The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…
  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1911·
    2 years ago

    Satire is one of the few things in this world that really cuts straight into the absurdity of humanity. I wish the solutions were as easy as pointing out what a clown car this planet is.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      59·
      2 years ago

      Things, ideas, movements and people are only as important as people make them to be.

      If enough people believed that only wearing a sock over your genitals was acceptable … people would only wear a sock over their genitals.

      When you start looking at the world in this light and analyse what we decide on what is important and what is not … the world starts to look like a very weird place.

      As George Carlin put it …

      “I have as much authority as the Pope … I just don’t have as many people who believe it”

    • sadreality@kbin.social
      111·
      2 years ago

      Until critical mass admits that it is in fact a circus and we are all the clowns, nothing will change.

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
    1161·
    2 years ago

    Man every once in a while The Onion demonstrates how satire is supposed to be used. This is remarkable.

  • Jack.@lemmy.mlM
    1207·
    2 years ago

    This is not a real news article but we’ll allow it in this instance because it sheds light on very real issues.

    Please refrain from posting non news articles next time.

  • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
    733·
    2 years ago

    I got permanently banned from /r/worldnews because criticizing Israel is “misinformation”

      • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
        241·
        2 years ago

        I’ve completely replaced reddit with Lemmy on my phone, I still sometimes check some bigger subreddits when on my pc. Or subs like HFY that has no equivilant.

        • AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          2 years ago

          Ashamed to admit it, but for me Reddit is hard to kick. I would spend hours on various subs and writing comments. I had 8.5 years invested till I got kicked out. I didn’t realize how much time I was spending on the site until that happened.

          • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I dropped it cold turkey after 15 years. I’ve gone back and looked at it a couple times and noped the fuck out of there. No regrets.

            • AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
              22·
              2 years ago

              They really are ramping up the suspensions and kicking users out for good. I used a slang word for cigarette and I got suspended for a week. I told them to go back and read my comment, there was not any malice behind it. No dice…

        • El Barto@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Hfy?

          And I know what you’re saying. I was being facetious. I sometimes check reddit at work too.

          • thrawn@lemmy.world
            6·
            2 years ago

            HFY (humanity, fuck yeah) was a sub for short stories about humans being cooler than aliens. Not in a self congratulatory way, but like how humans could feasibly have good or useful traits that alien species might not. Such as creativity or physical prowess due to being top of the food chain in a competitive ecosystem.

            There’s a Lemmy alternative but not a lot of traction.

    • AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
      102·
      2 years ago

      I got banned from Reddit permanently because I had commented on an article of pertaining to enemies of the state. I said that traitors should be hung. So a bit strong but it was not directed to a particular person.

    • masquenox@lemmy.ml
      41·
      2 years ago

      Lol! I got banned off r/worldnews for that exact same thing three days ago. Got permabanned off reddit this morning.

      The rivets are coming off their old propaganda machine in regards to Israel, and they are desperate to plug all the holes.

      • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
        273·
        2 years ago

        See, this on the other hand is bullshit. You know that there is an antisemitic conspiracy saying that “ThE jEwS cOntRol eVeRyThIng”. Why you gotta stoke that shit?

      • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        2 years ago

        Children with bone-cancer control the narrative?

        Edit: also, this is often phrased as “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize” which is a quote from a literal neo Nazi and kiddie porn enthusiast, Kevin Alfred Strom.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    674·
    2 years ago

    The onion nails it again.

    I’m glad at least Krystal and Kyle are trying to throw some water of sanity on the raging wildfires of bad takes out there.

      • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        113·
        2 years ago

        Thank you. Glad you mentioned them. I should have also said Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball (Secular Talk, Breaking Points) and not assumed everyone knew who I was talking about.

  • xGIHOST@lemmy.world
    412·
    2 years ago

    It seems everyone did the same for the same reason.
    Everyone is “standing” with them because they have power unlike Palestine who have none.

  • BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml
    241·
    2 years ago

    Finally, and more importantly, it’s because we don’t want to and you can’t make us. You can’t. You seriously can’t. You cannot make us do all of this hard stuff. Ever. Seriously.

    Remember Charlie?