Is this just camping with extra steps?

I was thinking that this was a relatively bullshit example, but the movie “The One” featuring Jet Li makes this an awesome example. On it’s face the impacts of one person likely aren’t even enough for one person to notice, but if you had someone with the knowledge and means to take advantage of this they could be incredibly powerful.

BTC loses a chunk of value it’s just Tuesday BTC.

All it needs is a start point to make it fairly accurate. If you’re not from the US the politics of the 1700’s and 1800’s are actually kind interesting unlike the slop we got after something like 1975. Hell, as a point of intrigue, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was at least “interesting.” At the time the parties maintained much of their core belief (Democrat = big Fed, Republican = small Fed), but the implementation was split by North vs South. This led to some interesting situations where anti big Fed Republicans in the north votes for big Fed regulations while pro big Fed Democrats in the south voted against big Fed regulations. US politics used to be interesting, hell even as recently as 2012 we had situations where Republicans were trying to find avenues for conservative value illegal immigrants as a means to bolster their ranks, but all that fell through because the existing rank and file couldn’t stomach illegal brown people taking jobs they didn’t want.

Now US politics seems to be Fascist vs not Fascist while there are no true alternatives.

And then she dedicated it to Trump

I was wondering about that as well so I looked into the dates. Apparently Obama got the award in October 9, 2009, and some of the first controversial drone strikes under his administration were in March and April of 2009. Dude came out the gate drone striking and the Nobel Committee just ignored it.

I used to want to work for the federal government and once upon a time it was a very good job. Decent, but not the best, pay along with good health benefits, large amounts (in US terms) of leave, extra holidays, and a pension program. Now I don’t see why anyone would want to work for the federal government. A common sentiment amongst government workers are that you are there for at least one of four things:

1.) Early retirement/pension - In the older days you could potentially fully retire as early as 50.

2.) Healthcare - You got to keep it into early retirement and it was typically better than any private or business insurance or medicare.

3.) Stability - Once in you would probably never be laid off or fired.

4.) Ulterior motives - A lot of government workers do what they do because they get something else out of it. Someone working at the EPA might get a sense of fulfillment and earnestly believe they are making a difference. Likewise someone working in ICE might be getting their failed-military-abuse-of-power rocks off on the bit of power they have over others.

Well the stability is gone, the pension only matters if you have the stability to get to 30 years, and the healthcare is getting worse over time.

First off, this is not my original account, I’ve been on two other instances that have closed and had to start new accounts twice. Second, I comment on Israel/Palestine Conflict posts because about half of the posts on this community are about that topic and the takes can be batshit crazy sometimes. If you want me to comment on more things then have more diverse topics.

What my own eyes see? You then sent a video where you can’t see shit, half the video it looks like he’s on the floor and they’re kicking the shit out of him. Also in another comment I stated that a big part of my difficulty to believe the issue is as wide spread as you are saying is because the overall poor standards of evidence and shitty journalism.

The incident of supposed rape started with a report that a prisoner had been transferred from the Sde Teiman camp with anus and rectal injuries, but every article I can find (from Haaertz, Times of Israel, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, and People’s Dispatch) only reference a report without saying where the report came from or who released it, it’s just a report that’s out there but no one knows where. Secondly the IDF went to the prison as part of their investigation and fought the guards because they were refusing to cooperate with military police. Yes right wing Israeli’s rioted, but that’s hardly proof that the entire country is onboard with that and each picture of the riot it’s like 50 people. Furthermore the IDF put one reservist in prison in February 2025 for punching handcuffed and blindfolded prisoners. To prove the point, there are cases going through the Israeli Supreme Court right now to potentially close the prison. The court has not yet decided to close the prison but they phased out long term detention in June 2024, issued a compliance order in September 2024, and in September 2025 made rulings that the government is intentionally denying prisoners adequate nutrition and must meet required prisoner standards.

Are some Israeli’s or members of the IDF doing these things, probably so, but I have a hard time believing it’s a systemic problem throughout their whole culture especially when no one can seem to provide any actual evidence, the IDF appear to be acting how they should to such allegations, and the country’s supreme court is actively making rulings against the government for the treatment of prisoners.

The standards of evidence/proof are so shitty that one person can say something on twitter, a journalist uses it as a reference for an article, their article gets copied a dozen times, and suddenly that counts as proof. Then a claim like this escalates with the logic that if it happened over here then it must be happening everywhere.

Here is Obama’s stated daily schedule in his first year as president. Take it with a grain of salt since it is a self report, but it’s probably not miles away from the truth.

