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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm comfortable with my level of engagement thanks.

You seem to have used personal insults on half the people in the thread at this point, and you keep complaining about Lemmy.

I get that you're frustrated that we're not talking about whatever it is you want to talk about, but that's life sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If I had to guess I'd say the brain worm has a grudge against the Museo del Cerebro in Peru, which is a museum that houses hundreds of human brains including some with brain parasites.

Anything which helps us study and eliminate them is its natural enemy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'm in New Zealand and from here their election looked like the main thrust of most of it was about forcing Democrats to vote for the establishment warmonger Hillary instead of their best candidate Bernie Sanders.

Trump was sort of just a meme candidate for a long time because analysts didn't realise he'd been gifted the pre-Trump Cambridge Analytica package (drain the swamp etc) by disaster capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are pointing out that it was intentional and part of a widwr pattern.

That genocidal ghoul Netanyahu is 36,000 deep in corpses right now, many of them children. He hasn't suddenly grown a conscience or empathy. Something else is going on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pol Pot springs to mind...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks, fantastic article, nice to get the BBC perspective on this as I wonder sometimes about The Irawaddy's possibly being a bit optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks, you just made it crystal clear to me how we get from here to full on Idiocracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone reading along in this thread should probably check the veracity of these claimed ratios. Wikipedia has an okay overview.

It's also worth noting that the Russian wars in Chechnya were particularly notable for their brutal war crimes.

@FlyingSquid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

@Linkerbaan aah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I couldn't work out what on earth they were getting at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@TheFonz I'm sorry but you haven't expressed your position clearly enough for me to summarize and I'm not interested in trying to forensically reconstruct it from your comments as it's too ameliorised.

Like I said above, this conversation isn't some kind of game for points. It's just us talking about our views.

or do you only like to hear yourself

False dichotomy, and a bit of a swing and a miss.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Dresden was a horrendous war crime too.

I can see how it's harder for you to argue against war crimes from other nations if you're an apologist for war crimes committed by your own ancestors.

But many of us don't need to jump through those particular rhetorical hoops. The barrage of war crimes in WW2 was part of the impetus for strengthening international law against that shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (10 children)

@TheFonz I'm finding this conversation a bit puzzling.

You sort of sound like you want this discussion to cover all those tired Hasbara "talking points" and their common rebuttals on Americam discuasions or something, hence IsRaEl HaS A Right to DeFenD ItSelf.

This isn't a game or a logic 101 essay though. It's ordinary people from multiple countries discussing a humanitarian catastrophe that has killed over 37000 people.

 

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