Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
Rules:
1. No Bigotry or Hate Speech
Any forms of Homophobia, Transphobia, Queerphobia, Racism, or Ableism will be met with swift and harsh action and will not be tolerated here whatsoever. Bigots will be banned immediately on-sight. This includes apologia of it.
Trying to be politely or intellectually bigoted i.e. "Just asking questions" won't be tolerated.
2. No Zionism
Any forms of Zionism or Zionist rhetoric will not be tolerated here, this includes Zionist apologia, accusations of antisemitism towards anti-Zionists, or blatant denial or downplaying of the genocide towards Palestinians. Any attempt to uphold or prop up the IHRA definition of antisemitism, will be treated as Zionism.
Anyone engaging in Pro-Zionist sentiment or apologia will be actioned in accordance with its severity.
Note: Trying to find loopholes or whataboutery to see what is or isn't genocide denial or Zionism will be treated as a violation of this rule. Don't test us.
3. Stay Civil
Please maintain civil discourse in the community. Do not engage in arguments with others, name-calling, or insults. Note that calling out bigotry or Zionism is not considered an insult. In heated arguments users are encouraged to or even required to disengage failure to do so will result in mod action.
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Spreading of misinformation intentionally in this community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Spreading misinformation hurts the credibility of the community and can mislead people sometimes in dangerous ways. Users who intentionally post misinformation as articles, comment answers, or in attempt to win arguments will be actioned swiftly.
Note: This includes Russian and Chinese propaganda. Users with a history of such posting will be banned on sight.
5. No AI Content
Please do not post articles or content primarily created using generative AI. Generative AI content may contain misinformation or be lower quality and thus is discouraged. Posts and comments featuring it will be removed. However this community does not allow or tolerate Anti-AI trolling or hostility and users who engage in such behavior will be actioned for it, additionally Anti-AI trolling violates Rule 3 and often Rule 4 so it is generally unacceptable already.
Note: Rules 1 & 2 may be subject to preemptive mod action due to their severity, and they apply to a user's entire post history. Not just this community.
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You're doing more than explaining his motivation, you're asserting the premise of his motivation as true. You're not saying "Bin Laden thinks America is threatening Islam so he wants jihad", you're saying "America threatens Islam; that's why Bin Laden wants jihad". This makes any subsequent discussion premised on the threat and centers the question of what is the best way to counter it, jihad or something else. It's a loaded premise that centers the counterfactual.
I really don't care about the alternate timeline of the woulds and the ifs. In this timeline, that alternate timeline is used to justify genocide. The factual is more important than the counterfactual.
Edit, responding here to not fracture the thread. That your don't think Hamas is in a position to carry out the threat is irrelevant. It still centers the counterfactual, loads the premise of any subsequent discussion with the concern of what Hamas might or might not do, when Israel is actively pursuing genocide.
I repeat: here's your way out of this argument: reformulate to say "Netanyahu believes Hamas would do X, so he makes analogy Y", as opposed to "Hamas would do X. This is why Netanyahu makes analogy Y".
Subtle logical point but important.
Stop supporting zionazi terrorism.