longer exist, blocking on Lemmy/KBIN I would suggest anyone else use them. (to say nothing of all the errors in KBIN from notifications, to blocking, to posting, to seeing comments, the list stretches endlessly)

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Anyone else moved from kbin to lemmy?
    116·
    2 years ago

    I moved to KBIN, because Lemmy’s namesake owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for years leading up until his death. Lemmy was an entire piece of shit human being. Fuck Lemmy.

    KBIN has had it’s issues, most noticeably, I haven’t been able to access any of my notifications for about 3 months now at all and every time I click on the notifications number to check it throws up the “were working on it” error page, attempts to block users from certain instances doesn’t work and throws up the error “we’re working on it page”, and you can’t seem to block entire instances from KBIN without it seemingly unrelatedly weirdly losing the ability to see comments in disparate random posts (all known issues) … other than that I’m perfectly happy on KBIN

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•is the lemmyverse dying already?
    22·
    2 years ago

    I don’t use any Lemmy instance any more, seeing as how I couldn’t make myself ok with having named that fediverse constellation after a man who owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world.

    I’ve been using KBIN, and even though it’s founder and main coder put out an update last week as to why maintenance and development of KBIN has been slow to the point of seeming as if it’s stopped all together, it still bothers me that I can’t block a domain (without losing the ability to see posts comments … it’s a known bug) and I can’t block sub/magazines/whatever from places like lemmyworld and hexbear (amongst others), can’t drill down on my own comments under my profile to see replies, and notifications though racking up, and showing the increasing number, can’t be accessed at all only showing the error we’re working on it page (this has gone on for a month now).

    So, yeah, it’s becoming less interesting the longer these issues aren’t addressed, and there are far too many children running around the fediverse (god help us when the idiot right wingers figure out how to onboard) without the ability to block at will.

    Hey, it’s all free, and the developers are all doing this gratis, out of the goodness of their hearts, and I appreciate that, I needed an excuse to shitcan reddit, as things are much much worse there, by design for engagement, just not in love with KBIN, and I guess that could change once it becomes more functional.