bartolomeo

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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They used the word "pylon" in the article, which I assumed (only) meant it was wooden. Turns out I was wrong, but now I'm struggling to imagine how one can light this

on fire.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 33 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Tens of millions of dollars of damage caused by lighting one single electricity pole on fire? I don't support destroying public property but that is amazing bang for your buck!

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 12 points 7 months ago

That's impossible, the IDF is the most moral army in the world...

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 11 points 7 months ago

“It is appalling that in the 21st century slavery and forced labour still exist in the world,” said Pierre-Yves Dermagne, the deputy prime minister of Belgium, which holds the rotating EU presidency, prioritised the ban.

“This hideous crime must be eradicated and the first step to achieve this consists in breaking the business model of companies that exploit workers.”

Companies that exploit workers? How far are they going to go with that; is tying healthcare to employment and constantly raising output requirements considered exploitation?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In July 2013, the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood organised a massive sit-in in the Rabaa al Adawiya to denounce the the coup.

Security forces later raided the square and killed hundreds of people in a single day in what they termed a counter-terrorism operation.

If your "counter-terrorism" operation involves killing citizens peacefully protesting the ousting of the democratically elected president, then you're the terrorist.

The real lesson here is that democracy means you vote for the candidate that will benefit USA / Israel.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 7 months ago

uniquely historically bad to warrant its own terminology

Actually in that context Holocaust only refers to the Jewish victims of genocide. To not erase the 5 million other vuctims it's necessary to use the term Nazi genocide.

The thing with the Palestinian genocide is that the Israelis were

  • killing members of the group;
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, but doing it so slowly as to not arouse a response. I mean, it was happening before the current war, especially the "inflicting on the group conditions of life" part. It's truly sick.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

House Bill 500 would repeal current state legislation that requires employers to allow workers a lunch break for every three to five hours of work completed. The bill, if it becomes law, would require employers to pay workers while they are eating instead of giving them a break.

I don't get it, it is a paid lunch break or eat while you work? Or are those considered the same thing?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 7 months ago

They might have meant Chinese families in Texas.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Who tf is buying??

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is a cool website, thank you for sharing.

After seeing the sign they held up in Illinois, I'm confused now how the word genocide should be used. It says "Israeli genocide in Palestine", which brings to mind the Armenian genocide (Armenians were the victims) and Nazi genocide (Nazis were the perpetrators). Can the word genocide be used to refer to both the victims and perpetrators of genocide?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Israel's attack in Beirut in January that killed several Hamas guys always makes me wonder, "how can they succesfully target a single apartment on valid intelligence and pull it off in Lebanon, but in Gaza they level city after city, civilians and all?"

Genocide. The answer is genocide.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Despite concerted efforts to encourage them to come forward, the mission team was not able to interview any of these survivors/victims

This is a report about information gathered from Israeli sources, including the IDF.

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