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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Community description for ManufacturingConsent is "when the media decides who you are rooting for." So, being banned for questioning their narrative strikes me as absurdly funny. I mean, I guess if the idea of the community is that geneva_convenience should decide whom you root for, that would track.

The post in question: https://piefed.ca/post/266435

(I pointed out that the Guardian was probably including the hostages who died after the attacks. This really bugged OP and led to a ban.)

I don't really care for a remedy, seems a silly place. Just thought it was funny as heck.

(For what it's worth, like most, I side with Palestine but I think being accurate lends credence to our cause.)

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

YDI, You're not really correcting numbers but speculating. And again it's worth noting that many if not all zio detainees were killed by zionist attacks. Many of these murders were far after the initial resistance. The ICE comparison is really weak and gross.

So the article is misleading and you're just feeding into it with more propaganda/speculation.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 minutes ago

They're even in here doubling down on it

[–] rustyfish@piefed.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Your problem is a mod who doesn’t give a fuck about the people of Palestine but uses every single inch to cry about the west being bad. Also gets comedically angry when disagreed with.

Just tag with “do not engage” and you’ll be safe. Other than that there is nothing that can be done really.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh absolutely, like I said, I really don't care, I just found the irony hilarious.

Edit: though great point about the notes, happily discovered piefed has that feature too! Much appreciated!

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 38 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Being upset over a difference of 61 is pretty dumb in and of itself. It’s less than 6% discrepancy even if you don't count hostages killed in Gaza.

There’s plenty of occurrences of media manipulation around this conflict, this doesn’t even register on my radar at all. Like “Oh I was just a few dozen deaths short of having sympathy for Israel”

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago

Being charitable, I'm wondering if they were trying to criticise the guardian making no distinction between soldiers and civilians killed on October 7th.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What's confusing is that it felt like MyBrainHurts was doing a gotcha on a gotcha, and then it fell down a rabbit hole from there.

But more than that...

Say ICE kidnaps a pair of kids in the morning. In the afternoon, the distraught parents see them in a detention van and try to get them back. In the commotion, one of the kids dies.

Like, I don't think MyBrainHurts is being deliberate in the language, but "one kid dies in the commotion" rings a big "cop-talk" alarm bell. The whole argument feels dumb and petty, hashed out by two people with no control of the horror in the outside world. And because of the vacuum of activism that is the internet, they waste their time snipping at each other rather than finding a better use for their restless energy.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

To each their own! I just wanted an analogy where I was pretty sure they would want to take the other side.

(It just seems wild to me that geneva's arguing that the kidnapped people shouldn't count in the totals.)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I don't even read that much. Just seems like they're sniping at one another over semantics and vibes.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 9 points 22 hours ago

Like “Oh I was just a few dozen deaths short of having sympathy for Israel”

This is really well put and cracked me up.

[–] cm0002@sh.itjust.works 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

.ml is a strange little place.

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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

PTB

though they don't have any rules listed, big red flag

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That's geneva_convenience for ya. Avoid .ml communities like the plague, they're not very tolerant of any form of dissent. Geneva likes to paint a lot of people as Zionist without good reason.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Gotta stay in the safe lib zones where your indoctrination won't be challenged by a different but very similar indoctrination.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

... Do you actually not see the irony in posting this in a thread about being banned from a community called Manufacturing Consent for noting a mistake?

That's kind of amazing, thank you.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I really should keep an eye out for those comms and just avoid. At least any of the vaguely political ones!

(Just Manufacturing Consent feels like a trap designed for me as Chomsky's thoughts on this are super relevant and interesting so, like a fool, I fell into the trap.)

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes you should stay out of political comms with your garbage opinions. Glad that you realize this.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

You've spent almost 20 minutes randomly commenting in this thread, surely you have something better to do?

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

Conflating the Palestinian resistance with ICE is pretty damn creepy in my book.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I read it and I don't think it wasn't conflating them, I think it was just a simile. Granted, I think OP was wrong here and the simile didn't track because of it, but still, the ICE mentions could've been swapped with something entirely separate and the conversation would remain the same because it wasn't a direct comparison.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

the ICE mentions could’ve been swapped with something entirely separate

If they swapped the comparisons with something appropriate - for instance, MK capturing white South Africans to trade for the thousands the Apartheid-regime kidnapped and disappeared - their point stops looking so obvious, doesn't it?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Similes are rhetorical conflations. A conflation is generally an attempt to treat two similar ideas as roughly the same, which is the rhetorical purpose of a simile. If you didn't see the comparison between the two events and want to link the ideas in the audience's mind you would use different examples.

Tl;Dr the rhetorical act of comparing presumed like to like is usually a rhetorical act of conflation

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[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

ZIONIST DOWN!

[–] Bonus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml

lemmy . ml - there's a big part of the problem right there