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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hamas is a terrorist organization, same as the IDF, both of their beleifs depend on the extermination of the other.

I hope the peoples oppressed by these regimes can liberate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the biggest danger is the single sidedness of it all. You have to pick a side and then hate the other. Same thing is happening with India and Pakistan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I think the biggest danger is all the people that are dead...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I almost forgot about Vegantheoryclub.org I remember controversy about them with [email protected] where one of the mods of that community was also an admin on there or had ties to the admin there and was using it to ban anyone who criticized her or downvoted her. She was posting a ton of reactionary content (some of which was misinformation) and even tried to ban LW admins from the community. They eventually booted her and she tried to use alts to add herself back but ended up getting all of them booted and then used an alt to try and create more drama.

Yeah I strongly recommend people stay away from vegantheoryclub, they're not a good instance. Their admin clearly has problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you're mixing things up. Beaver was not among the [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) mods who fought against the .world admin Rooki's interference in the community based on his personal beliefs and made-up rules. Beaver just briefly participated in some of the related discussions. Then long after the incident, she posted memes (which I don't believe were reactionary if you mean right-wing), including some that mocked it. A new mod of the .world vegan community called her out for that and for allegedly banning people too eagerly and removed her as a mod. None of it involved the VTC instance. Slrpnk has a decent summary of the events. There are reasons to believe that Beaver is an old account of the OP (Sunshine).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like there was involvement with VTC's admin since that was before Lemmy had a Vote-view API for mods and they were helping get vote counts to ban people for downvoting but maybe that wasn't happening and they weren't involved. It's not really valid these days anymore since every instance now has Vote-View enabled for moderators and Lemvotes allows anyone to see votes on any post or comment in Lemmy if they so choose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The votes were available to anyone via certain mbin instances for example, without even needing to be signed up. Multiple mods of the vegan .world community were also mods of the vegan community of VTC, but I don't see how that works against Hamid in particular, since I have no knowledge of his involvement. Beaver is likely still a .world mod via her suspected alt, but she was banned from VTC after her public spat with Hamid involving posts like the OP.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Enemy of my enemy can still be enemy.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago (16 children)

Literally. Hamas has done basically nothing to help the people. The people of Gaza are the heroes Hamas and Israel are just a couple of monsters victimizing them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hamas is the perfect partner for Israeli genocidaires. That's why Israel funded them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

They definitely have a symbiotic relationship.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

No you are supposed to PICK A SIDE. Don't you dare think for yourself /s

[–] Sunshine 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (26 children)

If Fatah was still in power, Israel would’ve had a much more difficult time in demonizing Gaza in their propaganda outlets.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (12 children)

ngl probably russians, spewing hate online to further conflictand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

You'll find most of the world does

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

vegantheoryclub? lol, who goes to that instance?

[–] Sunshine 9 points 6 days ago

Anyone who has an opinion that differs from the VTC admin.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sunshine 10 points 6 days ago

I pay extra attention to him because his instance is the only active vegan one.

[–] Sunshine 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Of course he engages in name calling. He thinks I care much more about his community than I really do. I haven’t checked on VTC for weeks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

lmao I wonder who this one single downvote may be

what a pathetic islamist 🤣

[–] Sunshine 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

In his words, a single downvote would be declared “vote manipulation”.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are the Haredi the ones who believe that Israel cannot exist before the Messiah comes?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, nothing this person is saying is crazy if you understand the context of their sect's belief.

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[–] Sunshine 9 points 6 days ago

Could’ve left that part out…

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