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Banned Archangel1313 @lemm.ee from the community reason: Rule
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Banned Shortstack @reddthat.com from the community reason: Transphobe
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Removed Comment Kid picked the only moral choice. He'll be able to sleep at night too by Shortstack @reddthat.com reason: Misgendering
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Unbanned sous-merde @lemmygrad.ml from the community reason: في الوقت الحالي، سيتم رفع الحظر. حتّى إشعار آخر.
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Banned sous-merde @lemmygrad.ml from the community reason: Zionist apologia, Defensive the Zionist Regime (in the comments below).
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Banned NastyNative @mander.xyz from the community reason: r1
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Banned frightful_hobgoblin @lemmy.ml from the community reason: slur usage
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Removed Post Hamas Faces a Future Without Its Most Important Ally reason: western propaganda meant to destabilize support for the resistance
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Removed Comment I hope one day your family is bombed, men and women, raped and murdered by a fascist entity.
When you are sick to your stomach for over a year, feeling despair every time you wake up to read the news.
When you have anxiety attacks in public any time you hear a mention of the people murdering your family.
I will be there to call you an idiot for not voting for the person actively killing your entire family.
I can assume you're white and have never faced adversity in your life and I would probably be right.
The only difference between Trump and Kamala is that Trump will harm white people as well as minorities, that's why you're afraid.
I hope he wins at this point so you smug liberal pieces of shit can receive 1% of the pain that my community has been on the receiving end of for the past 80 years, heightened during the past 23 years.
There have been numerous hate crimes against Muslims in the USA with zero statements from Biden or Kamala (who is the Vice President, you libs seem to forget she can still do something)
A toddler was drowned in Texas. 3 students were shot. A child's throat was slashed. All due to Biden's Islamophobia.
He made zero statements on them. You can cry all you want when Trump wins the election, but I can also guarantee you did not organize a single time when Biden was president.
You are fine with the status-quo as long as you aren't the one being accosted. Muslims, Latin Americans, People of Color, people who are Transgender, at the end of the day KKKamala and Trump have the same policies that will affect our communities the same way.
Why would we stand up to protect you when you have done nothing to protect us? You reap what you sow. by stink @lemmygrad.ml reason: No calls for murder
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Banned liminal @lemmy.ml from the community reason: hasbara
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Banned liminal @lemmy.ml from the community reason: Hasbara troll
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Banned The Soviet Reporter @lemmygrad.ml from the community reason: For posting Salafi/Wahhabi content on this community .
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Removed Post Boycotting Israel is working reason: Salafi/Wahhabi channel that promotes the "uyghur genocide" narrative .
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Appointed stink @lemmygrad.ml as a mod to the community 2 years ago mod
Removed Comment Oh yeah(, the last paragraphs of https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1823393948775133302 stayed on my mind, and divided we(sterners) will be more easily conquerable), 100%, you won't find many people here to contradict you.
The most obvious is the control of the medias, it'd be different if every single french media was saying that Venezuela is awesome and mocking the awful capitalists for being conspiratorial about the elections of countries they dislike. Instead, every single french media will underline that venezuelans need to be saved from a tyrant, the same goes for other countries.
That's why american medias could easily make Bernie Sanders president if they changed their definition of "objectivity", that's why most people never heard of the awesome Jill Stein or other 3rd party candidates, France is obviously no exception with little candidates hardly spoken of.
A less obvious one is that in France we don't even need to explicitly ban political opponents(, awful when it happens in Venezuela, but not in Ecuador or many other countries, they almost succeeded with D.Trump, and apparently succeeded with R.Kennedy), we only have to require candidates to have hundreds of signatures/endorsements from mayors. Hence, only a handful of candidates manage to get these endorsements, and not only did this number of required signatures went up, but it's not anonymous anymore(, with the possibility of repercussions). As expected, while [anti-Europe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Asselineau) or anti-imperialist candidates could have gotten enough signatures in the past, strangely, they don't anymore(, and even if they did the medias wouldn't talk about such a little candidate, frankly never heard of by people i've spoken to). Even very large political parties only get their signatures in the last weeks, weird.
