This makes no sense to me. There’s people in the comments literally telling me to go kill myself and that’s fine but, me politely disagreeing is worthy of a 30 day ban.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    45
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    because it is at best a crank conspiracy theory.

    [and yes you should do it]

    and yes bombing hospitals does make sense, Israel has done it in the past. In fact, the same hospital was ‘warning’ bombed just 2 days ago

    https://twitter.com/AVHospital/status/1713543149774160099

    https://avh.org/content/news-and-events/gaza-hospital-hit-by-israeli-rockets-urgent-evacuation-ordered.html

    October 15th:

    Yesterday, at 7:00 PM, Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which is our partner in the Diagnostic Cancer Treatment Center, was hit by two Israeli rockets. Fortunately, the extent of the damage was limited.

    Today, the hospital has received orders from Israeli authorities to evacuate the facility, including patients, staff, and 3,000 Gazan people who have sought shelter within the hospital’s premises.

    We call the international community and all humanitarian organizations to take action to prevent the evacuation orders for Al Ahli Arab Hospital and the other 22 hospital, as this action poses a significant risk to the lives of numerous patients.

    here is a 2014 article regarding Israel bombing hospitals

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/07/israelgaza-attacks-medical-facilities-and-civilians-add-war-crime-allegations/

    The third floor of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah was struck by Israeli shelling, killing four people and wounding dozens, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson.

    “Today’s attack on the Al-Aqsa hospital is the latest in a series of attacks on and near medical facilities in Gaza, which have been struggling to cope with thousands of injured people since the Israeli offensive began on 8 July,” said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.

          • Maaj [he/him]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            37
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            8 months ago

            I haven’t given an opinion on your stuff. I just told you what instance davel was from. So…your point doesn’t really have legs yet.

            • Thorny_InsightOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              8 months ago

              Up untill Davel, every single user I got a reply from relating to stuff I said on that thread was either a Hexbear or Lemmygrad user and every user since Davel has been aswell.

              • Maaj [he/him]@hexbear.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                35
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                8 months ago

                What you said was that they were “coming after you”

                I’m just making the point of stating that my conversation with you has not been “aggressive” nor has it mentioned the topic at hand. And I’m from hexbear.

                • Thorny_InsightOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  4
                  arrow-down
                  2
                  ·
                  8 months ago

                  I just mean that usually when I say something controversial, the people arguing against that are from all over the place, but in this case the opposition seems to be coming from these two instances almost exclusively. Even in this thread, that’s been posted on lemmy.ml there’s still a disproportionate amount of Hexbear users replying. I can’t say for certain, but it sure feels like they’re looking for me rather than just stumbling across this post.

        • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          8 months ago

          “why is it that whenever I post a take that’s completely divorced from material reality it’s always the materialists who tell me my take is bad?”

          Truly one of the mysteries of all time

      • willya@lemmyf.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        You must have read the instance wrong of who you’re replying to. What’s with all of this I don’t believe anything being said anywhere crap… why even go on the internet and talk to anybody? You might as well be role playing in a chat some where.

          • willya@lemmyf.uk
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            8 months ago

            With the major news going on right now there’s tons of people that don’t believe anything being said. Even if there’s photos and videos showing what they’re saying they don’t believe. It’s mind boggling.

            • Thorny_InsightOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              8 months ago

              Yeah I agree, but I don’t feel like that’s what I’m doing? My stance on the subject at hand is based on the evidence that’s available.

              • willya@lemmyf.uk
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                8 months ago

                What evidence do you need of anything sitting at a keyboard and not doing anything about anything though? I just don’t understand any of the arguments going on between people that aren’t going to do anything about anything other than typing on a damn keyboard.

    • Thorny_InsightOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      8 months ago

      Blindingly obvious to everyone else except me, apparently.

      Please educate me. I believe I’ve laid out my argument quite clearly. What is it that I’m wrong about exactly and what are you basing that on?

