https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/blinken-romney-israel-hamas-tiktok-b2540021.html

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
    hexbear
    70
    14 days ago

    wow as a student of history I love learning more about historical contexts and can't wait to see what context I'm missing on this photo of a dead Palestinian child!

    the context:

    incoherent screeching about human shields

    oh okay then

    • Iwishiwasntthisway [none/use name]
      hexbear
      47
      14 days ago

      I saw a video a couple of months ago that was so horrid.

      A girl was dying after being bombed. her brain was exposed. Her fingers were twitching independently but entirely from the metacarpal joint, in a way that couldn't have been voluntary.

      It was filmed by the father, the translation revealed that he was chatting with emergency services via video, where he was basically told there was nothing they could do, that she would be dead before they got there.

      At one point, she seemed to come out of trance and touch her own brain, to which the father desperately said "nononono" - a familiar sound for anybody with a toddler, when they pull the cats tail or pick up a crystal champagne flute, only it was her grabbing her own brain, while the father was still holding onto to some hope she might live.

      Anyway, some hasbot showed up in the comments claiming he mutilated his own daughter in that fashion, filmed it, because he just hates Jews so much and wanted to make them look bad.

      No amount of limiting what I can see will get me to forget that moment. I have actually seen things that are objectively worse, like "the boy with no face". But what I was seeing combined with what was being said changed me forever. I don't think these people can even provide an adequate context because they are missing some human component necessary to lie effectively.

      If you cut off my internet access now and for forever, my opinion would be frozen in that place for the rest of my life. I would be shouting about hasbots in 50 years like a vietnam vet shouts about Charlie.

      • Pentacat [he/him]
        hexbear
        24
        14 days ago

        Yep. There is nothing on earth that will ever make me support or be sympathetic to the Zionist entity.

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
        hexbear
        6
        14 days ago

        Possibly unrelated to such a horrific story, though I'm not sure - the moment she seems to break out of the trance could be what's called terminal lucidity.

        Emphasis on 'could be' because terminal lucidity is usually more of a dementia/neurodegenerative brain disease thing. It's the experience reported by many where those with destroyed brains on the verge of death, suddenly appear to regain consciousness with the world for a brief period of time.

        I don't know if it happens in deaths like the one you described, but regardless I guess I thought it was interesting to share.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
    hexbear
    33
    14 days ago

    "Whoops, missed a space. It should be 'allows history con text to get lost'. That is to say, our propaganda and lies are being drowned out by the truth."

  • blight [any]
    hexbear
    16
    14 days ago

    more like saying the white part out cloud :kelly: