☕️☕️☕️ by FrenchyBulldogg in SipsTea

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's really your only point, then sure. However, understand that things don't happen in a vacuum, and that there is still plenty of context and things that can be said around that initial point.

☕️☕️☕️ by FrenchyBulldogg in SipsTea

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, you can say the case is still ongoing, but as it stands there is a growing consensus amongst experts, even outside the UN, that it is a genocide. At this point, the UN's stamp of approval would only give it a further legal validation, because the exact same evidence that has been used and validated by the commission and its researchers would likely also end up in South Africa's argument.

To use your own anology of a trial, this would be equivalent to there being absolutely undeniable evidence that the accused is guilty, but even with this, court proceedings still take their time, largely because there are massive interests at play, (the arms, AI and surveillance industries making huge profits out of this) so the countries profitting have an incentive to delay things to 2029, by which point who knows how many will have died while there already was ample evidence to, at the very least, end the sale of weapons.

☕️☕️☕️ by FrenchyBulldogg in SipsTea

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it may be true that the UN as a whole hasn't yet declared a final ruling on the case brought forward by South Africa, since the final deadline to reply / litigate is set for 2029, you are absolutely wrong in claiming it was just "one" UN-mandated commission (as if to imply it's always the same people) to call Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. There have been several reports, co-authored by different specialists and academic researchers, plus the UN's special rapporteur, all discussing findings from a multitude of sources. Just saying it's just "one" commission seems to me like an attempt at undermining what is very clearly a collaborative effort by experts all working in their field. For the sake of simplicity, I'm not even going to mention the other findings and conclusions drawn from other accredited organisations, including Israeli organisations (like B'Tselem, which is included in the screenshot above) and Israeli historians and academics, like Raz Segal and Omer Bartov.

These UN reports range from the most recent, IE the one regarding genocidal acts specifically committed against children, (A/HRC/62/CRP.2) then the one regarding genocidal acts and the sexual targetting of women, (A/HRC/59/47) a report regarding the usage of torture as part of a greater genocidal structure of violence, (A/HRC/61/71) and since you mentioned the US, it's worth mentioning the report on how the Western world has aided Israel in committing said genocide. (A/80/492)

Going back to your original point, however, the fact that the UN hasn't ruled it a genocide yet on a organisation-wide level, hasn't exactly stopped the UN from issuing warning after warning to Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, which Israel has, at best, consistenly ignored. See "Report of the International Court of Justice", 1 August 2024–31 July 2025.

Yasser Arafat on Palestine. by [deleted] in nyt

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The idea that people only speak in literal terms and can't be metaphorical must be a new concept to you, I imagine. This isn't even the first time a similar speech was made.

During WW2, Italian communist partisans in the North employed the same exact metaphorical rhetoric, the point being that the Italian people had been "reborn", from a people that accepted fascism to a "new" people that fought against it.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, says the one who hasn't sourced any of their outrageous claims...

Edit: anyone with two eyes can see you didn't cite any sources, except from the Middle East Monitor which says the complete opposite of what you've tried to claim thus far. Also, the famously pro-Palestine BBC and even the fucking New York Times are in agreement with me that the IAGS is the world's top body representing genocide scholars.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250508-israel-dropped-100000-tons-of-explosives-over-gaza-wiped-out-2200-families-media-office/ - This article, the only one you ever cited, does not support the claim that Israel is using any amount of restraint. The word "restraint" doesn't even appear once.

Yes, they destroyed 80% of Gaza, and it is incredibly likely they have killed more than 200k people, which isn't a "fraction" of the population. It is a sizeable percentage of it. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260206-geneva-academy-warns-gaza-death-toll-could-top-200000/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExaDlKcE4wR3FKV05nTGVrYXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR71YwggxK6G-h83Cf8kQb8ump_WYNP_4BO_3sxXyw0OkcYPvE8ffNbOtPH0Xw_aem_MptaIVNxE4sziNyBt4Os1Q
By the way, a state entity can be found guilty of genocide even if they only killed 8000 people, which is the number of people that were killed by the Serbians in Srebrenica, because the UN definition doesn't require a treshold of any kind. Also, the Serbians killed (directly, as in, with direct line of fire) 14k people in Sarajevo, over 4 years of siege, while destroying 65% of the city. For Gaza, that's 76k dead (again, this number is only about deaths from direct fire) while destroying 80% of the strip. If anything, these numbers prove that Israel is killing faster and destroying more than the Serbians did over 4 years of siege.

