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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They certainly did heavily target military bases with a >33% military casualty rate.

As with any armed resistance you get some people that are less educated and more vengeful. Locking people in a concentration camp for 20 years doesn't do wonders for their mental.

Also it's working out pretty well for them because as the popular saying goes: The guerilla wins if it does not lose. And Hamas is not losing right now.

People seem to heavily underestimate how bad the living conditions in Gaza were. There was less bombing 1 year ago but they were certainly still dying from diseases and were malnourished.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 5 months ago

For anyone watching: I suspect that Linkerbaan is one of the don't-vote-for-Biden shills, and this whole thing is a sort of cosplay of being a pro-Palestinian person. I talked with them at length in another topic, and their responses are just kind of... off.

There are other interpretations. But I noticed yesterday that they were making arguments that didn't make much sense, and didn't even seem to be coming from a place of them believing them themselves, or expecting anyone else to believe them. This comment and this stuff about "heavily target military bases" is a pretty good example. It's just... it's just off. It's weird. I mean, it's obviously not true, but it's also just kind of random in this very particular low-effort way that looks more and more unusual the longer you hold it up to the light and carefully examine it.

Anyway, so then I looked at their user history and I found all sorts of "Trump isn't that bad" "both parties are the same" "blue MAGA" stuff (that's honestly the only real consistent through-line I saw other than "yay Hamas") and it all clicked into place.

I somewhat suspect that the shill accounts tend to pick left-looking causes to rally behind to give themselves some cover, so their history doesn't wind up as just all no-Biden all the time. A month or two ago a lot of them were doing economic issues, and I think now they've shifted to largely pro-Palestinian issues.

Like I say: All speculation. The truth is I have no idea. But, that's my take on it.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

For anyone watching ... Like I say: All speculation. The truth is I have no idea.

What a weird rant to share.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Some of us have a lot of experience with Linkerbaan. This person spam comments incessantly like it's a full time job.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Well I dunno, defending Palestinians doesn't sound like spamming to me. I'd call it solidarity.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

There's absolutely nothing wrong with defending Palestinians. Based on my interaction with them, Palestinians are the last people Linkerbaan cares about. This is cosplaying online for clout. They are confusing the map with the territory where the aesthetic of signaling support for Palestinians has long ago superseded fostering actual solutions that will improve the lives of Palestinians.

Check out their post history and decide for yourself.

[-] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Check out their post history and decide for yourself.

I have, and this is why when you say

This is cosplaying online for clout.

I really don't see what you are referring to.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because they are extremely selective of the articles they post and highly reactionary / vitriolic when anyone pushes back or challenges their arguments. They also offer zero charitability to any of their interlocutors. They are also ready to label anyone as a) defending genocide b) Zionist c) [insert derogatory label here] faster than you can say 'Hamas'.

They are uneven in their media literacy discernment and extremely selective in what they post/how they present. An opinion blog post that favors Hamas is ok but a UN report that counters a claim by Hamas is placed under the most intense forensic analysis.

In other words, they are here for the cosplay.

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Socio-economic gaps between Palestinian and Jewish Israeli citizens are the result of discriminatory policies pursued over decades. Historically, Israel prevented its Palestinian citizens from accessing livelihoods under its 18-year-long military rule, and used them, at different times, as a source of cheap labour in order to preserve the interests of the Jewish majority. In addition to cruel land seizures, other discriminatory policies have led to Palestinians’ social and economic deprivation: the exclusion of Palestinian localities from high priority areas for development, the discriminatory allocation of land and water for agriculture as well as discriminatory planning and zoning, and the failure to implement major infrastructure development projects in Palestinian communities.

The blockade and Israel’s repeated military offensives have had a heavy toll on Gaza’s essential infrastructure and further debilitated its health system and economy, leaving the area in a state of perpetual humanitarian crisis. Indeed, Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, the majority of whom are children, has created conditions inimical to human life due to shortages of housing, potable water and electricity, and lack of access to essential medicines and medical care, food, educational equipment and building materials.

Other reports about how Israel is an Apartheid State:

Human Rights Watch Report

B'TSelem Report with quick Explainer

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 5 months ago

All sounds 100% accurate. (Or, well, it was until they proceeded further than that into outright wholesale slaughter 6-7 months ago.) Did I give the impression that I thought that it was not?

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Another thing to note is the volume with which Linkerbaan comments/posts is INSANE. It is for 6-7 hours/day every 15 minutes. It's wild! There is a weird vibe to their comments too. It's never specific enough to respond to pointed topics/arguments and just broad enough to stake out a position.

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