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Context is the attack and rape on Rave attendees by Hamas forces

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Disgusting. Additional reasons to ban hexbear

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you can't ban instances, dude!

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

You can defederate them

[–] r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 1 points 2 years ago

Are the moderators of individual communities not able to ban or defederate instances from their sub? I can see arguments either way but instance admins should be able to ban them.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

"actually that never happened!"

"yes it did"

"well they deserved it"

[–] MetalJewSolid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Tankies are just awful contrarians at heart. Hate em all.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, some on the right wing in the US are calling for the annihilation of Gaza, and Israel has been indiscriminatly killing Palestinian civilians for a long time. What Hamas did was horrific, but this attack does not exist in a vaccuum, and there are literally mainstream politicians calling for the death of civilians right now

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And that behaviour is disgusting for US politicians. Typical for them.

I'm not a fan of Israel, nor am I a fan of Palestine