Amazingly concise lmao.

The station nightclub fire footage is the worst thing I have ever seen.

...and the guy responsible only did four years. He was remorseful and it was an accident, but still. This McDonalds employee got a harsher sentence than the station nightclub fire guy.

this is a war where you can watch a drone carefully drop a bomb on an injured soldier while the soldier looks up helplessly at the drone and waits to be blown up

lots of people who phonebanked for Bernie [...] were [...] Russians

read between the lines, lemmy users.

if Tom Cotton jumped in a vat of acid it would be so funny

yes, lemmy, we’re joking

To the best of our knowledge, what did Hamas actually do? What was the timeline of events?

I just want to be informed and not get blindsided when people bring stuff up, and I think knowing what actually happened helps you spot when things don't add up.

Not trying to feed into the :international-community: thing where westerners laser focus on Hamas bloodshed while ignoring what led to it.

the ideologies that have inspired those actions

Look at Gaza. 50% of the children are fucking suicidal. 90% of the water is contaminated. Most of the people are unemployed. The Israeli government uses openly genocidal and racist rhetoric.

You don't get to skip right to ideology and ignore the material realities that shape people. Hamas didn't arise in a vacuum because someone read the Quran one day and said "oh fuck, god wants the Israelis to die! Had I not read this text, I would otherwise feel no animosity toward the Israelis!"

the point of this post is "some libs are trying to erase history now. look, here is an example."

whether they succeed or fail in this one instance is a lot less interesting than the fact of the attempt.

it's a cultural barometer.

Why do people sometimes purge their comment histories on here and vanish? Are they getting doxxed online or found out by disapproving people in their lives? Is it some kind of opsec thing? It just seems drastic to me

Fucking well put