I don’t have that experience, I’ve seen a lot of the same users many times. A lot of people come here as a first step into the fediverse also. I first heard of Lemmy.world after trying to find a better reddit alternative, I may have made an account, but found a different federated instance that was more to my liking.
Yeah bots can downvote, I’m saying it’s easy to say something was downvoted because of bots, there is no way to prove it right or wrong. It’s also very possible that many actual people disagree with the comment.
People disagreeing doesn’t mean they are bots automatically, posts defending the IDF get downvoted because there is more than ample evidence of the IDF committing some of the worst atrocities I’ve seen in my life, and they have been doing it for years.
There is a slightly more global perspective here than Reddit so it’s less common that there will be echo chambers supporting Western propaganda. People falling for Israeli propaganda today haven’t been paying attention, or they agree with Israels goal of eliminating Palestine. Anyone that has been looking into the situation for longer than a few years has seen every line, every spin, every rationalization Israel can make.
You got your sides mixed up, it’s been 80 years of terrorism, subjugation, blockades, land grabs, against the Palestinian people, and the Palestinians have a right to ensure their security. Have you considered why Israel needs to ‘defend itself’? Why do you think Palestinian people have been fighting for 80 years?
What does yours and your fiance’s religious differences have to do with it? Many Jewish people think the Israeli state is violent and illegitimate. There maybe some shills here, but is it possible that there are just more users aware of the history than you are used to? A lot of users are here because they don’t buy into the Western propaganda that inundates Reddit and most English media, not that we are anti-west shills. There are many perspectives in the world outside of the US and western countries, millions of people are in agreement in their desire for Palestinian freedom and the end of Israeli state genocide.
An embattled, beleaguered John Oliver in fatigues is a hilarious mental image, though I’d probably trust his command
We had the holocaust and Jewish people still exist, are you denying that genocide as well? A genocide doesn’t have to be a success to be a genocide.
Yes, so Israelis should relocate and dismantle the Israeli state. The comment you replied to meant the only way to remove Hamas is to end Israeli occupation of Palestine. Wouldn’t Israeli people be safer in say, Florida or anywhere else than where they are?
And by hard you mean the genocide way.
Okay sure, but by mocking and dehumanizing trans people he encourages violence against them which is already a massive issue for trans people. But I love comedy, other than bigoted it’s just lazy and played out and comes across like an old dude mad at scary new changes in society.
It’s been working for the last six+ years too, even my grandma in conservative land has called him a nazi since he first ran. If anyone isn’t paying attention to his Nazi rhetoric now it’s because they got bored of it.
I am nearly convinced there will be an even bigger attack on the government by far-right reactionaries no matter what the results of the next election are. Biden or another dem wins and it’s obviously stolen, insurrection time, or Trump wins and traitors are stalling his progress, purging time.
You don’t get these numbers without a complete disregard for civilian life, the rate they are killing average Gazans is astounding, they are only barely upholding a thin veil of plausible deniability.
Israel is an ethno-state, people fighting on behalf of Israel want to eradicate Palestinian people. This doesn’t have anything to do with Jewish people in general. To conflate Israel with Jewish people is itself antisemitic.
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Sure, casualities can’t be avoided in war, but why in this particular war have there been literally thousands of children killed in a matter of two months? Innocent people killed at a rate unimaginable when compared to any conflict currently.
Yeah idk what this person is on about, the vast majority of vegans are completely regular people that just want to reduce their environmental impact, you wouldn’t even know they were vegan unless you asked.