Oop, and you need to have the last word too, checking that off the bingo card

Edited to add: they just couldn’t help themselves

“Loser” still fits nicely in that caricature.

Um actually

I am not a Nazi, but you are a caricature of an internet argument

Ah yes, calling a stranger a Nazi on the Internet. A compelling point

I don’t want to sound like a contrarian, but I’m struggling to figure out how this relates to the previous comments.

I will say, as much as I am being argued with for saying that the history of Germany’s history with Israel is complex, and the history of Zionism is complex, no one is really responding in a way that doesn’t sound like the Charlie Day red string board meme.

When I look at the current state of Israel and Palestine, I see a lot of people backed into corners. Netanyahu knows that if he loses power, he’ll be arrested for corruption, so will do anything to support his base, who are the worst of the Zionists this thread is about, so he only has an incentive to continue butchering Palestinians.

I see the US not wanting a nuclear armed Israel to feel that they are out of defensive options against their neighboring countries, and as such feels a need to keep supplying weapons and intelligence so that Israel is only, merely, butchering Palestinians, instead of something worse.

I see the Palestinians being sacrificed, which is causing some of them to need to fight back, so they’re radicalized, and join Hezbollah.

And I see the rest of the region wanting to punish Israel for their heinous actions.

And looking at this as a US citizen, my experience is that the people who want to make it look like the solution to solving this is easy, are also usually trying to get you to vote for Jill Stein, and I’m not convinced that it isn’t an astro-turfed movement to push for spoiler votes to get Trump in office.

I would like it if we could say the situation is nuanced, and then talk about the nuance, rather than scream that it’s cut and dry

I think you’re conflating being Jewish with Judaism. His religious beliefs aren’t really what’s in question here, @SulaymanF@lemmy.world’s comment sums the idea up well. Herzl was, with no ambiguity, a member of the Jewish community.

So, your argument that it’s not complicated is that Israel was founded by antisemitic Jews? I’m not even saying that you’re factually wrong, but you keep insisting that this isn’t complicated. It is complicated, and the more you insist that it’s simple, while giving increasing amounts of fine details is not particularly convincing

You see, many of the original Zionists were Jewish, it’s literally not so cut and dry.

Everything is black and white, gray is for apologists, then?

Well, Germany does have some history there

Who are you calling an amateur, buddy? I can argue you under the table!

It’d feel good

There’s been a lot of shoddy journalism about Israel/Gaza from all narratives and I feel like this has been testing the media literacy of a lot of progressives, but uh… CNN is not a fringe source. This banning feels bad.

But following media reports, it has also admitted that China-based employees had access to US users’ data, although the company insisted it was under strict and highly limited circumstances.

Employees of ByteDance might be Chinese, but they don’t work for the government. They work for ByteDance. I haven’t found anyone claiming to have proof that data in US citizens has left the company. Just fears that it could.

There is concern that ByteDance may be giving the Chinese government access to data on US citizens. It’s worth noting that no proof of this actually happening has surfaced.

Mostly because of this. TikTok is the app collecting massive amounts of data on its users with dubious intent and questionable security that is currently being scapegoated, and discord is on the long list of popular apps that collect massive amounts of data their users with dubious intent and questionable security that we are not scapegoating.

Don’t ruin your own experience because someone else is enjoying it differently than you like to

That’s helpful information, they both look like they’ve got good pedigrees. I’m a bit surprised that none of the normal fact and bias checker sites have anything for Drop Site.

I don’t quite understand the down votes here: Israel is a topic with lots of strong opinions, and basic good media literacy is to do research on sources you don’t recognize. There’s been a lot of shoddy journalism to get clicks out there, and one should be critical of the information they ingest. The Ground News bot is a good thing.

I’m having trouble finding any kind of credibility grading for this source