My candidate would have been [Clara Egger](https://www.francetvinfo.fr/docs/desk3/franceinfographies/220307_parrainages_pr22.png), but i've never heard of most of them.
And that's not even considering that they may be [cheating](https://www.chouard.org/2024/07/11/fraude-electorale-aussi-en-suisse-etienne-chouard-questionne-un-ancien-elu-suisse-jaques-neyrinck-18-fevrier-2024-a-lausanne/), which wouldn't surprise me honestly.
Obviously it doesn't stop there : you need money in politics, and the thieves/capitalists sponsors don't want 'to give back'/taxes. Medias aren't enough for our oligarchs, they also want control over the education, survey institutes, think tanks, as well as [helping](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros) our capitalist-owned state in [meddling](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar) in foreign countries, which is the real crime here i.m.o. : destroy your country if you want, but leave others alone.
People aren't stupid, on the contrary, but they don't have the time to document themselves, they don't know that we're being manipulated.
I do have to acknowledge that i expected more support for Israel, but the latter only said that it wants to take revenge for the (very partial )revenge taken by palestinians on Oct.7th. Israel tried to argue that it was more than revenge(, and we did pretend that the hostages weren't released because of "Hamas", and not because Israel refused to agree with a permanent ceasefire in exchange), but the argument of protection wasn't bought by our medias, and since we agreed on our previous western wars that revenge was enough of a motive, Israel thought that it didn't need to do more. Still, i expected more support for Israel, not sure if/'how much' it helped in restraining israelis.
A good example of propaganda is that islamists in the Alliance of Sahel States are now progressively painted as the good guys since they're fighting Russia(, even if i don't expect us to go very far in that direction, we didn't talk a lot about them in the past and will continue to do so, but the shift of narrative is very obvious, they're promoted from terrorists to rebels now). Unbelievable i know since we fought them until very recently, and at least as late as president Hollande, but it's similar to what we did with Bin-Laden in Afghanistan against the soviets after all(, or in Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Xinjiang, ..., whatever serves our temporary interest).
And the propaganda isn't only anti-communist, but anti-fascist as well(, the far-right doesn't identify itself with fascism though). Of course, you're not going to like this obvious statement, and rightly state that at least far-right movements are supported by some billionaires, it's just that the censorship&manipulation is directed towards both sides of the Overton window.
Then there's also direct state censorship, with so many examples(, "disinformation", anti-"terrorism apologia", "foreign actors", even Rumble has been banned), but oligarch manipulations is probably more influent, not as if it was a competition.
Sure, things could be worse, especially since we still have the Internet(, for now ?), but keeping power isn't that hard to do, even if the global distrust towards (legacy/mainstream )medias is a growing thorn is the side.
We'll regret our current republic if times go 't/r'ough, since that usually means a more authoritarian governement.
Without robot-slaves, it'd also seem unavoidable that the wealthier will desire a higher rent to sustain a way of living and live above the peasants, if they need 10 times the peasant's salary to do so, then we'd tend towards 10% of (neo-)nobles and 90% of (neo-)peasants.
It's true that every(?) society of large enough scale was divided between the workers, (the soldiers, the clergy, ...), and the privileged class, who didn't have to work(, except for taking care of h.is.er fortune). One could argue that nobles of the past had more responsabilities than nowadays capitalists(, as well as an even more pronounced inequality in the face of the judicial system), but it'd be more interesting to know if technology will avoid the return to the "natural" order between the laborious class and the noble/annuitant one.
Despite what i wrote in this comment, better times are ahead, in particular thanks to these "robot-slaves", and while everyone wants more, i don't think we're evil to the point of refusing a mostly labor-free life to every human on earth if we have the capacity to do so. Capitalism wouldn't announce an horrible future if we can still eat freely, if money/'renting your body/time' stop being a necessity, it could lead to some socialist ideals in a utopia. I refuse to be cynical to the point of believing that the capitalists' greed would be more important to them than allowing technology to free wo.men from (the loss of their entire lives to )work.s they hate. Perhaps will i be old enough to see that happening, i don't think that we're evil, and i dare think that nobody is, we could very well be allowed to live in a utopia, they don't hate their population. Hence, i don't really care of what we're doing in our countries, if capitalists want to stay in power and enjoy their privileges, then so be it. What's annoying is refusing to allow/'live with' countries that want to walk a different path, we need this diversity to think ouside the box, if every creation is a little birth then every synthesis is a little death. We have to cohabitate, and while i'd prefer to live in a communist utopia like everyone on Lemmygrad, i wouldn't want capitalism(, royalism, etc.,) to disappear all over the world, it's their problem, and it's interesting to know how they'll evolve.
