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[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fun fact palestinians are human

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure lib fact checkers have found a way tp give this all the Pinocchios/pants on fires. I can't stomache commitment to that bit to do one myself though

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politico asked noted phrenologist Heinrich Goering Judenmoeder who said that the Palestinian brain pan is infact descended from the inferior denisovian race.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Sam Harris voice) We can't even talk about Neanderthal DNA anymore

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That fucking time he said "I am not the misogynist you're looking for" in a purely Reddity dae le epic Star Wars hidden gem referential way. I'll never forget that. Fucking quack-hack.

He needs to go back to staring in Zoolander films

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when i found out he's just an LA trust fund kid. It all made sense then. His bullshit doctorate was just bought. He just wanted to play public intellectual with his money and never did any work

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For his acolytes that hinge off of his every word and call him "Sam" as if they know him personally (lots of Silicon Valley cults of personality do this), I often remind them that he never wrote any peer-reviewed scientific papers, ever. He never practiced being a scientist in a definitive way because he never was a scientist to begin with.

That's a major reason why I have so much contempt for Sam Harris style takes about consciousness (or that it's "an illusion" whatever the fuck that means): the source of much of that that crude reductionism, under pretense of scientific cold hard facts, comes from him, a fake scientist hack. And even if it didn't, the worldview that he promotes is, again, crude and reductionistic and I've seen nothing good come of it.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Killing to protect human life and the more we kill the more human life is protected. When all humans are killed all human life is protected because we all ascend to heaven thanks to our glorious savior Jesus Christ.

Yep that sounds like white western thinking to me!

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep that sounds like white western thinking to me!

Wrong, westerners would not say that native people of the places they colonize would go to heaven. agony-deep

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Wrong, westerners would not say that native people of the places they colonize are human.

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Bro they said the same thing about Korea and Vietnam. THEY don't value human life like WE do SO WE are justified when we indiscriminately MASSACRE THEM.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a just world every NYT “journalist” would be put on trial for supporting terrorism

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supporting terrorism and genocide = wall

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they should be reminded that they’re the absolute lowest of the low, scum of the earth disgusting pieces of shit and paraded through the streets for shit-flinging before the world is finally rid of their cancerous asses

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

>implying Palestinians aren't human

Just lib things 🙃

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Listen I understand and agree that this person fucked up but can we unban them so I can stop seeing all these removed posts that aren't in the modlog thanks. /j

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. She may have some less than perfect takes, but queermunist is 100% on our side and I think she means well.

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[–] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

New York "Hitler isn't really antisemitic" Times is trying to tell me what now?

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Valuing human life is when I drop White Phosphorus on a Children's Hospital

[–] Lettucetacoboutit@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I think it's all a little desperate. My suspicion is that the propaganda is not working as they hoped which makes them all the more genocidal.

I don't think this sort of reaction would be necessary without all of the pushback. I don't recall anything like it in the past, even when troops were on the ground in Gaza or Lebanon.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

wow it's indistinguishable from a war-on-terror era ben shapiro tweet

(CW Racist hate speech)

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

#settlementsrock

Conservatism is the new punk rock, isn't it? the-republican

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

How long do we have to wait before somebody just fucking kills him?

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[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume this was an earlier headline for the article. They seem to have changed the headline now to: Israel Can Defend Itself and Uphold Its Values

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just turning the big dial as they watch the crowd.

[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Hilariously they only changed the headline but still left that text in the body of the op-ed..

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

At least that headline is technically true. The zionist entity is built on genocidal fascist values so doing a genocide doesn't endanger them.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The photo is actually the first in the series of two pictures. The second picture (not shown) is of the hand flattening the woman and her child, with viscera flying all over the background

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Gundam Witch the movie

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Something hurts my brain about justifying murder with the accusation that the victims don't care for human life.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

looks to me like that hand is about to squish some innocent lives

that's what they were trying to imply, right? the strong threatening hand held over the heads of innocent Palestinians, right?

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And why does it look like Dr. Manhattan's hand?

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Turns out we need to nuke Moscow.

Oh wait, we don't care about that whole Russia/Ukraine thing anymore. Silly me.

Glass Gaza for peace!

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Aw, I read that and now I vomited chili everywhere.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Satanic racism should become the defining phrase of the year

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago
[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

new york times is right wing and always has been, like even by our american standards i mean

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thinking how much I want to show everyone involved in this article just how much I value human life

guts-rage

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

All exclusions apply lol. They're bombing Gaza with Israeli hostages there. They dont give a fuck about ANYONE.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

the NYT editorial board should be on the receiving end of that defense

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

well no, except the dudes in charge probably don't think of Palestinians as human

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

As opposed to the Palestinian, where *somehow *a ton of people die, showing they don't care about human life as much

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[–] DirtbagVegan@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Hiding behind the editorial board too. Fucking cowards.

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