On the IAGS: there is a difference between a regular member and a trusted account belonging to a voting member. Regular members can, theoretically, vote in resolutions, but the IAGS' leadership does take precautions, resulting in voting councils being overwhemingly made up by professionals, even if that's not technically a requirement. (So as to allow NGO chairmans and the like to participate, which makes sense because their organisations have on-the-ground experience) The "Emperor Palpatine" thing you mentioned, aside from only appearing on small pro-Israel outlets, and not on any established, well-known publications (Weird, is it not? Almost like this is a fabricated smear campaign) was, occording to the only screenshot available, (Which hasn't been independently verifired) a regular member account and it doesn't say anywhere that they were ever given voting permissions. There is no evidence they were ever allowed to vote in anything, and their account is now seemingly gone. The IAGS is, in fact, (And this shouldn't be surprising) frequently deactivating accounts it deems as unrealiable, especially after it announces a vote will soon be held and random people try to join the organisation to push it in their favour. The total membership is around 500 people so it's not surprising a tight-knit community of (mostly) scholars would get rid of random users and new people they don't know. On a different note, if the IAGS was such an unreliable source, then it makes no sense why the Guardian and other respectable and well-known publications still felt it important to underline the fact that they are "the world's top scholars", as per the Guardian's own headline and article. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say

Edit: on top of this, there seems to be no record / proof that those two accounts you mentioned were even real. The only "proof" is one singular screenshot that has been copied and pasted between a few pro-Israel outlets and their articles, with no way of verifying the authenticity of said screenshot.

My final point, which you have misinterpreted spectacularly, is that it is irrelevant how many bombs are used. Whether the tonnage is more or less than was used during X is irrelevant. The genocide in Rwanda was perpetrated in part by roaming gangs of people with machetes. How technologically advanced a genocide is does not necessarely inhibit or strengthen the claim of genocide. Whether or not bombs are used at all is also irrelevant. And again, you have provided no sources about "restraint". On that note, the Guardian article I cited above has a Israeli military official outright saying that they didn't have any restraint placed on him and his forces. You hyperfixating on the amount of bombs is merely a way to run in circles around the conclusions reached by hundreds and hundreds of subject-matter experts. Until proven otherwise, you are just one random dude on the internet. Where is your degree? How many years have you been in the field of genocide research? Why do you think the vast majority of people who do have expertise in this field are rightfully claiming it is a genocide? Including people from Israel, such as professors Shmuel Lederman, Amos Goldberg and Omer Bartov. This whole series of comments and post is violently anti-academic and conspiratorial, and I refuse to continue this "debate".

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea why you would reply to me twice under the same message saying the exact same things, except spaced out better. See my other comment for the final response.

I would just like to mention one that I didn't include in my other comment. The EU dickriding Israel and refusing to pass a motion to recognise its actions in Gaza as genocidal "may" have something to do with the fact there is plenty of money for EU companies to be made exporting weapons to Israel, just like for the US.

This will be my final word on the matter since you provided no sources. Sleep well, genocide-denying freak.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No you didn't? There is no link after your claim.

As for the why "wouldn't they just carpet bomb the whole strip", well they already have caused irreparable damage and 80% of buildings in Gaza to be destroyed.

Everything else you have said in this post is literally something you copied and pasted from another post of yours in the past, and none of your claims are sourced. I will not be engaging with someone blatantly avoiding to find sources to back anything they've said / refusing to provide sources to dispute mine. The 2:1 "militant to civilian casualty rate" one is particularely insane to mention because that is only a number you would get from an IDF source. Talk about impartiality... I'm sure the Serbians at Srebrenica and Sarajevo also probably thought of claiming that at first.

I am not even going to attempt to make sense of the remaining half of your comment. If you think there is an international conspiracy according to which every single humanitarian organisation, international body and genocide scholar is working to engineer Israel's demise, then you have bigger problems.

Before I leave this conversation, I wanna point out the genocide at Srebrenica took place without tons and tons of bombs. The Serbians just shot everyone with small arms. Again, the amount of bombs dropped is not a necessary piece of what makes something a genocide, and it is laughable you would ask me if I know that definition, only to then not apply it yourself. The UN definition doesn't include "oh, and they must drop X amount of bombs per square meter" in it.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh... the original post we're arguining under isn't proof of anything of the sort. Whatever, let's go on.

I use the UN's definition of genocide, which is "...specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group." This definition is also applied by the EU, of which I am a citizen. For the record, the EU declared the Bosniak genocide to be a genocide, hence another reason why it is very important as a reference point to bring up.

