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"If a foreign worker is required to quit her job due to a complaint she filed, she is also, in fact, losing her place of residence," noted Shiri Lev-Ran

They're the ones for are always talking about Hamas' alleged rapes :

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I'm still not entirely convinced by their debunking of the rapes(, not that i care, murder is worse than rape, being tortured dozens of minutes beforehand is still only marginally worse in comparison to the eternity of death, and we(sterners) have done so much more barbaric in our "prisons", sometimes for years), but i can't trust our journalists who don't have the necessary time to investigate before publishing, nor Israel who lies at least as much as our western governments(, if not even more).

According to Paul Linebarger, atrocity propaganda leads to real atrocities, as it incites the enemy into committing more atrocities, and, by heating up passions, it increases the chances of one's own side committing atrocities, in revenge for the ones reported in propaganda.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

Some quotes :

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt

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“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
Aldous Huxley

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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Noam Chomsky

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“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Rudyard Kipling

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Because it's always interesting to learn about other point of views, they've got much more on khamenei.ir and elsewhere, as well as other websites such as Al-Jazeera, as you know.

That they call this a success means that they can't envision any other path than the armed struggle in order to succeed.
As long as their demands aren't for the total disparition of Israel(, ideally it should exist outside of the Middle-East, in the u.s.a. or Europe), but to be aligned with their neighbours and palestinians' desires, then Israel should agree, and doesn't, instead it's asking to steal more territories and tries to overthrow every neighbor not aligned with the west.

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1843406404612432213 :

B.t.w., if you missed it :

My personal opinion is something similar to William Blum in his book "Rogue State"(, although with more rules, nobody would like to bet on a natural resolution) :

What, then, can the United States do to end terrorism directed against it ?
The answer lies in removing the anti-American motivations of the terrorists.
To achieve this, American foreign policy will have to undergo a profound metamorphosis, as the contents of this book testify.

If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently.
I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the USA but henceforth—oddly enough—a foreign country.
I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more than enough money. One year's military budget of $330 billion is equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.

That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated.

Washington, DC, January 2002

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https://x.com/zunguzungu/status/1831095086811373825

Israelis are defending themselves from people weaker than them, so brave.
It's a unilateral massacre of civilians, nothing like a war, and the result of indoctrinating israelis since their birth to f*cking hate palestinians.
At least Russia's claim about n.a.t.o.'s encroaching the Black Sea and the surroundings of Moscow is more valid, and could have easily been avoided(, if we listened to their demands of a "sphere of influence"). A few millions of poor palestinians can't manage to defend themselves or their territory, they're not a threat justifying a ~~war~~ unilateral massacre

And by creating much more palestinian terrorists/resistants than they've murdered, their security has been lowered, if "Bibi" wasn't already on this path, now any future peace plan is even more compromised, Yigal Amir has won.

There may not be anyone right now to stop them from taking always more, but perhaps that, one day, israelis will be treated like they treated palestinians for a change. And we(sterners) will also be treated like we treated the rest of the world(, e.g., maintained in poverty/inequality, used in proxy wars, feeling our powerlessness, etc.). Or we could also evolve to avoid international domination/hegemony.

(Still think that one day every nation will fragment into city-states and borders will be meaningless, for Israel as well. Or not. And that a good plan could be to change them into something closer to islam and the policies/decisions of the islamic states, perhaps)

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If numbers went up(, despite the relentless attacks), then socialism worked ?

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https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1817015733907267870

How many more will have to die ?

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Two examples among many to point out that the orders come from above(, or, as they may admit on the occasion, public-private partnerships), hate Youtube all you want but don't be blind to their pressure(, you could also remark that the government itself is taking orders/"advices" from other people, i.d.k.) :

I'm sure that you could find many more people than these, as well as examples of bot armies and wikipedia editing, but here's some other recent examples :

Of course, yeah, even if i regret that things aren't better, i'm also glad that things aren't worse. Unfortunately they're progressing towards the latter.

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https://t.me/theredstream/6232

Too many of their natural ressources are still in foreign hands, we'll just continue to make them suffer for their rebellion, under the guise of human rights..

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The title isn't exact :

Moreover, their relations were only re-instaured after the western-supported coup by J.Añez :

(Here's Colombia's president 6 hours ago b.t.w., among other examples)

(no need to point out that it would be safer for them not to take position for//against any side. The article also spoke of Argentina, here's an interesting 2mn-long point of view)

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They claim to fight disinformation yet speak about a "technical glitch", classic, just like cops lying on their depositions, what a way to set an example.

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Tant que le gouvernement te considère encore dans "l'axe républicain" tu n'as rien à craindre, tkt
En fait c'est plutôt une bonne chose que le monde libre se lâche, notre liberté était notre seul argument depuis un siècle, l'inconvénient est que notre propagagande n'a pas besoin d'arguments, ni même de dire la vérité(, je repensais l'autre jour au fait que tout le monde a oublié lorsque les médias reprenaient en cœur que V.Poutine était en phase terminale d'une maladie inconnue, tout le monde a oublié, ce qu'il se passe actuellement à Gaza est plein de mensonges aussi mais on s'en fout, alors bon, ça continuera et c'est comme ça, certaines raisons que j'ignore(, mais dont je ne peux mettre en doute l'existence,) empêchent une paix durable, c'est ainsi, si des gens pensent connaître ces raisons et veulent prendre le temps de les partager ci-dessous je leur serait reconnaissant).

Ah oui flûte, j'ai oublié que j'étais resté sur un compte de lemmygrad(, défédéré de lemmy.world), j'essaierais de m'en souvenir la prochaine fois, même si là peu importe, c'était juste pour faire une prédiction facile, beaucoup de personnes voient très bien ça venir dans l'avenir proche.
Je me demande si c'est un des nombreux objectifs de ces séries policières, y'aura les drones aussi, survolant les villes à la recherche d'infractions, et puis la surveillance en ligne, on parle même depuis quelques jours d'un couvre-feu en cas de manifestation non pacifique(, genre on a oublié le but originel d'une manifestation, qui n'est que la forme moderne domestiquée/civilisée des émeutes sauvages, rien ne changerait si 0% des manifestant.e.s étaient des casseurs, mais pas mal de choses changeraient s'ils étaient 100% à en être, difficile de leur en vouloir s'ils pensent que c'est la seule option restante et qu'une manifestation ne sert à rien, faudrait toujours des représentants du gouvernement présents pour prendre leurs remarques, répondre à leur questions, et débattre des causes à l'origine de leur colère, ça semble pas nécessaire que les choses soient ainsi, beaucoup de problèmes semblent facilement améliorables si seulement on les considérait comme des problèmes à résoudre), on interdit des rassemblements pro-palestiniens au nom de nos valeurs, c'est l'ordre républicain ma bonne dame, toute enfreinte à la loi est immorale(, beaucoup de changements dans la loi viennent de changement dans les mœurs qui viennent de cette possibilité laissée aux infractions), et cette censure au niveau de l'union européenne applaudie par des gens curieusement naïfs au point de croire qu'il s'agit de "modérer" les insultes de haine, au lieu d'une propagande ennemie qu'ils ignorent de toute façon, d'ailleurs, j'ai vu une vidéo aujourd'hui contenant à la fin cet extrait célèbre, où il raconte qu'il s'occupait d'une guerre en Angola et qu'un tiers de son équipe était chargé de diffuser des désinformations, qu'ils envoyaient au Zambia Times et c'était repris ensuite par Reuters, l'AFP, et d'autres(, les journalistes n'ont pas le temps de faire leurs enquêtes ils traitent les dépêches de l'AFP&Co, Mediapart est une rare exception, et puis ils ne se versent pas eux-mêmes leurs salaires, ils savent que certaines opinions de leur part seraient mal vues si exprimées, et ont de toute façon déjà été pré-sélectionné.e.s pour leur conformité avec la ligne éditoriale), citant aussi ce genre de pratique pour Cuba et d'autres pays, maintenant la Chine a notre attention(, et s'en serait bien passée). Et puis ce truc de diaboliser nos opposants sans chercher à les comprendre ou à s'entendre, cette dangereusement commode facilité de croire que si on pense comme les autres alors on a raison(, même si on ne connaît pas le point de vue des hétérodoxes qui, e.lles.ux, connaissent notre point de vue), et dsl mais j'ai pas digéré ce qu'il s'est passé à France Inter(, Europe 1, le JDD, etc.,), je ne les écoutait pas assez pour savoir s'il était effectivement l'un des derniers grands médias orientés centre-gauche, mais pour les avoir écouté je vois pas en quoi ce serait une accusation que l'on pourrait leur porter à présent(, j'avais lu dans le passé que les journalistes étaient de "gauche" pour la même raison que les vendeurs de surplus militaire étaient de droite, j'ai pas l'impression qu'ils sont de gauche, ils se considèrent centristes mais sont pour un status quo capitaliste), là aussi y'a plein de solutions qui seraient efficaces pour contrer la concentration des médias, mais qu'on va ignorer sciemment, puis on va pas non plus avoir une chaîne d'info en continu qui serait pro-gilets jaunes ou, pire, marxiste, voire islamiste, il y a des limites à la liberté d'expression, un média doit être objectif, comme ça pas de diversité, et blablabla, faudra que ça change, dsl pour ce pavé inutile, un mod peut le supprimer si ça lui chante.

And they've long gone past the retaliation of "an eye for an eye"

The worst is that we're still not offering a solution for this decades-old conflict, there must be a way to please both sides ! That's what our medias should talk about instead of always act as a powerless spectator or judge, where is the list of solutions, why don't we all know about the different possibilities ? Our actions only aim for the prolongation of the best outcome for us and the worst outcome for them, that's not fair and they have every right to hate us for this injustice. Once again, how to resolve permanently&virtuously this conflict should be the main topic 'on our televisions'/'in our newspapers', so that our leaders make the right/just/correct decision.

And an other word that they would refuse to attribute to fighters from our side, but would hate you if you refuse to use it for the fighters of the other side :

[-] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hordes of drones flying over the city in order to find any possible infraction, don't you want to feel safe ? (/s obv.)

In any case, we don't get to decide, it's our so-called representatives who'll take the decision, with or without campaigns of communication.
At least in a real democracy, if the whole population agree to it, then i'd conform more readily to our choice even if i personally disagreed, but we're not in a democracy, in which the demos has the cratos.
We're in a constitutional republic, and our representatives are democratically elected, once they take the power from the people to decide in their stake it's not a democracy, such as the one that once existed in Athens(, only for citizens, but the logic is the same).
Having the possibility to cancel any decision with a strong enough popular petition would be a first step, yet it'd be unimaginable for our "democratic" leaders, because the population needs to be directed, and shouldn't be listened to. We're ignorant while they know(, whose fault is it since we follow ? we obtain the population we deserve), people are stupid(, but we never include ourselves, we all have the same potential), we have to trust our leaders, etc.
In truth, we know what's desirable, and anyone is apt to debate on whether or not this aim is indeed desirable. We only need to have experts and do experiments to test their predictions, because we don't know anything about the technical details, almost as much as our leaders who trust these experts without obtaining the promised results sometimes(, preliminary experiments won't prevent all mistakes, but at least it'd be our mistake, not theirs, we rarely can't go back on our decisions).
Well, whatever, just to say that the decision isn't up to us(, and consent is manufactured).

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This book was very very good, it says so many incredible things that you want to double check almost each page, he talks about solutions and he's indeed well aware that it's not enough to be right in order to be heard, a lot of people i like are ignored like him despite being right :

