[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't usually think these greentext screenshots depicit real stories, but sometimes parents want to try to teach their kids some kind of life lesson but the delivery is horrible. My dad wanted to teach me one time that "all good things come to an end" so he decided to take my favorite lamp (something similar to a lava lamp) to the recycling station (it was in an okay condition, not ready yet for a dumpster). Thanks Dad, I learned nothing and it didn't at all prepare me for loss. Then again it could have been my mother who forced him to throw it away (because she can't have any joy if I do) so he had to come up with some kind of cover to comply.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly it sounds to me like Hezbollah is just mirroring IDF tactics (maybe to make a political point). It's absolutely no different from Lebanese people being told to evacuate by Israel. Except for that one part where Israel gives you less than 10 minutes to grab your cat and daughter.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Or is that something we keep telling people who are voting third party?

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Pragmatically, Harris losing votes should make her understand the need to not support a genocide. But no, we have to lay the burden on everyone else but her.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mean it does doesn't it? Trump supports can also threaten not to vote for him if he continues bad policies.

But we are talking about Harris supporters here. If Americans don't even have a real vote with real value then what would stop Harris or Trump policies that will eventually render everyone in Gaza dead? If you can't even speak to politicians with your own vote and if they don't even value your vote, then how are we going to achieve anything?

Harris is the one losing votes for her shitty policy. It's not the fault of the voter. It's the fault of the candidate.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

To push her to change her stance... you only own your vote. That's the only leverage. She is the reason they aren't voting for her.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

I like IGF. My grandma who was a Nakba survivor always called them "Azrael" as in the angel of death. Can't blame her, she only saw murser, pain, and forced displacement from them.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

So fragile, men like that.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

I appreciate the sentiment behind saying IOF or even IAF (attack instead of defencec not to be confused with the Israeli Air Forces) and I agree that they occupy and attack more than any defence they have ever done. But, ironically, it makes it hard to search and find information on IDF crimes...

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Fake Qurans are hard to fool anyone with because plenty of people (me included, an atheist) memorized bits of it verbatim. People can easily cross reference anything with the thousands of online websites that offer digital Quran copies. Many have tried, and many times it eas accidental typos that urged authorities to draw back and destroy many copies with "errors". There is also this one wacko cult leader obsessed with numerology and the number 19 who republished the Quran with some added verses. It was not taken lightly.

[-] gramophone_mind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

A functional healthcare system.

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