• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    American right-wing media Freedom New TV (FNTV) and according to several videos of the rally published by the organizers on the social networks.

    Meaning that we could be talking about one or two flags shown through a distorted media lens.

    That said, it should be on the demonstrators to ensure people waving such flags get put at the margins and I hope that is what is happening.

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      5 months ago

      This is the standard that was applied when a few nazi flags showed up at convoy rallies. You either need to reclaim the cause for your protest, or admit that it actually stands for something else and then ask yourself if you want to be part of that.

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          Some of the people in that movement thought so. From things they read on the internet, they were led to believe that covid was part of a plan to kill millions of people.

          Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, kids. It may lead you to get so emotional over genocide claims that you end up being associated with some actual genocidal groups.

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      The problem is 60-70% of Palestine supports Hamas. This isn’t a fringe group waving flags around.

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        I’d like to see where you got that figure from. Regardless, this Lemmy, not Palestine. We’re talking about what people “usually” believe on Lemmy.

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          It’s not pretty… https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palestinians-back-oct-7-attack-israel-support-hamas-rises-2023-12-14/

          People on Lemmy seem to think Hamas just wants to bring unicorns and rainbows to the region. When in reality, they’d stone most of the users here for their views.

          It’s all weird. I don’t know what kind of social engineering they did to make it OK to kill 1000 civilians, but their campaign was wildly successful.

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            I can’t help but notice they didn’t actually link to the survey, which doesn’t let me know exactly what was asked, what the sample size was, where the samples were taken from, etc.

            Regardless… this is not Palestine. It is Lemmy. The vast majority of people on Lemmy are very unlikely to be Palestinian considering their percentage of the global population.

            You claimed, in a discussion about comments on Lemmy that usually, the people against this genocide support Hamas.

            Which, again, I think is both offensive and wrong.

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              My point is Palestine as a whole or even partially support Hamas. Go Google it…you’ll see from 30-90 percent support.

              Only a couple of Hamas flags flying would surprise me.