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They're far beyond that point. Their only concern right now is to finish their genocide before they're stopped.

Yes, it's not that genocide has never happened in democracies. But in the US, democratic institutions were not the driving factors behind the genocide: you did not have actors locked in to their genocidal actions due to the democratic institutions. Democracy and genocide in America were two largely separate things.

My idea here is that while the genocides on Native Americans were genocides in a democracy, Israel's genocide can be categorized as a genocide by democracy. It is made possible, or at the very least worse, by democratic institutions (however flawed).

It's just a shower thought really, I might obviously be wrong. But I have a fairly good overview of the history of genocide and I am fairly certain this one is unique in this regard.

I really think celebrity changes the nature of this. I suspect the media's urge to cover celebrity news is even greater than their urge not to talk about Israel's crimes.

Indeed - I think one of the big takeaways from this for the international community will be just how incompatible apartheid is with democracy, or how blending the two creates an incredibly toxic mix. It has been obvious to (honest) observers and to supporters of Palestine for a long time, but recent experiences in Israel shows how democracy is not worth the paper of the ballots if democracy does not extend to everyone.

Seeing how Netanyahu deals with criticism from the Israeli opposition will be extremely interesting. I think it's safe to say liberal Israelis have bigger things to worry about than Hamas.

I don't know many israelis, but the ones I do know are on the streets protesting all the time now. Accounts differ, but there are many signs that Netanyahu is not particularly popular even at home these days.

What is pretty unique about Israel's genocide is that it is strangely democratic in nature. Sure, Israeli democracy is hardly a democracy at all, but it plays by democratic rules for the part of the population who are considered full citizen. And within this democratic system Netanyahu and his crooks have painted themselves into a corner, where they need to appease the most extremist extreme right terrorists they have chosen as coalition partners. Because the second they stop the government will fall and they will almost certainly be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

So the combination of the existence of these crimes and the democracy-like institutions in Israel are actually forcing Netanyahu to double down on genocide. It's pretty crazy.

In the third Reich, the first thing the NSDAP did was to abolish democratic institutions. Israel's genocide is very different - dynamics of democratic government are actively fueling the fire of their holocaust. It's the first ever democratic genocide. When the dust settles, I think this is going to give us a lot to think about.

I'm writing this from Interstellar, it's pretty sweet.

It's not tailored perfectly to PieFed yet - for example it's more oriented towards communities than feeds - but it's working really well and feels snappy.

I wonder how many civilians in Gaza Israel would have to murder in order to gain the same amount of press as they would receive for killing two famous white people.

I suspect there were never enough people there to solve this equation.

Notepad++, fucking what hahaha.

And yeah, it really does not take much research online to learn about gsconnect.

I don't understand the hardware support part, but I also don't understand "peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice". If I had to install software to use my keyboard I would riot. Maybe I'm just too primitive.

I'm pretty sure I change my pitch depending on which language I'm speaking. Scandinavian languages go pretty low, English and German is somewhere in the middle, and in French and Italian I go pretty high out of some desperate hope that it will make me easier to understand. I'm not sure it helps much.

Intonation of course changes, though probably not enough. And I'm pretty sure someone from a village close to home could recognize traces of my accent no matter which language I'm trying to speak.

“I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face,’ and he did”

"Oh the black eye? It's nothing, I was just teaching my 5-year old to punch me in the face, because that's a normal and healthy thing to do"

Lots of questionable things here, but cheese on rye bread for dinner? In Greece?!

Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

It's just Facebook sucking really.