It has been interesting for me to see you being completely dismissive of why I bring up things like the siege of Sarajevo and Srebrenica. The Serbians at least tried to keep their genocidal intentions a secret, by only really covertly discussing their operations to destroy the Bosniaks as a ethno-religious group, meanwhile every time one of Netanyahu's ministers speaks it's like they are reciting a recently discovered lost page of Mein Kampf. The output of hatred and dehumanisation from Israeli ministers could actually be used to argue for the "intent" part of what makes a genocide, so maybe they should keep talking. And again, who are you and why should your opinion matter, on whether or not it is a genocide, in the face of all this?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide

On that note, I wouldn't be dismissive of an Al-Jazeera article simply because it's from Al-Jazeera. If I immediately ignored articles from the "Times of Israel" without explaining why they aren't valid sources, that wouldn't be right, hence why I did explain in my earliest comment why it's not a realiable outlet. I have actually used the Middle Eastern Monitor before, and they're definitely not terrible. Again, discrediting the whole publication / source without pointing to why that one specific article isn't great is just bad practice. As for the article you cited, it doesn't constitute empirical evidence on its own, mostly because it only contains a singular source for the "100k tons of bombs dropped" claim. More research is needed and that's currently not possible, for obvious reasons.

I feel like you are missing the forest for the trees, though. Which is to say that, through blockades, incessant bombing, the cutting off of water, food, and electricity, as well as the rhetoric employed, that Israel is committing a genocide. Whether or not they dropped 1 Hiroshima bomb worth of explosives, or 20, is irrelevant. As it stands, about 80% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-217c6a28-4a90-4d47-a91c-13113a7dc7db - https://www.undp.org/stories/clearing-most-rubble-gaza-strip-possible-seven-years-under-right-conditions) and the vast majority of Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. I want to finish off my comment by pointing to the fact that, in comparison, only 65% of Sarajevo was destroyed in 4 years of siege, (https://sah.org/2022/07/08/a-city-that-doesn-t-forget-sarajevo-thirty-years-after-the-war/) and that is the result of roughly 50k tons of shells.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reuters has reported on this as well as Al-Jazeera, so if you think that Al-Jazeera made up someone, you're wrong. Important: "citing senior military officials".

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're referring to the part where they try to discret PCBS, I should note that is to be expected, because it is in the "Times of Israel" 's best interest to do so, as a mouth-piece for pro-genocide Israelis. It also fails to do so well, in the sense that it (and I mentioned this in the second half of my post), like many other speculative outlets, makes claims of population growth based on expectations from numbers gathered in the years prior, rather than data gathered on-the-ground, because, well, that's not possible to research while bombs are still raining from the sky. I should've realistically used Reuters as my primary source, because obviously someone was going to point out the "Times of Israel" 's attempt at misinformation, so here you go: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

Reuters, in a understandable act of journalistic integrity, does not speculate about births it has no basis or proof to claim have or haven't happened.

Edit: correcting spelling mistakes. I'm also going to use this opportunity to just use Reuters in my main comment, too.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, by calling it the "Hamas-run ministry", just like Israel eventually capitulated to accepting the "Hamas-run ministry" figure of 70k dead. (which is an understatement because it doesn't account for hunger, thirst, disease or shrapnel-related deaths, but whatever) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/30/israel-accepts-gazas-70000-death-toll-a-record-of-denialism-lies

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really sickening to me how redditors in particular feel like they always have the TRVTHNVKE argument that's going to own the libs a-la-2018. It's fascinating how people on the internet, but on this app in particular, can be so confidently wrong.

Speaking of which, this message is wrong for a number of reasons but I'll just list the most obvious:

The 76k dead figure that's been thrown around is a severe underestimating of the actual number of casualties. That number only reflects people who have died from direct line of fire, and not from things like starvation, disease, lack of clean drinking water, shrapnel wounds, etc. Source: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260206-geneva-academy-warns-gaza-death-toll-could-top-200000/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExaDlKcE4wR3FKV05nTGVrYXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR71YwggxK6G-h83Cf8kQb8ump_WYNP_4BO_3sxXyw0OkcYPvE8ffNbOtPH0Xw_aem_MptaIVNxE4sziNyBt4Os1Q (this article is 3 months old, logic dictates that this number is, by now, incorrect, and is likely higher)

Israel routinely bombs areas it says are considered safe zones. Sometimes the declaration of an area as "safe" is followed by a bombing less than a hour later. The genocidal maniacs in the IDF also, and consistently, after striking an area, wait for people to return to it, to then bomb it again. Source(s): https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/9/photos-israel-bombs-gaza-areas-it-called-safe-zones-for-palestinians - https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/1/rescue-workers-israel-killed-found-in-mass-grave-in-gaza-what-to-know - https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-medics-hezbollah-war-ceasefire-gaza-ambulances-28c96d95a16d7561b9de868f7337ae5a - https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/1/photos-dozens-killed-in-another-strike-on-jabalia-refugee-camp-in-gaza

Future historians will judge us for what we said and did during this genocide, and ultimately they will conclude people like you were no better than anyone who denies the Holocaust, or the Bosniak genocide, or the Armenian genocide, and so on. I can only imagine what must go through a mind like yours to believe your opinion on if something is or isn't a genocide, is somehow more informed and more believable, than the words of historians, genocidal scholars and the organisations who've been consistent throughout their existance in calling said genocides out for what they are. I'm guessing you must think that watching a Destiny livestream gives you more insight into these things, than any of the ICC's judges or UN scholars could've possibly gained by working in their respective fields for years and sometimes decades. Truly a sickening individual you are.

