SpaceCowboy

I see you put a lot of effort into this, but Russia is pals with Iran, has hosted Hamas in Moscow. Israel has provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine from the beginning, Zelenskyy was very supportive of Israel after October 7. Israel this year has started to provide Military aid to Ukraine.

The air strikes in Syria you mention included a strike on a drone making factory. Same kinds of drones Russia uses against Ukraine. Ukrainians were largely disappointed by Israel not giving them Iron Dome tech at the time (which probably wasn't feasible, it's a complicated system designed to protect an area much smaller than Ukraine), but welcomed the destruction of the drone factory since those are the drones used against them.

It's very obvious the Israel, Ukraine and NATO are in alignment on one side. Russia, Iran (and their Axis of Resistance) are in alignment on the other side. Not exactly strong allies and it's clearly two different wars, but Israel and Russia are most certainly not friends, and Iran is supplying Russia with weapons.

lemmy.ml tends to have an immature userbase with immature mods. It's a weird bubble of insane extremists that are all about ideological purity tests. They aren't really interested in discussion and will ban anyone that doesn't conform to their extremism. And their extremists are constantly edging towards stochastic terrorism.

So needless to say, I'm banned from lemmy.ml, and I feel like that's a badge of honour. But that does mean I won't be engaging with any community that's hosted on lemmy.ml.

So if you want to have discussion that's not about how super awesome the violent overthrow of the government of your country would be, I'd recommend not hosting your community on lemmy.ml.

What colour was the USSR?

Same color as the Nazis I think.

In 2000, the NY Times arbitrarily went with Red for Republicans because the first letter matched. This was the first time they printed color maps for an election. Everyone else kinda just went along with what the NY Times was doing that year.

And yeah, like you say CNN was showing that map a lot in 2000 and once people started saying "red state" and "blue state" it kinda stuck.

If you want people to use your website,

Why do you assume that's the end goal? Pretty sure their goal is to get paid. The website is a means to deliver content to people. If we're talking about news sites, then I think they'd prefer people buy a newspaper. But since they have to have a website they need to figure out a way to make some money or they're going to get laid off.

Sucks for them.

Well if we're all having this attitude, then why should anyone care about your preferences for no ads? You've taken the low ground and anyone can now say "Sucks for you" if you don't like seeing ads.

Sure and maybe by not voting these people could've said "I wasn't foolish, I was just lazy!"

But unfortunately for them, Jill Stein was on the ballot and they foolishly voted for her and here we are.

The death rate has already gone way down as Israel shifted from assault to low intensity warfare in Gaza. Look at these numbers from the UN in June: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-19-june-2024

Notice the curve flattening? According to Al Jazeera the death toll is at 42,500 now. So 5 months to get to 30K (assault phase). Then 7 months to get from 30K to ~43K (low intensity phase). So it's a rate of less than 2K per month now. At the present rate, the Israel-Hamas war would have to go on for over 23 years to get to the level of casualties from the Syrian civil war.

Yahya Sinwar was just killed because he had to go above ground with only two guards. Do you really think Hamas is going to hold out for 23 years? Come on, you're smarter than this.

Sorry but the numbers just don't fit the genocide narrative that people here can't let go of. If you're starting from genocide being the absolute truth, then you're incentivized to ignore a lot of facts and start saying things that don't make a lot of sense to conform to a narrative.

Are we really being upset about a line moving up a couple of pixels when we're talking about polling on Trump? The polls have never been accurate on Trump and besides that there really isn't really a model for a convicted felon that tried to overthrow democracy running in a Presidential election. Nobody will know what the numbers are until the votes are counted.

No matter what the polls say it doesn't change what needs to be done. Vote. Support the Harris campaign in whatever way you're able to. If Trump was polling at 60% or if he was polling at 30% it wouldn't change what needs to be done.

Vote.

The comment you replied to is also an example of free speech. I see it made you a little butt-hurt that this guy isn't interested in what you have to say. But that's the nature of free speech, you can say what you want, but others a free to think you're a waste of time.

Perhaps if someone isn't interested in what you have to say, you shouldn't bother replying to them.

Biden said that Obama was asking for too much and could risk Israel stop listening to the US.

So in your version of events, was Biden right that Israel would stop listening to the US? Like is Israel not listening to the US because Biden was unable to convince Obama? Or are you saying Israel does listen to the US and Biden is making Netanyahu do things he doesn't really want to do?

Really not sure what your point is here.

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