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One of the cofounders of partizle.com, a Lemmy instance primarily for nerds and techies.
Into Python, travel, computers, craft beer, whatever

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3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation
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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago
It's not a majority sentiment in the US, no.
It's surprisingly common in certain circles though.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

Aren't they?

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

A lot of people however, are rationally, and correctly, pointing out that organizations like Hamas are a symptom of an oppressed people. Like an apartheid state, or slave state, we can look at history for examples of people striking out over and over again.

You can see it that way, but you also have to take Hamas's stated goal into consideration. Their stated goal is not to liberate their people, it's to be the new oppressor, and a far worse one than that.

Let's put it another way. There are around two million Arab Israelis. They're in the Israeli parliament, they serve in its courts, in the military, etc. Would they be liberated if Hamas achieved its goal? They would probably be viewed as collaborators and executed.

This myth that Hamas are just freedom fighters, like Nelson Mandela or Gandhi, really needs to be dispelled. It has no basis in reality.

There's this weird urge in the minds of people to try to find a hero story. There's no hero story. And if groups like Hamas weren't wreaking havoc in the area for the past 50+ years, realistically, a Palestinian state would probably exist.

I can’t speak for the next 10 to 20 years, but the long-term viable solution in 30 years is going to be a single country encompassing both current Israel and current Palestine, in a secular, non-ethnocentric, non-religious democratic organization. Where people are equal regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or language.

Except no one in the region wants that. Certainly not Hamas.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

I didn't mention the Israeli government, except to point out that they were delusional. This isn't whataboutism.

This is a statement free of whataboutism: Hamas is a terrorist organization intent on killing as many Jews as possible, worldwide, without stopping.

That's it. No need to expand on that. That's a statement free of whataboutism.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

I get it. Reality sucks.

Also, people want to see themselves in an underdog. They want a "good guy" to root for.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

So Israel has been punished for treating The Gaza strip with dignity and mutual self interest… What should the new strategy be?

I have no idea. I don't see a path from where we are to peace. But I am realistic about the fact that Hamas isn't just some club of would-be liberal democrats just yearning for freedom. That's just not realistic. They don't want a two-state solution. They don't want a "Jews still being alive" solution. And increasingly, it doesn't seem like most Israelis want a two state solution either.

I don't have a solution for you.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

Toward the end of Netanyahu’s fifth government in 2021, approximately 2,000-3,000 work permits were issued to Gazans. This number climbed to 5,000 and, during the Bennett-Lapid government, rose sharply to 10,000.

That's what counts as empowering Hamas? Letting Palestinians earn a living?

I mean I guess you can spin it that way, but it's a spurious claim to make.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

That’s a little like saying you have to understand that Hitler’s rise was in the wake of World War 1’s devastating reparations. Or Stalin’s purges were after Nicholas II and his various misdeeds.

Everyone knows Hamas seized power about a half century after the British two-state division. And about a quarter century after the 1967 war. It also matters not one iota.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

Hamas gets almost all of its direct funding from Iran and Russia.

Israel, along with the United Nations, United States, EU, etc funds humanitarian projects in Gaza. Some of that aid is surely diverted to Hamas and Hamas controls Gaza, but the moral case for allowing some aid to be diverted to Hamas in exchange for avoiding a humanitarian catastrophe is strong.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

That’s exactly the kind of thinking that the Israeli government had a month ago, that by negotiating with them, they could find mutual self interest. 10/7 has disabused them of that delusion.

When someone says their goal is genocide, you should probably take them at their word.

3y ago

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

According to Hamas’ own charter, “the cause” is that a Jew somewhere in the world has a pulse.

So I think it’s reasonable for us to say, no, we’re not going to address their stated grievances.

3y ago

So long, small phones

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

You meet them online, but they’re a vocal minority. Especially when a smaller phone means a smaller battery and worse camera system, two of the consistently top priorities for consumers.

3y ago

China says Israel has gone too far

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

You're conflating multiple things. Most notably, you're conflating criticizing Israel with praising Hamas.

3y ago

US oil production hits all-time high, conflicting with efforts to cut heat-trapping pollution

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

They are not conflicting. Yes oil production is higher but that’s mostly in response to OPEC producing less.

Overall fossil fuel use is in decline. Probably not enough decline to arrest the greenhouse effect, but that ship has already sailed.

3y ago

it's a secret mom's campaign to stop drinking out of the bottle....

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

I don’t even understand what the theory is. Plastic is plastic. What does it matter if it’s attached to the bottle?

3y ago

Why do people dislike California?

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

Well, that's always been the case with Skid Row, though it might be debatable which came first -- the homeless encampments or the aid agencies. And for that matter, there were Hoovervilles in the Great Depression. In any city in America, there are transients milling around the shelters, which is why there's so much NIMBYism over developing new shelters.

But what's going on in California probably has more to do with the fact that LA and San Francisco tend to be very tolerant of the homeless encampments and provide generous aid, thus inducing demand. The homeless population is soaring across America for various reasons, but California is a desirable place to be homeless: better aid, better climate, softer police, etc.

Maybe California's big cities really are more humane and generous, but at this point it's to the detriment of livability in those places.

3y ago

Why is the Node ecosystem so demanding?

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

Yes, that's true, but JavaScript has very few core APIs aside from basic DOM manipulation. Even things like comparing timezones requires a third party dependency, for example.

3y ago

Why is the Node ecosystem so demanding?

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

I wouldn't say you need no dependencies in a Java project, but by all means check the average number of dependencies you get with Java or Python and compare it to almost any Node project.

You could probably sample projects on GitHub, look at the dependency graph, and compare.

3y ago

Why do people dislike California?

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bouncing @partizle.com 3y ago

It sort of depends on where you are, but in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the homeless problem is noticeably worse than almost anywhere else in America. It’s bad.

An ex of mine lives in a pretty posh part of LA (Crestview). She works constantly and really hard to afford to live there. Now there are people literally shooting heroin on the street outside her home and to take her toddler to play at the park, they’re basically walking around the bodies of people high/sleeping.

I mean, I’m as anti-drug war as they come, but that’s no way to live and the police really should clear it out. Even in the poorer parts of most other cities, that’s not something you see.