I'm split on political activism with civilian casualties. On one hand, civilians don't deserve to die, right? On the other hand, history shows that successful political movements almost invariantly have civilian casualties: the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolutions, the American revolution, the French revolution...

Are civilians responsible for the actions of their government and country?

Should it be condemned, or should the dead be given their rights but with the understanding of the right to revolution?

The unofficial consensus between the KMT/PRC was that Taiwan and China are one country. The NED-funded DPP has been trying to break that status quo, though.

The IDF just found another ~~journalist~~Hamas in Lebanon.

You'd think Americans would be more sympathetic for people fighting for liberty...

Condemning war crimes is communist and authoritarian.

Thai gov says 18, don't spread misinformation

UN agency in Palestine blames Hamas of stealing Gaza aid, then deletes post on X and refutes claim

Reminder to be suspicious of all headlines!

In this case, the previous headline said that people purporting to be from the health authority of the de facto government of Gaza (i.e. Hamas) asked for medical supplies and UNRWA gave them... medical supplies.

lemmy.ca defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, who are driving top-level comments on here. Since you can't see the top-level comments, you also can't see any discussion below.

I opposed lemmy.ca's decision to defederated from hexbear based on the perceived behaviour of hexbear users on other instances for exactly this reason: I think an instance's role is to police the actions of users posting to that instance, not to police their users' exposure to other instances.

The fact that I have to is a condemnation of this community.

According to the IDF, targeting civilians is their right.

US needs more ways to justify their obscene military spending in lieu of things that actually benefit American citizens

That's not the distinction you should be making.

It's sad that any bad sentiment towards the Zionist regime is getting conflated with antisemitism. You don't have to hate Jewish people to hate an apartheid state dead-set on ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Similarly, you don't have to like how Hamas operates to sympathize with their goal of overthrowing said apartheid state.