Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip. aChord, a research group linked to Hebrew University specialising in social psychology, said 76 percent of the Jewish public partially or fully agree that "there are no innocents in Gaza".
The survey found that even among Israeli opposition voters, 47 percent fully supported the claim, while among Jewish opposition voters, a majority also agrees with the claim. Researcher Ron Gerlitz described the results of the survey as "difficult findings" that indicated attitudes that fed into acceptance of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in Israel has been growing in recent years, targeting both Palestinians in the occupied territories and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Last week, a Palestinian bus driver in Israel was attacked by a group of Jewish youths shouting "death to Arabs", the latest incident in a string of racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. The bus driver, Mohammed Abd al-Hadi, told Ynet the incident happened after he asked the young passengers to stop screaming and vandalising the vehicle. "They insulted me and shouted racist sayings like 'Jew - good; Arab - son of a removed' and 'death to Arabs'," he said.
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
A poll conducted by an Israeli organisation has revealed that the vast majority of Israeli Jews believe there are "no innocents" in the Gaza Strip.Alex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
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There was no 'Hamas camera' - just complicit media enabling Israel's genocide
They took umbrage at their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the double-tap bombing of Nasser hospital “a tragic mishap”. It was neither tragic nor a mishap, according to them. Channel 14, which supports Netanyahu’s government and the war, reported military sources as saying the attack killed “terrorists disguised as journalists”. The sources said that soldiers targeted a Hamas “terror headquarters” in Nasser hospital.
“According to the current security concept, any place where terrorists operate, whether it used to be a school or a hospital, becomes a legitimate target,” the report noted. Soldiers involved in the attack told Channel 14 that it had been “approved and coordinated with the senior command, and they knew about it before it was carried out”. Similarly, Maariv reported that it was carried out “after receiving approvals from the command level”.
Zvi Yehezkeli, the Arab affairs correspondent for i24 News, praised the killings in Khan Younis: “These are Nukhba men in every way,” he said, referring to the slain journalists as members of an elite Hamas military unit. “If Israel decides to eliminate the journalists, then it’s better late than never.” Yehezkeli, a settler living in the occupied West Bank, is at least being honest. That is more than can be said for two international news agencies, Reuters and the AP, that used the work of these slain journalists for whom, one naively assumes, they should feel a duty of care.
Apparently not. Both swiftly reported without qualification the Israeli military’s ever-changing excuse for targeting the hospital: that the Golani Brigade was targeting a camera used by Hamas. This provides no explanation for the second strike 15 minutes after the first, which wiped out the journalists. In reporting this claim straight, as if Israel had the right to balance the assertion that the journalists were targeted with its own fabrication, Reuters and the AP offered no account of the fact that this “Hamas” camera could have indeed been the camera set up for Reuters to use as a live feed.
Media was also integral to the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels systematically dehumanised the Jews, justified their persecution, and secured public support for mass murder. The concentration camps compelled prisoners to send postcards home saying they were being treated well. Concerts were filmed in Theresienstadt, after which the entire crew was sent to Auschwitz.
Propaganda that Jews were being “resettled in the east” was critical to the Nazi regime’s attempts to disguise its “final solution” in the gas chambers. Today, Israeli media reports on negotiations with South Sudan as the destination for an “evacuation” of Palestinians in Gaza as if it were the most normal and humanitarian thing in the world.
Nasser Hospital attack: There was no 'Hamas camera' - just complicity in Israel's genocide
Echoing Nazi-era propaganda, Israel aims to secure public support for its slaughter in Gaza by erasing Palestinian coverageMiddle East Eye
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Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath
Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath
Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them.aftermath.site
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Happy Birthday Linux (Linux Prepper selfhosted podcast)
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Happy Birthday to Linux from 8/25. Detailed show notes available here.
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Desktop apps
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- Share your thoughts on Matrix Chat and Truenas
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Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
Kiev On Fire: The Night Russia Crippled Ukraine’s Rear
Kyiv On Fire: The Night Russia Crippled Ukraine's Rear
On the night of August 27-28, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched one of the most extensive and sophisticated combined...Anonymous103 (South Front)
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
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[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
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::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
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You can be against Zionism and isreals genocide against Palestinians without being antisemitic. Criticism of the actions of a government =/= hatred of a race/religion.
False equivalency.
According to Israel, the only credible authority on anything and everything, you are Antisemitic Hamas.
Expect a live missile on your local hospital's doorstep for your crimes against semitism.
Nazis are antisemitic, zionists are nazis, Netanyahu is an nazi asshole and supported by an US nazi asshole. Sheldon Cooper had the best idea with moving Israel to the US.
Rwanda accepts seven people from US as part of deportation deal
Rwanda accepts seven people from US as part of deportation deal
Trump administration pushing controversial deal to send people to non-home countries including South Sudan and EswatiniGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Oh wow. That means there's a non-zero chance they're lying about treating the extraordinarily renditioned well.
Edit: thank you for answering.
Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple
Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.
There were 8,837 sales of Tesla cars last month across the EU, the European Free Trade Association and the UK, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That compared with 14,769 at the same point last year.
New car registrations for BYD across Europe rose to 13,503 last month, compared with 4,151 a year earlier. BYD now has 1.2% market share, the ACEA found. Tesla’s share remains at 0.8%.
Tesla sales in Europe slump 40% as BYD new car registrations more than triple
Electric car business run by Elon Musk continues to lose ground to Chinese rival despite recent revamp of Model YLauren Almeida (The Guardian)
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Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Russian airstrikes on Kyiv have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the most deadly night raid on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Seventeen people were reported killed when a five-storey residential building in the eastern Darnytskyi district was struck in the middle of the night, said Svitlana Vodolaha, a spokesperson for the state rescue service.
