this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
816 points (94.6% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

9748 readers
265 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MTK@lemmy.world 135 points 2 months ago (6 children)

As far as I understand Israel doesn't claim that it didn't bomb a school area, it claims that it was filled with terrorists and had to go.

If I'm understanding this right, Israel is saying "this is the price that Gaza pays because we have to kill the terrorists" while also trying to minimize to the press how many civilians were actually caught up in these bombings.

Basically killing Hamas is above any Palestinian human rights for Israel, though I suspect that if the world wasn't watching, the genocidal government there would actually just straight up give orders to kill them all.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No need to suspect. They've said many times that global opinion is the only thing curbing their genocide.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/06/middleeast/israeli-minister-smotrich-starve-gazans-intl/index.html

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Nice, just straight up admit to it.

At least they are honest, right?

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They have it in writing (leaked months ago) that some ridiculous number like over 1000 Palestinian civilian casualties were acceptable if they got to kill a terrorist.

Also, anyone in colors or in proximity to Hamas members or known gathering areas in the last 2 years, is automatically labeled a terrorist by Israel

Basically they pretend to have a formula to regulate civilian casualties but they have twisted its variables so far that any scenario can be solved by bombing no matter the collateral damage

technically they didn't twist the variables, they just lied, or vastly misrepresented them.

[–] match@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i'm not sure the israeli government thinks there are civilians in palestine

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Just yesterday I was playing the Batman telltale series. In it, Mayor Dent, during his descent into becoming Two Face, blows up a city block in Gotham in an attempt to thwart a terrorist organization. Two Face was put in a mental asylum for the action. I vote we do the same thing to Netanyahu.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Haven't the schools been closed for several months now? There shouldn't be any civilians in there, let alone kids.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Civilians are sheltering in the schools, since, you know, they’re running out of buildings.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

There shouldn’t be any civilians in there, let alone kids.

Drop enough bombs and you can be assured there isn't.