Okay, thanks for the information. That’s…obviously dumb as fuck and simply adds to Israel’s crimes. Didn’t Nestle try to pull some similar shit somewhere?

I agree the context makes the entire existence of a siege unusual here, I’m just pointing out that water and food deprivation have been used as tools of war for forever. The language used in the article—the “weaponization of water”—is meant to put a shiny new coat of paint on something ancient and make people think this is some new diabolical tactic Israel has invented on its own and that no one prior to them was barbaric enough to think of it. That’s what’s garbage journalism here.

Again, not defending Israel, just trying to point out sensationalist manipulative tactics on the part of this media outlet.

Source? It doesn’t say anything like that in the article. It mentions that 30% of Gaza’s water is purchased from Israel, but that’s hardly claiming that “all rainwater” belongs to Israel.

Not trying to defend Israel’s actions here, but let’s keep claims fact-based.

“Okay, now throw a straight punch at me.”

Christ, these headlines. What Israel is doing is abominable, but it’s nothing new. These are siege tactics and they’re practically as old as war itself.

Nah, if it was communist propaganda, it would mean that you get no material reward compared to anyone else, but could count on the teacher to pass on a good word for you with the principal, who then might mention your name positively at an education board meeting, who then might mention you to the mayor, the governor, etc, and now you have a real shot of becoming dictator of the single-party government that rules your country.

Value not consumer prizes and instead seek nepotistic alliances, for through them will the material comforts flow. —Mao, probably.

I like your memes, but this is a dick response. You could have just not answered, no reason to go out of your way to be an asshole.

I feel like the meme also works if you put the red box around “Gay. Depressed.” instead.

…No, no—I’ll see myself out.

Fernandez’s former boyfriend.

This is an unfortunate fact (that he’s gay) that the Right will focus on to further confirm their delusion that non-hetero people are likely to be pedophiles.

To be fair, ducks are pretty dumb.

Pretty sure they just draw complex pictures of bridges all day.

It’s a short one, overly faded.

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Much better headline than a previous article from yesterday stating he was sentenced to “life in prison.”

Yes. Female?

Then they’d be wrong. It objectively isn’t worth it.

Yes, because its calculation relies on the local speed of sound, which is varies based on several factors, including altitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number

I’m kinda old at this point, so maybe I’m OOTL, but is this a new meme format making fun of disinformation posts or something? Because I’m fairly certain a decent percentage of the population couldn’t tell the difference between this and a serious post given a different context.

I mean, it can still be whatever you want it to be even if it’s dirty…it’s just also gross.

In the paragraph the HBS draws attention to, Gessen wrote that “ghetto” would be “the more appropriate term” to describe Gaza, but the word “would have drawn fire for comparing the predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews. It also would have given us the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The ghetto is being liquidated.”

Not taking sides here, but it does seem to me like Gessen’s phrasing was deliberately provocative towards those who might be offended by their comparison. I’m left thinking, “I mean, if you kick a beehive, don’t be surprised if you get stung.”