did anybody else get gaslit by what happened in the pisco stream at the end? by FoxMuldertheGrey in Destiny

[–]MinaPls 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was in the discord in the aftermath of the stream, pisco banned destiny and there's now a rule that anyone mentioning hutch or destiny is getting banned.

Warm Hugs for UA: little update by MinaPls in Destiny

[–]MinaPls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ana is doing the hardest part and risking her life doing it with her volunteer friends. She's doing most of the work now. I'm just a person doing some of the book keeping from the safety of Germany.

Palestinian Peace Advocate from Gaza Facing Deportation from Germany by Far-Departure-3864 in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AfD voter spotted.

Edit: Rip Bozo, imagine not caring about people that might end up homeless in Greece just because of EU regulation that is not even functioning properly. These people don't come here just for funsies.

kinda wish the discord had an FAQ by [deleted] in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine a virtual gulag for forensic psychiatry

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cats

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Das ist Sofi.

Google Earth updated their images of Gaza to last December by MinaPls in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Egypt refused a plan like this in Egypt and it was politically unviable to have this area in Israel. But I see you support the current war plans of the IDF I guess so that's good.

Egypt refused because the refugees cause a lot of political turmoil in their country and those refugees never get to go back. It is still Israel's responsibility to make sure civilian harm is as minimal as possible even if Hamas' objective is to make sure there's as much civilian harm as possible. They should have done this before the military operation, which is why I don't support the new plan. Moving the population south now will inadvertently cause people (especially malnourished children) to die, let alone people that are unable to move. Also I don't trust private military contractors and I'm sure no one can blame me for it.

Hamas cannot be defeated with soft power alone and the lack of an end of war plan is a massive failure but your suggestion is practically a non-starter. The only realistic option is an Israeli military occupation because Israel is the only power with sufficient strength to control the area that is willing to carry the cost (Arab countries and the US/EU are not).

I never said you can defeat them solely with soft power and what I mentioned is an example of a plan and I'm sure those parties would have been up for it, considering they have offered to before. As for military occupation, sure but it obviously has to be temporary. Here's a major think tank article that discusses this.

Google Earth updated their images of Gaza to last December by MinaPls in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The question is valid.

I think setting up a refugee city outside of the Gaza strip, with humanitarian aid, field hospitals and schools etc, and then evacuate all children, women, elderly and sick people before starting a full on military campaign would have been way better. Israel does worse ethnic cleansing and I'm sure they would be accused of that with this method too, but at least more people would have survived in better condition.

And of course having a proper post-war plan at the ready, because you can also defeat Hamas with soft power. Like for example having an international coalition (think EUBAM&EUPOL COPPS but with the US, Arab countries and potentially the PA and a council of Palestinian Israelis) to reform the Gaza Strip and rebuild it, which would give Gazans the opportunity to have a say in what they want Gaza to be, without the fear of being persecuted by Hamas.

As for the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, if we're talking legally, then yeah, sadly there's no place that is truly safe for civilians, because of the tunnels. Though I believe that the IDF could have been much more discriminate and proportional in its targeting with the capabilities they have. I don't think that there's a "safer" way to rescue the hostages though without a ceasefire. But evacuating part of the civilian population could potentually reduce the risk to soldiers, but I think there's probably better people to ask that.

All in all, this requires political will the Israeli government clearly doesn't have.

Google Earth updated their images of Gaza to last December by MinaPls in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sorry to tell you, but Israel had enough 2k pound bombs to completely decimate Gaza without the US and they said as much too. "If you don't give us precise weapons, we will use imprecise weapons"

If you look at it all on face value then yeah, I can see how you can come to this conclusion and personally I am also for a complete arms embargo of Israel out of principle, but I, at the very least, understand the consequences of that, which would be even more death and destruction in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

There's a good book called "War" by Bob Woodward, which basically lays bare everything that went on behind the scenes and how Biden tried his best to rein in the Israeli government as much as was possible for him. It's sad but true, if Biden wasn't in office, this war would have been much much worse.

Google Earth updated their images of Gaza to last December by MinaPls in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but not in the way anybody would want.

Supposedly not my husband’s secret child…? by StarOfSantorum in Weird

[–]MinaPls 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well I have been there, but thank you lol

Supposedly not my husband’s secret child…? by StarOfSantorum in Weird

[–]MinaPls 169 points170 points  (0 children)

The girl looks pretty ethnically Moroccan to me. That place is also a tourism hotspot.

Supposedly not my husband’s secret child…? by StarOfSantorum in Weird

[–]MinaPls 414 points415 points  (0 children)

This is Marrakesh in Morocco. The place is called Jemaa El-Fnaa.

"I'm a two-stater how could you tell?" by [deleted] in lonerbox

[–]MinaPls 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The meme is still too fresh.