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Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem in c/[email protected]
Breakdown of total votes for all candidates for 2024 Election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Would be interesting to see how many write-ins were for Biden

'Straight-up BS': Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders' election critique. Sanders' analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Psh

Rail workers aren't real workers and don't deserve our support. The real workers are checks notes

looks for notes

flips through folders

Liz Cheney!

Bulletins and News Discussion from October 7th to October 13th, 2024 - Happy International Paragliding Day! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

JD Vance is smart and quick-witted. You don't go from bumfuck Ohio to Yale Law otherwise. Don't have to like him, his policies (or his absolute dogshit PR team) to recognize that.

FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames at landing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Commoditizing something is harder than showing a demonstrator (even if it's less cool than the demonstrator)

FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames at landing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Musk is really good at headhunting and cutting through middle management cruft. He's actually really good at being a CEO, he's just also... y'know

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 26th to September 1st, 2024 - Ruto Must Go - COTW: Kenya in c/[email protected]
Bulletins and News Discussion from August 26th to September 1st, 2024 - Ruto Must Go - COTW: Kenya in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In more local news, Falcon ends B.C. United campaign, throws support to Conservatives

Dude who literally kicked the BC Conservative leader out of the party is now supporting the BC Conservatives (apparently without consulting his candidates). Now BC United candidates are stuck up shits creek, meanwhile the party that Falcon said was "too extreme to govern" is now the party he supports.

Oh, and BC just approved single-stair apartments.

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 26th to September 1st, 2024 - Ruto Must Go - COTW: Kenya in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't explain the pilot death so it doesn't work

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I honestly don't understand what the US obsession with low-ROI government spending is. Like, it's not that hard to spend money so that a dollar in leads to multiple dollars in future cost savings or multiple dollars in economic growth.

I guess it's because the US doesn't price in the cost of healthcare? Maybe the zero-sum global perspective? The high cost of war?

Build a subway. Build climate mitigation infrastructure. Plant trees. Feed children. Give people doctors. Education for all. There's this whole individualist "fuck you got mine" mentality that seems to completely stall progress in the US and blows up the cost of doing anything that benefits other people to the point of it not being worthwhile.

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Basically all Western reporting on China is hampered by having no native speakers on the journalism or editorial team.

Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what happened in Minnesota? I'm out of the loop.

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What's really happening in Gaza? (hexbear.net)
 

Propaganda is flying around like crazy in this conflict and I think it's time for our community to come together and try to separate the truth from misinformation and chaff. Similar to my last post on the al-Ahli Hospital Massacre, we're going to go with the following format:

For top-level comments, post the claim being made as well as who made the claim (please cite as close to the original source as possible) and, if possible, the date/time that claim was made.

For other comments, please try to either prove or debunk claims using multiple sources and verifiable information.

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The al-Ahli Hospital Massacre (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
58 comments fedilink
 

There's a ton of information coming out from a bunch of different sources and it's difficult to keep track of who's said what and who has evidence of what. This thread is to keep track of who's making what claims, who has what evidence, and discussion surrounding those.

For top-level comments, please separate into two categories:

Evidence (videos, facts, circumstantial evidence, etc.) that we can validate, invalidate, or provide supporting sources for

Claims (IDF, Hamas, Western media, etc.) that we can prove or disprove using current evidence

=== 2023-10-19 ===

It's established fact that Israel was operating aircraft near the hospital, that Israel was striking targets near the hospital, that Israel had indicated that they would strike the hospital, that Israel had striked the hospital in the past, and that Israel had targeted multiple hospital staff in the days leading up to the strike.

It's currently up to debate, but many indications suggest that Israel's message has changed multiple times. The initial claim was that the attack was on Hamas operatives within the hospital. The claim afterward was that this was a Hamas misfire (using demonstrably falsified audio evidence).

The videos show that a single large explosion triggered whatever happened, not a sequence of smaller explosions or secondary detonations. The video circulating of a Hamas rocket "misfire" is more indicative of a MANPADS launch given multiple comparable flight paths from other MANPADS. It's a clear usage of a multi-pulse rocket motor, something Hamas does not have domestic capability for but does have access to through Iranian MANPADS. An Iranian Misagh-2 fires a missile with less than 2kg of explosives and less than 20kg of total weight.

At this stage, my most likely conclusion is that the damage was the result of an airburst bomb.

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