If so, then to which specific instance(s) (or more precisely, local mirrors of instances) would replies be sent?

Props to anyone who’d name a cat Ryo-Ohki.

If only it was a cabbit. Or better yet, a spaceship.

It’s like you’re trying to excuse a child-murderer by pointing out that the victim’s dad is an asshole.

Israel is murdering Palestinians and stealing their rightful land.

No amount of diversionary finger-pointing will change those facts, or in any way excuse Israel’s overt and grotesque evil.

And no amount of predictable emotive victim-blaming will ever change the simple facts of the matter - that Israel’s occupation of territory granted to Palestine inqq Resolution 181 is a clear violation of international law, and that Israel has caused FAR more harm, death and destruction to the Palestinian people than Hamas ever possibly could.

And they’re 100% right.

International law is very simple and straightforward - land forcibly annexed is not legitimate. Israel has no legal or valid claim to any territory beyond what it was granted in UN Resolution 181 in 1948. Every single inch of land it’s taken since then has been taken illegally, and in direct violation of the rights of the inhabitants.

And that’s even before getting into the overt evil that Israel has committed along the way - the terrorism and brutality and oppression and murder that it’s employed to incrementally steal the rightful territory of the Palestinians.

And yes - the Palestinians have every right to stand against Israel’s brutal theft of its territory and murder of its inhabitants. Their resistance is not only morally right, but entirely in keeping with international law.

Imagine that all of the instances existed first - before federation even existed.

So imagine dozens of little, independent message boards - this person created one at this address, and this other person created this other one at this other address and so on.

Okay - then imagine that federation came along, so then all of those individual bosrds started sharing content with all the other boards.

So you were on this one board called lemmy.world. You never moved - you still have the same account at the same board. But now you also see, for instance, content from some other board called lemmy.ml.

Now here’s the important bit - you aren’t actually looking at lemmy.ml. You’re looking at a mirror of it - literally, you’re looking at lemmy.ml@lemmy.world. So like this community we’re on right now - neither one of us is actually on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml. You’re on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@lemmy.world and I’m on AskLemmy@lemmy.ml@sopuli.xyz. But every few seconds, all three of those actually separate communities sync up with each other, so it acts as if it’s just one community.

Does that help?

Of course not - it’s not meant to.

All it’s meant to do is provide Israel’s apologists with something to spin.

Oh… yeah. Okay. I get it.

Russia is afraid of losing their paper-thin excuse for invading a sovereign nation, so they’re already trying to astroturf the idea that any coming change in the government is just a sham.

Pretty good move really, though I guess that’s to be expected from one of the worlds most dedicated, professional and experienced propaganda machines.

It appears that every action is a reaction (or to use the more customary terminology, every action is an effect of some number of causes, and is in turn a cause for some number of effects).

However, it must either be the case that there was a first action, which would necessarily be an uncaused effect, or that time is either a loop or is infinite in extent, such that there is no beginning and thus no need for an uncaused effect.

And none of those possibilities is really intellectually satisfying, so it’s an open question (which doesn’t stop people from insisting on the nominal truth of one or another of them).

US elections

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I used to work with a woman who was part of a Pentecostal church that did snake-handling and speaking-in-tongues.

Reading this article was sort of like listening to her talk about her church.

It was a brilliant bit of theater, just like their mass drone response to Israel’s last provocation.

In both cases now, Iran has managed to make Israel, and now the US, look both antagonistic and foolish. Their precisely measured responses really highlight the fact that they didn’t provoke either of these fights, that they have no intention of engaging in pointless bloodshed, but that, if pressed, they can and will respond in kind.

It makes them look like the only adults in the room.

Israel is a rogue state.

This has apparently become a new vector for transferring bribes - Trump files a suit, and then the corporation that wants influence pays a “settlement.”

If only it was a cult.

It’s actually something far more dangerous, and very simple really - Trump 2.0 is pay-to-win.

Right. The country in which officials insist that soldiers should be entirely free to sexually abuse Palestinians can investigate itself.

Israel is a rogue state.

I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.

Even “the pot calling the kettle black” isn’t enough to sum this up.

It’s more like “the pot calling the salad bowl a pot.”

Who said anything about the “owner class?”

The oppression I’m talking about is that which the “vanguard party” (the new owner class) will direct against those of the people who don’t submit to their claimed authority.