TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s almost like teens see something like a genocide being committed, think it’s wrong and say something about it.

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  • lledrtx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IDK, both can be true. Teens might be right in saying something and tiktok might be amplifying that kind of content because it helps China geopolitically. A highly upvoted post on Lemmy literally yesterday was this - www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/us/…/index.html

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a ton of support for the Palestinian people out there. It would strongly appear to be suppressed on commercial social media sites. I can’t say that Tiktok isn’t amplifying it, but as you poke around on open social platforms that tend to censor less, you see a lot more Pro-Palestine news and content. If you go through twitter or facebook and find specific regional bloggers, the content is out there but if doesn’t seem to pass the algorithm

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    • SlikPikker@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      China gains nothing by Mideast conflict.

      Israel - clearly does not care about things like democracy and human rights.

      I can see them drawing closer to China.

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    • dx1@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the U.S. upvoted that to discredit China

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  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “You’re crazy to believe your own eyes!”

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  • pohart@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When the October 7 attack happened my teenagers noticed the one sided media and hamfisted pro Israel propaganda asked what’s really going on. Today’s kids are getting constant propaganda and advertising. They’re not immune but they recognize it and bristle.

    When I was a teenager and Yitzhak Rabin was murdered i bought the anti palastine rhetoric that followed for an embarrassingly long time. And we knew that it was Netanyahu. Well, I don’t think we knew until later that he was aware that night of what he was doing. But we knew it was his follower who pulled the trigger.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stupid thing people don’t they like killing?

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Israel has already killed 10-20x as many people as died in the Hamas attack, and they’re just getting started.

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The amount of pro Palestinian support is overwhelming everywhere. Only newspapers and Reddit bots and paid shills are still spreading IDF propaganda. The rest of the world sees israel for the Nazi’s they are.

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  • KinNectar@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the Israeli government is authoritarian, and their scorched earth tactics against Palestinians are war crimes, but you're not doing the cause any favors by invoking the Nazis. Criticize their actual behavior.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They turned Gaza into a concentration camp.

      As Jews, they should absolutely know better.

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    • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In a context where we have the lies about the hospitals having tunnels under them, that 40 non-existent babies were beheaded and where some key facts about Oct 7 have somewhat unravelled, how far would you even bother policing the words of people wishing for a liberated Palestinian?

      The Israelis and their supporters are also notorious liars and frequently try to claim that Muslims or brown people were responsible for the Holocaust in Europe.

      They’ve bombed civilians before and the intelligence they send tend to be garbage according to EU after they looked through the reams of documents the Israelis sent them. As an occupier, Israel behaves like a country at war all the time, they lie, kill and cheat perpetually.

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    • kmaismith@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem is their behavior and rhetoric towards Palestine resembles a sentiment shared by the OG Nazis

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    • dx1@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The comparisons to the Nazis are actually inescapable. I struggle to think of a centrally orchestrated and mechanized system of apartheid/oppression and now genocide that’s more similar.

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    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Nazis forced Jews into ghettos. Gaza is a ghetto that Palestinians are forced to live in.

      Zionists will not however, directly kill every Palestinian. They will indirectly try to kill every Palestinian by colonizing every last inch of land from the Palestinians. The ones that immigrate away will be too scattered to maintain a coherent ethnicity, and eventually their culture will be erased.

      So, while practically speaking they’re not as bad as Nazis, they are as effective as Nazis, if not more so.

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  • Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone who stands mostly in the middle, I rarely comment on this issue because every second poster calls anyone that has even the mildest sympathy for Israel’s situation a Nazi.

    You people are tiresome and it’s honestly not worth ‘debating’ with you.

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      An ethno-state is based on race superiority that is committing genocide to expand their lebensraum by dehumanizing their enemies and calling for the indiscriminate slaughter of people of a certain race by locking them all up in a giant concentration camp.

      Now where the fuck did I hear they one before? Oh yeah the Nazi’s. It’s almost comical how much israel is a copy of Nazi Germany.

      You are correct that I will call every israel sympathizer a Nazi because they are Nazi’s by practically everyx single definition.

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The English language is great. If your friend was recently kicked out of their house by a Nazi and is arguing with them about it, you can see if things get violent and call out “hey, Nazi debater!” and they will both turn their heads, unsure if you’re talking to them or the other guy. Hilarity will ensue from this small confusion, and all will end well.

      That having been said, the Nazi will still conveniently forget all their country’s history, will declare they are the “pure” or “chosen” ones, and proceed to cleanse the ones that don’t fit their world view, including your friend.

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    • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I stand for the people. I support Israel, but not it’s far right government that wants to kill all palestinian people and take their lands, but at the same time, I support Palestine, but not it’s extremist terrorist leaders.

      Wars are fought between two or more governments for their own goals and is a competition who cal kill the other side the most (including it’s civilians).

      You can support a country without supporting their government, however people sometimes tend to be lazy and just say “fuck Israel” instead of saying “fuck the government of Israel”, or say “fuck Palestine” by being ignorant instead of saying “fuck HAMAS”.

      Innocent people should not be vilified for just wanting to live their lives in peace.

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  • Phanlix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is encouraging. It’s been a relatively silent genocide for decades, and while it’s good to see people waking up, it’s almost too late. Kinda like climate change.

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    • GoldenAxeDwarf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty shitty genicide if the population keeps growing…

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  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve still got plenty of friends who support Israel over here in the states, including basically everyone conservative I know.

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    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Interesting, I actually know a couple conservatives that are anti globalism, which justified their anti Israel stance. However, the conservatives I know that are party aligned due to religious preferences… that’s another story

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• tiktokio@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tiktok also didn’t censor the major protests in France like Facebook and Twitter did at the time. i hav downloaded some videos with Tiktok video downloader but after that i have deleted all the data.

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• Pat@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Almost like when you take religion out of the picture it's one country committing genocide against another which is never okay for any reason. Israel can scream "but muh anti-semitism" all they want but it's a scapegoat. Ignore Jewish/Muslim backgrounds and look at what's really going on. It's nothing but a disgusting land grab and genocide hat's been going on since WW2.

  The world would 100% be a better place without Israel, and that's nothing to do with their religion. The country itself is evil and corrupt. They are bigoted and hypocritical. Israel deserves no sympathy or support. Out of all the bullshit I've seen happen in the middle east the past few decades, Israel is definitely the most abhorrent and repulsive source of conflict.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you think about Hamas? Why do they exist and what is their actual agenda? Is it really at the very top simply helmed by limousine-riders in Quatar?

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    • Whoresradish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hamas is as bad as Isreal, but they are Isreal’s own creation. Most Palestinians don’t support Hamas just like most Isrealis don’t support their own government. It is two governments trying to commit genocide on the others civilians. Their are no good guys here. Just thousands of innocent civilians being massacred on both sides. The main difference is the US has decided to give one of these governments committing genocide the most advanced weapons available and practically no governments are even trying to help the Palestinians anymore. Not to mention hamas is commiting genocide to take back land the palestinians had a 100 years ago while the isrealis are commiting genocide to take back land they had 2000 years ago while pretending the palestians never even existed and spouting off racist revisionist history.

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  • SparkyLight@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    do you genuinely think israel wants this tiny stretch of land, even at the cost of all of this(thousands of israelis dead, more soldiers die every day, rockets and terror attacks from lebanon, syria and yemen, and all the public backlash) I’ll tell you a hint, they truly don’t and if they did, they won’t take it this slowly, and this carefully not to hurt civilians if they truly just wanted the tiny piece of land, it would have been so kuch easier to just indiscriminately level the entire place

    I know I’m not gonna change any minds here as people like you who have already decided israel is the culmination of all evil won’t back down from that belief that easily, but just try to not assume every israeli born is a racist Palestinian hater, and try to think why would they go through all of this, what do they stand to gain or to lose, assuming of course they are rational human beings

    btw if it’s genocide for the past 56 years, they are truly really really bad at committing genocide

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    • Whoresradish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, the leaders of Isreal want palestine removed from the map. They are not taking it carefully. They are indiscriminately leveling Gaza right now. Please ask the 4000 dead palestinian children how careful the Isrealis have been.

