this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
246 points (77.3% liked)

World News

39102 readers
2784 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but the forces bombing hospitals, escape routes, and journalists, they aren't terrorists??

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Palestinians and isreali civilians are caught between two asshole organizations and as they say, when elephants fight, the ants suffer.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's tiring to see everyone taking sides. Just admit that both sides are wrong: Hamas are using civilians as cover, Israel is just killing everyone to get at Hamas. The people suffer. :-(

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept for so many people. Two sides can absolutely be in the wrong, especially over the span of generations. At such a point it really hardly matters anymore at all who started what, it's just two sides showing humanity's ugliest side non-stop.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

of course that's possible, I'm pointing out that the language used in the title of this post doesn't want you to see it that way

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, didn't you get the memo?

Everything is a team sport these days, and just like you can either be team Jacob or team Edward but can't be undecided, online etiquette rules dictate that you can either be team Hamas or team IDF.

And no, team 'civilians' doesn't count. Too much grey area for people to know whether you are on their team or not. They'll need to read your entire comments to know if they should downvote you or upvote you.

Could you imagine?

That's probably a war crime in and of itself.

So hurry up and pick a side and stop making discussing international conflicts online so complicated with your 'nuance' BS.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

So glad you brought this up... I am 100% team Voltari. Edward is like over 100 years old and Bella is like 16, 17 maybe? Seems a little statutory rapey. Oh then Jacob falls in love with their child at the age of like less than one...

Voltari should have ripped them all apart and threw them in the fire.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

It is possible for everyone to be wrong.