196 stands with Palestine.

Assuming you mean the Palestinian people and not Hamas, fuck yeah we do!
- Hamas is no longer any sort of threat, and requiring written condemnation of their terror attack with every post about the current razing of Gaza indirectly reinforces the purported thesis behind Israel's continued wonton destruction which is that Hamas is a threat, and Hamas will attack the moment the bombs stop.
  
  but no, we do not support hamas
- I've only recently started educating myself them, so this group may have some ugly things in their history I haven't learned about yet, but -
  There was/is a nationalist social democratic Palestinian organization that Hamas essentially chased out of town with support from Israeli religious conservatives, and I feel like people who want a free Palestine need to talk more about them, because social democratic sounds a hell of a lot better than whatever the hell Hamas' policies are
  
  The IDF wants Hamas to exist longer than the civilian population so they can "excuse" total genocide of Gaza

sorry for not making this post sooner, I've kind of been completely absent for the past 3+ months
- I've kind of been completely absent for the past 3+ months
  relatable tbh
- Mossy your presence is very well appreciated, sporadic as it may be.
  
  thank you. I really appreciate it

Based
- based on what
  
  True story bro
  
  Based on Iranian propaganda.
  
  Debian
- turbo based
  
  Steamy

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- ok
  
  ok

Free Palestine !
- Whatever's left after Israel is done with its sanctioned genocide. Just to be clear by Israel I refer to Natanyau and his goons. Wether he represents the people of Israel is very debatable but not as much as Hamas which isn't democratic like at all and doesn't represent the Palestinians at all.
  
  Dammit why does my comment feel like it's a pumpkin latte white chick instagram account's opinion?

if an average 196 community member stands among Palestinians, in Palestine, obeying Palestinian laws, how long would they last?
- israel would probably bomb their home so not too long
- I don’t decide whether or not bombing children is moral based on how their parents feel about me. 🤷‍♂️
- Palestinians are quite liberal and progressive compared to other Arabs, and being gay is legal in the West Bank -- that doesn't mean that there's no issues, this article about a planned LGBT youth camp gives a good impression. There's allies, but keep your head down and out of sight of religious nutjobs. It's pretty much the same thing atheists do over there: Plenty of them around with all that secular history but the religious nutjobs are simply too rabid to allow public discourse about the topic. It's way easier to go the "secular Muslim" route: Fast, but not for Allah.
  In Gaza the legal situation is undetermined (scholars disagree on whether British mandate law prohibiting gay sex still applies) but anyway Hamas is in power, they instituted a religious police, tried to enforce headscarfs, go after male hairdressers cutting women's hairs without any legal basis etc. don't look at the statute book Hamas doesn't care and they're crazy. Also you don't want to go to Gaza right now. Also, you probably can't even if you're an UN aid worker.
- If an average person is constantly subjected to food insecurity, lacking access to clean water and sanitation, lacking medical treatment, random injury and death through constant bombings, random injury and death of relatives and friends through constant bombings and limited access to education and working opportunities, how likely are they able to concern themselves with social progress?
  If we look at western countries, social progress came in times of relative safety and wealth for the broad population, while reactionary politics came in times, where these were lowered or cut. It is no coincidence that reactionary politicians combine economic hardship for the masses with scapegoating and fighting against minorities.
  The way to progressive politics in Gaza is paved with working infrastructure, proper access to basic needs and a perspective for social and personal development.
- I'm not sure if you are attempting a platitude or are making a point, but to make a point your logic should be sound.
  Your logic is that if an average first world person cannot live in a place comfortably, then you have an unstated implication that they should not receive support against death. Please correct if you were implying something else, would have been easier to know if you had spoken less vaguely.
  Nonetheless regarding said "logic", (TLDR it's not logical) I don't see the logical connection between the tourism experience of visiting a country under siege and how that determines whether the residents of that country should be exterminated.
  If you were making a point, could you elaborate on this connection? If however you were attempting a platitude, no explanation needed, you succeeded.
  
  They murder gay people, that was their point.
- With all that dysentery, lack of food, shelter, constant threat of getting blown up? Ehh maybe 2 days cuz I'm twice as old as the average person there.
- I also support not making polar bears extinct.
  
  Polar bears will treat you the same regardless of what colour, gender, or sexuality you are, to be fair.
- IMO that's not very pertinent since we have the privilege of not being in that situation. Here's a quote from something I read that might help reconcile this:
  If we understand this sense of negative and positive freedom, what appears as a contradictory stance within anarchism makes perfect sense. An anarchist might firmly believe that the Palestinian people deserve to be liberated from occupation, even if that means that they set up their own state. That same anarchist might also firmly believe that a Palestinian state, like all states, should be opposed in favor of nonstatist institutions. A complete sense of freedom would always include both the negative and positive senses—in this case, liberation from occupation and simultaneously the freedom to self-determine. Otherwise, as both actually existing Communist and liberal regimes have demonstrated, “freedom from” on its own will serve merely to enslave human potentiality, and at its most extreme, humans themselves; self-governance is denied in favor of a few governing over others. And “freedom to,” on its own, as capitalism has shown, will serve merely to promote egotistic individualism and pit each against each; self-determination trumps notions of collective good. Constantly working to bring both liberation and freedom to the table, within moments of resistance and reconstruction, is part of that same juggling act of approximating an increasingly differentiated yet more harmonious world.
  -Cindy Milstein, Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
  This is something I just happened to read, but we've been discussing Palestine a lot in my discord server. If anyone would like links to some more readings about Palestine and why things are the way they are, I have a lot of links to free ebooks I'd be happy to share (freely accessible, non-pirated). I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post them here, and I lack the mental bandwidth to deal with the possibility of sea lions and other bad-faith responders, but I'd be happy to share the links in a DM.
- They'd end up getting stoned in the not fun way, that's what.
- Ah, yes, the "A lot of X people are homophobic, so who cares if the whole of X gets genocided" argument.

- I'm sorry but Hamas is almost completely annihilated at this point. in addition, they do not represent the Palestinian people. I do not condone terrorist attacks, but once a nation has killed 20-fold greater numbers of people, and is currently razing the entire nation (who at this point has little to no military) innocent lives and all into dust it becomes a lot easier to pick a side.

Good

This us why we shoukd be making AI that is biased against the wealthy
- what the fuck does that even mean
  
  welcome back to 196, this is what you are returning to
  
  Mecha Bernie Sanders, but as an AGI
- How would you suggest doing that and what purpose would it serve?
  
  Feed it Marx and Vaush clips and have it make 196 memes
  
  Sorry I picked you at random to reply to. Revisiting this comment with a sober mind, I have no idea what I was talking about. Maybe create a bot that identifies the top 400 riches people in the world and spends its existance phishing and scamming them at a rate no human can do? The idea sat better when I couldn't think it through.

Based.

- As has been experienced by many of my ancestors, for many as we're seeing, the only good Jew is a dead Jew. I've never seen a rape victim have their atrocities denied like we've seen here, or seen families have to prove their dead were decapitated and so forth after having their murders Live streaming for the world to see.
  Believe all women ....until they're Israelis. I hope you are doing well in these lousy times. Am Israel Chai.
  
  And yea the beheaded babies are very clearly bullshit, cry harder
  
  From the river to the sea 🇸🇩:3

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Any tips on keeping your cool when people wave around Israeli flags during a pro-Palestine protest? I started shaking with adrenaline as if it was right before a fight. D: