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by charbroiled 1y ago
Good job uncritically posting a fake screenshot. It's edited from the public stats page you can find on third-party 4chan archives. You can even check the numbers at a given date from the Internet Archive. https://web.archiv
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by charbroiled 2y ago
You do in some countries. For instance, knowingly possessing video of the Christchurch massacre is illegal in New Zealand, due to a ruling by NZ’s Chief Censor (yes, that’s the actual title), and punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Pers
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Well, there’s been a (tense) ceasefire for nearly the last 20 years, that was eventually broken on October 8 by Hezbollah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
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by charbroiled 2y ago
He’s not referring to the Gazan attacks of October 7, but the Hezbollah rocket attacks that started on October 8 and continue to this day, flouting the 18-year ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and causing the evacuation of over 95,000
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Israel has had a “no comment” policy for many years. Why? I can think of a few reasons. One is that some operations, if acknowledged by Israel, would trigger a proportionate response by the target, but if not acknowledged would allow the ta
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by charbroiled 2y ago
There has been a UN-brokered ceasefire since the later 2006 war. Minor issues have occurred since then, but October 8 was the first major escalation between the two in almost twenty years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by charbroiled 2y ago
It says thousands were injured, not that the thousands injured were civilians. In fact, it’s likely that most casualties were Hezbollah operatives. From the first link: “Reports from Lebanon said Hezbollah recently received a new batch of i
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Hamas may be the “legitimate” government of Gaza (or at least the most recently elected one), but Hezbollah is not the legitimate government of Lebanon; it’s a minority party with outsized influence in parts of Lebanon due to its militia an
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by charbroiled 2y ago
What NPR report says thousands of civilians were injured? None of these do: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23452/hezbollah-pagers-e... https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since October 8, when Hezbollah started firing guided rockets at Israel.
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Thousands were injured, yes. How many of the thousands injured belonged to Hezbollah? It’s a safe bet that the majority of injuries were sustained by owners of these Hezbollah-supplied pagers. International law allows, to some extent, colla
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by charbroiled 2y ago
Hezbollah started encouraging its operatives to switch to pagers months ago, out of fear that Israel would compromise or had compromised their cell phones. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-ho
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by charbroiled 2y ago
> Of the deleted comments examined across platforms and countries, between 87.5% and 99.7%, depending on the sample, were legally permissible. Even of the content that’s not “legally permissible,” it’s worth questioning what exactly is n
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by charbroiled 3y ago
Indeed. Consider this video, for example: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1397186381756125184 This is certainly Hamas-created propaganda. I could see it inciting someone to join the cause. Yet it reveals tha
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by charbroiled 3y ago
Stated purpose of law: prohibits advocating genocide. Actual effect of law: prohibits preserving evidence of genocide. I know there’s, broadly speaking, a difference in how freedom of speech is defined in America versus Europe. The (slightl