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There is no mention of rape, let alone mass-rape, let alone mass-rape that was sanctioned and systematized by Palestinian authorities and venerated by the Palestinian public in the article you linked. That aside, no, the normalization of punitive rape as retribution for war/revenge rape is not the hallmark of a healthy society, particularly one that anoints itself a beacon of post-Enlightenment, secular, liberal democratic values in a region it purports is barren of them.

>I made an argument that there should be a trial and argued explicitly against those who think thee shouldn't be a trial

Correct, you made a straw man: literally no one is saying there shouldn't be a trial in this thread. You know who isn't? The Israeli government, the military whose members are accused of a crime, and a large and vocal segment of the Israeli population. The same cohort _do_ want a criminal case levelled against a whistleblower who was being intimidated for trying to do her job. The fact that this case is being pursued with significantly more vigour makes most reasonable observers question the level of commitment Israeli society has to the values you're evangelizing. But I mean, how sincere your commitment is is still up in the air, because again, you've never walked back your unsupported claim that the video is doctored.

I actually haven't said word one about whether there should be a trial. Conversely, you said this:

>There's been no trial and the footage, which was doctored, does not clearly show this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806468)

>I also pointed out that the video doesn't clearly support the allegation, and the video has been doctored. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806559)

There is no assertion in these sentences that treats the video being doctored and not showing a rape as contested allegations that need to be established as fact over the course of a trial. Maybe you've changed your mind in the past couple of hours, though.

No, that's what has been identified within the past 400 years as a straw man. You aren't even acknowledging the possibility of miscarriages of justice, let alone the possibility that it can be an institutional pattern. You should probably reflect on that and the impact it has on your argument, particularly in light of how it's been observed in the Israeli justice system.

Right, because over the course of the past 400 years, those institutions have always worked everywhere and no one's ever been at the margins of the justice system, been arrested arbitrarily or ignored by the police, had to languish in jail without a charge, been denied access to competent attorneys, a fair and speedy trial, or been subject to institutional biases and unwarranted imprisonment. Certainly that would never happens in a territory where it has happened routinely for 70+ years.

> I'm trying to get people to realize that however they feel about Jews their standards of evidence are absurdly different when it comes to Israel.

That the video doesn't show rape and/or was doctored are also contested allegations, so your pearl clutching about double standards rings extremely hollow.

Having spent a lifetime around hessians, I can't imagine a product I want less.

As per the very unbiased CIA influence launderers at the CFR.

I think auto-translate applies to all types of video, though? I once clicked on a 20+ minute Luisito Comunica video and found him speaking in very weird, stilted English. Can't even remember how I disabled it but it was a surreal experience.

It's a comment on the internet, dude, are you okay?

No it wasn't. It understood correctly that Maguire was making a deliberate conflation and treated it accordingly.

Islamism is also neither a 'culture' nor a reasonable characterization of Mamdani's political programme.

The explicit comparison that started the contemporary discussion about Antifa was to MS-13 and Hezbollah, which is fractally inane.

>As with many things in the bible, they are symbolic, and not to be taken literally. This is also why we have hundreds, if not thousands of flavors of Christianity - they all interpret the bible differently because many of the translations and interpretations differed wildly from scholar to scholar.

Including many who don't have this perspective on scripture.

>It’s New Yorker shit

Two of the three principals in this story are based in California and employed by a Californian firm.

I think you should follow the citations behind that sentence. 2/3 are swift dismissals from outsiders - one from a dictionary and another from the UK parliament (and this is especially vague). The latter is from a Roma advocacy group and it seems pretty emphatic: "Amongst most Romani communities this is an offensive racial slur. It derives from the word "Egyptian" due to the misconception that Roma arriving in Great Britain originated in Egypt."

Well, yeah, it's hard to approximate a bullshit ideological abstraction.

>China is not a free market.

Correct, China actually exists.

My primary gripes with Lutris are:

1. it doesn't (at least recently?) always do a great job of handling multiple displays, either launching games on my second monitor, which I orient vertically or getting confused about which monitor to use and switching back and forth until eventually the instance (but not the Lutris client) crashes

2. I find myself getting into launcher hell where I'll use a different wine version for one game and when I switch to a different game, it's using this new wine version and stops working

Not sure if Heroic solves these issues but I would try it again (didn't have any luck setting it up initially) if it does

Yeah there are plenty of self-hosted solutions that work just as well.

How does Asahi fare these days? For home use I am fine with my Fedora machine but as a former (Tiger-SL era) Mac user who's never used macOS, I am somewhat curious about this.

This is the intent of every last CSIS publication: to promote the expansion of the military industrial complex with pearl-clutching language.

This is an utterly cartoonish take.

Thiel is part of a class of people who are materially insulated from financial failure to the point of absurdity, so there isn't anything particularly ridiculous about his 'success'. It's hard to say whether he genuinely believes this horseshit, but it's certainly in his interest to convince others to.

Thanks; I was wondering what that was about. Now I just wonder why, hah.

Not enough nervous stammering.

Sure, if we take Fuentes' denials on their face, because of course, there's no reason to question them.

So your money is on the 18 hours of Helldivers a day and not the company he kept while doing so?

Memes that are very specifically associated with a far-right subculture.

Yeah I went to an informal town hall recently at my library about bike commuting in our city. An older gent was pretty adamant that our suburb has pretty much always been car-dependent and couldn't ever be anything else, and didn't care much for my reply that many European cities were on track to be the same until the 70s.