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    I make the analogy with North Korea. North Korea is obviously a threat to South Korea. But if South Korea were to start bombing North Korea and kill 250 people a day the question would be how long it would take for people to ask “Why are you doing this?”

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    I’m going to lock this. You guys have been mostly great, but I don’t know enough about the situation to know who to delete their comments. People twitter isn’t really a community that talks about world politics normally. Sorry about this.

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    argumentum ad populum

    edit: LOL i’ve never seen such butthurt from a simple link to a logical fallacy, which 100% applies in this case

    thank you, @SmoothOperator@lemmy.world for the insight:

    evidence gathering and following genocide evaluation can be much better performed by organizations with expertise and authority on such matters. Most of the listed organizations are considering expert evidence gatherers and experienced, empowered authorities of genocide evaluation.

    expertise. authority. truth.

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      That’s incorrect, this isn’t talking about what the masses believe but what actual experts and legal scholars and courts are overwhelmingly saying. That fallacy doesn’t apply to a judge’s rulings.

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          No.

          Your fallacy would apply to something like

          80 percent of Americans believe that …

          But not to

          Judges from all over the world came to the conclusion …

          The whole thing this fallacy is trying to explain is that you should ask the experts, not the general population.

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            lol “judge = expert”

            thank you for supporting the infallible not-bullshit authority on all things truth of the honorable judge aileen cannon

            fucking /s

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              Did anyone claim that all judges are correct? No. You’re strawmanning the issue. Going from one incorrect fallacy to another.

              And who do YOU think should best be qualified to determine whether a law is broken or not…except a judge? Or the consensus of judges?

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                if only we held the US government to the same standards as we do randos on lemmy…

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              I have absolutely no idea what aileen cannon has to to with the fallacy you mentioned. Maybe you posted your reply to the wrong thread.

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      The majority of zionists believe killing children is a valid way to wage war so it must be true!

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      If anything, this would be an appeal to authority. It’s not like the post is saying half of the American people believe it’s genocide and therefore it is. No, the claim is that several relevant organizations like the ICC, ICJ, and Human Rights Watch, etc., are saying that it is genocide. That’d be like claiming that the vast majority of climate scientists believing in global warming is supporting evidence that global warming is likely true. It is. It’s not enough evidence on its own, but it is evidence nonetheless.

      That’s the thing. Not all appeals to authority are fallacious. Supporting a claim with an expert’s opinion is a logically sound way to support an argument.

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          Dude, go read the page you linked. Seriously. The “no, you” argument being used to defend Zionism has nothing to do with the page you linked to. Sorry, but, it just doesn’t…

          Like, for real, you’ve clearly misremembered your debate terminology. Cause you ain’t making any sense here.

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            USA will continue to fellate israel no matter what anyone says, until there IS no more USA

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    Fuck Israel and the Palestinians for being endlessly shitty to each other and dragging the whole gottdam world into their regional territorial dispute over and over for the better part of the last century. Fuck the whole lot of them together for perpetuating the most narcissistic conflict of the 20th century. Everyone’s a victim and everyone’s an aggressor and we are all supposed to dissect their long historical bullshit and form a moral opinion?! Fuck off and leave us all out of your fucking drama.

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      I voted you down because I think you are making a few errors here:

      1. Not every Palestinian is Hamas. Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli, including civilians, but not every Palestinian believes in that. And not every Israeli agrees with IDF’s genocide, although a disappointingly high proportion of them do.

      2. IDF is clearly more successful in their genocide of Palestinians than Hamas is in their attempted genocide of Israelis.

      3. Even if Hamas and IDF both were equal, a lot of the English-speaking Internet (including many Lemmings here) are Americans, and pay American taxes, and therefore have an obligation to stop the genocide funded by our taxes, through money and weapons the US government sends to Israel. Even if both sides were equally bad, we (I and other Americans) recognize the need to stop Israel, but have no obligation to stop Hamas because we aren’t sending them the weapons in the first place.

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        Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli

        Hamas is pretty careful to differentiate Jewish people, some of whom have lived in Palestine for millennia, and the Zionist project, which requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

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            Yes, attacking armed settlers, each of which is a trained soldier when you’re breaking out of a concentration camp is 100% OK.

            You’d be crying for the poor german civilians killed during the Warsaw uprising. No questioning what they were doing around the warsaw ghetto.

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                According to reports published on 17 November, the police concluded based on interrogations and their investigations that Hamas did not know about the festival beforehand

                It was between Hamas and the military objective. Israeli helicopters fired indiscriminately on the festival-goers so there’s no high-ground here.

                But yeah if you attend a music festival outside a concentration camp, you deserve what you get. In a just world, Zone Of Interest ends with the happy families outside the camp getting massacred by its inhabitants.

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        Thank you for being one if the few that rip into Hamas at the same time as calling Israel out. I disagree on downvoting them as they contributed to the conversation, but points don’t matter.

        On point 1, outside of a few extremists I don’t think anyone considers all of Palestine to be a part of Hamas - its just how we talk.

        America isn’t becoming a backwards, puritan and corrupt country - the Republicans are and they held the power. But we don’t say that, we just say America is turning to shit. China doesn’t have aggressive expansionist goals, the CCP does. Russia isn’t a warmongering state, Putin and his running party are.

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            Because God forbid anyone in this conflict be held responsible for their own actions, rather than blaming everything on who came before them.

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              You know what, maybe don’t steal people’s land and murder them and they won’t have to defend themselves?

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                Quick question- going back as far as we currently know - is the land you are living on right now stolen from someone?

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          On point 1, outside of a few extremists I don’t think anyone considers all of Palestine to be a part of Hamas

          “We’re liberating the Palestinian people from Hamas” is a zionist talking point. Learn to recognize that pattern when it’s used to justify action against other countries; eg sanctions against Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, which primarily hurt the people.

          Most of the other Palestinian parties, some of which have literal had gun battles with Hamas have started working with them since Oct 7. The PLFP knows more about what’s good for the future of the Palestinian people than either of us, and they’re willing to work with Hamas.

          America isn’t becoming a backwards, puritan and corrupt country

          I mean it kinda always has been. The government has always been much more reactionary than the people, but it’s always been a puritan country with legalized corruption, going as far back as Washington passing taxes to give his distilleries competitive advantage. I can link you some free history books on America, is there any time period that interests you?

          China…

          The CPC has overwhelming support from the population, it does a better job of representing the people than most western democracies, evidenced by greatest increase in living standards for a large country in history. Do you think it’s more likely the people have aggressive expansionist goals, or that you have an incomplete understanding?

          Russia isn’t a warmongering state

          Russia is a bourgeoisie democracy, if Putin and his party didn’t do what the Russian bourgeoisie wanted, they’d put someone else in power. The state is warmongering, the people aren’t.

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            On point 1, outside of a few extremists I don’t think anyone considers all of Palestine to be a part of Hamas

            “We’re liberating the Palestinian people from Hamas” is a zionist talking point. Learn to recognize that pattern when it’s used to justify action against other countries; eg sanctions against Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea, which primarily hurt the people.

            See, I never said anything about liberation, support or justification, only that Palestine is not Hamas, yet I’ve been downvoted to crap. You are right on the patterns from those who wish to justify - did you also consider the patterns of “if you’re not with us you’re the enemy” and “everyone is against us”?

            Most of the other Palestinian parties, some of which have literal had gun battles with Hamas have started working with them since Oct 7. The PLFP knows more about what’s good for the future of the Palestinian people than either of us, and they’re willing to work with Hamas.

            Hamas has been defined as a terrorist organization for years, not sure where Israel is currently sitting (as recognized by intl bodies). Regarding this conflict, I just hope that everyone on both sides acting beyond the accepted scope are held accountable by intl courts or their own people.

            America isn’t becoming a backwards, puritan and corrupt country

            I mean it kinda always has been. The government has always been much more reactionary than the people, but it’s always been a puritan country with legalized corruption, going as far back as Washington passing taxes to give his distilleries competitive advantage. I can link you some free history books on America, is there any time period that interests you?

            Studied that one from an intl relations perspective. Parts of them I 100% agree with you, however believe these parts have blocked the underlying drives to reform. No thanks on history - im studying intl relations and armed conflict and already got ~100 readings this semester.

            China…

            The CPC has overwhelming support from the population, it does a better job of representing the people than most western democracies, evidenced by greatest increase in living standards for a large country in history. Do you think it’s more likely the people have aggressive expansionist goals, or that you have an incomplete understanding?

            I would argue the source material. Covid showed us that many countries would happily lie on their own reports to present a better picture to the intl community - China especially. Think like religion in the states - they may have a major religious population but how many keep the beliefs for fear of alienating themselves, indoctrination or because its what you’re meant to do?

            Russia isn’t a warmongering state

            Russia is a bourgeoisie democracy, if Putin and his party didn’t do what the Russian bourgeoisie wanted, they’d put someone else in power. The state is warmongering, the people aren’t.

            Sorry, bad choice of words. The country Russia and its people aren’t, the state and govt are.