Video footage of a young girl trying to flee an inferno caused by a Monday Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of Palestinians including her mother and siblings sparked global outrage and calls for an immediate cease-fire in what one former Israeli prime minister called a “war of extermination.”
How can anyone watch this and not want to drag the people responsible into the street? The repeated bombing of safe zones, over and over and over, is maddeningly inhumane.
A couple of mods here seem to downvote every post that draws attention to this sort of atrocity. One of them is even on YPTB defending banning people for criticizing those who approve of war crimes.
Wow, I didnt know admiral patrick is a zionist. Might just be an accident tho.
Edit: Not an accident, there is a pattern. He even downvoted the same thread about the airstrike on three different subs in the space of a minute.
I believe in the old reddit century club notion of “courtesy voting”. If it’s interesting enough for me to comment, everyone gets an upvote. :)
I try not to downvote just based on disagreements, but based on degrees of bad faith, at least on politics. My upvotes are definitely progressive and anti-genocide. With this topic I think it’s fair to say that every comment defending genocide is inherently bad faith.
I wouldn’t personally care too much how mods vote, so long as they’re not botting. It is far more concerning to see reported instances of violent rhetoric being ignored on an instances and that may warrant clear cases being reported to the instance mods.
It could be beneficial to the world news portion to adopt a similar recommendation in their rules to politics, which is recommending that they vote more similarly to Jordan, EG not downvoting people who make real arguments to support their points. The point of these discussions should be dialog between competing viewpoints and it gets hard to do if they’re downvoted into oblivion for not knowing something you do or vice versa. It would then also be much harder for mods to justify their votes on validly sourced genocide coverage. Just my 2c
I honestly think that the primary reason more Western Governments refrained from speaking out against Israel isn’t tacit support, but rather fear.
Israel is a nuclear armed nation with a notoriously efficient spy network (Mossad), finances, and next to no scruples.
I legitimately wouldn’t put it past them hold blackmail material against a large number of world leaders, or at the very least have credible plans to stage a false-flag dirty bomb explosion anywhere they see fit.
It’s the only cope I have as to why so much of the world remains paralysed while the Palestinian people of Gaza are systematically eradicated.
Stories like this are why I laugh a little inside whenever someone tries to tell me there’s a good and just god somewhere out there.
The “good and just God” is just going to make it up to all these people in the infinite afterlife, and inflict eternal suffering on the perpetrators!
/s but some people genuinely believe this
The Holocaust was enough for me. I don’t know how humanity can keep faith after ww2.
Yeah, any vestiges of faith I had didn’t survive my reading of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and People’s History of the United States.
If there is a god out there, they’re like that kid from Toy Story that likes to break his toys and burn them with a magnifying glass.
Actually, many evangelicals believe this is part of God’s plan.
Original testament God was a vengeful, narcissistic fuck. So all of this kind of fits.
And Christian God excuse is that this is all just part his plan and that he is testing faith.
It’s all fucking stupid.
How dare people in Gaza try to exist.
