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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woah woah bobby, I didn’t know I was under interrogation. I’ll reply to yours if you reply to mine first. Are you a zionist goat?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Define zionism

Do I think Israel has a right to exist? Yeah

Do I think it has the right to enact imperialism? No

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t think genocide denialism is based. Shh tho… we should watch out what we say, the mod of this comm is very “strict” and could ban us for “”OfF ThE tOpic diScuSSion””. Don’t worry, I’m sure you didn’t do it on purpose to get me banned.

Anyway according to the wikipedia definition:

Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine.

So you support colonial ethno-nationalism, that sounds bad… maybe you are watching too much BBC? :)

[–] hatorade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t think genocide denialism is based. Shh tho… we should watch out what we say, the mod of this comm is very “strict” and could ban us for “”OfF ThE tOpic diScuSSion””. Don’t worry, I’m sure you didn’t do it on purpose to get me banned.

Watch out, he'll ban you and claim he's different than Tankies. Banning you because you hurt his feelings is genocide denialism!

And he has bots that tell him every time someone comments or even edits posts here. And even Hexbear's dogmatic admins don't do that shit.

edit: "i don't ban people for disagreeing, except all of db0"

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

None of that is true at all. I don't ban others for disagreeing unless it's explicitly genocide denialism, such as denying China's human rights violations (Uyghurs) or the soviet union's (Holodomor), and I give them ample opportunity to reword their statement before they possibly get banned.

I also don't use bots. I'm subscribed to the community, so I get notifications for new comments and posts. Hexbear, Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad also use bots to automatically ban others. Though so does SJW and Lemmy.world, there are some users who just keep using alt accounts.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just because I think Israel has the right to exist doesn't mean I have to agree with its method of doing so.

I'm also one of the least strict mods. If you break the rules, you only get a temp ban.

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I thought only people have rights, not countries… Mmm can you point me to the international law where it says the countries have a right to exist?

So, you support a colonial ethno-nationalist country committing genocide on the base of a non-existing law.

“I support serial killers, I just I don’t agree with their nasty “killing” policy duh!”

And you are the only mod of this community documenting hate speech? I’m confused goat…

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So confused!! Please help me understand goat! I want to bully tankies and make up laws for my country too but I feel such a hypocritical stupid piece of shit!! I’m sure I’m missing something. No way a kind non-judgmental person like you is like this! ಥ_ಥ

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

are you implying I live in Israel?

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well… it would make sense since you support its (made up) right to exist. It’s kinda weird to support only the right to exist of a specific tiny young country. Do you also support the right of Iran?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iran's right to exist as a country? Yes

are you building up to something with these gotchas?

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do you feel getting cornered? I’m trying to understand how you are the only moderator documenting hate speech and also strongly support an apartheid ethno nationalist genocidal state. It’s fascinating no? (Well I would feel more embarrassed but that’s me, a dirty ugly tankie yk)

So, to recap: in your mind all the abstract concepts of nation-state have rights to exist like people. Totally valid. Can I create Goatland and believe it so much it has a right to exists? How does it work goatboy?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't support the genocide.

And why should I need to explain how nations should respect other nations' sovereignty to someone who is insistent on belittling me? also dont call me goatboy

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course! Of course not goat. Just… lemme check…

support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine.

Ah, yes zionist respectfully murdered and evicted 700.000 Palestinians from their homes during the Nakba in 1948. 🙏 Woah, now they can really respectfully have a right to exist on their graves. So brave!

So what is the part of zionism you support?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Just that Israel has a right to exist as a nation, I don't agree with their methods and I think diplomacy and peaceful resolution will always work best.