• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    The true death toll passed 40,000 a long time ago. These are just the bodies that have been recovered and identified.

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      3 months ago

      Right, we’re talking likely 2% or more of the entire population killed so far. That’s horrific

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        3 months ago

        Try 10%

        The Lancet estimated 186,000 dead which would be 8%, but noted that there’s no real way to know. Since they were a little conservative with their guesswork and about 6 weeks have passed since then, I think 10% dead out of Gaza’s population of 2 million is highly likely by now.

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            3 months ago

            Yeah. I agree with queermunist about the inaccuracy of using the lower bound as if it was the estimate, which almost all of the media is currently doing. 😢

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              3 months ago

              Regime whores covering up the genocide…

              We only confirmed 40k bodies 🤡

              Only 2% 🤡🤡

              All hamas🤡🤡🤡

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      3 months ago

      if we’re lucky, there’s be a paragraph about it between to the paragraph about the trail of tears and the other paragraph about martin luther king jr in american history books.

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        3 months ago

        I highly recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, American history textbooks are fucking garbage lol

        For example, that the US Army hunted buffalo to near extinction specifically to starve the plains natives, it was a deliberate strategy of using starvation as a weapon. I was taught it was just “”“poaching”“” from settlers and that it was all an accident.

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          3 months ago

          that and A People’s History of the United States informs most of what i know.

          i also marvel from time to time at how the bullshit that i was taught when i was young can still completely overpower the things i learned in my young adulthood; and it somehow got worse once i reached middle age.

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                3 months ago

                Did @eldavi@lemmy.ml report me?

                Either way, it was sarcasm

                the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something

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                  3 months ago

                  I won’t reveal who reports who, but I will say it was someone else.

                  The civility rule is NOT ambiguous:

                  “Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members.”

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                  3 months ago

                  i was wondering what you said since i can only see that it was removed.

                  i’ve used milderer sarcasm than you have and my own comments have likewise been removed; i suspect that the fraught relationship that lemmy.world has with the rest of the lemmyverse is fueling overzealous moderation.

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    3 months ago

    The entirety of Hamas consists of about 10,000 people. So let that sink in for a bit.

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    3 months ago

    How is this different from holocaust except being even more chaotic and cruel?