Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
I don't know about sanity, but it's very logical when you remember that Hamas is a terrorist group that sometimes governs rather than the other way around.
The genocide is pretty much the best thing that could happen to them. They may pretend to care about Palestinian lives, but in reality they only care about their own power and influence.
And how does a terrorist group gain power and influence? By radicalizing people to join.
What's more radicalizing than the myriad daily atrocities of a brutal apartheid regime supported by the most powerful countries in the world? Very little if anything.
You should start a Lemmy community called NotAvocado about things that aren't avocado. I'd do it myself but I'm too lazy to find out how, let alone moderate it afterwards 😄
Nope. Hating the bigotry of people who have skin color or another trait in common with yourself does not equal hating yourself. Caucasity is not a trait inherent to all white people.
Contrary to the fantasies of bigots, white people are not one big team united against everyone else.
Since it's used to convey meaning using letters and people understand that meaning, it by any definition that matters IS a word.
Also it clearly implies something is inherent to "Caucasians"
No. "Particularly Caucasians" ≠ "all Caucasians".
I can't be bothered to do any clever wordplay on the other supposed racial categories
Good, because that would likely be punching down, unlike pointing out how audacious some white people are with their privilege.
but I suspect any equivalent puns might be considered a little problematic, what what?
No, they wouldn't be equivalent. Pointing out white privilege and criticizing those that wield it as both a sword and a shield is not the same as making fun of less privileged people or even white people who are aware of and don't exploit their privilege.
Nope. And Sisi knows it. That's the only reason why that awful dictator agreed to it in the first place.
He knows it won't sour his relationship with the fascist apartheid regime next door since it won't save any Palestinian lives, so it's pretty much just free brownie points for him and Biden.
Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....
It's despicable behavior like this that makes it really hard to convince people that it's only their fascist government that's atrocious and should be sanctioned.
They're really not making a good case for not being treated exactly like Apartheid South Africa and Putin's Russia..
Which shouldn't be too much to ask for since everyone agrees that war is awful. Just not hard enough not to constantly make up excuses for why it's ok to keep murdering people.
I'm starting to think it's antisemitic to link the Jewish and Israel
It definitely is. There's few things more antisemitic than assuming that all Jews approve of the fascist government of an apartheid ethnostate committing genocide with impunity.
It's right up there with the Alex Jones "globalist" conspiracy theories.
As an aside, an ethnostate's foreign minister's first name being the name of the country is too on the nose for most farcical fiction, let alone reality 🤦
None of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday....
as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes
That's your problem right there: Israel and the vigilantes they tip off are the ones making every route unsafe for the UN and all other aid workers and the US government are threatening anyone who points it out.
This is harmful misinformation that can literally lead to people dying from tobacco related disease.
Vaping, while definitely not healthy, is NOWHERE NEAR as unhealthy as smoking tobacco is. Especially when you do it as intended: temporarily for smoking cessation like I added decades to my life by doing.
I smoked for 18 years, the last 10 of which I tried every other smoking cessation method including prescription medicine and substance abuse therapy. They just didn't work for me.
Vaping did, though. In roughly 6 months I went from smoking a pack or two a day (depending on stress levels and alcohol intake) to neither smoking nor vaping at all and I haven't for over 3 years.
It only makes it through one small paragraph (which is itself a vague lie) before its first specific and ridiculous lie: claiming that a hookah is an early form of vape 🤦
It then links to a 2019 study of mice that, in spite of setting out with a clear confirmation bias, admits that their results showed more cases of cancer-like cell behavior in the mice subjected to tobacco than the ones subjected to e-liquid.
Add to that the fact that they don't reveal their methodology (beyond the fact that they subjected the mice to their experiments for a full year, which is much longer than most people tend to vape when using it for smoking cessation) and that study is basically useless for proving the hypothesis.
The heavy metals inhalation they then go on to warn about is impossible in real life conditions as the heat required for that to happen simply cannot be achieved by the suction power any human can achieve and, even if you could somehow achieve that, you'd suffer severe burns causing you to stop immediately.
Is that 90%+ what you feel or can you provide a profound statistic for that
That 90% is admittedly going by memory of statistical analysis that I'm now unable to find amongst all the anti-vape misinformation and data that focuses only on how many vape and doesn't show the age distribution.
Anyways, here's some myths debunked by probably the most reliable and unbiased expert group to weigh in on vapes, the NHS.
This study reports about 20% of high school students using e cigarettes in 2020
That sounds ridiculously high. The highest I've seen for 2018 was 2.9%. There's no way it went from that to 20% in just two years.
