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I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 3 hours ago

Aw! It's Satan gray! No wait, its pure evil blue, its a trump!. Nah! If you look closely you'll notice all the buildings belonged to poor defenseless people. So it's probably a rich evil asshole!

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

Please fix the title.

[–] BinaryUnit@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Fucking Animals

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’ ‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke resembles a ‘gender reveal’.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 81 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.

It seems they were not blowing it up for a 'gender reveal', but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 21 points 11 hours ago

OK, that's somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation's soldiers would make that same joke.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's not a good look for Al Jazeera.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Al Jazeera is always extremely anti Israel. The Arabic version even more so than the English one.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That’s like saying science is anti-conservative

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 32 minutes ago

You'd expect them to be factually accurate though.

[–] Ottoman@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Fuck israël ans fuck IDF

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 145 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The world isn't real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

wait, but does that mean i’m in a coma, or im a figment of your imagination and im in your coma?

but i agree, it’s too absurdly horrible to be plausible

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I think, therefore I am. You think, therefore you are.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

well how do i know you think?

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You don't, and neither do I.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] philthi@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You're either in your coma or their coma, but either way, you're in a coma!

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[–] kooks_only@lemmy.ca 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I had a concussion in 2008 and I’m wondering if I didn’t wake up from it and any day now I’ll wake up in spring 2008.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

shakes you vigorously

“Wake the fuck up and take us with you!”

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

"I'm tired of being a figment of this dickhead's imagination!"

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago

Fuck Israel.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 55 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 12 points 13 hours ago

I'm decently sure they don't have the self awareness to even say that. The IDF just believes they're the good guys

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 81 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You would need to be entirely devoid of any semblance of humanity to even conceive of this idea, right?

How do you want to celebrate the joy of a new child? Oh, I don't know, how about we make a light of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Fucking ghouls

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 66 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I don’t understand how someone becomes such a shit human capable of doing something like this.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 36 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Group think and social pressures. It is remarkably easy for humans to find themselves behaving like those around them. The progression doesn't even have to be fast. Imagine that when the israeli military fought wars in the mid 20th century, they started thinking of the enemy around them, and then imagine how long it has been since then with no corrective measures ever taken on those lines of thinking. NOW add in that israel has mandatory military service. The ones who choose to stay are going to be the ones that can agree and fit in with those now very evolved thoughts of hatred, and of course they will bring their own worse additions as they try to prove themselves to those the esteem, the already putrid military members ranked above them.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 16 points 17 hours ago

It was more of an exasperated/incredulous statement but appreciate the insights nonetheless

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Ordinary people do fucked up shit when fucked up shit becomes ordinary.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

because they are used to have any and all actions justified by the world and any criticism flagged as "anti-semitism"

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Yo did the jews forget this same shit happened to them? Like multiple times?

Hello?

[–] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

don't mix up the Israeli people and the Israeli state

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 3 points 8 hours ago

Not all Jews are Nazis but the whole state of Israel could be compared to fascist Germany. This is a neo liberal take the humanizes the oppressor. This is why I don't bat a eye when the Palestinians went full on Nat Turner

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 11 hours ago

The Israeli people have either been supportive of the regime, or just too milktose to do anything about it.

We're long past benefit of the doubt.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

What do you mean exactly?

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Superstitious uneducated indoctrinated swine repeat history.

[–] indigoviolet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 14 hours ago

what the fuck man

[–] smol_beans@lemmy.world 32 points 17 hours ago

Their depravity has no limits

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

And people wonder why I’m such a cynical, miserable fucking Eeyore all the time. Fuck humans so fucking much. Wretched creatures we are.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

fuck humans

no, fuck colonizers

it’s a very specific group of humans who are doing this awful stuff

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 6 points 14 hours ago

This is a game for them isn’t it. Pushing buttons on missile systems and drone controllers to try and take down the most buildings and get the most points…

The ICC should go into Israel and try Nethanyahu.

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