OccamsTeapot

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[–] OccamsTeapot 11 points 14 hours ago

So a Nazi salute has to be totally historically accurate for you to see it for what it is, but you can "give your heart" to an audience with a hand raised and downturned and you have no issue with that explanation? If you give, your hand is generally upturned. That is the gesture. Golly gosh I wonder why he did it that way instead 🤔🤔🤔 total mystery.

[–] OccamsTeapot 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So accurate 🤣 also my first thought

[–] OccamsTeapot 1 points 6 days ago

Interesting link! Weird takeaway though. For one, it's 67% consistently voting or not, 2/3 vs 4/5 is a big difference. Second, look at 2020. People who didn't usually vote were most likely to vote then and they swayed dem. Probably because Trump was bad enough to make them more passionate about voting.

This shows that about a third of voters are intermittent and therefore available if people get them excited enough. I'm not saying it's a good thing (it's not), I'm just saying it's a thing. Acting like they're not important is turning your back on the people who could ultimately sway elections.

And that's before we think about how many of the consistent non voters are apathetic vs how many just don't have anyone they feel represents them.

[–] OccamsTeapot 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The people who didn't participate are roughly those who never do.

2020:

Biden - 81.2 million

Trump - 74.2 million

2024:

Harris: 75 million

Trump: 77.3 million

Even if we assume Trump took all 3 million extra votes from Biden's 2020 voters, there are still 3 million Biden 2020 voters who didn't turn out for Harris. They cared enough to vote against Trump the 2nd time, just not this time.

Anyway, you are right in the sense that those few million likely wouldn't have tipped the election anyway. You are dead wrong that they don't matter. Completely counterproductive lesson to take from the election

[–] OccamsTeapot 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How many million people didn't vote? And how many million would Harris have needed?

Not voting is a choice and clearly it can be an important one. Their voices exist you just don't seem to want to listen to what they're saying.

[–] OccamsTeapot 5 points 1 week ago

Soos would definitely want the mystery burrito

[–] OccamsTeapot 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ironically for the old racist man we now have less white Europeans immigrants as before and more from Africa and India regions, at least in the area I live. I love it how it's backfired on him.

Yes! I really tried to explain this to people. One guy I saw on the news said he was voting Brexit to "get the Muslims out," apparently completely unaware of how batshit insane it is to leave the European Union to reduce the number of non European people in Britain.

My future, my son's future, all now shaped in a more restrictive way because of people's views like this.

Yeah it fucking sucks. I left before the official Brexit date, in a year or two I will hopefully have an EU citizenship again. Most of my friends couldn't have really done that so easily

[–] OccamsTeapot 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah and the same if someone is chasing/suspecting you. They would never be able to prove anything if you don't make a mistake or draw attention to yourself. Also helpful that L is fictional

[–] OccamsTeapot 17 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Putin

Trump

Kim Jong Un

Netanyahu

All heart attacks, all at the same time. Play like Light except with world leaders. Undoubtedly I'm missing many, but I could add as needed. Minimal text size to leave space.

No public statements so I'm harder to trace. Then I save the page. If a world leader pulls some horrendous shit, down they go.

It would be flawed for the same reasons Light is, and it would be biased to my viewpoints, but I don't care. I cannot imagine the world would be a worse place with those people dead. And eventually people would spot the pattern and then leaders might think twice.

Although for the planet overall maybe it'd be better to use it for eco-terrorism

[–] OccamsTeapot 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

More than 52% of British people in 2016 and still more than many now, I bet. I always supported Remain but before I voted I wanted to do my due diligence and re-evaluate. It took googling "brexit pros and cons" and all of 5 minutes reading a BBC infographic to confirm that basically everything the leave campaign said was completely and utterly wrong.

The fact that most people still voted for it despite the obvious lies was way more disappointing to me than the racism. Back then I thought better of people.

[–] OccamsTeapot 16 points 2 weeks ago

"Those kids aren't going to kill themselves" - Joe Biden, probably

[–] OccamsTeapot 22 points 3 weeks ago

All the hasbara money in the world cannot wash the blood from their hands

 
 
 

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you sit back and watch

While the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

While the young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatenin my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

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Album cover shot (lemmy.world)
 
 

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One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the previous morning by Palestinians while he was patrolling the fields on horseback. The killers dragged Rotberg’s body to the other side of the border, where it was found mutilated, its eyes poked out. The result was nationwide shock and agony.

If Dayan had been speaking in modern-day Israel, he would have used his eulogy largely to blast the horrible cruelty of Rotberg’s killers. But as framed in the 1950s, his speech was remarkably sympathetic toward the perpetrators. “Let us not cast blame on the murderers,’’ Dayan said. “For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.” Dayan was alluding to the nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” when the majority of Palestinian Arabs were driven into exile by Israel’s victory in the 1948 war of independence. Many were forcibly relocated to Gaza, including residents of communities that eventually became Jewish towns and villages along the border.

Dayan was hardly a supporter of the Palestinian cause. In 1950, after the hostilities had ended, he organized the displacement of the remaining Palestinian community in the border town of Al-Majdal, now the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Still, Dayan realized what many Jewish Israelis refuse to accept: Palestinians would never forget the nakba or stop dreaming of returning to their homes. “Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs living around us,’’ Dayan declared in his eulogy. “This is our life’s choice—to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.’’

On October 7, 2023, Dayan’s age-old warning materialized in the bloodiest way possible.

....

October 7 was the worst calamity in Israel’s history. It is a national and personal turning point for anyone living in the country or associated with it. Having failed to stop the Hamas attack, the IDF has responded with overwhelming force, killing thousands of Palestinians and razing entire Gazan neighborhoods. But even as pilots drop bombs and commandos flush out Hamas’s tunnels, the Israeli government has not reckoned with the enmity that produced the attack—or what policies might prevent another. Its silence comes at the behest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has refused to lay out a postwar vision or order. Netanyahu has promised to “destroy Hamas,” but beyond military force, he has no strategy for eliminating the group and no clear plan for what would replace it as the de facto government of postwar Gaza.

His failure to strategize is no accident. Nor is it an act of political expediency designed to keep his right-wing coalition together. To live in peace, Israel will have to finally come to terms with the Palestinians, and that is something Netanyahu has opposed throughout his career. He has devoted his tenure as prime minister, the longest in Israeli history, to undermining and sidelining the Palestinian national movement. He has promised his people that they can prosper without peace. He has sold the country on the idea that it can continue to occupy Palestinian lands forever at little domestic or international cost. And even now, in the wake of October 7, he has not changed this message. The only thing Netanyahu has said Israel will do after the war is maintain a “security perimeter” around Gaza—a thinly veiled euphemism for long-term occupation, including a cordon along the border that will eat up a big chunk of scarce Palestinian land.

But Israel can no longer be so blinkered.

 
 
 

Step one: acquire container.

Step two: ???

Step three: profit

We've been giving them water in this tupperware all summer but now my bro apparently has his own plans

 
 
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