fosforus

@fosforus@sopuli.xyz

politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus, (edited )

I mean it’s not great what they’ve done in Gaza, but just to recalibrate your senses a bit, this is what happens when a nation actually commits genocide against a weaker people inside its borders: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

A significant metric to look at is population growth. Gaza strip is one of the densest population areas in the world, and it has been growing rapidly. This is, incidentally, the reason why most of their population is under-age. In Uyghur areas, in contrast, population has been diminishing in growing rates.

Of course, you shouldn’t also ignore the forced labor, political indoctrination, forced sterilization, forced contraception, forced abortion. I don’t think Israel has done any of these? Israel has destroyed some mosques in their attacks, whereas China has razed or damaged 16 thousand mosques in Uyghur areas. Granted, the area is much larger, so there are probably more mosques in there also. But you should note that China is not at war against Uyghurs, and hasn’t been attacked by them – they’re just destroying them.

Here’s another: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

And en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

(Why is it almost always the people who call themselves communists?)

And of course there’s the Holocaust, but I suppose it’s not classy to refer to that in this case.

fosforus, (edited )

Perhaps all the people who would downvote me have already blocked me ;-)

But seriously, this is not whataboutism. It’s an appeal to recalibrate and come to senses, and most importantly, not dilute an important and serious concept like genocide. Even what happened/is happening in Ukraine is probably not a genocide even though I’m happily 100% against Russia.

fosforus, (edited )

If you’re looking for a thoughtful legal analysis, you should check this out: thenation.com/…/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-ge…

This seemed like a high quality analysis by a respectable academic, then the very first source I checked out turned out to be an amazing exaggeration. The article states

Tens of thousands are injured, and over 45% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed.

So I check the source, which is a paywalled WSJ article. Already the title of the article is

At Least 45% of Housing Units Destroyed or Damaged in Gaza

Destroyed or damaged. Should I check the other sources for similar “mistakes”? Perhaps I just got lucky and found the only bullshit reference from this article written by a Harvard Law School PhD graduate?

Or perhaps Harvard Law Review was onto something when they didn’t publish it and I would be wasting my time looking through all of them instead of just trusting them on this.

I’m very comfortable calling the campaign against Gaza in the last few weeks genocide

Why?

fosforus,

What if somebody bullies me at school and I genocide him a little bit?

fosforus, (edited )

What about … examples

Sure, many of these happened in a time where communism was still more like a theory (or not even that yet) than anything tried in practice. People who called themselves communist did a lot of these in a single century, most of them after WW2.

Besides, Pol Pot wasn’t much of a communist

To be fair, I said people “who call themselves communist”.

fosforus, (edited )

You looked at my reply to your comment and thought I was being serious?

fosforus,

Yes, my apologies. School bullying is a serious problem.

fosforus, (edited )

Pol Pot pretended to be a communist, until it no longer suited him and he had them killed.

He was the leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963-1981, at which point it was rebranded as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, which he lead until 1985. Also that new party was communist. The Cambodian genocide was roughly 1975-1979.

Are you just defining people who are absolutely horrible not communists even though they call themselves communist, are allied with other governments who call themselves communist, and execute similar policies as them? I mean I get the impulse, I also get plenty of negative feelings when I think about pro-free market, pro-freedom politicians who commit atrocities or say stupid shit and would rather that those people don’t exist. Sadly, real world doesn’t always like us.

fosforus, (edited )

Why does anybody use ubuntu etc when they could use debian?

Debian is good, but people working on polishing a thing from 9 to 5, 5 days a week can do a lot.

fosforus,

This is the best comic I’ve seen this year.

fosforus, (edited )

I was kinda worried for a while that since kids these days don’t really have music as a tool to rebel against their parents, and as for shocking via clothing or something like goth or satanism… they’re just recycling 80s and 90s all over again. So how are they gonna do it?

Not so worried anymore. They always find something. And not just from language. The ways to be fucking idiots are endless and as a really novel thing, kids these days go up to 30 year olds.

fosforus,

ok

fosforus, (edited )

I kinda agree with some of the sentiment here, but if you hate the city, is it necessary to live there? I think it’s usually even more expensive than outside the city so you cannot explain it with money.

fosforus,

By kinda agreeing with some of the sentiment there?

fosforus,

What a bitch.

fosforus, (edited )

Netanyahu has gone on record saying he has helped prop Hamas up in order to sow division between Gaza and the West Bank.

Do you have a source for this? I couldn’t find it, although this was pretty close: timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-…

fosforus, (edited )

It’s not easy, but I think people should have a value system that’s independent from how others behave.

fosforus, (edited )

This comic brings me hope. That some day, if I work really hard, I might be a web comic artist as well.

fosforus, (edited )

Because I made it unbootable by doing something dumb or one of its tools was horribly broken and made my system unbootable? :) This was years ago, though, it’s probably more stable these days.

fosforus,

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

fosforus, (edited )

Why would you demand a negative thing for another group to counter a negative thing for one group? That makes no sense.

But also, “American children” has plenty of cultural material to build an image from. Probably some of it is obese and filled with junk food, but a good portion is most probably something else. In contrast, the only public photo material of palestinian children is either from adults carrying them away from some atrocity or adults giving them assault rifles and parading them for the cameras. In short, they seem to only exist as propaganda material.

fosforus, (edited )

Instead of the hammer, she should’ve given him a petri dish full of diabetes.

(Yes, I know that’s not a thing)

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