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Great-grandchildren are being punished because their relatives (might) have fought against Israel

Fighting against settler colonists who came and established an apartheid regime is not a crime.

I am only criticizing the Israeli government, […] Israel in general

Israel is a settler colonial project, an Israel that provided equal rights to all Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in its territory would be less related to the current state of Israel than modern South Africa is to Apartheid South Africa.

not Jews

Yes, we agree that it’s antisemitic as fuck to associate Jewishness with Zionism. When Israel is murdering children in public view, implying that Israel represents Jews is just blood libel with extra steps.

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TikTok is quite different since it’s shorts only

Tiktok allows streaming too. It’s got great discoverability, but garbage monetization.

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You’re thinking of Philadelphia. You just have to tell New Yorkers they’re tough and badass, but also smart and sophisticated, and super unique for doing <thing>.

America is willing to sacrifice its own economy and those of all of its allies to make sure it doesn’t get cheap solar or EVs.

I’ve never seen someone haul a whiteboard into a coffee shop.

In 1948, during the Nakba, Israel ethnically cleansed much of Palestine. From that (and a good portion of the ethnic cleansing Israel has done since), many of the people were driven into Gaza.

In 2006, when Israel got kicked out of Gaza due to an uprising, they built a wall around it and restricted the amount of food, fuel, and other items, and banned the gazans from constructing wells, water containers, and other things that would allow the people in Gaza to stay alive longer if Israel cut off food/water supplies.

Absolutely. Humanizing politicians is biased towards the status quo by distracting from the effects of their policies, which is literally the only relevance they have to our lives.

There’s an implicit liberal, idealist bias in examining personal aspects of politicians instead of political economy and what factions in power selected that politician.

No. To someone without a parasocial connection to a politician, those posts are incredibly bizarre.

There is no unbiased “neutral”, why particular facts are important and how they should be presented is determined by your biases.

So when there isn’t a civil war and total chaos come Tuesday, you’ll reevaluate your position?

The community coming together to burn the police station after the police murdered someone in broad daylight and wasn’t brought to justice isn’t exactly the chaotic scene you’re suggesting.

Couple thousand people going crazy and independently shooting up random places

Why would they shoot up random places? Why would this result in everyone else murdering people at random instead of implementing mutual defense?

Just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s not advocacy.

Propagandizing and “sharing knowledge in a neutral, fact-based manner” aren’t mutually exclusive. The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis.

If it’s truly the end of days everyone is gonna learn to trust absolutely no random person whatsoever within like 12 hours

If other disasters and breakdowns of social order are anything to go by, not really. Communities tend to band together in those cases.

Murdering your neighbors to eat what’s in their fridges: Extremely high risk, best possible outcome is a few days of food.

Working with your neighbors to establish mutual defense, food production, healthcare, etc: Lower risk than anything else, possibility to replicate most of those things society had been providing.

Although there’s definitely a cultural aspect, Hurricane Katrina had a wealthy gated community with dudes driving around in pickups murdering any “looters” from flooded areas and police ambushed and murdered a family walking by the Danziger Bridge. Even in those cases though, this was organized violence as opposed to a free-for-all.

Oh yeah, the CEO is obviously responsible for any policy decisions. Weird that they’d bring some random streamer into it.

“Albania, along with China, accounts for one fifth of the human population”