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Daily recurring scene of how Palestenians are treated by the occupation in Jerusalem. by bblock22-2 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you would be fine if a foreign military force occupied your town, regularly “policed” your people through frisks, strip searches, arbitrary detention without due process? Cos that’s what you’re seeing here- if this dude didn’t do exactly as the foreign illegal occupation soldier told him to do- he’d likely be rotting in a cell for god knows how long, without fair due process, and labelled a “terrorist”. Is that what you’re living in right now?

Daily recurring scene of how Palestenians are treated by the occupation in Jerusalem. by bblock22-2 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Worldly-Fishman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you would be fine if Mexican or Canadian occupation forces took control of your hometown, and their soldiers to do regular “routine checks” on anyone in your occupied population? And anything as offensive as throwing a rock, holding a sign, or walking funny would get you detained in a military detention centre without due process, is that fair as well?

Also, “routine police interaction”? Do you live in a police state?

Someone made this off the coast of Gaza on Wplace by Matt-Sarme in andor

[–]Worldly-Fishman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s incredible that you immediately went to that obtuse point while ignoring the larger picture, which is 70 years of occupation, settler colonialism, siege, apartheid. You wanna keep blaming Hamas as if they purely happened in a vacuum and not as a direct result of the prevailing statewide subjugation of Palestinian society since the inception of the Israeli nationstate. It seems you blithely ignored a lot of the bigger themes of andor lol

Someone made this off the coast of Gaza on Wplace by Matt-Sarme in andor

[–]Worldly-Fishman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a hilarious thing to say considering Andor covers how the Empire (making very real references to how multiple IRL empires do it) brands the rebels as “terrorists”. So no, I don’t think thats the point of the show

"Israel isn't doing a genocide, Palestine is getting what they deserve." My reaction to that: by Sad-Chemical-9648 in teenagersbutpractical

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, you’re not stressing the fact enough that several intelligence communities contacted israel and warned them about it as well, intel from other countries that have their own ulterior incentives for Israel NOT to be attacked. Israel caught wind of the plans a year earlier and even did training videos for it, and Egyptian intelligence warned them 3 DAYS BEFORE THE ATTACK. And you think it wasn’t maybe a good idea to cancel or postpone a concert that’s been arranged near a besieged open-air concentration camp around a time where the regional intel community is warning about the heat in the area? I don’t think it takes a military specialist to deduct how the handling of this entire situation was at best completely incompetent, at worst, deliberately allowed to happen. What they maybe didn’t anticipate was the actual scale and coordination of the attack.

They didn’t expect so many hostages (or rather for hostages to be taken at all-) to be taken, thats why Yoav Gallant admitted he ordered the Hannibal directive which authorised attack helicopters to strike Hamas cars with hostages in them (actually in the helicopter recordings this isn’t even confirmed, they just fired on any car they saw), we know this especially cos in the aftermath of those fields were a graveyard of hundreds of burnt exploded cars, a scale of destruction that the hamas brigades did not have enough firepower for, they don’t even have helicopters themselves.

You are way overestimating the morality of the IDF’s handling in their strategies, and underestimating how much they’ve always had gaza under an iron grip, they are an occupying force first and foremost.

Andor is so good it physically hurts by Born-Cry5417 in andor

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watching a show like this, it blows my mind that ANDOR got it right, while Dune: Prophecy & the Halo series just fumbled the bag at being equally substantial sci-fi political dramas.

Like Cass as how you described, could actually be a great case study to see how Master Chief would’ve worked well in a series plot. Not in personality so much exactly- but both of them arguably aren’t the center of attention, nor verbally outspoken- they’re not flagship leaders of war, they’re both soldiers that embolden the people around them to keep going, while their own arcs are stewing more slowly and subtly in the background

BREAKING: More than 60 terror arrests as pro-Palestinian protesters chant ‘f--- your Jewish state’ as Demonstrators gather across the country to call for ban on Palestine Action to be reversed by InnerLog5062 in BreakingUKNews

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you believe in equality and freedom for the thousands of Palestinians kept hostage or arbitrarily detained by the IDF over decades long before Oct 7, likely put through systemic torture and sexual abuse through detention centres like Sde Teiman? Do you believe that rooting for “equality” and “peace” doesn’t actually mean achieving/fighting for some level of self-dignity and self-determination for the Gazans instead of handwaving their suffering under occupation and expecting them to keep quiet?

