• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Dubious. “We found these plans on their bodies.”

    Maybe, maybe not.

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      9 months ago

      Clearly a very controversial comment I’m replying to here but I say it has the right idea. Whenever you see a claim consider the source of the claim before you import it and its implications wholesale into your world-view. If only people practiced this attitude more.

      You should see why this is important no matter if you lean pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian. On a subreddit that I won’t name, a highly-upvoted response to one of the atrocious images that emerged of the attack aftermath went: “that image is fake, there was a twitter community response to it saying so”. A twitter community response! That’s settled then! If your credulity for believing things is a function of how much you want to believe those things, you will only become stupider with time.

      I know enough to condemn Hamas purely based on facts that are not in dispute. All those festival-goers are not somehow secretly active IDF combatants. They are not somehow magically alive. Israel did not fabricate the dead babies.