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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The reason it seems "muddled" to you is likely because bigotry itself is based in ignorance.

Many people just accept and absorb what they've heard or seen in cartoons and popular media while growing up, lumping different groups of people together based on oversimplifications and misrepresentations of who they are. The assumptions on which people base their Islamophobia are quite racist, conflating Arab identity (which people think they know by a person's appearance based on racist stereotypes) with Islam. The point is to be able to identify the bigotry for what it is.

If you try to define a form bigotry by the actual reality it's misrepresenting, you'll miss the bigotry itself.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Islamophobia is a type of racism. Brown people who aren't even muslim (like Sikhs) often get caught up in it, precisely because the ignorance that fuels it is based in racism.

So we argue that “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/islamophobia-racism-definition-free-speech-theresa-may

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was "duck, and cover"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is clear now is that the very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza over the past 17 years are now being used against them. Israeli and American military explosives have enabled Hamas to shower Israel with rockets and, for the first time, penetrate Israeli towns from Gaza.

“Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.”

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/where-hamas-getting-weapons-increasingly-160335631.html

From an older piece with more context:

The Iranian narrative is that they kick-started all the missile production in Gaza and gave them the technical and knowledge base, but now the Palestinians are self-sufficient, said Fabian Hinz, an independent security analyst focusing on missiles in the Mideast.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-20/hamas-amass-arsenal-rockets-strike-israel

Also:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/much-of-hamas-explosives-comes-from-idf-fire-that-failed-to-detonate-report/
(There's also a NY Times article with a similar headline to the Yahoo! one, but it's paywalled.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

From what I've heard in reporting, they build rockets from parts of unexploded Israeli bombs. Over the last 4 months, I have no doubt they've found a few duds and accumulated the material with which to hack these things together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wow, I think it's been years. I lost the game (after at first misreading "dug" as "drug"). Good night!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh I see. Does it look similar to the picture above? I'm used to the earlier version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The one most people know from the 1990s (Definitely on Windows 3.1, and probably Win 95) specifically was won only when all non-mine spaces were safely revealed. I know in my own case at least, I determined early on that flags were superfluous and ignored them in favour of better times.

But maybe at some point there was a game mode that let you finish by marking flags only, even when clear squares weren't all revealed? It wouldn't be the main game mode (or even present in the version I know), but I could see if that existed out there somewhere.

edit I saw it confirmed by someone below there are indeed people playing newer versions of the game that have a "guess-free" mode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it ever comes to it, rioters are probably going to go after celebrities (possibly including influencers). There seems to be an increasing trend of people being turned off by inauthentic charm and conspicuous consumption, these days. Also, more and more of them seem to have been born into the life (like a child of a celebrity) rather than being elevated from working class life.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I'm Gen X and not a fan of chat abbreviations but I was mostly just lost on "bussin'" (so I looked it up on Urban Dictionary). Not sure if "I vibe it" is like a form of "vibing" or more like "I'm feeling it" (or something else) though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ron DeSantis and his white boots

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I also thought they had the opportunity to draw two black lines in an X over the dead twitter logo bird.

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