The Cold War never ended, it just became multipolar and (usually) more subtle.
This is a completely unnecessary mask off moment for an administration that will do anything to avoid the leadership of a fascist apartheid regime seeing consequences for their many crimes against humanity.
Just like Reagan's alliance with Apartheid South Africa, Biden and his administration are clearly on the wrong side of history and, also just like with Reagan's support for the original Apartheid regime, the establishment press is likely going to sweep it under the proverbial rug once the apartheid regime is dismantled, if that ever happens.
Note in case of whataboutism: Yes, i know that a Trump administration would be just as bad if not worse (if that's even possible at this point, short of US boots on the ground in support of the Israeli apartheid regime) with regards to the ongoing genocide and would definitely be worse in just about every other way as well.
That the alternative is worse doesn't excuse the despicable behavior of the CURRENT administration, though.
Orban's fascist regime and its love for Putin and the Trump cult is antithetical to the principles of peace and international cooperation that the EU is supposed to be about.
That's not the same thing at all. In spite of recent elections, all three of those countries are still generally free societies currently occupied by fascist politicians.
They're liberal (in the original sense of the word, not the neoliberal ideology that started in the late 70s/early 80s and is now the main form of capitalism) systems currently captured by illiberal people who may lose power and influence come the next election.
Not so for Orban's Hungary. The entire Hungarian government apparatus is fascist in both form and function. Orban literally CAN'T be replaced since his party controls the mechanisms for doing so, just like his buddy Putin and his party in Russia.
And just like when Trump did it, this bullshit tariff war is going to hurt consumers of the products, not the demagogues conducting the war.
The big difference is that this time, the EU and other countries have joined in so more regular citizens also get to suffer for the chest thumping of powerful jerks 😮💨🤬
“Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas,” said Biden in a statement. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”
The ICC’s statement does not accuse Israeli and Hamas leaders of identical crimes, though there is some overlap.
Biden once again playing the role of useful idiot to appease his owner donors at AIPAC and similar lobbying arms of the fascist apartheid regime.
Surprising that Politico, who are usually supporting him to the point of abject servility, would illustrate his strawman so clearly, though..
At least 40 killed in Rafah after Israeli missiles hit camp for displaced ( www.aljazeera.com )
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
Today is Memorial Day, Press F ( lemmy.today )
Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza ( wapo.st )
This is a gift article link, so there should not be a paywall.
Highway bandits in Mexico make off with 40 tons of avocados ( abcnews.go.com )
Kyle Rittenhouse Tells Native Americans They Can ‘Leave’ If They Hate America ( newsone.com )
Colorado Republicans tell parents to take kids out of school over fears they ‘turn more kids trans’ ( www.advocate.com )
After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza ( www.jns.org )
(May 24, 2024 / JNS)...
Gaza war: Israelis attack aid convoys sent for Palestinians ( www.bbc.com )
Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....
One way ticket to midnight ( lemmy.world )
Europe’s new political consensus: We need to make more weapons ( www.politico.eu )
The war in Ukraine has shifted thinking — both among politicians and the public — on the need to spend more on defense....
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Israel Threatens 'Severe Consequences' for Nations Who Recognize Palestine ( www.commondreams.org )
Patrick Mahomes doesn’t agree with Harrison Butker but says kicker is a ‘great person’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population ( www.cnn.com )
None of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday....
Spain, Norway and Ireland will recognize a Palestinian state | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
This is quite big! Kudos to them.
It seems like a lot... ( lemmy.world )
US hints at support for sanctions over ICC warrants on Israel ( www.bbc.com )
Ukraine and EU push to start membership talks in June ( www.politico.eu )
Hungary faces renewed pressure to drop its opposition to Kyiv’s accession bid....
Ambulance collides with moose while responding to another moose collision ( globalnews.ca )
An ambulance collided with a moose early Sunday as it responded to another crash, also involving a moose, Ontario Provincial Police say....
EU hit as China launches tit-for-tat anti-dumping probe ( www.euronews.com )
Thermoplastics coming from the US, the EU, Taiwan and Japan are sold at prices below fair market value, says Beijing....
European leaders divided on ICC arrest warrant bid for Netanyahu ( www.politico.eu )
Reactions ranged from welcoming the International Criminal Court’s decision to slamming it as “appalling” and “non comprehensible.”...
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Warrant Applications by the International Criminal Court ( www.whitehouse.gov )
Full statement:...
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Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
Yard lookin' fine tho. ( lemmy.world )
Now's your chance ( lemmy.world )