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        8 months ago

        The argument for it being Israel:

        • Israel has complete air superiority
        • Israel is conducting a bombing campaign against Gaza
        • Israel has threatened to attack hospitals
        • Israel has previously bombed hospitals
        • Israel has previously bombed this exact hospital
        • The audio and visual characteristics of the bomb and the damage caused (captured by multiple, independent observers) match with a JDAM guided bomb, which Israel has already used
        • Israeli sources first claimed the hospital was a Hamas base or had Hamas tunnels or arms caches, before rapidly rolling back their position to “we didn’t do it”
        • It is clearly in Israel’s interest to kill Palestinians and destroy Palestinian infrastructure, especially medical services and supplies, because they are conducting a genocide

        The argument for it being Hamas:

        • Israel says it was

        Reddit, or rather reddit-logo, is controlled by the US security state, so r/combatfootage - which banned all combat footage from Palestinian viewpoints - is not a reliable source. The idea that a ‘rocket piece’ could accidentally fall on a hospital and kill 500 people (a number reported by a first-hand MSF witness) is laughably absurd. If a Hamas rocket could cause this kind of damage, Tel Aviv would look like the surface of the fucking moon. It was OBVIOUSLY another genocidal act by the entity continuously and overtly engaged in genocidal acts. To think otherwise requires you to want to fall for their propaganda. No one in full possession of their faculties looking at the facts dispassionately could possibly conclude it was anything else.

        • Thorny_InsightOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          8 months ago

          If it was JDAM then where are the pictures of the leveled hospital/crater? Where are the pictures of 500 dead people? That’s A-grade propaganda material for Hamas so why isn’t it all over the internet? All I’m seeing is this picture which judging by the fence and tree is from outside aswell as this with a matching fence, couple burnt cars and some damaged roofing tiles. Ofcourse there’s also the video posted by IDF of aerial footage which matches that picture from the parking lot and shows a very much intanct hospital building.

          EDIT: Here’s a video from that same parking lot. I wonder why they aren’t filmin the leveled hospital instead.

          EDIT2: Well here’s some dead bodies aswell. Not sure if it’s related to the same incident, but atleast it’s something. Be aware, VERY DISTURBING footage.

          • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            25
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            8 months ago

            Well I was gonna bother responding, then I noticed your account was created five days ago and has done nothing but both-sides this conflict

            Have a very shitty rest of your shift officer 07

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    People of Lemmy,

    I see more and more toxic behaviour here. I get that this war/conflict gets to us. And everyone has strong opinions and the debate is emotional. But it reminds me more of the toxic atmosphere that used to be part of Twitter.

    I suppose the mods of political communities are having a bad day since the conflict escalated. And they are part of the debate, sometimes maybe making their decisions emotional, instead of neutral and based on reason alone. I -personally- think a 30-day is a lot, even if it is spreading misinformation. But I didn’t have a look at the facts here.

    Judging by your comments in general, you seem quite an argumentative person. I usually don’t like people focusing on negativity and (for example) debunking a single argument out of a post and then concluding they’re right and someone else is entirely wrong. It leads to us having unproductive and stressful conversations, once we manoeuvre ourselves to opposing sides that lose the ability to communicate productively and grasp the bigger picture and the context that things are set in.

    So. Please whoever is in the right or wrong, make Lemmy a nice place and not a clone of the toxicity and argumentativeness on Twitter. And don’t yell at people too much.

    OP, please be aware you’re often a very argumentative person and a big part of your way of talking to people is opposing them.

    • Thorny_InsightOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      8 months ago

      please be aware you’re often a very argumentative person

      I’m well aware of that. It’s the reason I’m on Lemmy on the first place. I love a good, long debate but I still try and be polite and listen to the counter-arguments and engage with what people are saying instead of attacking them as a person.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        Judging by the comments here, I’d say it isn’t working. (That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily your fault at this point.)