The usual counter-argument is that we have to coup/"convert" other countries because it makes us more secure, i don't think that cultural hegemony is the only way to prevent military invasions, and i'd go as far as to say that it's also not the only way to prevent covert operations and foreign propaganda, we need to have rules against them and a way to enforce them. Capitalists would have to be certain that their privileges wouldn't be overthrtrown by a communist revolution for them to accept socialist countries. Or perhaps that these "robot-slaves" will make useless this need for a superior monetary/social position, having your basic needs met should be enough for everyone, independent communities with their own rules could flourish in the "land of the free", who knows what the future has in store. by sous-merde @lemmygrad.ml reason: Incoherent comment
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Restored Comment Jesse, wth are you talking about? Even [@sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/sinovictorchan) sounds more coherent than you at this point.... by deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago mod
Removed Comment Jesse, wth are you talking about? Even [@sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/sinovictorchan) sounds more coherent than you at this point.... by deathtoreddit @lemmygrad.ml reason: Incoherent speech .
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Banned randompasta @lemmy.today from the community reason: "lesser evil" arguments in support of genocide, calling another user a Nazi
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Banned FiniteBanjo @lemmy.today from the community reason: troll
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Banned TexMexBazooka @lemm.ee from the community reason: r1
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Banned caveman @lemmy.ml from the community reason: Lib .
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Removed Comment What did Palestinians gain with Al Aqsa Flood and the aftermath?
Of course on the first 1 or 2 days they might have felt relief for not feeling powerless, but now they are ever worst off than before.
Everytime they do something they lose more and more.
I don't know if they would lose even more by doing nothing, asprobably Israel will will also swallow them even if they do nothing.
But to claim that they got something with it I cannot understand by caveman @lemmy.ml reason: They gained more than your white anti-semitic ass , you genocidal f*ck !
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Removed Comment There was never a vote for any of those things, just the party itself. I'm reading your previous comment as a red line moment that made you *stop* voting for them. The key phrase being "another vote".
I'm asking why this is the red line for you on voting for an historically genocidal political party, and not some other earlier atrocity? by USSR Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml reason: unnecessarily combative
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Removed Comment Really, I once was walking thru the streets and saw some posters writen "KIDNAPPED". I thought "Israeli Propaganda", but when I got close I saw pictures of children.
I cannot wish any harm to children, so I really got sad and sent good thoughts for them.
I would not invalidate the feelings of anyone in this situation, be it Israelis, Palestinians, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian or whatever.
Unless the person starts to get very belligerent, I think I would just try to let the human being in my front to express it's sorrow. by caveman @lemmy.ml reason: Lib !
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Removed Comment That Iranian "attack" was so slow and gave so much room of manouver to Israel that I believe was done to save the face of the government to it's population.
And Israel can also claim superiority and feel it doesn't have to retaliate. Better than an escalation.
Another perspective would be that Iran used this so force Israel to reveal it's de defense positions and have to chance them at a very high cost:
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/why-irans-retaliatory-attack-against-israel-was-not-a-failure/ by caveman @lemmy.ml reason: spamming
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Removed Comment That Iranian "attack" was so slow and gave so much room of manouver to Israel that I believe was done to save the face of the government to it's population.
And Israel can also claim superiority and feel it doesn't have to retaliate. Better than an escalation.
Another perspective would be that Iran used this so force Israel to reveal it's de defense positions and have to chance them at a very high cost:
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/why-irans-retaliatory-attack-against-israel-was-not-a-failure/ by caveman @lemmy.ml reason: jingoism , wanting death on civilians , western mask off moment .
