This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I’m convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

    • @PugJesusM
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      114 months ago

      A genocide isn’t waging war, a genocide is actively hunting civilians and making life impossible.

      Yeah, that’s what Israel is doing

      I don’t know what else you get from Israel’s actions and stated concerns. In a year, they’ve killed a greater percentage of Gazans than Coalition forces killed Iraqis in all ~10 years of the Iraq War. And Coalition forces in Iraq were (rightfully) accused of being metaphorically trigger-happy.

        • @PugJesusM
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          54 months ago

          So, what would you accept as a credible source for Israeli genocide, theoretically?

            • @PugJesusM
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              44 months ago

              What’s a consensus, in this case? Supermajority? Plurality?

              • @[email protected]
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                Majority. As long as they can present convincing evidence (i.e. evidence that doesn’t rely on trusting the word of Hamas and/or their friends in Doha and Tehran).

                Edit: I’ll also say that I trust some Western governments more than others. I’ll take the word of the current German government over that of the current Italian one, for example.

                • @PugJesusM
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                  24 months ago

                  Understanding that any government declaration that Israel is committing genocide would necessarily require politically hazardous action in accompaniment, do you require that the majority of Western governments declare Israel is committing genocide, or only that a significant and credible portion of the legal and foreign policy institutions of Western governments declare as much?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    14 months ago

                    Ideally I would want to see governmental acknowledgment, but I wouldn’t call it a hard requirement. But ultimately it depends on the evidence presented, and on the people and institutions who agree/disagree with it. I can’t really give you a more firm answer than that.

            • @PugJesusM
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              14 months ago

              As mentioned above, there is no genocide, and that’s why no credible source is speaking about a genocide.

              Theoretically speaking, what sources would you accept as authoritative on the matter of an ongoing genocide?

                • @PugJesusM
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                  34 months ago

                  There is no credible authority body that calles or doesn’t call something genocide, genocide has a very clear definition and genocide is defined according to that definition,

                  Then why say

                  and that’s why no credible source is speaking about a genocide.

                  as an objection?

                  You’re all over the place.

          • @[email protected]M
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            54 months ago

            Please don’t use Al Jazeera, they are owned by the Qatari government, which is the same government that actively holds Hamas leadership. They are extraordinarily biased and not to be taken seriously.

        • @Bakersfield
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          -24 months ago

          UN isn’t a credible source

          Did you really just “fake news” the UN? LOL!

    • @[email protected]M
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      14 months ago

      As far as I’m concerned, it’s genocide vs genocide, as it has been since ancient history.