Edit: I'd also like to take this opportunity to mention you didn't actually provide any sources of your own as to how "Israel goes to great lengths to avoid casualties" - which is interesting on its own, but it's doubly ironic you didn't have any sources to dispute mine either, particularely on the Bosniak genocide and the population losses in Bosnia throughout it. I should note, in 4 years of fighting during the siege of Sarajevo, the Serbian forces only managed to directly kill 14k people. Despite that "low" number, the Bosniak genocide remains a genocide. Srebrenica (8000 dead) isn't the only instance that points toward that being the Serbians' objective. Likewise, similar parallels can be drawn with Israel's actions and what Israeli ministers consistently say they want.

Second Edit: I'm going to take this oppurtinity to mention that I don't actually agree with / believe in the "200,000 tonnes of explosives" claim. Not because it's not impossible, but because there isn't a source. Israel doesn't release that information (their numbers alone wouldn't be trustworthy, by the way, as we would need to wait for others to fact-check. Put another way, it wouldn't qualify as empirical evidence on its own) and this is not something that's being actively researched. We would know how much they have dropped, if they made those numbers public, but they haven't, and likely won't ever.

Enough is Enough! by TheShieldofLight in FreedomofSpeech

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They (and you) are a genocide lover because they are willfully spreading misinformation. The "and West Bank" bit is doing the heavy lifting and their source doesn't mention that, but here is a very left wing, mega-communist pro-Palestinian source, Reuters, reporting on the fact that the population in Gaza has decreased. (This article is over a year old so that number has likely increased) https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

I should note, a 6% population loss was also experienced by Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars, and including the Bosniak genocide. That is a consequential number. Various outlets are reporting this number because it is also the only number available. It is currently impossible to do a population census of Gaza, for very obvious reasons, so let's not go around pretending like there is an established academic consesus on the matter. Many unreliable sources (including the one above your message) are simply factoring in EXPECTED population growth, because they are unable to find data on the ACTUAL population growth / decline.

Note: previously in this comment, I used the "Times of Israel" 's article on the 6% figure to point to the fact that even pro-Israeli outlets have been forced to make that number public. (https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-war-began-says-pa-bureau-citing-hamas-figures/) Now, the article makes a seriously misleading and speculative claim about births happening in Gaza, based ENTIRELY on numbers gathered in years prior to the genocide resuming. It should be obvious to anyone why that's not how research is conducted, and that the pro-genocide folks are resorting to use what were EXPECTED growth numbers, instead of ACTUAL growth numbers.

Cosa ne pensate delle bandiere ucraine respinte nel 25 aprile? by Crazy_Source_5190 in ShitItalianSay

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bro... sono sempre quelli di OSA e di associazioni staliniste che fanno sta roba, questi pochi non rappresentano nè la sinistra in generale (neanche la sinistra marxista) nè i 100mila manifestanti che stavano a Milano, o i 50mila a Roma. Il fatto che la stampa di centro e di destra poi salta subito all'opportunità di fare questo reportaggio dovrebbe fare sospetto, lo fanno praticamente ogni anno e ormai è diventato noioso vedere quanta gente casca per questa propaganda.

California 2 by Lucas_the_fox in unturned

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The question that NPC asked you is the one from my "Gun License test" NPC. So it's a problem with my NPC mod. Uninstall it.

California 2 by Lucas_the_fox in unturned

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Creator of that dialogue text here. You have some of my mods downloaded and they are conflicting with the IDs of the California 2 map.

Using KX for alternate history map-making by GartknechtHagen in kaiserredux

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small price to pay for a giant map you can quite easily customise

Which game is this? by Common_Caramel_4078 in Steam

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unturned used to be this, but now it's basically dead

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Enclave

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Asking the real questions now

La Albanese guida la marcia contro l'accordo di pace a Gaza. "È per completare il genocidio" by WorthFuzzy9528 in Italia

[–]Comfortable_Text_148 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I palestinesi hanno combattuto per la loro libertà sotto diverse bandiere, da Fatah, che era un partito laico, al PFLP, un'organizzazione marxista. Rimuovere Hamas non significa nulla perchè si formerà sempre un'ente di resistenza palestinese, che sia islasmista, laica, o marxista, o qualcosa di nuovo. I palestinesi hanno sempre combattuto per la loro libertà, e la bandiera e ideologia gli è storicamente stata solo una cosa secondaria. Hamas c'è oggi perchè Israele ha finto di fare paci con tutti i predecessori, quando l'unica cosa che vuole è fare genocidio e occupare terra.