No. Palestinians and Israel’s other neighbours should be able to live in peace, just like the Israelites. And Netanyahu and his thugs should be allowed to peacefully rot in prison. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

It’s not realistic. But nobody should consider perpetual war an attractive scenario.

They created this militia by invading and mobilising resistance. Now they are doing the exact same thing. The only way I can see them exterminating Hezbolla this way is if they extend their genocide to Lebanon, and are successful at it. If not, all they achieve is to fill the next generations with hate just as they have done in the past.

If Israel backed off, recognized Palestine and Palestinian territory, ended illegal settlements and began complying with international law, sent Netanyahu to the Hague, apologized, recognized the equal human rights of Arabs, and promised to help rebuild infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank and to help Palestine gain safety of water and electricity independent of Israel, and then committed to this agenda, they would achieve peace in a heartbeat.

But that’s unreasonable, right? But what exactly about it is unreasonable? Complying with international law? Recognizing Arabs as humans?

This would be the only way Israel could, in fact, defend itself. In fact, simply stopping the genocide would probably go a long way. But that’s still unthinkable for Netanyahu.

This notion of defence by bombing everyone around you is not sustainable when you need to defend yourself because everyone around you hates you. This is not the wars of the 19th century. Netanyahu is doing absolutely nothing to make Israel safer.

And worse still, he knows that. He never wanted to make Israel safe. Removing people is the point, no matter the cost. His project is to clean the land of Arabs. No matter the cost.

That’s an interesting take. I think you should ideally be invited before your military march into a foreign country and start bombing in order to claim it’s not an invasion. It’s not one of those things you can assume you have permission to do until the country you’re invading starts fighting back.

Lebanon is not Hezbolla. But the bombs are falling in Lebanon, and it is Lebanese civilians that are being killed and displaced. They are invading Lebanon,.

That Lebanon hardly has a government to speak of and is doing awfully already does not mean you can just rightfully bomb it. What the fuck.

This is my favourite places. I used to live in Treptower for a few months and would go there pretty frequently.

It’s a war cemetery, marking the final resting place of more than 7000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin. More than 80 000 Soviet soldiers fell in the battle in total.

The monument is much bigger than this statue. in the middle of the park of the monument there are these gigantic stone flags, hanging to each side. Directly across from the soldier is a large, but significantly smaller, statue of a woman kneeling in respect for the soldier. Then there’s all these huge square stones depicting scenes from the war, with quotes by Stalin written in gold in Russian and German on the side.

What I love about it, in addition to the symmetry and the somewhat over the top nature of it all, is that it’s positioned exactly where two traumatic pasts meet. It is in part a sacred space; in part a painful memory. Some will criticize it for glorifying Stalin and the GDR; others have labelled it the “Tomb of the Unknown Rapist”, in reference to the not always excellent conduct of the Red Army. But despite everything­—and there is a lot—one can’t help but feel an immense gratitude to the 7 000 lying there. It’s a place where history and ideas collide, and one is struck by the complexity maybe more than the beauty.

Shoot, you’re right. I’ve seen so many stupid takes in this conflict it has made me dumb.

I’m sorry, but “limited ground operation” is the same type of shadowy bullshit language as calling the genocide in Gaza a “strategic operation”.

I don’t think anyone is making the point that it’s literally the exact same thing.

But what we’re witnessing is that Israel can bomb a civilian population to rubble for months and months, and all the intensional community can stutter out is that they “have a right to defend themselves”.

Now they are bombing a foreign capital and sending in ground troops to their neighbouring country to fight off a militia that they themselves are responsible for creating by invading in the past, and we know exactly what the chorus will be. Right to defend themselves.

We will see our Lebanese friends and their families murdered, all for Israel’s right to defend themselves.

In Germany, the line was that they would stop at Poland. People make up different excuses for different atrocities.

I think a lot of people are rightfully fucking tired of excuses, and that’s the point. Not that it’s literally the same thing.