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Banned gregorum @lemm.ee from the community reason: Zionazi lib .
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Removed Comment [MBFC profile for *The Conversation*](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-conversation/)
## LEAST BIASED
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## History
Founded in 2010, The Conversation is an independent, not-for-profit media outlet. Academics, edited by professional journalists author articles, and freely available online and for republication through a creative commons license. The Australian website launched in March 2011, and has expanded into editions in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013, United States (U.S.) in 2014, Africa in 2015, France in 2015, Canada in 2017, Indonesia in 2017, Spain in 2018 and Europe and Brazil in the 2020s.
In 2016, The Conversation’s FactCheck unit became the first fact-checking team in Australia and one of only two worldwide accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network, an alliance of fact-checkers hosted at the Poynter Institute in the U.S.
Read our profile on the Australian government and media.
## Funded by / Ownership
The Conversation websites are held by the not-for-profit educational charity owned by The Conversation Trust. The Conversation is funded by the university and research sector, government, and business.
## Analysis / Bias
In review, The Conversation is covered by a charter of editorial independence. The authors must be academics or researchers. Authors have final sign-off on their articles and complete statements that disclose potential conflicts.
The articles reviewed on the US Conversation website demonstrate the use of minimally loaded language such as this: Why the US has higher drug prices than other countries. Like most on The Conversation, this article is thoroughly sourced from credible educational and media outlets such as Commonwealth Fund, New York Times, HHS.gov, and Kaiser Health News.
In general, The Conversation covers a wide range of topics, most of which are evidence-based. Opinions expressed come from both the slightly left and slightly right, with more coming from a more liberal perspective.
## Failed Fact Check
None in the Last 5 years. In fact, they are an IFCN fact checker in Australia.
Overall, we rate The Conversation Least Biased based on covering both the right-center and left-center politically, as well as covering evidence-based topics. We also rate them Very High for factual reporting due to excellent sourcing of information and a clean fact check record. In fact, The Conversation is an IFCN fact-checker. (7/10/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 02/23/2024)
Source: [https://theconversation.com/us](https://theconversation.com/us) by gregorum @lemm.ee reason: Pro-zionist Lib
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Removed Post Celebrities side on the ongoing genocide on Gaza. You know who to boycott now. reason: misinformation - article is from 2014
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Removed Comment are u blind? the crumbs are here we have seen billions in public transport infrastructure and a few new amtrak services, like i said crumbs but if its that or literally nothing then u know soemthing is better than nothing, and i dont "play ball" because i dont vote because it involves doxing urself and i dont think its worth it. im just annoyed by the endless stream of post i have seen lately of people arguing that biden is literally the same as trump and therefore u should vote for trump for... resons??? or people willfully not understanding that less bad doesnt doesnt and has never meant good. by Flamingoaks @lemmygrad.ml reason: Lemmygrad's rule # 2 and # 3
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Removed Comment its simple its because im a communists. by Flamingoaks @lemmygrad.ml reason: [X] doubt
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Banned Flamingoaks @lemmygrad.ml from the community reason: Lemmygrad rule # 3
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Removed Comment There are evidences for the validity of this article. The RedFash tankiejerkers in Reddit claimed that Hamas made confessed to the alleged mass rape from October 7 of 2023 without source of the video confession. However, the Pax Americana news had never publicized any video where the Hamas confess to the mass rape. The only mass report confession by Hamas is from a presumed Palestinian under Israel interrogation which does not provide verifiable evidence. Since the Israel use the Pax Americana terrorize community of people of color under the excuse to kill terrorist suspect among a crowd of innocent people, it is possible that Israel copied the cruel torture practices that the British diaspora developed from their war crimes in Indian Residential fake school death camps like electric chair to repeatedly torture Aboriginal children until the children died or suffer major psychological handicap. The US justice system and their anti-terrorist policy uses extremely cruel torture to gain information from criminal suspects and terrorist suspects from their authoritarian belief that a person will tell the truth if the interrogators terrorized the detainees enough, even when all evidences proved that torture will make people say what the torturers want them to say instead of the truth. In their self-contradiction, the Pax Americana framed Stalin for coercing confession from innocent people without creditable evidences contrary to the US belief that a person will never confess to crimes that they had not committed. by sinovictorchan @lemmygrad.ml reason: Comment that doesn't have nothing to do with the conversation that is taking place in the thread .
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Removed Post The History of Islamic Gaza (Part 01/02) | Al Muqaddimah reason: The Al-Muqaddimah YouTube channel is very Anti-PRC and repeats the lies about the so called “uyghur genocide” and “uyghur muslims being oppressed by the Chinese Government” rhetoric bullcrap that these reactionary bloody bastards say . There isn't such thing happening in Xinjiang uyghur autonomous region of northwest PRC .
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Banned abbadon420 @lemm.ee from the community reason: Anti-PRC , pro-zionist Lib
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Banned Empricorn @feddit.nl from the community reason: Lost liberal pro-imperialist zionists
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Banned VampyreOfNazareth @lemm.ee from the community reason: Sinophobe , Zionist swine , F*ck off out of here Ben Zonah !
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Removed Post Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October reason: Duplicated Post https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3393436
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Removed Comment playboy still exists? also, nothing like politics in porn
it seems that mia khalifa finally made an anal scene: after being sodomized by zionist rulers of playboy by big_spoon @lemmygrad.ml reason: please don't
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Removed Post Israel is a Racist, Supremacist State. A country founded on racism for racism. reason: Repost
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Banned library_napper @monyet.cc from the community reason: Liberal Zionist
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Removed Comment Ah that's the problem, you don't know the definition.
Genocide involves killing people. Educate yourself by freeindv @monyet.cc reason: Genocide denial
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Removed Comment ... It's not. Do you even know what genocide means? by freeindv @monyet.cc reason: Genocide denial
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Removed Comment How is this genocide? by freeindv @monyet.cc reason: Genocide denial
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Banned sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name] @hexbear.net from the community reason: Genocide revisionist . Genocide is completely evil and it's disgusting .
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Removed Post Merry Christmas to Zionists reason: We don't wish a “ merry christmas ” to the zionists , they don't deserve that .
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Removed Comment mia khilafah Is hotter. Even with the gun. by Ronin_5 @lemmygrad.ml reason: Rule 2 and rule 4 .
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Removed Post Jewish Chief Rabbi in Israel says that black people are monkeys reason: Anti-semitic post from a anti-semitic source from the “Nation of Islam” .
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Removed Post Jewish Chief Rabbi in Israel says that black people are monkeys reason: Anti-semitic post
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Restored Post Jewish Chief Rabbi in Israel says that black people are monkeys 2 years ago mod
Removed Post Jewish Chief Rabbi in Israel says that black people are monkeys reason: please vet your sources
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Removed Post Being Pragmatism in US empire means, delaying the genocides for a better time reason: not about Palestine
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Removed Comment Terrorist organizations are those without standing on the global stage, without independent financial or structural elements, without "normal" elections (corrupt or not), essentially the non-governmental organizations.
Yes, Israel is acting very terroristically, but they have the labels and standing to be called a "state"
If Hamas wins their every hope and dream, guess what they'll become? by GBU_28 @lemm.ee reason: Both sidesing
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Removed Post Israeli state TV video shows children singing about Gaza reason: Repost
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Removed Post Zionist hate rallies: “I wish they will rape you alive and film you…” reason: CW and NSFW .
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Removed Post This is how the ISRAELI OCCUPATION treats Palestinian children. reason: Not marked as NSFW .
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Removed Post Israel is an angry piece of shit reason: Poster's posts are simply becoming weird .
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Removed Post A final farewell reason: Mark as nsfw
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Removed Post The effects of unjustifiable hierarchies and asymmetrical violence reason: Settlers are not civilians , Isr*el is not a “country" . Palestine has the right to defend itself.
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Removed Post How to Advocate for Palestine: Follow Palestinians reason: Fuck bad Empanada !!!
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Appointed Ayache Benbraham ☭🪬 @lemmygrad.ml as a mod to the community