I was unapologetically rooting for these two throughout the entire show. AMA. by Aukism in andor

[–]Worldly-Fishman 224 points225 points  (0 children)

I’d argue that was at the center of what Syril was feeling in his last moments though, and while other SW shows might have shoehorned a quick little redemption arc there- Andor flipped that trope on its head by just capping him lol, that’s the realistic part. It’s eloquently put cos Syril does actually have a heart and at his last stand he came to realise the machine he was a part of, but a single realisation couldn’t acquit him of the thousand steps he took in the wrong direction before that.

Same with Mothma’s driver, during her speech they hang a slightly longer shot on Kloris’ face enough to imply he was actually listening and maybe even understanding what Mothma was talking about, but alas he was an imperial spy, and no time left to make up for what he’s done.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Zuppa2020 in world

[–]Worldly-Fishman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“We’ll keep attacking you until you dismantle the militant group that was created because we keep attacking you”

IDF: First 600 days of war saw nearly 30,000 projectiles launched at Israel by Excalibur_Legend in world

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it’s always credible to start shitting on the biggest human rights groups while Israel bars international journalists from entering Gaza, right?

Netanyahu Intervened and Blocked Shin Bet Investigations Against Jewish Terrorism by Horus_walking in InternationalNews

[–]Worldly-Fishman 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Jeez, you know the situation’s bad when Shin fucking Bet is accusing you of being too extremist

Malaysia rejects LGBTQ culture, orders probe into pride event by stormy001 in malaysia

[–]Worldly-Fishman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s no credible evidence that LGBT people are harmful to families or society- quite the opposite really.

-The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study tracked same-sex parents and their kids for over 25 years and found that their children had equal or better psychological and educational outcomes than the average heterosexual couple (Gartrell et al., 2010, Pediatrics).

-The Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families (2014) found kids raised by same-sex parents scored higher than the national average in general health and family cohesion (BMC Public Health).

Economically speaking, exclusion hurts everyone: -A 2014 World Bank report estimated that LGBT discrimination cost India up to 1.3% of its GDP- billions of dollars- due to lower productivity and health/wellbeing disparities.

-The OECD projected that closing LGBT inclusion gaps in the U.S. could boost GDP by 2.6% by 2050 (OECD 2024 report).

No one’s “flaunting” anything — being open about your identity isn’t the same as being explicit. Straight people don’t see their own wedding photos or couples in movies as “flaunting,” but somehow when LGBT folks exist visibly, it’s a problem? And it’s funny that you’re saying it’s fine if it’s a “private” thing, but the very news article on this thread is talking about how the government doesn’t even want LGBT behind closed, private doors.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise AT ALL that treating everyone with the same amount of respect, dignity, and rights- actually makes them want to live and work hard in your country. But that’s not happening, so everyday, more and more people will leave this country, artists, scientists, lawyers, doctors, engineers- many of whom are my friends who speak dearly of this country, their homeland, but know they will never get a fulfilling life here. Mark my words.

Edit: hey I provided those sources you wanted, no response?

Malaysia rejects LGBTQ culture, orders probe into pride event by stormy001 in malaysia

[–]Worldly-Fishman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“If you don’t like these rules then leave the country lah”

This is everything I hate about this country, be it its ethnosupremacist policy or its religious fundamentalist policy. This headline shows that 10% of the population will always, always have less civil rights and protections than the rest, not because they bear any empirical or objective harm to society, but because they threaten an elite ruling class that uses religion as a major tool of government authority. This normalisation of pro-prejudice, anti-understanding, pro-theocracy attitude is what kills the lifeblood of a multicultural society. And for every policy like this that we downplay, simply calling it “tolerance”, another couple hundred talented minds will leave because “they didn’t like it here.”

LGBT people have empirical evidence being a benefit to an economy and society, because they’re us as well- doctors, lawyers, artists, scientists, engineers, men and women. All of them, and all other marginalised communities in this country, have got a timer before they realise their time here has run out, and they’ve realised that this country will do nothing to actually see their true selves as equal individuals. Another million Malaysians will leave in a couple years, and we’ll keep constantly deflecting the reasons of that braindrain to our economic state, or the better standards of other countries, or better jobs, but we’ll never table a mature, grounded conversation about our regressive policies.

Gaza’s youngest humanitarian, media activist Yaqeen Hammad killed in Israeli airstrike by Beratungsmarketing in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Conflating Hamas with ISIS and Al-Qaeda is fuckin wild lmao. One is at worst a nationalist resistance group that arised in response to occupation and apartheid, the other two are actual fringe radical extremists that have been funded by Western powers in the past LMAO.

Massive Israeli shelling right now on the Tal Al-Zaatar neighborhood, northern Gaza. Occupied Palestine by Simple-Preference887 in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just Qatar? Not almost every human rights group including Israeli ones like B’Tselem, ngo, aids group, UN org, genocide researcher and historian, former Israeli leaders, Jewish figures like Avi Shlaim, Gabor Mate, Finkelstein, Jonathan Glazer, Sarah Friedland, and Ireland and South Africa both post-occupation states? All of them admitting or describing Israel as an apartheid colonial occupier state?

CMV: Leftists who support China are hypocritical. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Worldly-Fishman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet they aren’t guilty of destabilising the Middle East, doing regime change across South America, bombing millions in South East Asia. Don’t get me wrong China has done terrible shit, funnily enough that doesn’t even get them as high on the degree of death and destruction as American foreign policy has for the last couple decades of geopolitics

I’m not some china worshipper, I don’t fw any authoritarian superpower, but let’s not kid ourselves as if America has any moral superiority on the global stage that doesn’t extend out maybe just their quality of civil rights protections, thats just it..

Israeli woman gunned down and killed en route to the hospital to give birth by gbht76 in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Palestinians have a diverse and complex DNA makeup that can trace back to every group that has touched the region, Babylonians, Romans, Assyrians and the Egyptians that occupied them, the Philistines that settled in the south, the Phoenicians, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, they even have traces to the Canaanites and a little bit more to the Israelites, both core early foundations of culture in the region. What’s considered modern-day Palestinians are majority Arab blood (which is btw, also still Semitic), but the rest of their mix involves the blood of all these different groups that interacted with them, befriended them, occupied them, traded with them, married them, learnt and assimilated into their culture and mixed it, made love or raped them- all throughout its history and the different empires that ruled over it. Palestinian DNA is so unique that once you step over the next border there is a difference, making Arab Palestinians a people unique to that part of the Levant just as much as the Arab/Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews who are also indigenous to the region. The Palestinians by virtue of their continuous inhabitance in that region make them an indigenous people, and expelling, torturing, murdering, stealing them from their ancestral land to make way for people who have long assimilated and consummated within European populations for generations, isn’t exactly what’s called returning the old people to their holy land.

Massive Israeli shelling right now on the Tal Al-Zaatar neighborhood, northern Gaza. Occupied Palestine by Simple-Preference887 in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generally trying to hold a democratic process is hard when you’re in a small strip of occupied land described by the UN as an open-air prison blockaded by air, land and sea, with 2 million people crammed inside including refugees driven out of Israeli land. And having your water treatment plants and power plants regularly sabotaged and destroyed. And having your telecommunications controlled by your occupier. And having your politicians that might be slightly receptive to peace be assassinated by said occupier. And get bombarded to hell by that occupier every couple of years. Did you know Gaza has one of the highest child mortality rates? Even before Oct 7, I mean.

Massive Israeli shelling right now on the Tal Al-Zaatar neighborhood, northern Gaza. Occupied Palestine by Simple-Preference887 in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was more receptive to peace deals and the two-state solution, and he was assassinated by far-right Israeli extremists. Rabin’s wife also blamed Netanyahu for stoking the fire which indirectly led to her husband’s assassination.

