• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    10 months ago

    To me, the crazy thing is that 33% of the Arab world doesn’t think it was legitimate resistance.

    The October 7th attack was clearly terrorism. But to have such a big percentage of the Arab world seem to agree with that, even in such an insanely one-sided situation as the ongoing occupation of Gaza, means:

    A lot of people want peace.

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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The al-Aqsa Mosque has been a source of tension as it is located above the Temple Mount, a holy site for both Jews and Christians.

    While non-Muslims now have permission to attend their holy site via the Moors Gate, they are forbidden from praying there which has created increased tension.

    Palestinians, before October 7, had been permitted to enter Israel with proper documentation for work, medical treatments or for other reasons.

    When asked about the responses of regional and international powers to the war, 94% said they considered the United States position negatively, with 82% clarifying they thought it was bad.

    The same trend continued for other Western countries with 79%, 78%, and 75% of respondents viewed the positions of France, the UK, and Germany negatively.

    In a different survey response, 81% said that they did not believe the US was serious about establishing a Palestinian state and 77% of respondents named the US and Israel as the biggest threat to the security and stability of the region.


    The original article contains 666 words, the summary contains 168 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      10 months ago

      When you’re defending beheading children as “legitimate resistance” when you should probably take a step back and take a long hard look at yourself.

      And no, before idiots come along and say dumb shit… That doesn’t mean I’m defending Israel’s actions either. It’s possible to dislike both situations.

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        10 months ago

        If they had any proof of “Beheading children” they would have submitted to the International Court of Justice. but they didn’t, they haven’t even dared use that sentence. but here your are parroting your Zionist Hasbara Lies and defending a genocidal agenda that have been in the working for over a century

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    10 months ago

    You know polls are utterly unscientific tea-leaf reading right?

    57% sounds empirical and they even have cool little charts to go with it. Best case scenario it was: you got someone who doesn’t want to talk to you to talk to you for five minutes, or you set the stage for a talkative bastard to talkative bastard at you until you can break free. Neither are particularly good windows into their actual thoughts about Thing X but furthermore all the responses usually total like 0.000028% of the population.

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      10 months ago

      You know polls are utterly unscientific tea-leaf reading right?

      Lmao

      Maths is unscientific now

      E: To any downvoters: you are stupid.

      Polling is just maths, and is very reliable so long as it’s done reasonably.

      By all means have reservations of this poll specifically, but to call polls in general or as a concept “unscientific tea leaf reading” is foolish. Disagreeing with that mathematical fact is exactly the same as disagreeing that 5 + 5 = 10.

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              10 months ago

              When did I mention faked polls? You’re just making up shit now.

              You’re either a troll or stupid if you don’t think polling is mathematics.

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                10 months ago

                Russia polled in villages that they captured that Ukrainians actually want to be annexed by Russia. Can’t argue with math right?

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                  10 months ago

                  Good strawman. I never said that polls can’t have a selection bias.

                  I said thinking polls in general or polls as a concept are tea leaf reading is stupid. Because it is. If you believe that, you’re a moron. You may as well say you disagree with the concept that 5 + 5 is 10.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t think you want to play the game of who can show who did worse things.

      It is Israel, 100%.

      Israel has killed 20 times that number and leveled whole families and neighborhoods slaughtering tons of innocent children.