I agree completely that Hezbollah makes up a huge problem, and after their involvement in Syria there’s not a hint of legitimacy left in the organization if there ever was any.

But one would do well that to remember their origins: They are what’s left of the resistance from the last time Israel invaded Lebanon. So that’s what a great fucking success that was.

And Hezbollah are not Lebanon. They control territory, and they need to be fought, but this in not how one fights terrorist organizations. This is how you create terrorist organizations. Which is exactly what Israel did the last time they invaded.

Yeah, this shit has been spinning out of control for ages now. Nobody wanted to wake up to realities and take action before it was too late.

Don’t forget, Germany had the right to defend itself.

I think that was just in Cannes or something.

That policeman said Mr. Cool If you’re not drunk then you’re a fool I said if that’s against the law Tell me why I never saw A man locked in that jail of yours Who wasn’t just as lowdown poor as me

Later on in live version’s he’d change the last line to “who wasn’t either black or as poor as me”.

I have no idea whether it’s a valid point or not, but Finding Nemo was 21 years ago. Not sure that counts as “nowadays”.

Onwards is from 2020 and is all about death. Coco is from 2017, I should really get around to seeing it.

I think it kind of makes sense for the EU.

All official sites of the EU are under europa.eu. That’s just a rule.

Then there’s the social network. But they are completely different branches - you wouldn’t necessarily want the Court on the same exact site as the Commission, because even though they are both part of the EU, they are completely different branches. Keeping the Commission (EC) separate from the Court (curia) makes a lot of sense from a Montesquieuan understanding of the state.

If the US institutions joined Mastodon, we probably wouldn’t want the Supreme Court, POTUS, and Senate to all be on the same instance, because who would be trusted to run it?

That said, it would be nice if social-network.europa.eu provided a landing page linking all the official profiles of EU institutions.

This was back in April. They discontinued a pilot project and kept going with a non-pilot solution.

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/112455456338250699

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @Curia@curia.social-network.europa.eu @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu @EC_OSPO@ec.social-network.europa.eu

I’m sure the Irish call it football when they speak English, but what about in Irish? If Google translate to Irish is trustable,

English to Irish Football = Peil

But also Soccer = Sacar

So maybe there’s two accepted variants. But where does Pail come from anyway? Let’s translate it back to English:

Peil = Very big potato

So most of the world plays football, some strange corners of it play soccer, and the Irish play very big potato.

I’d love if a native speaker could confirm this. #Irish #Gaeilge #football @gaeilge@a.gup.pe @football@a.gup.pe

I had a feeling that would be an issue!

On the one hand, football@soccer would be a good compromise.

On the other, we’re right, the Americans are wrong. Simple as that. So I sympathise with the lack of willingness to compromise on the matter.

I think this sounds like a good idea. A problem when starting a community is that one wants to find a stable home; it might make sense to set up camp at, say, hardware.watch, but without knowing who operates it it might feel more uncertain than lemmy.world.

And then, as a result, if lemmy.world ever disappears or has problems, it’ll take way too many communities with it.

If these topic-specific instances had some sort of collective ownership, I guess we could more effectively guarantee for their continued survival, and it might be more tempting for existing communities to move over there.

I’d be interested in hearing the thoughts of some admins - would !football@lemmy.world be interested in moving to !football@soccer.forum, given the right organization?

And a piece of constructive feedback: Vague community names like !main@soccer.forum is probably less likely to attract attention than something specific like !nba@nba.space - when searching for a community, people look up the community name rather than the domain.

This could mean many things.

One interpretation is to re-invent the world wide web. One recent effort to do so is Gemini, which is pretty charming with it’s completely text-based tiny internet that feels like the intimate web WWW must have been like in the early 90s or something.

If I had too much time on my hands I would love to tinker with it.

Is this why I am out of the loop? Is this a thing of American culture, or is it internet culture? Or both?

In any case, I watched the video, found it funny. Harmless absurdity is fun.