The sycophants that help the CCP still are Hong Kongers, like it or not. And it was passed in Hong Kong by Hong Kong legislators. Just that it’s not been done so democratically.

oh god please no, one community is plenty XD

cat tax!!

If I were to properly manage a second community it would likely be the Hong Kong one that I already have moderator status on here first lol, but I have no intention of being a powermod XD

oh hello, yeah nah one community is enough for me lol. Also I’m honoured but I’m not the heart of the community lol, everyone contributes a good bit.

Ben Gvir needs to be locked in the Hague forever.

Write-in campaign huh. Wonder if some people will accidentally vote for him and whether that would count

I read “brutish” as “british” on first glance

Is it any better than DesMuMe?

Using the website on my mac, on chrome. Weird.

Did tagging people break with the update? When I type @ nothing shows up.

WOOOO

Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.

Unbroken ampersands? hallelujah

Yeah, I assume in general that nothing on the internet ever goes away. At least makes it somewhat more annoying though.

i did the thing that means it’s probably less archived (by editing all the replies before deleting), but i assume some of it probably remains out there. Nothing I can do about that.

One thing i miss about Lemmy is shittymorph tbf

Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.

I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.

I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible