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zerfuffle,

We’re talking about the same Tibet where, throughout history, almost every single major government position has been held by a Tibetan, right?

zerfuffle, (edited )

By the widely recognized origin of the word (the Soviet Union rolling in tanks to suppress revolution in Hungary) and what it means (people in support of that use of force and tanks to suppress civilian revolution), supporters of Israel and the US are both “tankies.” Glad we agree, good talk!

Let me be a bit more clear:

By the widely recognized origin of the word

Edit: maybe I wasn’t clear enough

widely recognized origin

zerfuffle,

Tankie refers to those people who supported the Soviet use of tanks to quell the Hungarian revolution. Literally, it’s the exact same thing Israel is doing in Gaza.

zerfuffle,

Yawn

zerfuffle, (edited )

The same 6 million Tibetans living in Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan? Those Tibetans? The same Tibetans who are the ethnic majority in TAR and make up a significant proportion of the population of Qinghai?

Oh, you meant the Central Tibetan Administration, which nets about 100 people a year leaving China. The same one that’s seeing people return to China because the economic prospects elsewhere are worse.

Edit: the TAR, which is governed by Losang Jamcan as Congress Chairman, Yan Jinhai as Government Chairman, and Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai as CPPCC Chairman… All Tibetan. The Tibetan deputies to the National People’s Congress… Also Tibetan. Life expectancy increased from 36yo to 72yo. GDP/capita and disposable income/capita growing rapidly YoY. Billions of dollars in infrastructure investment, including the Lhasa HSR. Interesting strategy for a genocide, that’s for sure.

zerfuffle,

You’re claiming there’s a blood smear from a tank running over a body.

Have you seen a tank before? Do you think a tank is just a single block of metal?

zerfuffle, (edited )

Have you seen the blood streaks that tank tracks create? You can look at some of the videos in Gaza if you want to.

Try again, maybe this time with actual evidence instead of unfounded conjecture.

Edit: To clarify, I don’t think anybody is denying that people were hurt and killed on 6/4. Let’s make that clear. If anything, the Tank Man video shows that tank drivers were under orders to avoid civilian casualties.

zerfuffle,

Infamous because… People buy them? Better tell Apple that all crimes conducted by their users are the responsibility of the company.

zerfuffle,

Given the very close relations between Cambodia and China, I’m leaning towards this being an acknowledged information-sharing scheme.

zerfuffle, (edited )

It’s a fundamentally different problem here: it’s new infrastructure, which in this day and age is barely profitable in terms of first-order effects (fees, fares, etc.) but is significantly profitable in terms of second- and third-order effects (economic growth, new businesses, yada yada).

If you could build a new subway in New York, spend zero capital, but have to give up the fare revenue for that subway, why wouldn’t you?

Also, the India/US alternative is to… Just outright give the Indian Adani group a majority stake in their port expansion. So much better. So much. Truly.

zerfuffle,

Have you considered that the journalist might have been Hamas?

Just like that Reuters journalist that was killed. Just like that Al Jazeera journalist that was killed.

Odd. A lot of journalists are being killed. Maybe they’re all Hamas?

zerfuffle,

Those Israelis must all be Hamas.

zerfuffle,

Israel really isn’t doing themselves any favours by partnering with Azerbaijan, which literally just did some good old fashioned ethnic cleansing.

How international law applies to war, and why Hamas and Israel are both alleged to have broken it (english.elpais.com)

The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza.

zerfuffle,

International law doesn’t work too well when basically everyone ignores it.

Russia? Yep. The US? Yep. Ukraine? Yep. Israel? Yep. Palestine? Yep. China? Yep. Vietnam? Yep. Taiwan? Yep.

People are too attached to their profits and global trade to do anything.

Doctor at a Gaza hospital pleads for help: "We had to perform a premature delivery from a mother’s womb while she was dying.” --- [video, 2 min] (www.unfpa.org)

Dr. Nasser Bulbul, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, spoke to the UN about the extreme suffering of pregnant women and orphaned infants living in a state of fear and terror as the bombardment intensifies.

zerfuffle,

The baby could have been Hamas, though, so clearly it’s justified.

UN condemns Israel: 'It’s the innocent civilians who are losing’ (news.un.org)

UN human rights office (OHCHR) spokesperson Liz Throssell highlighted concerns over Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia and Al Bureij refugee camps in recent days with dozens of residential buildings destroyed, as well as the high number of casualties reported in the enclave and the “reported use of explosive weapons with wide area...

zerfuffle,

I guess the UNHRC is also Hamas, huh?

Israel-Palestine megathread for the remainder of the weekend

the front page is now like half articles on this currently, so it’s probably time for a megathread because none of us want to keep track of 12 threads on this subject and all the resulting comments. only major subsequent developments (for example, boots on the ground; pronunciations by governments; that sort of stuff) will get...

zerfuffle,

Have you ever looked at the tool you sent?

Please, do put in Niger and find out (FWIW, your tool is very low granularity and I know there are visualizers that show it at a more fine scale).

zerfuffle,

IDF reliability in reporting is at an all-time low.

zerfuffle,

Not surprising, Egypt cannot handle 2 million refugees and once the Palestinians leave, there’s no way Israel is letting them back.

zerfuffle,

Considering a good chunk of US media is just ingesting Reuters and adding a spin to it, I’m not surprised.

zerfuffle,

Do people not know how to use the API? $20/month is obscene.

zerfuffle,

It’s clearly working out for the IOF: No Justification for Israel to Shoot Protesters with Live Ammunition

zerfuffle,

Except the EU backtracked. It’s like everyone on here is salivating at the thought of more dead Palestinians, as if they haven’t suffered enough under apartheid.

zerfuffle,

China hasn’t even supported Russia with weapon supplies. This is fear mongering a what-if that contradicts Chinese foreign policy in the first place. China’s foreign policy is one of fierce neutrality for anyone not encroaching on their own sovereignty, often to a fault.

China considers both Israel and Palestine to be strategically important allies in the region, so there’s no way they’re going to pick a side in this conflict unless that side is in support of one of China’s more significant allies (Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.)

zerfuffle,

Recent reporting from AP indicates that the Israeli blockade has meant that the primary source of explosives used in Hamas missiles are those extracted from unexploded Israeli munitions fired on Gaza.

Iran is mostly only capable of supporting Hamas through intelligence and through designs/blueprints (things that don’t really require transport).

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