Quick Summary:

• Routinely only got 5-7 hours of sleep
• Woke up 7 am and would straight away exercise for 45 minutes
• Into the office between 8:30-9:00 am
• Work until 6:30 pm
• Dinner and family time until 8:30 pm
• Review briefings and do paperwork until 11:30 pm
• Read in bed for 30 min before going to be at 12:30 am

Maybe Obama is just built differently, I know some people have genetic differences that mean they need less sleep, but that’s a hell of a schedule for your baseline everyday schedule. I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if the White House had a doctor that prescribed/administered some sort of stimulant.

Largely in part because of an overall poor standard of evidence and multiple different forms of bias to perpetuate “proof.” A lot of people, even here, are pointing to the UN commission reports, but they don’t really look beyond the legitimacy of the UN to determine if it’s accurate.

The commission is made up of 3 people, at least one of which has made statements about jews controlling social media. In their report on their findings they state that their methodology for their reports was by pairing digital content with victim and witness testimony, but then state that the standard of proof was if 1 or more testimonies corroborated the digital content.

That’s not proof in my eyes.

These are disturbing links, if at face value they are true then this is truly disturbing. That said most of the information comes from second or third hand sources. It’s entirely possible that some Israeli’s are doing these things but it’s hard to believe that this is happening systemically throughout their entire military organization. It’s not forgivable and anyone doing it should be justly punished, but it seems crazy to assume that the mistreatment of prisoners is across the board as others have alleged.

I might be on the wrong side of history here, but it’s a bit hard to believe that jews in Israel are raping men, women, and children left and right.

Nursing homes and welfare homes are good at getting rid of bedbug infestations

They’re only good at it because without getting rid of bed bugs no one would choose to live there. If prisoners got to pick between prisons that had bed bugs and those that didn’t I would imagine prisons would get good at removing them as well.

And Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinian detainees is well documented with even video evidence shown on TV.

Ok, then give some evidence to support that, that’s what I asked for.

It’s entirely possible you’re not as leftist as you think you are, but there’s also a number of tankies around here.

You might be right, my statements come from a US frame of reference. In the total spectrum I’m probably fairly centrist while in nonUS perspectives, but in US perspectives I’m moderate heavily leaning left. At the end of the day I still believe in a democracy which still leaves openings for conservatives. I’m not a true socialist in leftist European environs.

Lemmy is an echo chamber?

Let me just say, earnestly, THANK YOU. I haven’t read your link yet, but you are the first person to respond with an actual response to the given question. I’m gonna take a few minutes to read what you linked, if I have any thought’s I’ll post an edit.}

EDIT: This is disturbing news, but it’s hardly evidence of systemic actions. I like the BBC a lot, but the testimonies given aren’t surprising. I’m all for condemning the actions stated, but they are also second hand accounts. For example the account of sexual misconduct comes from only one person interviewed. I’m not unwilling to believe that some Israeli’s have done something illegal, but I’m not surprised either. Rage all anyone might want but the laws of war only matter if someone is willing to enforce them and it seems like the world won’t enforce them here, much to my disappointment.

Echo chambers are shit, it’s the reason the world is the way it is. If you want to sit in a circle and jerk off with people that share your opinion then be my guest, but to pretend it’s a good thing is a bridge too far. Honest discourse and people checking each other is the foundational rhetoric of a democratic society, without it democracy dies.

Eh, I agree with you, but Lemmy is it’s own special flavor of echo chamber. In the real world I’m super leftist, but on Lemmy I’m somehow the voice of conservatism. Lemmy needs some additional feedback because most everyone is saying the same thing as everyone else without any contrary opinion.

The post I’m responding to is on Lemmy.World and everyone in the comments is saying the same thing over and over again so idk what you want with your response. Be obtuse if you want.

Here I was hoping for a MF Doom reference. That said, in a doomsday scenario wouldn’t your biggest threats be the neighbors you have? If you needed tools that don’t break easily that’s no big deal, but if you have something sensitive that’s pretty risky to share (a pick axe is less critical than a generator for example). A community garden would be good, but if one of your neighbors is a self absorbed sociopath they would probably raid the community garden. Why do you need to learn to sew and patch when every department store probably has a life time worth of extra clothes? For self defense it’s hard to argue against having a bunch of guns. For first aid, outside of administering it to yourself and your close network offense is the best defense. In an actual doomsday scenario it’s much easier to shoot first and ask questions later than it is to mend wounds on yourself and others.

I’m all for a post apocalyptic socialist commune, but all it takes is one nut job for the peaceful socialist commune to turn into a fascist dictatorship. Unless everyone you know is of the same sociopolitical opinion as you, or if there are no guns around, then I’d still be stacking up guns if I could.