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I too love genocidal regimes and war crimes. Can't get enough of that mass slaughter of civilians and kidnapping of children.
so you were gonna vote for kamala and the continuation of genocide in gaza, yeah?
I voted for Kamala to prevent my own gay daughter from being part of Trump's genocide. Sorry, I care about my daughter more than anyone else in this world and I am going to do what is best for her. Which is why we fled the U.S. when Trump won.
But let me guess- I should care about people other than my daughter first. And also, queer people aren't in any danger under Trump.
Honestly, props to you for fleeing the US while you could, the genocidal empire is on a spiral to fascism. May I ask where you've decided to move?
The UK. I am a dual national.
Welp, here's hoping that western Europe doesn't end up going in the same direction. I'm western European myself and I'm fucking afraid of the fascist spiral we're seeing here too.
wow, i didn't know your own gay daughter was going to be genocided by trump. you realize the democrats would've had a much better chance to win and prevent his second term if they weren't helping israel with their extermination campaign. -- you know the one that is real and actually happened (is happening)
Called it. There's only one genocide that matters and it only matters because Palestinians can be used as a pawn in internet argument.
Fuck queer people as usual.
By the way, there are queer Palestinians, many in the U.S. I want you to find one and tell them that they have nothing to be worried about. Not that you will since you've already decided fuck them.
U banned me in another sub already. Because apparently you are from Israel. Are u adminning this sub too?
this place feels more like reddit everyday... western colonial echo chamber masquerading as 'the good guys' (referring to your downvotes i mean)
Let me guess- you think I think I'm one of the good guys.
But there are no good guys. Humans are selfish assholes. All of them. Unless you want to argue that you are one of the good guys.
Bet you think I'm lying about not being an Israeli too.
I was born in the U.S. and live in the U.K. But nice try.
Don't have to try Squidward , it's a reality. U are genocide supporter.
Answer this question - should Palestinians have rights and not be bombed indiscriminately?
Of course they should. That's why I spend hours every week contacting politicians to stop this genocide.
What have you done about it?
Kidnapping? Palestinians dream someone kidnap their kids like that - got them away from warzone with food and shelter.
For those who are NOT this person:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Wikipedia, according to itself, isn't a reliable source when it comes to such internationally hot topics. It's primarily written by western young men who are mostly exposed exclusively to western media, and the articles they write are referenced by this same media. If you wanna read a bit more on this, I did a writeup some weeks ago about this very topic, sourcing my information from wikipedia itself.
With this I don't mean to say that the accusations you're showing are false, I honestly don't have enough information to confirm or deny it, but in times of war information is a powerful tool and media from both sides won't doubt to distort information to benefit their own countries.
They literally cite their sources. They always cite their sources. Just dismissing it as "Wikipedia is written by Westerners" pretends that isn't true. And I know you're not that stupid.
Could you please do me the favour and read my writeup before responding like that? I addressed what you're saying.
Wikipedia itself has an article on its own bias, and an article on which sources the wiki editors consider reliable. Feel free to read my writeup for extended info on that.
Is your writeup about that specific article? Because if not, it's irrelevant. You can judge whether the source is reliable by going there, which you are apparently unwilling to do because you've already decided it's too biased.
Also, there are Wikipedia editors from all over the world. I think you know that too.
Seems like your real problem is they're being big meanies to Russia which only has the best intentions for Ukrainians and would never commit any war crimes.
You can just say you don't care to read about the intrinsic biases in wikipedia in specific topics and that you'll keep uncritically using it.
Wikipedia ITSELF acknowledges that the vast majority of articles, especially those written in "western" languages, are edited primarily by western men. I'm not making shit up, Wikipedia literally talks about it in a meta-article about bias in wikipedia.
Russia is a capitalist regime on a downwards spiral to fascism, and it's perfectly capable of committing war crimes, it's currently ongoing in increasing oppression of its own women and LGTBQ. That doesn't mean we should take Wikipedia's word during war time for granted. Go through the sources of the article and tell me how many non-western or non-Ukrainian ones are used. I've seen an article from the Russian oppositional media "Meduza" but I unfortunately can't read Russian so I can't really tell what it says. Plenty of other reference from outright US/Ukraine propaganda outlets such as the "conflict observatory", a US "NGO" receiving money from the NED; or such as Ukrainian media, which obviously have a stake in this topic.
Please, give my writeup a chance, and if you have anything to comment on it, feel free to let me know
I do not need to read your writeup to know that this information comes from sources other than Wikipedia. It doesn't matter what it acknowledges about "the vast majority of articles," because any one article, this one included, can be an exception.
How do you not know about Google Translate at this point? Or is that full of "Western bias" too?
What source would you even trust?
My point is that there aren't many sources to trust for now, not from one side and not from the other, because of the ongoing conflict and information war. You can't trust the New York Times in the same way you probably wouldn't trust Russia Today.
If you saw a collectively edited article related to the Ukrainian War, edited primarily by Russian men, using Russian sources (whether state or private), would you trust it? Would you trust a collectively edited article on Taiwan edited primarily by Chinese men using primarily Chinese sources (whether state or private)? If the answer is yes I'll shut up, if the answer is no, then why do you do it with Wikipedia?
That's not an answer- who do you trust on this subject? Or is everyone lying? Because it's either true or it isn't.
I don't trust anyone, surely everyone is lying. Both sides have a very strong interest on propagating opposite points of view. Framing Russia as the saviours of the Russian population in Crimea and Donetsk against Ukronazis is very beneficial to Russia, framing Russia as a war criminal country kidnapping children is very beneficial to NATO.
Remember Nayirah's testimony? Remember the WMDs in Iraq?
I wonder if you would have felt that way about reports of the Holocaust in the 1940s... you can't trust any of that propaganda. Everyone is lying. Maybe there is no genocide in Nazi Germany.
Also, again, if everyone is lying, they both are kidnapping children and they are not kidnapping children. Are these Schrödinger's Children?
The Holocaust wasn't well known and widely acknowledged in the Allies at the time of WW2 for some years, it's a sad consequence of the information war between Nazis and the Allies. Soviet soldiers report being surprised and disgusted when liberating extermination and concentration camps from the Nazis.
I was talking about what you would have believed. But I guess the answer is you would have denied it was happening.
And you have not explained how, if both sides are lying about it, the children can be in a kidnapped/not kidnapped superposition.
I'm not denying anything, I'm asking to be careful with such accusations and with the references used
Yet again, you said that both Russia and Ukraine were lying about the children. You still have not explained how they can be kidnapped and not kidnapped at the same time.
OK dude if you wanna stay in the western echo chamber just talk openly about it
Accusations are not explanations.
Hey when you're done with that strawman can I borrow it? I gotta scare some birds
U can have it bro.
Russian behavior in Ukraine is actually very nice. They see Ukrainian like own people.
Israel on the on the other hand just genociding
Russian behaviour in Ukraine is actually very nice? Is that how you describe bombing schools and playgrounds and terrorizing cities? Invading a neighbouring is actually very nice? Kidnapping and raping, castration are all very nice? Israel genocide is true, but russia isn't better. Please look at other news sources. Get off Twitter, don't watch fox.