Of course, yeah, it'd be like saying to workers "why don't you just take control of your workplace", it's at the same time true and yet seemingly unrealistic.
The common thinking is that the rise of the South is unavoidable, i don't know when or even if, but sure hope so, numbers only show a growing inequality between the west and the south(, with few exceptions), the latter seems to be in the same position of selling their raw materials without industries as they were decades ago, only with more debts/shackles.
I've also learned a few hours ago that France cancelled the studies of innocent malians, burkinabés, and nigeriens, i still would have trouble to explain how these countries hurted us, and why other recent coups in Africa aren't the subject of our revenge, their cohesion is nice but other african countries won't unite with them as much as they should because of ideological differences(, you're probably in favor of a communist hegemony without socio-economic differences, so you'll probably disagree with me here, but i want diversity, in unity), and at the root of a lot of our troubles is our refusal to unite in diversity, whether in Africa, Asia, Europe, ..., i don't see a single war which couldn't have been avoided by a desire to unite in diversity, yet millenias later we still don't know how to do that, there's no global cooperation, nationalism breeds more problems than humanism/internationalism. They could gain more power/leverage by uniting(, and it's the same for workers).
The three comments here seem to agree that it should happen in an ideal world, but won't. I don't have a more realistic solution in mind but if anyone else can bring me a better angle to look at the current situation i'd be grateful.

That's partly why they should cooperate, if they act&stick together they'll be too numerous to be stopped, but that's a preoccupation to be wary about, yes.

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Yeah, totally, they did what they could for n.a.t.o. to publicly acknowledge three times their demand from October 2021 to January 2022 but were ignored if i'm only relying on my memories. And they threatened Ukraine in the beginning of 2021 by amassing their troops at their borders but then retreated, so it wasn't some kind of unprovoked invasion coming from nowhere, our heads of state were clearly aware of the russian demands but lied to their population as usual(, because we're too stupid to be told the truth or sthg).
I'd have to find the sources here as well, but Ukraine already wrote in its constitution that joining the n.a.t.o. was a national priority, and as usual we'll have to thank Eastern Galicia for that(, so it's not a russian illusion about some imaginary threat, they possibly waited for V.Putin to step down before acting), and apparently european "partners" were much less insistant on Ukraine's admission than americans(, confirmed in facts but i still kinda doubt it), the most famous warning about n.a.t.o. expansion dated back from the Munich security conference in 2007, but it can be found since 1991.

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The opposite seems more truthful : the n.a.t.o. and e.u. were given every chances to welcome Russia, but they immediately took steps to establish their hegemony(, including the bombing of Yugoslavia, and the whole Middle-East), before "protecting protesters" in Lybia V.Putin already knew that we were the biggest liars on Earth, he saw what was hidden behind our lies and opposed Dmitry Medvedev(, almost every article from 2011 says that it was rare for him), who was ready to believe us one more time(, and quickly regretted his trust).
We(sterners) had more than one chance to be united in diversity, we still have this possibility now, instead we're opposing everyone who doesn't conform to our "values". If we(sterners)'re not stopped then neo-colonialism won't end and any country judged too diverse will be forced to conform. Also, Russia is considered too large/powerful and hence too difficult to control, thus a potential threat to western hegemony/"enforced peace", allowing western hegemony may imply a smaller and/or less powerful Russia.
There's more details on everything that Russia(, and even the u.s.s.r. before,) did in order to unite with the west, but we're so certain of our moral&economic&military&.. superiority that we won't agree to any concession.
It's a badly written comment, there's only two arguments and i'd have to search in my computer folders for any sources i may have(, i remember that in the first years after Yeltsin resigned, V.Putin took many measures to unite with the west, and obtained such things as the NATO-Russia Council). I still think that there's a lot of truth in writing that Russia had&'will have' to abandon its diversity in order to have a hope of uniting with the west(, in the sense of not being unfairly attacked by our politicians&medias since they're probably too big to be integrated into the e.u. anyway, they could join n.a.t.o. but they would have to agree with our goal for hegemony and apparently prefer to suffer than being immoral).

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A problem is also that we don't know about some instances, lemmit.online has the content you seek. And check c/Fediverse@lemmy.world if you'd like to discover more new stuff.

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I double-checked and you're entirely right, i didn't know that, i've heard many years ago that a single big lightning strike could power a large city for months(, while it's indeed more a matter of minutes, if not less), and thought that it was a technological problem(, and that, e.g., flying devices anchored on the ground to either a portable infrastructure or a nationwide-extended network, could potentially make up for the unreliability and follow the storms, or even perhaps cause them one day).
Now i understand even better why solar power is preferred, thanks !

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