If anyone wants to recreate this. I'm 99% the best way to go about this is:
It's when I gave up on US politics. If only it was such that Hillary won... and not that DNC actively conspired to make that happen.
As messed up and anti-democratic so many things are in the US leading to "pick one of two things". The whole system is fundamentally broken when the selection of those two things is corrupt.
But... when a person I wouldn't trust to be mentally suited to pack a bag of groceries* or park a car*, is elected president, and gets to pick several supreme court justices... The world isn't laughing at the US. They were laughing at the thought of Trump being in he primaries. They're deeply concern that a complete fuckwit ended up in charge, and what that might lead to.
Democracy (i.e. the system of governance) requires informed voters. GOP (the political party) requires uninformed voters.
The only way you can vote Republican or think that the orange baboon can be entrusted with anything more important than throw feces, is one of two thing (or both): 1) you are an idiot / uninformed 2) you are morally corrupt
*: this isn't a put down directed at people who do these things, but that it requires some mental function in order to not crash the car, or steal some groceries... and I would be equally comfortable with Trump in that regard, as with a 6 year old. Which is to say: not at all. Which puts in perspective what I think of him being president.
Hitler only succeeded on the second attempt.
Still doesn't mean "massed" is correct, and it's weird to use here. Never understood why one would go out of one's way to present an incorrect argument.
Edit: feel free to downvote me. It doesn't make me any less right, or the parent comment any less incorrect. Weird, but hey, there are worse things to be wrong about.
Can you point to a way in which the actions, policies, or rhetoric of the Israeli government meaningfully differs from those of Novemberpogrome-era (Krystalnacht-era) Nazi Germany?
They spoke German.
This has got to be the most peculiar downvoted comment I've seen on lemmy so far. A principled disagreement with collective punishment? Weird.
Edit: what am I missing? Or have I stumbled into a part of lemmy that is totally fine with stuff Nazi Germany did, and present day Israel and Russia are doing?
I suppose that makes sense if you want to equate % of civilians. Which is certainly relevant for "how likely it is that I know or am related to someone who was killed".
Whichever way the numbers are measured, it is absolutely horrific what Israel is, and has been doing for decades.
Since no one answered your question. I'll assume you were just curious about the numbers. It's easy enough to answer.
Around 23k civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7th. On 9/11 2001, around 2.6k were killed in those attacks. So, around 8.8 “worth” of 9/11s.
Given 94 days since October 7th, it would be a “9/11 amount of civilian casualties” every 10.6 days.
Or perhaps:
A “Hamas October 7th” every 5 days. For over 3 months straight.
Terrorism doesn’t mean “scary thing.”
It means a lot of things to a lot of people, in a lot of contexts. There are more than 250 definitions used in academic literature. More interestingly, it's consistently used by people with significant bias, and inability to understand it from the perspective of "the enemy". It is a word, after all.
Now, king of the red herring fallacy of which you are, I'll just point out that when a state commits war crimes against a civilian population, it's reasonably well accepted to be considered as "state terrorism". But, I'm sure you'll regally conjure a ignoratio elenchi response.
Not that this ever was a bar needed to pass in order to answer the rather simple question posed. So, to get back to where you sidetracked off from:
Around 23k civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7th. On 9/11 2001, around 2.6k were killed in those attacks. So, around 8.8 "worth" of 9/11s.
Given 94 days since October 7th, it would be a "9/11 amount of civilian casualties" every 10.6 days.
But why not use a different unit of measurement. How about:
A "Hamas October 7th" every 5 days. For over 3 months straight.
But hey, it isn't terrorism if it's genocide, right? But, you're not sure about that last part. Perhaps it's not systematic enough to check that box? After all, it's not like they're carpet bombing a region with a population density twice that of of San Fransisco, of which half are children. Given the average of 10 civilians killed per Israeli airstrike. There is some randomness for it to not be on-the-nose genocide, but not too much randomness to be obvious acts of terrorism. Just that pleasantly tempered amount of killing of children to argue in bad faith.
Fuck "equally wrong". They've been marching way ahead since before 1949.
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