I don’t know how you can possibly think that is relevant

Murdoch is an American citizen. He literally chose to give up his Australian citizenship. As far as I’m concerned, that makes him less Australian than the average random American who’s never been to Australia. They at least have zero Australianness. Murdoch has negative.

I’m not really interested in anything you, a random Lemming, have to say about whether or not it’s a genocide. And you shouldn’t be interested in anything I say either.

What you should be interested in is the growing scholarly consensus. Organisations like the United Nations Special Committee into the matter, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Court of Justice have all stated either that it definitely is or plausibly could be genocide. Academic researchers into genocide are “surprisingly unanimous”, with only a small number of zionists denying it at this point.

As for “name calling and bullying”. If you deny genocide, then stating that you are a genocider is neither of those things. It is a simple fact.

Here’s what it looks like from the default web interface.

Jerboa, the first-party Android app, shows the same. Not sure which app you’re using, but it displays markdown incorrectly. Out of interest, how does it handle _subscript and

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Not my own personal court case. The one that’s been the main subject of this Community for the last week.

I’ve never been swooped by a butcher bird myself, so my feelings towards them are much more positive. The have the same beautiful songs as magpies, with less of a murderous reputation IMO.

Damn that’s a really tough decision.

Oh damn. I thought you were a reasonable person with different views until this comment. It took you an impressively long time to come out with the explicit genocide denial.

I’m surprised Beehaw of all places allows genocide denial, tbh.

Gotta add two spaces at the end of every line if you want it to display correctly.

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I found today’s very fun, even if it was pretty easy. Had no idea about the link with purple until it was revealed. But it’s a very clever one.

Precisely. Now is precisely the time for Labor to do some bold progressive changes. Like fixing this extortion. Like dental and mental health into Medicare.

But I’m not holding my breath.

Stop the whataboutism. Stop defending genocide. Nothing Hamas does or could do can defend genocide.

But if you really want to play that game: everything Hamas does is also Israel’s fault. Israel created Hamas. They funded Hamas deliberately as a way to destabilise the Palestinians. They create oppressive conditions in which a militant organisation like Hamas is bound to thrive. Everything that Hamas does is a predictable outcome of Israel’s actions, and the ultimate blame lies squarely on them.

But again, that’s irrelevant. Because even if Hamas’s own actions weren’t Israel’s fault, Israel’s actions obviously are. Murdering children, doctors, and journalists by the hundreds are classic fascist moves. Displacing people en mass from their homes is genocide. Collective punishment is a war crime. Deliberately starving people is a war crime. Stop defending genocide.

Not that BCC actually cares, given they’re more than willing to team up with corrupt police to lie to a court and get a protest declared illegal, but if you’re from Brisbane, please sign this petition:

https://www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/view/pid/1451

Bush stone curlew. That name not because they’re murderous (magpies can also be called murder birds for that reason…), but because at night they give off a scream that makes you think someone’s being murdered.

omg thank you for this. I’m in such a shitty mood today because of the court case I needed something beautiful and delightful.

Yes exactly. That’s how they stall action on climate change.

I think it’s very important to start from the place of acknowledging that nothing Hamas does or has done is relevant. Whether someone condemns Hamas or wholeheartedly supports them, or (as most people probably do) sit somewhere in between, really doesn’t matter. Because genocide is absolutely, totally, inexcusable. Even if Hamas were committing genocide themselves, that does not excuse Israel’s genocide. And the fact is that Hamas isn’t committing genocide. They literally could not if they wanted to. They haven’t the power necessary for it.

Any organisation that is censoring people who accuse Israel of genocide, or who play whataboutism games by trying to ensure that condemnations of Israel are always followed by condemnations of Hamas, are abetting genocide.

This meme summarises it nicely.

The description says “psychological thriller”, but the cinematography is giving me “Netflix romcom”.

Oh awesome!

No, listen to all the words he said that Palestinian freedom needs to come, not at the expense of other people.

if you’re an excel power user, you’ll need to learn Libreoffice Calc

Let’s be honest…most people who are Excel power users probably need to interact with other users. Sending and receiving documents and templates, etc. Simply learning Calc yourself isn’t going to suffice, you’d have to convince your entire business to switch.