SootySootySoot
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The ICC reply (though I like how they do try to reply genuinely and honestly) boils down to "but the palestinian government is/would be capitalist too, so...."
This is the very bad form of class reductionism, the idea that oppression/genocide/etc doesn't matter and isn't imperialism because it's not fundamentally along class lines. 
Sure thing, ICC, but I don't think the people of Palestine are in any position to do any revolutions while under the iron thumb of the US and Israel. Nor do I think many people will view communist organisations positively if they sit by, ambivalent about genocide.
I assumed these were all meant to be like 14 year old kids, but Chunus and Jorch out here with their full beards really ruin that theory
Some forums have always been famously nasty places. For those of us old enough to remember the internet pre-2010, and lucky enough to stumble on the right corners of the internet, plenty of forums were actually super cool, tiny, self-moderated niche communities with like 20-30 active users tops where you could genuinely share passions and make friends. All but one of my good online friends I have now were made back then.
No idea how anyone would find many nice interactions now. Hexbear is as close as it gets for me, but it's still significantly different.
To be honest, this is a very common occurrence in all UK schools up to ages ~13. I and at least 10 other students in my year group of ~150 were forced to wet ourselves in the middle of class because our requests to go to the bathroom were denied, not even by particularly 'toxic' or 'mean' teachers, it's just a fairly normal attitude. I remember asking to go for like the fifth time, the teacher said "You can wait.", and in response I showed her my piss-covered hand.
You'd think cleaning up all the piss would be enough to deter that policy, but apparently not.
It is child abuse though, and these really shitty attitudes to the needs of children are not spoken out against nearly as much as they should be.
But your honor, did you account for the fact that while I was murdering many innocents I said "Violence should stop!"???? I should be exonerated
We're stuck in a very shitty choice of two: Someone who is actively doing genocide right now, and someone who will probably actively do genocide. Is the second just very slightly less shitty? I really don't know, I guess.
Actively furthering genocide
"Grammar"
These things are equal in importance
Libs accept that voting may be vaguely useful, but is less than the bare minimum you should be doing to affect politics, they cannot beat this challenge.
Give them a break, they 'pre-emptively' defederated as a 'last resort' after asserting that they do in fact believe in 
. That's how you know they're not hypocrites.
I've been in your position few more times than I care to have been. It's scary and sucks - I one time messaged an employer to check. Other advice here is good.
In at least my experience of this maybe 10 times with four different people, every time it has been a scare that didn't materialise. Some people really keep to themselves for a day or two after intense episodes. I really know it isn't fun though, hope they're okay and you hear from them soon 
I do agree that is it. I think this may be the fundamental, awful problem with modern-day social media and basically all forms of online interaction, even big Discord servers. To actually have a conversation with someone is basically impossible, you're just only ever people at podiums shouting into the void.