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Not all of us here on Lemmy is West, infact my country is probably going to pay the price with US sanctions for taking Israel to the ICC. So please do not make assumptions where an audience is from on a globally available social network.

But as South African, where our previous President raped someone, we saw all the narratives to dispelling the victim.

I never said Hamas raped anyone, even if there is evidence it will never convince everyone and visa versa even if ther is no rapes even you must know that not everyone will believe it, I was just commenting on your argument that there were other militants and Israeli and basically insinuating that if there were rapes you first have to prove it wasn't one of these parties. I feel such an argument is already defensive if you are so certain there wasn't any rapes from Hamas's side, which I am still saying I have not accused Hamas of committing, I am not a witness nor am I deeply involved to be the arbitrator.

According to your argument it cannot be Hamas because there were other militants and Israeli plants, so it has to be one of them. So even if there are proven rapes, you first, according to you, you have to show the involved were part of Hamas and not a plant or other militants.

It sounds like a slippery slope because for the rape victim, the burden of proof is now placed on their shoulders. For most people if Hamas unleashed chaos on the 7th of October, and even Israeli plants used the chaos to rape everyone in their way, from the victims point of view, Hamas released the chaos and they were raped because of that. If Hamas feels like it is totally innocent of all rapes, they should identify all the rapists since then and prove they were other militants or Israeli plants. But that burden should not fall on the victims of the offence.

Same goes for the other side, if you laid siege to an area and the innocent got hurt, the burden should not fall on the victims to prove it wasn't Israeli forces, but on the instigating party.

If they are doing work, they should be paid

Something like this is an excellent idea. I understand for the proper functioning of a democracy is to have its citizens fully informed, but the rest of the world is not a citizen of the USA. Yes I still want to know the important stuff since our world is a connected world, but do I really have to see how the POTUS is holding a water bottle weirdly, or that they like Dijon mustard on their hot dog or tripped on a stair and now their age is in question.

My country has significantly more problems that are more relevant to myself, just like every other person from another country, and being bombarded by USA politics is exhausting and quite frankly a waste of my time and mental health.

Ok first of $50 billion! Second... Fuck what else is there except to see a YouTube of someone super glue their asshole with this new stuff and why he, because it will be a dumb guy unfortunately, needs us to donate to his gofundme for an asshole transplant

Is that you Checo Perez

Look I see the good intentions, but I believe in calling out hypocrisy, saying you ban ICE vehicles, whilst being one of the top producers of crude oil, to substitute your electric vehicles with said profits of selling crude oil, which even the "used in other products" is the minority of products, is a bit hypocritical.

I give Norway a nod to be trying to be the change they want to see, but it feels like the owner of an abattoir preaching the gospel of veganism, how their house is going to be 100% vegan and how people who eat animal products are going to doom the earth due to animals being a major contributor to greenhouse gasses, whilst still operating and profiting from said sale of animal products and using its revenue to make vegan food cheap and easily available to his family.

Ok so back to my comment then, with all these amazing benefits of producing crude oil, clearly I was wrong, we should do everything to get countries to start pumping out oil, if they haven't, or try increasing their crude oil production so that the world can benefit from the thousands of uses, except as fuel but it's less than 1% of possible uses. Heck the oil will make the countries maybe almost as rich as Norway to also use the profits to subsidise the EV market and stop using ICE vehicles, except if they are a poor oil-less country. Heck everything will get cheap since the world will have an abundance of cheap crude oil, due to high supply. Hopefully the Norwegians won't say only they are allowed to ethically produce a crap load of oil, in a low supply world that is due to collusion from OPEC countries

Producing fossil fuel, still means you are producing carbon emissions, just that you are giving it to other countries to do the dirty work for cheap.

I think the church would spread it all over the world, into every little nook and cranny

Yeah South African here, it's a Christian book shop franchise here, not sure if they have spread to other countries yet. Primary school the store name was the butt of the joke for a short while

I do not think Microsoft is afraid, I think they are just not that focused on the gaming market, yes they have a console and a bunch of game studios, but I believe that is right now a secondary focus.

No Microsoft is focused on the tech heroine called AI, trying to inject it wherever they can. They see this as the new frontier. So even though I would have loved seeing Microsoft scream in pain as they realise another competitor has actually a more enriching product that will eat their lunch, unfortunately they are in another boardroom discussing how they can get more AI, does anyone know where they can get more AI