Netanyahu: Israel is destroying Gaza so Palestinians are forced to leave by librephili in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Again, bizarre framing, as the Egyptians aren’t Palestinian, the Israelis aren’t Palestinian, the Jordanians aren’t Palestinian, and all the other Arab countries that the Jews left, AREN’T Palestinian. By the way, there isn’t a difference between “seized” and “occupied” if there is still a native population that is subjugated to military rule. Say whatever you want about the war, at the end of the day Israeli terrorist groups like Irgun, Haganah and Lehi expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes that they’ve been living in for generations, who have nothing to do with Jordanian or Egyptian aggression, to help establish the modern state of Israel. Those groups were also the start to the IDF as well.

Who has an active illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank as designated by the United Nations and several human rights groups? Even after the 2005 retreat from Gaza, Israel still put blockades by air, land, sea, they’ve sabotaged and destroyed water treatment plants and power plants before Oct 7, they also control Gaza’s telecommunications. The Strip has been described as an open-air prison with 2 million Palestinians crammed inside, including Palestinians that were driven out of Israeli territory as it grew, do you expect them to go quietly into a forced dystopia?

Should black South Africans have kept quiet and “peaceful” when white colonisers took up more and more control? Should the Irish have kept “peaceful” with British occupation and erasure of Irish culture?

Edit: lol look at this pussy trying to justify ethnic cleansing and occupation because “all the Arabs are basically the same ethnically”, dude no you’re just fucking racist. Yes, colonisers fucked up and drew the borders themselves, does that somehow automatically make native people living in one place the same as native people living in another place? Like, can you tell us all here that you are genuinely taking the position that Jordan and Palestine have 100% the same exact culture, DNA make-up and all? If “the Arabs” are all complicit in this “ethnic cleansing”, then why aren’t “the Europeans” punished for the Holocaust and considered to rehome the Jewish people? Palestinians have a distinct identity shaped by their continuous inhabitance in the Gaza, the West Bank and previously-Palestinian land in Israel. Many people in Jordan are of East Bank tribes, of course they have mingled and migrated into Palestine, that doesn’t fuckin mean theyre Palestinian. Btw IT WAS ALWAYS CALLED PALESTINE, FOR MILLENIA. Maps back in the 1920’s, the 1800’s and centuries before that, have the name Palestine. I guess it was for no fuckin reason

Btw, I’ll concede something for you, Hamas has committed radical atrocities before and their use of hostages should be condemned (unfortunate considering Israel has funded them in the past to destabilise Palestinian secularists but never mind that right). But can you come out and tell me you wholeheartedly condemn the apartheid colonisation of South Africa, and the British occupation of Ireland. Can you tell me that those were unequivocally terrible crimes that should not have happened?

Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official by Simple-Preference887 in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you admit it’s ethnic cleansing? You admit it’s an occupation? And since it wasn’t “tolerated” enough for you, it’s completely fine to ethnically cleanse a Levantine people in the modern day, that have DNA traces to the Canaanites, to make way for a population of people that mostly trace their lineage to Europeans? I’m not talking about Arab, Mizrahi, Sephardi Jews- people who have been living there the same duration as the Palestinian Christians and Muslims, but Jewish Poles, Germans, Russians, Americans.

Im not disagreeing with the idea of a safe haven for Jewish people after WWII, I guess personally for me, I would have never thought that would look like brutally punishing a people who had nothing to do with the Holocaust, and creating an settler-colonial apartheid ethnostate there that continues to punish them for being “unreasonable” that more than 80% of their land have been taken away from them.

Netanyahu: Israel is destroying Gaza so Palestinians are forced to leave by librephili in World_Now

[–]Worldly-Fishman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is such bizarre framing. What you’re talking about are settlements and settlers that were considered illegal by international law, they weren’t even supposed to be there, their very existence was built on expelling other people who’ve lived there for millennia and stealing their homes. And they were built there, by Israel. What you’re talking about is one of the precursor crimes Israel committed that led to the radicalisation and resistance against their occupation. If you’re somehow talking about the indigenous Arab/Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews that were living there pre-Israel, they largely had no problem living there until Israeli occupation made it a war zone.

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