      Wanting to commit genocide and having the political capital to get away with it are two different things. I know several isrealis that felt their country was commiting genocide and I know for fact that not all Isrealis are bad. Criticism of Isreal is not an attack on all isrealis just like criticism of Hamas is not an attack on all palestinians.

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    • eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They want the land and the $500 billion worth of natural gas in the sea

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1h, 0 downvotes.

      Good luck buddy.

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    • Necronomicommunist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d say they’re good at it considering they’re getting away with it.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Land grab? Can you explain? It looks like the status quo has been maintained since 1967 or so?

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Israeli-occupied_territories

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    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ignoring all the ongoing colonization, didn’t they just take Jerusalem a couple years ago when Trump said they could put their embassy there?

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    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Israel has allowed settlers to continuously claim land from the West Bank, enclosing its territory from the Palestinians who already lived there, preventing the Palestinian Authority from imprisoning settlers or kicking them out, and refusing to pursue legal action against settlers while illegally imprisoning Palestinians for retaliating when they see their land getting stolen without anyone defending them.

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The world would 100% be a better place without Israel, and that’s nothing to do with their religion.

    The world would also be a better place without Islam, but how realistic or ethical is it to call for such a thing?

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    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can say “the world would be better without Israel” without actually calling for the eradication of the country. I think creating Israel was a historical mistake, but that doesn’t make it a mistake you can just paint over. Solutions must come from acknowledging the current reality and the innocent people who live at both sides of the border and their rights and dignity.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A broken tiktok is right twice a day…

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell, neither government here has the moral high ground…and I chose the word “government” there for a reason.

    It is my understanding from very far away only able to see through Lie-O-Vision that two governments that hate each other because religion are basically taking it out on civilians who just want to live their lives. It’s a tragedy that has basically nothing to do with me yet it does cast my eyes toward my own capitol city with a bit of a suspicious squint.

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• adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m convinced this whole tiktok is manipulating the algorithm thing is actually US propaganda.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s how you actually “manipulate the algorithm.”

    1: take up residency in the comments, and at the same time start a few basic accts that don’t say anything too controversial (day in the life kinda stuff, thirst traps, etc). Establish a basic presence

    2: once you amass a following, you start with pretty basic stuff lots of young people agree with - housing/healthcare reform, work reform, etc

    3: an important part a lot of people miss - have your own team troll your comments. Stir up shit. The goal is to get people riled up, not move the needle in any specific direction

    4: throw out something big (it’s been confirmed that Russia is behind distribution on TikTok of OBL’s “Letter to America” recently). Fight on both sides, tagging in as much of the greater sphere of commenters as you can.

    That’s it. That’s all anyone’s doing. Just do this over and over and you eventually drive people crazy.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds pretty convincing, but you lost me in the end. Who did “exact same thing” in 2016, 2020, and 2022? Are you implying that Russia and/or China were trying to increase the harm done to the US that way? I’m quite at a loss here

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  • themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    US propaganda is so, so bad. Russia and China are awful, but US is no better in this regard.

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you seen Chinese TikTok vs America TikTok? It’s wild. The Chinese TikTok has videos of scientists and musicians and engineers all tackling major problems. It’s inspirational. The American TikTok is absolutely fucked. There’s clearly heavy algorithm manipulation. At the very least, we know China could make American TikTok not terrible and they choose not to.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Chinese TikTok has videos of scientists and musicians and engineers all tackling major problems. It’s inspirational

      My TikTok FYP is various scientists/science commenters, stand up comedians, chubby goth girls dancing, Magic The Gathering card reviews, and swinger shit.

