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This being Britain, it was always meant to be for appearances sake, not to actually do anything.

Those are the single biggest bombs around and the US is the single biggest supplier around.

Feel free to explain how Israel could get hold of an extra 3550x worth of the equivalent of those biggest conventional bombs they got from the US for the supposed 25 megatons used in Gaza and the 4970x worth of them for the supposed 35 megatons used in Tehran.

I mean, if the difference between my numbers and those megaton claims was only 10x or so, there is plenty of room in the assumptions used in my extrapolation from the 2000lb bomb numbers to an estimated order of size for the total explosive power dropped to possibly match, but it's not, it's in total more than 8,000x off.

By your theory Israel had the equivalent of over 119 million of the largest conventional bombs around stockpiled and managed to drop or fire on Tehran alone at least 69 million bombs (the "at least" number is if they had used only 2000lb bombs - it's a lot more if they used more common 500lb and 200lb ones and missiles).

Megaton literally means "with the explosive power of 1 million tons of TNT".

Now, the American Mark 84 air-dropped bomb (the so-called 2000lb bomb, which is the biggest that the US has provided to Israel) has a warhead of 429 Kg, which if filled with Tritional - which is equivalent to an 1.18x amount of TNT in explosive power - has thus an explosive power of 506 Kg of TNT, or roughly 1/2 a ton. (source)

This is the largest common use US air-dropped bomb (and air-dropped bombs naturally have a larger payload than cruise missiles since they're little more than explosive payload plus a shell).

Now, per this, the US had by the end of June 2024 sent over 14,000 2000lb bombs to Israel. That's around 5000 tons equivalent of TNT (or 0.005 megatons).

It would take 2 million 2000lb bombs - or 142x times the 2000lb bombs the US had sent to Israel by end of June 2024 - to add up to a single megaton of explosive power, 50 million 2000lb bombs to add up to 25 megatons.

Even if all the smaller bombs and cruise missiles added up to 10x the explosive power of all the 2000lb bombs, Israel would still need to acquire 14x times that to add up to a single megaton of explosive power.

So by all indications your estimation of the explosive power dropped by Israel in Gaza is off by at least 10x, probably 100x, whilst the one for Tehran is probably of by 1000x.

That is indeed a valid possibility and one I wouldn't put pass the current assholes in government as over the years in Portugal too politics has become a lot more that kind of sleazy and manipulative purposeful theater and misrepresentation.

Unlike in Spain were the leftmost party of the two major ones (I wouldn't say that in the present day after 4 decades of Neoliberalism they are for sure left of center, but they're definitely to the left of the other one), in Portugal it's the rightmost one that's in power and they have a long tradition of being "Atlanticist" (i.e. of kissing American ass, a lot, the full works with tongue included) plus from my experience living in several countries in Europe, Portuguese politicians are the country bumpkings of European politicians and pretty subservient to and easily awed by big countries, so bending over to countries like America and Germany is their natural behavior.

There's not really much I can prove, especially if I don't want to reveal much about my identity.

Well, according to what was written in the e-mail it was from a Tel-Aviv based organisation. Also it was in my native language, which isn't English.

That said, they only sent 2 or 3 e-mails and then stopped.

As far as I understand only Lemmy administrators of a user's instance have access to user registration e-mail address, not moderators.

All of that also kinda dovetails with the pro-Zionist tone of all the main forums in that instance (especially back then, when it used to be incredibly common to have your posts moderated away as "anti-semitic" in those forums for criticizing Israel) and, as shown here, at least one of their Administrators being an overt Zionist.

Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it's the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.

As I indirectly pointed out with my first paragraph, even if we don't dispute the choice of this specific overgeneralistic segmentation of people to talk about violence, it's still intellectually dishonest: men aren't specifically more violent towards women than towards other men.

In fact the statistics show that men are the main victims of violence committed by men.

Further, to me this whole "advice", especially coming from an important police official, has a stink of "don't dress slutty to avoid getting raped".

It should be about reducing criminality, not about telling potential victims to be less free with their own behaviors (how typical of the German authorities) so that they're less likelly to be victims, and guess what's important in reducing criminality: narrowing your scope to the most likely criminal element so as to focus more resources on them.

That's what's behind the main point of my post.

Personally I find all celebrity biopics disgusting.

I mean, it would be different if these things tended to actually be honest deeply researched analyses done by hard-nosed experts (which would probably mean they would be spectacularly boring as movies) and if celebrity status was highly correlated to the greatness of one's achievements for society rather than to being well known because of practicing a very public profession (so, featuring more for example Great Scientists and fewer Star Musicians and Movie Stars), but in the current society celebrity biopics are fantasy stories about people whose fame is due to nothing else than being a competent professional in showbiz, which itself doesn't make the biopics "disgusting" but the recent abundance of them does add up to that, IMHO.

The XXI century brownshirts!

Start believing in miracles?!

I'm shocked that the current government of my homeland - Portugal - has, finally, chosen not to side with the baddies.

Considering all the pro-Zionist shit they've been doing over the years and the pro-Israel Consent Manufacturing shit of the TV channel aligned with them, this is quite unexpected.

By the way, time for one or more of the countries in the side of good to start using the cannon of "veto" against the interests of the pro-Genocide countries. Certainly Germany and Italy will only ever adjust their positions in this if they get seriously fucked up at the EU level by other countries vetoing anything that mainly benefits them (and there are quite a lot of Trade measures that pretty much only help Germany).

PS: Italy and Germany are pretty much Orban's Hungary when it comes to this specific violent and genocidal nation (as Orban's Hungary itself was, since the both supported Russia and Israel) and should get a similar treatment from the rest as Hungary did back when Orban was in power and showed the true colors of those in power there.