Author of Gossip client: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip expat American living in New Zealand Theoretical conspiracist
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In the short term, velocity of money matters too. Even awash in money, if nobody borrows it, or nobody spends it, there is no pressure on prices. In the long term, you are correct I think.
I deserved it
shipyard.pub is not a URL Neither is x.com nor google.com
I just think the 5% rule should be dropped. If we had 3 people from 3 small parties, then Winston wouldn't always be the kingmaker.
No, I made it up. I issue a retraction here: nostr:nevent1qqs9smxxrmhkpfs6q54e48z8hrxrgdc30zpvfxqqd82xrrf7d5ekv5sprpmhxue69uhkzapwdehhxarjwahhy6mn9e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hszymhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43z77j7ez8
I have to correct myself here. Nobody made the argument I made here. I put the two together, because I had heard within an hour that Hamas digs up plumbing and then uses it as missile launchers, and also then the president's comments about missiles in kitchens (you should search for it and listen to it, it is fascinating how little control he has of his anger). Apparently I'm the jew that made that argument.
Also, I feel like I'm watching a genocide here. I'm more than a bit angry. So cut me some slack.
Sorry if I'm loose with language. Jewish people are famous for making good lawyers and being crafty with language and argumentation. I don't consider that a slight against them, even if it is a stereotype.
The president of Israel (Isasc Herzog) is claiming every Palestinian has a missile in their kitchen pointed at them, so they are all legitimate targets. The logic? Hamas makes missile launchers out of plumbing. Therefore, therefore plumbing in everybody's kitchen is a military installation and therefore a legitimate target. Only the jews could make that argument.
You are then entitled to think that based on what you saw. I haven't seen it yet. I will indeed believe it when I see it, I don't take a side, I just need to hold stories to account to be sure we are getting at the truth.
I will join in with you to get MMP replaced with something that doesn't do that. Need me to sign a petition, just let me know.
I JUST REREAD THAT and I missed the first sentence. OK. CNN claims to have verified women, children, and elderly were killed during the suprise attack. That's the strongest evidence I've seen so far, albeit far short of video evidence.
From same article: "Al-Risheq’s claim that Hamas did not attack women is demonstrably false. Women, children and the elderly at kibbutzim like Kfar Aza and Be’eri and were killed during the surprise attack. Videos posted online verified by CNN show women who were attending the music festival targeted by the group’s gunmen being kidnapped." This is a squabble over the definition of "attack." Hamas took women under arrest and detained them (while they aparently killed the men). I don't see how this makes the claim that they did not attack women "demonstrably false" If it is demonstrably false, CNN doesn't say how so. Western military detains innocent people in war zones too. "Kidnapped" is a weasel word.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html "CNN has pored through hundreds of hours of media posted online attempting to corroborate accounts of atrocities committed by Hamas. In one video, which CNN determined to be authentic but has not been able to geolocate, an assailant attacks an injured man with a garden tool in an attempt to behead him. But CNN has not seen anything that would appear to confirm the claims of decapitated children. CNN also visited the ransacked ruins of Kfar Aza on Tuesday and saw no evidence of beheaded youths. Israeli officials have not released any photographs of the incident either."
I gave money to a charity once. Now I can't get rid of them! Never give money to a charity unless you want a harasser that never quits.
Apparently the adult men in civilian clothes that I thought might have been civilians are claimed by Hamas sources to have been soldiers raided in their sleeping quarters: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-deployed-specialised-units-attack-israel-says-source-2023-10-09/ "The commandoes attacked the first Israeli defence lines, raided sleeping quarters of soldiers and seized bases and the headquarters of Israel's military operation for southern Gaza, the source said."
You're probably right. I stand corrected. There is indeed fake-evidence propaganda. Ben Shapiro was just caught passing off an AI generated image as a burnt Israeli baby.
Until 3 days ago I was pretty settled in my view that Hamas is a terrorist organisation using barbaric tactics. Only in the last 3 days has that view changed based on lack of evidence (among much evidence). I am now uncertain, and seeking more evidence. Fatah was the party that championed a diplomatic solution. They rule the West Bank, which Israel cuts into smaller and smaller pieces (diplomacy didn't work). Hamas was the party that championed violent resistance. They rule Gaza and promise to get revenge on Israel. They have super-majority support in Gaza. You might think that is stupid, since any attack of Hamas will cause a much worse retaliation by Israel, but this is what the people of Gaza want. Perhaps more than their own lives, they seem to want revenge. People were on the land before the people of Israel conquered it (they were not "given" the land, they killed people to get it, Caananites and many others as I recall, with some Ark of the Covenant supernatural device, right? ;-). And many people were on it since. The levant wasn't "pretty deserted". People had been inhabiting it for thousands of years, as you mentioned earlier in your post. From 1881-1903, about 25000 jews immigrated there. From 1904-1914 another 35000 arrived. By 1922, the population was up to 11% Jews and 89% Arabs. That means there were still far more Arabs there even after those waves of immigration. Data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine I could try to explain their rationale for wanting revenge on Israel, but I couldn't do it justice not being one of them. And it's so cultural that I doubt many of them remember all the stories and reasons themselves, at this point they just do.
Yeah but if I have already read it 3 times, seeing it in my feed fourth time starts to get bothersome; it becomes spam. Here on nostr, we can deal with it client-side better than what x.com does.
yeah, gossip needs better reactions. thanks.
