BarbecueCowboy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like the primary aim is to create a minimalist art piece first and a functional device as an afterthought. If you stop thinking of it as a phone, and think of it purely as an attempt at creating a status symbol, it all kind of makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Source was included in OPs post, not sure of the reasoning behind putting it through the wayback machine, but to each their own. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a There's a few more links within the article with other details.

The spreadsheet linked in the post is a bit weird but also has a lot of other interesting supporting details.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People tend to forget that one of the key justifications for Hamas splitting off as a distinct organization was that they felt their former parent organization was not supportive enough of open violence against Israel. Also important to note, the initial charter classifies diplomatic solutions as a waste of time and war as the only possible answer.

Per your genocide comment, I'm guessing you're talking about the hadith advocating that Judgement Day will not come until they have killed all Jewish people everywhere. It's very rough, but do want to note that there is a much later statement indicating the possibility of living in peace with other faiths as long as they are never ever challenged. But... this is also sandwiched between a call for everyone to join them in jihad and a callout to a document with questionable provenance detailing a plot for the jewish people to take over the world.

Anyone can read the whole charter online, obviously translation bias is a thing, but the translations I've seen out there are very harsh. There are items in there about 'Palestinian Lives and Rights', they've got notes codifying the status of women as lesser and taking jabs at anyone advocating for women as doing it just to make them look bad. There are a few random items in there that do look harmless at first glance, I'd encourage everyone to at least take a look through it, it's not very long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I completely believe you, but pointing at Lemmygrad for anything like that is kind of a low bar. If there's any possibility that it could go against Western Interests, the community is automatically for it. They don't really care what's actually going on, they just work backwards from being 'Anti-Western' and figure out how to support it later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

no matter what's on the other side.

You're redirecting now and trying to walk it back, but those are your words.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I feel like your argument here gets slippery very quickly. You're basically advocating for 'win at all costs' if you're on a specific side and that's real hard to support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll find a lot of comments along the lines of the Hamas government and Hamas terrorist organization being fundamentally separate entities. You'll also find a lot of people dismissing the claims in articles like this one or trying to paint anyone in Hamas inciting violence as 'not important'.

The idea is to foster a narrative to paint Israel as 'just as bad as hamas' and while Israel has done many bad things, the gap between the two is massive. I think it mostly comes from a desire to paint one side as 'good' and one side as 'evil' which isn't always easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right there with you on the UI. This would overlap in functionality with a lot of other items in my network, but I'm trying to find a reason to use it just so I can play with the UI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're being sarcastic, but I could go for a few more of those.

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