Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
  • Dholi@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Every single major news publisher trying their hardest to call this a war and not a genocide.

  • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Note that this means “83% of people killed were civilians”, not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides

      The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Notably, Hamas on Oct 7 killed two civilians for every military casualty. By the IDF’s own numbers, the IDF are literally greater terrorists than Hamas. Hamas literally does a better job at avoiding civilian casualties than the IDF does.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        20 days ago

        If you qualify military targets the way the IDF does then Hamas killed over 90% military targets on october 7.

  • paisleepunk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    19 days ago

    oh dear, it seems like just a few commenters made a mess of this thread. my question is: which ones were real people, and which ones were just bots?

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      19 days ago

      It’s one real person using scripts to create accounts and flood the channel.

      We ban them as soon as the accounts are created but sometimes the comments still federate.

      We’re on it. If you see them, block them, and that will clean up the comment thread.

    • Snowies@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      19 days ago

      For real.

      I came here looking to avoid the censorship of Reddit.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      19 days ago

      We’re actually doing OK. Fortunately the tools to ban users and remove their bullshit is like, 2 clicks, total.

      That being said, they’ve created a bunch of accounts with 8,000+ posts soooo… like 12 clicks? LOL.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    20 days ago

    Sure is a good thing we didn’t put those gEnOcIdAl Democrats in office, huh?

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      20 days ago

      What part of Harris’ platform leads you to believe she would have done anything different? Because her entire platform was keeping things the same and advocating for Israel’s “right to defend itself”. She was just as genocidal as the next candidate.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Trump entered office under a Biden negotiated ceasefire. Trump then told Netenyahu to go ahead and ignore the ceasefire.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      20 days ago

      This genocide would also be happening if Harris was president, nothing has changed.

      The only difference would be that every Democrat would be supporting the genocide in lock step, rather than what’s happening now with Democrats finally speaking out.

      Trump brings out the best in Democrats.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Were you alive when Biden was president and he was the one working hand in glove with Israel to conduct the genocide?

          We’re watching the same Democrats that supported the genocide under Biden suddenly pivot under Trump.