      If you engage only with things you like, you’ll only see things you like.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of the best sci-fi is coming out of China these days. People who like to theorize about these things point to a population, much like America in the post war Baby Boom, seeing for themselves the benefits science can bring to their lives as China pretty rapidly develops, and being fascinated by what could be next.

      So you might need to accept that the most popular trending American social media is venal and insipid because the average American wants to see venal and insipid, while the Chinese population might just be interested in things that interest them.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A little from column A, a little from column B?

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pro-human beings and opposed to killing and maiming people who are trying to enjoy their life.

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  • S_204@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet we’re not seeing calls for Hamas to step down and let innocent Palestinians live in some version of peace that can never be known under Islamic jihad…

    Which I find very weird. The lack of conversation surrounding the admitted goals of the leaders of the Palestinian people is something that needs to be part of any conversation.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a false dichotomy to condition ceasing the extermination of a whole innocent population to protests towards a terrorist organization. Israel does not need to bomb several hospitals to stop Hamas. There are other ways to go about stopping terrorists.

      Maybe you don’t see many calls at Hamas because people are catching up with how wholesale persecution and extermination of people is often justified by pointing to a few malicious individuals that are part of that population.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because they’re not going to do that. You can’t call them terrorists and expect logical reasonable action or reaction.

      The Palestinian people by in large did not vote Hamas in, over 50% of the people in Gaza were not alive during the last election.

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  • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re just trying to survive. We’ve already made it impossible for them to enjoy life

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TikTok is banned in India so there’s way less anti-muslim sentiment on the platform.

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  • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, let’s combat racism with more racism, way to go.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is this racist? Behavior of BJP mob on Reddit was observable by how r/worldnews looked like depending on time of the day.

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Racism is when you don’t want muslim people to be oppressed and murdered? 🤔

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    • BellaDonna@mujico.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Islam isn’t a race, and Indian Muslims aren’t Arab…they’re Indian, like Pakistanis are Indian and not Arab…

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• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Algorithm probably plays a sizeable part in that, but as an older gen Z fella I have become indifferent to both countries of this conflict. Both Israel and Palestine just race with each other who can check the most boxes in the Geneva Convention rules list. Just leave those 2 to sort this mess out for themselves, It’s not like we get a Holy Site bonus effect by owning Jerusalem.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s pretty reductive on the Palestinian side no?

    Considering more than half the populous wasn’t even born when Hamas took power.

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair to them, it’s not as though the Israel Palestine conflict is black and white. It is pretty well known to be one of the most complex conflicts in human history.

      Just about any statement that isn’t very well researched and laboriously constructed is like 95% likely to be reductive to some and offensive to others.

      I’m sure someone reads this post as reductive, and I am only tangentially referring to the conflict.

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    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahh yes, that’s a good take, I forgot that the Gaza Strip area is extremely young compared to the average, but please educate me then. I wasn’t suggesting that the Palestinians deserve this for supporting or voting for Hamas, they have their justified reason.

      As I recall Hamas has initiated massacres (and before, also installing military buildings in civil areas and probably some more). Just to not sound biased of course Israel had made its fair share of war crimes like bombing civilian areas where military buildings weren’t even present and bunch more probably.

      Of course, it’s absolutely brutal observing this even more so that the Israeli minister didn’t give 2 shits to the Pope’s request (ironic), but what can we do? Can we really put a stop to this without escalating things further and risking creating a bigger conflict than it currently is?

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  • 5C5C5C@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The difference is that for one side the “violations of the Geneva convention” are not being carried out by the duly elected government 🤔

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    +20% Monthly Piety and +20% County Conversion Speed

    This are the bonus effects for owning it! Makes your dynasty so much more powerful if you then divert from your reign’s religion. But be prepared for an holy war against you if you do so.

    (this is ck3 btw)

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  • ferralcat@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think people’s issue is that you (the west) is funding one side of it.

