Typical orange site behavior but worth showing. There’s a couple commenters there trying to fight against Silicon CHUD consensus but the submission got flagged and removed from the front page

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    At least in my circles, the main talking point is the fact that this war goes back literally to the dawn of human civilization in this area.

    Would really like to hear what this person thinks the “Palestinian” side and “Israeli” side was 10,000 years ago in the Levantine.

    ‘Complexity’ is an illusion.

    That is the ultimate “dumb guy’s idea of a smart idea”.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I hate this dumb shit. The idea that there’s some ancient primal death battle between Jewish people and Arabs or whoever was around at the time in the Levant is awful, very effective historical revisionism. 1st century Hebrews/Jews were forced in to Exile by the fucking Romans! THE ROMANS! Who don’t exist anymore! Islam, at least on paper, explicitly requires that Jewish people be respected, protected, and given a degree of legal autonomy under Muslim rule (Definitely not respected by many governments throughout history, but others took it seriously).

      • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.net
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        Pretty much all modern Israelis descend from (or are themselves) very recent European settlers with specific racial features, and not from some super ancient tribe that has maintained ‘racial purity’ for two millenia (as if that confers the right to someone else’s home anyway).

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Word. Genetics and ethnicity in Judaism is a whole thing and part of what makes it difficult to readily define compared to many ethno-religious groups, even diaspora groups. Plus, Tays-Sachs. Plus conversion, and the way modern Judaism differs from other contemporary religions that actively proselytize for converts.

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      Is this guy’s “circle” wacky creationists who think the earth is only 6000 years old or something? I can’t imagine someone making that claim without being a massive dumbass.

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      At least in my circles, the main talking point is the fact that this war goes back literally to the dawn of human civilization in this area.

      What lack of historical materialism does to a mfer.

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      At least in my circles, the main talking point is the fact that this war goes back literally to the dawn of human civilization in this area.

      At least this simpleton realizes their half-baked stupid opinion is limited to people as stupid as they are

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    Right, so until that point… by definition. Not a genocide. There’s a hearing to determine if it is, which Israel plans on attending and defending its position…

    nerd hitler particles detector

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    Hacker News is such a shithole (literally, since I doubt that software devs don’t browse the site while they’re on break).

    if you need an example of white libertarian nonsense, you go to HN.

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    Bunch of westerners condemn Palestinians for taking entirely peaceful step to complain about being murdered en masse, suggest ‘neutral point of view’ is more important.

    The old adage of libs compromising with “a bit of genocide” is too true

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    On Wikipedia:

    I would consider myself pretty pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine (also anti-Palestine at the same time for reasons), and I still find this apalling, because Wikipedia is supposed to be very neutral on these sorts of topics

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      They really give the game away every time. “Neutral” to a lib just means “agrees with me.”