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People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just TwitX, there's a bunch on Lemmy and Reddit feeds too

[–] SCB 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point Hexbear is essentially co-opted by astroturfing terrorists

[–] grue 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't co-opt something when the same people founded it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You think terrorists started hexbear?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck does this even mean?

[–] SCB 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their disgustingly aggressive support of terrorism is because they are idiots who fall for propaganda

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or because they are aware of the conditions of life imposed in Palestine?

That 50% of the children in Gaza express no will to live? That 95% of the water is contaminated and Israel strictly controls the water supply? That thousands of civilians have been killed by the Israeli army since 2008? That Gaza functions as an open air concentration camp administrated by an openly racist apartheid state? That Israel helped fund and create Hamas in the 70s and 80s as a counterweight to the largely secular leftist PLO and this whole fucking situation is partially blowback from an effort to divide-and-conquer Palestine? That Hamas fucking chased the PLO out of Gaza, and now Hamas is essentially the only militant force left that can resist the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?

Who else is there for Palestinians to root for? What the fuck are they supposed to do? Just sit in their squalid concentration camp and raise their depressed children to be unemployed adults with no future, in a crumbling city with no concrete to rebuild itself, because a rich nation on the other side of the fence deemed it so?

And in an overseas media environment where no one even fucking talks about any of this shit, and the attack is being treated as this sudden unprovoked thing out of left field, maybe some people are going to overcorrect in the other direction out of sheer frustration?

[–] SCB -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm well aware of conditions of life in Palestine. Perhaps if Hamas allowed elections in the last 20 years, there would be radically different relationships there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The elections that determine those conditions are Israeli elections. Israel prevents Palestinians from voting in those.

[–] SCB -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is just completely false. Since seizing power, Hamas has not allowed further elections.

I welcome your citation proving otherwise, but ultimately it's irrelevant because every member of Hamas will ideally be dead soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am pointing out that people in Gaza are not Israeli citizens, and the conditions in Gaza are imposed by Israel

[–] SCB -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that Gaza should be made part of Israel permanently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the Israeli government disagrees and regards Palestinians as a "demographic threat."

[–] SCB -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying you agree with the Israeli government that Palestinians are a demographic threat?

Do you realize this is an explicitly bigoted sentiment? "Demographic threat" does not mean "some Palestinians are extremists." It means "Palestinians must not be allowed to become too large a portion of Israel's demographics." The Israeli government criticizes Palestinians and Arabs in general for having too many children. This is rhetoric of religious and racial dilution. There are ~9 million Israelis, mainly Jewish, and ~5 million Palestinians, and Israelis do not want to dilute their society with them.

Israel has also non-consensually sterilized thousands of Ethiopian immigrant women, not informing them of the nature of the procedure.

When people call Israel an apartheid state there's a reason for it

[–] SCB -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When people call Israel an apartheid state there’s a reason for it

Yeah those people are dumb, since Israeli Arabs have full citizenship. Same as any Israeli who opposes the integration - dumb people exist. They exist in the US too, as is easily observable by anyone who wants to limit immigration here.

Palestinians as a separate country are absolutely a threat and once made Israeli, we can look forward to prolonged peace in a generation or two.

End the ease of radicalization and the problem resolves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lies upon lies. Even Israelis know that Netanyahu funded and provoked Islamist Hamas over the left secular PLO. It's an open secret.

[–] SCB -1 points 1 year ago

This ain't a secret at all and has nothing to do with the above. It was just a shitty idea since the PLO was considered the bigger threat - which was clearly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 12 year old loser 4channers that thought (probably still think) saying the 'n' word is hilarious, turned into 25 year old fascists that think "nihilism" means "make life shitty for everyone else."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who are you talking about right now? Hexbear? Is your basis for who is a fascist just that they are rude to liberals on the internet and have intense feelings about capitalism and imperialism?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Co-opted??? Moron, get your anti-left propaganda right lol.

[–] SCB -1 points 1 year ago

Words have actual meanings

divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one.