Being incapable off distinguishing between Hamas and Palestinians in general reveal your racism.

If you understood the distinction, your understanding someone can hate Hamas while still carrying about Palestinians.

In fact, how Hamas oppressed Palestinians is a big reason I’m so much against them. If you cared about Palestinians, you’d also hate how they prevent democracy and torture Palestinians that speak out against their oppression.

But you don’t care about Palestinians, you’re just here to push propaganda to further the interests of authoritarian regimes.

As you were typing out your comment, who will be leader of Israel will be determined by whether or not an Arab party will be accepted into a governing coalition. They always exclude Arab parties from being in the coalition. Because racism and shit.

That’s proportional representation. You have lots of options for who to vote for, but if the majority wants to lock out a minority group from power they can. All power is determined by backroom deals between parties.

But there is a chance the Arab party may be allowed to be part of the government. It all depends on whether the leaders of a bunch of parties are willing to allow Netanyahu to continue to rule over them or allow an Arab party to join them. Nothing anybody can do about it, the lives of a lot of people and the future of the middle East depends on the results of some backroom deals.

Fuck proportional representation. It’s so obviously a stupid system. If Netanyahu didn’t get enough votes to continue to be PM but he may still continue to be PM because of some bullshit backroom deal, while you watch him do whatever he’ll do next, will you still say “but proportional representation of good?”

Proportional representation gives all power to the parties and they decide policy in backroom deals when forming coalitions. It’s the system Israel has. Do you really want to have Israel’s system of government? A lot of oppression can happen when a party has to to make deal with radical nutjobs to form a coalition. Why do you think that’s a superior system? Do you like oppression?

“First Past the Post” is a term coined by intellectually dishonest people that say they want “electoral reform” when really they just want to change the system so their preferred party will have more power. We should call it what is really is, a community representation system. Because you’re voting for someone to represent your community. But that sounds nice and is more difficult to argue against, isn’t it?

I’m well aware of instant runoff system, and I think that would be ok. But a two round system is better than instant runoff. S-tier is two round community representation, instant run off community representation is A-tier, one round, one selection traditional community representation is C-Tier.

Israel style proportional representation only seems good to people who think of things from the perspective of a spreadsheet (the numbers all line up… yay) and have no understanding of power dynamics… F-Tier. Close your spreadsheet and look at how proportional representation works in the real world. How much oppression will you tolerate just so that two columns in a spreadsheet will have the same numbers in them?

Inside the tech industry, the company with the biggest payoff in this is NVIDIA. With another smaller payoff for AMD. That’s about it.

It’s like a gold rush for fool’s gold. The only ones making money are the guys selling shovels.

Sounds kinda like the Tale of Foolish Curiosity from Don Quixote. Spoiler: the wife was a good woman and wouldn’t have cheated on the guy… until he started being an asshole by subjecting her to endless tests to prove her virtue.

Social media is all emotional manipulation all the time. Are you capable of thinking of the Gaza war in rational terms or only in emotional terms? Why is it you can only think of it as an emotional issue?

The social media algorithms send you a constant stream of content that keeps you emotional all the time. They aren’t trying to inform you of anything, they want to keep you emotional so you’ll keep on doomscrolling so they can keep on showing you ads.

You’ll never know what’s happening in a conflict on the other side of the world. You’ll only get curated emotional content. That doesn’t result in any kind of understanding.

Constantly consuming this kind of content will turn you into a hateful person. The tech bros don’t care, as long as you keep consuming, they keep making money.

Only the “radicalized” think of politics in religious terms. The radicalized are capable of doing horrible things to people because they have a cult-like zealotry that makes them think any action against the supposed enemy is justified.

The radicalized left and radicalized right are the same kind of people. The enemy is arbitrary. The point of a radicalized movement is to make people stupid enough they will give the demagogue leader all power to defeat the enemy. But in the end it’s all the same, people being oppressed by an authoritarian.