    I’m pretty isolationist too though. Pull the funding to both sides. Let them figure it out themselves (Israel will probably not exist in the end of this scenario).

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  • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Both Israel and Palestine just race with each other who can check the most boxes in the Geneva Convention rules list. Just leave those 2 to sort this mess out for themselves

    Wow.

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• Jezebelley@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • spiderplant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you aren’t anti-oppression or anti-apartheid you aren’t progressive

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  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d think the fact Biden is significantly trailing in most swing states would be a sign for Democrats to wake up and offer something better. Or you know, not support the ethnic state doing a genocide. As this comment shows, instead of blaming the party, it’s the voters who have the right point of view who are shamed for not bringing themselves supporting the party. They’re shamed for being on a high horse instead of compromising on their values and supporting a system that causes genocides. Sometimes the Democrats convince leftists but after enough time something like this happens, then they’re cast as the enemies causing the other party to win.

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• h14h@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IMO there are big risks consuming news & opinion from any single source.

  Whether it’s the CCP manipulating the TikTok algorithm, Russia buying ad space on Facebook, or American conglomerates pushing narratives on western mainstream media, there will be implicit biases everywhere.

  The only real answer is to get news from multiple sources with diverging perspectives, try to find where facts overlap, challenge your own implicit biases, and form a perspective in line w/ your values.

  Seeing America blame TikTok for pushing propaganda is the pot calling the kettle black – and honestly more of a distraction than anything else.

  The real important issue is that people are dying, and the existing power structures are doing jack shit to stop it.

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• unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  when the majority content type dominates the platform

  surprise pikachualgorithm

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t trust TikTok

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no one with a functioning brain does. at the corporate or content level.

    Which is why so many americans are obsessed with it, since the overwhelming bulk of americans are fucking idiots.

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• HappyPornDaze@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People will always favor the oppressed over the oppressor, even if the oppressed are murderous religious zealots.

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  • Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see oppressors who use a good old fashioned tiny crisis to justify mass genocide…

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tiktok discourse is designed to create the narrative that no one could possibly be pro-palestine, and that humanity can be split into “people who see the truth and support Israel absolutely” and “people who have been fooled by propaganda”.

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• MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TikToc is a site that people use to share information, and at the end of the day, this is their main complaint. Their golden idea is for one or two major corporations to control the message and decide who to support.

  youtu.be/-xVufYXaGg8?si=-n1FPnjr1VGpf0Mc

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• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone’s pro-palestine. They’re just fucking people caught in the middle of some retarded bullshit. Every time someone gets killed, that entire family is probably radicalized, and they’re right to be.

  Israel has unrelentingly taken the worst possible approach to the problem, having learned nothing from their own experience. They’ve made the worst possible mess of it, which is no surprise considering it was made by a bunch of people trying to make the Bible come true like dipshits.

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• fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course they’re denying a deliberate manipulation of our most vulnerable group.

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• yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think an algorithm is responsible for the fact that most sane people are generally against genocide. People being pro-Palestine in this specific situation is a humanitarian response and should not be causing any amount of concern because it is the morally correct position here.

  HOWEVER, the fact that we just witnessed the fucking letter to america go viral on tiktok, wherein a soul crushing amount of people publicly stated they agree with a fucking jihadist manifesto, is cause for a massive amount of concern. Tiktok definitely needs to face consequences for letting that happen. We also can’t excuse the audience for that type of behaviour. Whether it came from a deliberate propaganda campaign, or a sketchy algorithm, or just mass stupidity, audience members need to be better. If you read the letter to america and you think bin laden was right, you’re a moron, and you’re contributing to the problem.

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• banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s not so much they’re “pro-Palestine” but anti-genocide.

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• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before this conflict, I thought Biden had a decent chance at annihilating Trump.

  I am not so sure anymore

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• azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How society has fallen

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• trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao ok

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• Smacks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The entire point of an app like TikTok is to stir stories and headlines so they get more clicks. Everything is for the algorithm.

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• looseanus@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  deek.chat

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