I had a training at my job today. Someone jumped in front of my train home so the coach had to give me a ride back. Because I work at the Union, politics came up in the car (always exciting with strangers). She told me she used to be a candidate for a neoliberal party here, to which I responded I was an active member of the marxist party. She audibly gasped when I said that and I could hear her contemplating about throwing me out of the car right there lol.

Breaking out my copy of "On Palestine", the notorious Chomsky X Pappe split record so I can factually tell people to fuck off with citations.

Just feel the need to say how much I love the emote, it's very useful and funny, thank you Hexbearians for introducing us to it lmao

Though, oh right, now that lemmyworld has defederated from us, there won't be nearly as many places to use it 😩

I remember back when the ukraine war started that there were videos circulating in my family/friends groups about buildings getting bombed and destroyed, they were saying these buildings were in Ukraine and russia was doing it. A quick google search revealed that these videos were actually from Gaza, they had a clear watermark from a palestinian reporter (they didn't even bother to remove it). I remember calling them out and they didn't care, they were horrified that these buildings were in ukraine but as soon as i mentioned they were actually in palestine, 0 concern.

Now these very same people that were spreading the videos are now spreading the bs about babies getting beheaded, and even pictures of support for Israel with Gaza backgrounds (same as Bieber). 🥴

When I see a boo hoo see last touching text made before they were liquidated hearts and minds puff piece.

Is there any easy way that I’m missing to sub to all of the hexbear communities from my lemmygrad account ? Or is it as much of a pain as it seems to be

Also, the amount of foaming at the mouth in Canadian media over Israel is rapidly becoming ridiculous, I’ve seen them bloodthirsty before but this feels over the top

I think I saw Zelensky in Brussels today

The situation in Palestine is really stressing me out.

Will the Palestinian Soghomon Tehlirian please show up and fire a bullet through Benito Netanyahu’s worthless fucking head already.

India was also the first non Arab country to recognise palestinian statehood

Shower throught: you know all those thousands of missles Hamas always uses to attempt to swamp the Iron Dome every time they go off? Why don't they use those missles to TEAR DOWN THE WALL?

A recent study about jellyfish found that even species that only have about a thousand neurons are capable of conceptualizing past experiences and adapting their behavior. These are animals that barely have a brain, and even they are entirely aware that they have a life and wish to live it comfortably. I like jellyfish, the little baby ones you can see at an aquarium are cute.

A human being has 100 billion neurons. We are like galaxies compared to that jellyfish. We hold emergent mental processes in our heads that can conceive of things beyond our own lives, beyond our own times, beyond time itself. And there are other humans willing to snuff all of that out by just firing a rocket, just to keep from feeling a little discomfort, to avoid some guilt.

So the "Return Youtube Dislikes" extension is currently broken. There is no doubt in my mind that this is related to the Israel-Palestine situation. Someone important told YouTube to make sure the masses can't get an accurate read on how unpopular the propaganda is.