I have less concern about the most boring man in BC politics oppressing people than I have about people like you who think of politics as being similar a holy crusade against the evil other.

So after the events of October 7, you’re still dredging up old arguments about how putting up a fence to protect people from Hamas is wrong?

Sorry to break it to you, but the actions of Hamas kinda rendered a lot of your old propaganda arguments to be wrong. Open up Photoshop and make some new propaganda images, this is just being lazy.

I guess this is your first time on lemmy. If you browse this site more you’ll see a lot of content that’s just propagandists doing the stochastic terrorist thing.

After October 7 it will be at least a decade before Israel can come out of bunker mentality. You might be ignoring how horrific the actions of Hamas were on that day. I admit I couldn’t get though all of the horrific things they did that day, it was insane. But Israelis are well aware of what happened. Having millions of people typing on the internet sympathizing with Hamas probably doesn’t help in getting them out of the bunker mentality. We’re still a long way from the truth and reconciliation that’s needed, but any step in that direction (even a baby step) is something that should be welcomed.

I don’t want to see another Gaza war in a decade or two. We’ve already seen how that works out, it doesn’t go well for anyone, especially for Palestinians. But on the internet it’s just a constant thirst for more violence, as long as it’s someone other than the person posting the comments that’s going to die because of it.

All I ever see is propaganda design to foment hatred of Israel which could lead to more violence. Do you think continuing a violent struggle against Israel is making the lives of Palestinians better?

A non-violent resistance movement would work. Violence obviously doesn’t favour Palestinians.

A lot of words about destroying Israel, but they have have a lot of firepower that disagrees with your words. But on this site people continue to promote violence towards Israel, all too happy to throw away Palestinian lives purely for the sake of their addiction to hate. You are addicted to seeing images of dead Palestinians so you can get a rush from your daily two minutes of hate.

It’s obvious to anyone that Israel will not be destroyed by violent acts. That only results in Palestinians dying. I want an end to this war and a Palestinian state living in peaceful co-existence with Israel. Do you want that, or do you want more Palestinians to die while pretending that if you just one more another generation of Palestinian as cannon fodder it will work? Truth and reconciliation is the actual pro-Palestinian stance, not pushing hatred of Israel that will just get more people killed and accomplish nothing.

My post got 18 upvotes and yours only got 8, so therefore I beat you at this lemmy game!

Though maybe with lemmy, the only winning move is not to play…

Dehumanizing people by just thinking of everyone as categories and not as individuals is what lays the groundwork for fascism. Isn’t that what you’re doing right now?

To feel like it’s relevant in a thread about an election in another country, yes, it should be comparable.

You should probably work on your empathy a little more if over 200 million people facing fascism gives you the same feelings as a province electing a boring centrist.

I got to 32768 a long time ago and figured that was as high as you could go.

Didn’t know it was a competitive game.

This is why I really like the run-off system of the non-instant variety. It gives people a clear choice and a chance to think. People that might not have voted the first round see a stark choice and may think “yeah I better go vote or we’ll have another Bolsanaro running things and I don’t want that.”

Congrats to Brazil!

BC was a decision between a center-left candidate (who was doing some stupid election shenanigans) and a center-center candidate (who is by all reports the most boring politician they could find) in a province in Canada.

This is not any way comparable to a country of over 200M people potentially falling to fascism.

A consistent majority of Israeli polls show prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current coalition bloc with the ultra-Orthodox and the far right will fall well below the threshold of 61 seats needed to form a government.

The opposition has a clear path to power through an alliance with parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel, known as Arab parties inside the country.

Hopefully Netanyahu loses. I wonder how the hatemongers will react to a coalition that includes Arab parties governing Israel? Likely y’all will just start hating Arab Israelis too, hatred is just too addicting for anyone to kick the habit.

Yeah, it’s all about making lame extraction shooters now! Five years from now when they finish making the AAA extraction shooters they’re working on now, that will be outdated.