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My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments we’ve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments we’ve all heard a billion times. If you’re boring, you are not worth my time, and you’re getting blocked

Sadly, there are almost certainly a currently unknown number of IDF soldiers who committed war crimes in Gaza/Lebanon/etc. on the other hand, *every single Hamas/PIJ/Hezbollah fighter* was a war criminal.

Fighting out of uniform? War crime (especially if they were simultaneously representing themselves as a journalist/medical worker/UN worker while fighting, as quite a lot of Hamas/PIJ members appear to have done)

Using protected spaces as military bases? War crimes (also makes targeting those spaces potentially militarily justifiable)

Taking hostages? War crimes

“But some of the ‘hostages’ were IDF solders or potential reservists, making them prisoners of war!”

First of all, someone *potentially being called up to serve* is not justification for capturing them as POWs, making them hostages, making that a war crime

Secondly, POWs have rights. None of which were respected, which is, guess what, a war crime

* I feel I should clarify that this is just what I’m gathering from what other people are saying that seem to know what they’re talking about, and I’m not an actual expert on this. If I cocked up, tell me

#israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #gaza #IDF #Hamas #palestinian islamic jihad #Hezbollah #war criminals

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homochadensistm

im european and trust me want AC so fucking bad. our governments are the ones who are like "but but but the environment"

Boil ur politicians alive

homochadensistm

not but literally the parisian authorities would rather let people be cooked alive in their apartments than sully their beautiful buildings

That's why u should force them to join u in the boiling

batmanisagatewaydrug

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

batmanisagatewaydrug

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

deramin2

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

supreme-leader-stoat

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

biglawbear

This thread is weird because like. On one hand it talks about how it's racist to ban indigenous hunting practices. And then deploys the noble savage / magical brown person trope by making it seem like only indigenous people know about how hunting practices control deer and racist white people aren't letting them hunt? When, being real, it's a lot of white hicks with guns doing the hunting of deer.

"Hunt the deer to control the deer population" isn't some Magical Indian thing, it is widely known throughout rural America. What the fuck.

Also, it wasn't indigenous people that wiped out predators, it was colonizers. So... "Hunt the deer to control the deer population" probably wasn't even a widespread, specific indigenous practice.

This thread is a mess.

vettir

There are a lot of indigenous practices that get a lot of shit.

The Makah Whale Hunt. The Grindavasan. Why? Because their targets are cetaceans. And to be fair, the rising mercury levels in sea life make the Grindavasan less healthy than it once was.

But yeah, we also get a lot of noble savage shit out there that... Isn't deserved.

However, @biglawbear, I'm not actually seeing any noble savage shit. Just a few things mentioned vaguely, in depth stuff about the Klamath dams, and talking about how Oregan White Vegans want all hunting and fishing banned. Nobody was really equating deer hunting with native tribes.

prof-grace-aspen

To bounce off a post I saw earlier:

If you think you aren't antisemitic, BUT you do one or both of the following:

You tend to believe non-Jews when they accuse a Jew of being a "Zionist", and you understand that when they say "Zionist", they are calling that Jew a bad person, so you now believe this Jew is a bad person...

And/or

You're hesitant to believe a Jew saying "Hey, this person was antisemitic" (especially if they were criticizing Israel or "Zionists") and you just want to pass it off as antizionism not antisemitism...

And/or

You are hesitant to listen to Jews about what Zionism means to them, or what their connection to the land of Israel is, or anything about the history of Jews in Israel, because you've been told bad things about them and about Zionism from non-Jews

...

If this is you, you are unconsciously antisemitic. I'm not saying you're a bad person. I'm saying that if you are quick to distrust Jews and hesitant to criticize non-Jews, you have a bias against Jews. You learned that from our society, because society is antisemitic as a whole.

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Personally I think Israel should actively welcome pro-Israel dissidents from “enemy” countries, but what do I know?

#Jerusalem post #pro-Israel Iranians #Instagram

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jaubaius

A 4852 year old located Ancient mountain Aras cypress at Tandooreh National Park, Iran

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burn out

badpsychicadvice

Internet hugs for anyone else out there dealing with burn out or other mental and/or physical issues that make it hard to interact right now

spontaneousmusicalnumber

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it.

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

sweetvantass

theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

famouslysleepy

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

localfriendandcrab

I actually think the god wanted to be a basketball as a form of enrichment but yeah

bi-swamp-thing

I love being Jewish bc I can say things like "God isn't a man he's a non-binary cosmic entity that uses He/Him pronouns" and that's true

vulturevanity

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

vulturevanity

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to stop dehumanising people even if those people are "abusers" or "creeps" because you need to understand that you are not immune to doing something equally as bad

Abusers and creeps are not some species of especially heinous animal or alien or monster wearing the face of a human. They're people. And you NEED to drill it into your head that they are people because you NEED to remember that people are capable of doingn heinous shit. And you are a person. And your loved ones are people.

By emotionally classifying people who have done heinous things as subhuman filth incapable of thinking and feeling and acting just like you and me, and by using that emotional dehumanization as a reason to deny those people any compassion or support on a systemic level, you risk becoming blind to abuse/violence perpetrated by someone close to you or even yourself. Because if "abusers don't deserve rights", then you won't ever want to admit or accept that you or a loved one is perpetrating abuse, and that makes stopping the abuse or preventing further abuse much harder. This is how you end up excuaing abusive behaviour on the grounds that, since you don't see someone as a disgusting subhuman pile of garbage therefore they can't possibly be An Abuser, Trademark

vulturevanity

And here'a the even harder pill to swallow: since the world isn't split into "abusers" and "good people", in the same way you or someone you love can inflict abuse/violence on others, the people who HAVE inflicted abuse/violence on others can, in fact, change and become better people

There is no bottomless chasm of moral uncleanliness that someone can run off and fall into and get stuck in forever. People can do better. Yes, even those people. You HAVE to accept this. Otherwise not only is there no motivation for anyone to try and do better (which is when people become stuck in a cycle of violence and abuse they don't want to escape), but your idea of a perfect justice system doesn't look any different from Literal Christian Hell. And I HOPE you understand that Literal Christian Hell is, to put it very lightly, not a good justice system.