289
‘A new Nakba’: settler violence forces Palestinians out of West Bank villages
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
289 points (95.3% liked)
World News
39032 readers
2849 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
you know, what I find really interesting is that's there's basically no discussion on the news subs until someone espouses a comment that's basically against the policy that everyone appears to blindly abide by - but then an absolute mass of people chime in about how the offending comment is wrong, or how they're a traitor for not being willing to toe the party line, or are just flat out insulting.
it's really kind of hilarious - and it indicates that lemmy really isnt the next big thing, not like reddit was or digg before it. the decentralized nature just works against it. the expected response is that "you just need to find the right community" - but it really seems that a lot of people on the news subs just want to argue. the politics subs are even worse - they're basically echo chambers for the small minded, and they're proud of it.
find the right community -> start the right community
Otherwise, I agree. Too much group think, not enough open and thoughtful debate.
no real debate at all, just... arguing, then insults fly when they discover arguing isnt working. it's a sad state of affairs.
to be fair you are VERY difficult to hold a conversation with. You don't acknowledge points, you move goal posts, and you switch topics often. Many of your posts appear to be trying to elicit a emotional response from people.
But I think you know this, you even named yourself 'Toxic', so this shouldn't be a surprise.
Many people get frustrated in those circumstances and lash out.
it's unfortunate, but many just devolve to their base instincts. yes, yes, I see your point - and I'll admit that you've got a point. I was/am/have been attempting to engage a diverse community in discussion. too often it seems that "discussion" in these threads is "X is bad" and then a bunch of folks chiming in "I hate X", "X stole my lunch money", "X slept with my wife and she left me because of Y reason", etc, etc. there's no actual discussion in the sense that we're exchanging ideas or broadening each other's worldviews. it's just supporting criticisms. maybe that's what people learn these days in colleges?
other than our linguistical expertise, our prose, it could easily be a transcript of insults between a few younger children on a playground somewhere. and I find that depressing. so I attempt to engage - but more often than naught it's like screaming into the dark & praying for a response - any response, even just someone else screaming back.
anyway, I digress.