        All I want to say is: You and the people outright attacking you here are setting the tone of the conversation. I don’t feel entitled to lecture anyone on how to spend their time on the internet. For me, this thread is too toxic and not my vision of what Lemmy should be like.

        Unfortunately, the really toxic people have arrived here, targeting you and spreading hate. I don’t think this going to become a productive conversation after that. And I really don’t have good advice here. I’m going to flag the comments that are hatred and then I’m out. I’m going to focus on some more productive things somewhere else. I wish you the best. Hope Lemmy strives to become a space for diverse opinions, constructive debate and not hatred and small-mindedness.

        • Iraglassceiling [she/her]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          22
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          8 months ago

          B-but I just want to have a civil debate about why genocide is ok, why won’t anyone be nice to me? Wyahhhhh, such toxicity! People are so small minded if they can’t accept ethnic cleansing :(

          • PointAndClique [they/them]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            23
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            There’s a user in this thread calling us the genocide deniers while Israel unceasingly and unrepentantly destroys Gaza and its people. Like. No self awareness. No historical awareness. Just ‘Oh I have a more nuanced view of the situation’. Nuance my fucking gooch.

            • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              19
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              8 months ago

              It’s only ever the whites going to bat for Israel’s commission of genocide, too-- why? Because what Israel’s doing is 1:1 with what the colonizer pilgrims did to America. So no, I am never going to support that; because given my way, my lineage NEVER would’ve been stolen by crackers in the first place. I’d rather still fuckin be Afrikan than have to be lumped in with these murderous settlers.

            • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              8 months ago

              Dudes, Duderinas and people from all around… While I said something in the meta-debate here, I’m not engaging in the underlying argument. What are you trying to accomplish here? The people you are talking about are suffering horrible atrocities. All you can think about is hating on each other on the internet… (There has to be a better way to deal with the situation.)

              • Iraglassceiling [she/her]@hexbear.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                16
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                8 months ago

                Is pineapple good on pizza? <— a debate

                Are human rights guaranteed to all humans? <— a fucking ghoulish question that you deserve to be mocked for “debating”

    • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      ‘Genocide supporters’ you crackers have supported Israel’s commission of apartheid for 30+ YEARS but let someone pipe up that it’s wrong and they’re the genocide supporter. Please go fly yourself by your ankles; you don’t deserve your humanity.

      • quindraco
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        No, you jackass. Hexbearites, every single one of them, supports the Uyghur genocide that China is performing. I don’t know where you got the idea I’m white or that I support Israel, but Hexbearites love one thing above all else: fascism. As a corollary, they support the tools used by and for fascism, like genocide. And if you disagree with them about anything, they call you a shitlib. That’s what I’m talking about.

      • Ech
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        There unfortunately is no system in Lemmy (atm) to do this smoothly. When I was on lemmy.world, I used their system they had set up separately and that worked well, but for most instances, the only process to do something like that is to DM an admin directly, which will of course have greatly varied results, and that’s if the admin isn’t supportive of the abusive mod in the first place.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    8 months ago

    If it makes you feel better. I also reserve judgement until more information is out. The counter arguments as to why it wouldn’t be Israel does make sense to me. Lack of crater. Hospital walls intact. Hamas were firing rockets over the hospital. And the death figure is reported by Hamas. Most likely incredibly inflated.

    Since when was recognized terror organisations reliable sources?

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      Wait, I thought it wasn’t Hamas and was the PIJ instead? The whole point of the audio Israel released is that the Hamas members being recorded had no idea what was going on and why some other group fired the rocket that hit the area.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    If you scroll through the community bans of World News@lemmy.ml, you’ll see there’s a mod going crazy handing out months long bans for having the wrong opinion on the current conflict. Mods aren’t beholden to anyone but themselves, so if that’s how they want to mod then that’s how it’s going to be. Thankfully, Lemmy has hundreds of communities discussing the conflict so you might find better mods in one of those communities.

  • Rearsays@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    8 months ago

    Join an instance you believe in. If it happens to enough people they will move on.