A further 10 were still unaccounted for but not all may have been the building at the time, she added. There were 200 rescuers and 59 rescue vehicles on site and the search and clean-up effort was expected to go on into the night.
The victims included four children, Vodolaha said. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said a child as young as two had died at the scene.
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table’ after strikes on more than 20 locationsDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Russian airstrikes on Kyiv have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the most deadly night raid on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Seventeen people were reported killed when a five-storey residential building in the eastern Darnytskyi district was struck in the middle of the night, said Svitlana Vodolaha, a spokesperson for the state rescue service.
A further 10 were still unaccounted for but not all may have been the building at the time, she added. There were 200 rescuers and 59 rescue vehicles on site and the search and clean-up effort was expected to go on into the night.
The victims included four children, Vodolaha said. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said a child as young as two had died at the scene.
Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 18 people
Zelenskyy says Moscow ‘chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table’ after strikes on more than 20 locationsDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of F35 manufacturer’
A group named online as Palestinian Martyrs appear to have broken into the Moog Aircraft Group factory in Pendeford, Wolverhampton at 3:50am on Tuesday.
Dramatic footage shows a black four-wheel drive car smashing through two white barriers, before the activists set off red flares and climb a ladder onto the roof of a building.
The manufacturer was targeted because it builds parts for the F-35 fighter jets which the UK sells to Israel via a global pool, the group claimed. F-35 fighter jets have been used in Israel’s destructive bombing campaign in Gaza for nearly two years.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of defence manufacturer’
The ‘Palestinian Martyrs’ say the Moog Aircraft Group, owner of the factory its members broke into, produces parts for F-35 fighter jets used in Israel’s bombing of GazaAlex Croft (The Independent)
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Yeah it's always a bit saddening when vandals stop before unleashing actual destruction on the facility.
Though I'm not going to criticize people risking prison sentence for not risking a far heavier prison sentence.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of F35 manufacturer’
A group named online as Palestinian Martyrs appear to have broken into the Moog Aircraft Group factory in Pendeford, Wolverhampton at 3:50am on Tuesday.
Dramatic footage shows a black four-wheel drive car smashing through two white barriers, before the activists set off red flares and climb a ladder onto the roof of a building.
The manufacturer was targeted because it builds parts for the F-35 fighter jets which the UK sells to Israel via a global pool, the group claimed. F-35 fighter jets have been used in Israel’s destructive bombing campaign in Gaza for nearly two years.
Four pro-Palestine activists arrested after ‘car smashes through gates of defence manufacturer’
The ‘Palestinian Martyrs’ say the Moog Aircraft Group, owner of the factory its members broke into, produces parts for F-35 fighter jets used in Israel’s bombing of GazaAlex Croft (The Independent)
As long as they hurt goods and not people there is no problem.
That's not how deceptive authoritarian governments work 🤣
Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35116322
Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-xi-china-military-officials-purge/
Venice: Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Back Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Executive Producers
Hollywood heavyweights, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Rooney Mara, have come on board Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, as executive producers, boosting the film’s profile ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Also joining the film as executive producers are Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner of Pitt’s production outfit Plan B, The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, and Roma filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron. Several high-profile companies, including Britain’s Film4 and Saudi Arabian state-owned group MBC Studio, have also backed The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Back Gaza Drama 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
Kaouther Ben Hania's film retells the real-life story of a six-year-old girl trapped in Gaza under Israeli fire, pleading for rescue.Scott Roxborough (The Hollywood Reporter)
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
In a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity. They were being offered $8,000 per month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet.
For years, Democrats have struggled to work with influencers. In 2024, President Joe Biden’s White House snubbed several prominent content creators after they lightly criticized the administration over its policies on climate change, Covid, Gaza, and the TikTok ban. Content creators who challenged Kamala Harris—including Hasan Piker, a well-known influencer on the left—were similarly unwelcome at campaign events.
The program kicked off last month, and creators involved were told by Chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part. Creators told WIRED that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
aerc mail client + mbsync problem (maybe)
Dear fellow nerds,
I recently started to use aerc, synched locally with mbsync.
Unfortunately, I'm facing a rather annoying problem with Gmail:
- I read emails (flag "seen") and move them to the archive;
- run the mbsync < account > command to sync;
- the mails are correctly moved, however, they seem to lose the "seen" flag, and they revert to unread.
Am I missing something? Any idea what could be the problem?
If it matters, I'm on a Wayland session on NixOS.
Thanks!
I tried a few things, and the aerc behaviour seems fine.
When I read an email, the "S" is added, and when I move it, the flag is preserved.
However, I observed 2 scenarios:
- If I read > mbsync > move > mbsync, the result is the expected one, having the mail red and moved on both server and locally;
- If I read > move > mbsync, the mail is red and moved locally, but it's only moved on the server. This means that the next time that I do mbsync, the mail will revert to unread locally.
One thing I noticed (which might be the problem somehow?) is that:
- The filename is initially something like "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=13:2,"
- After the reading changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=13:2,S"
- After the moving changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host:2,S"
- After the sync changes to "1756379541.12762_13.host,U=3376:2,S"
- And eventually, after another sync the S flag is removed
This means that the difference in the 2 scenarios above, is that in the first case (the expected one) the mail is synced while having the U=13 present, while in the second case is synced with the U removed.
I tried to understand what's the meaning of that part (which looks like an ID) and if it's relevant in the process, but I didn't find any information, sadly.
For now, I think I will just use the imap connection rather than local, but if you have any insights, please let me know! 🙃
And thanks again for the debugging tip, it really helped to understand what's going on! 😁
That "U=xxx" is the IMAP UID, which is a unique identifier that message has in the IMAP mailbox. mbsync adds that to the filename just so it can track which (local) message corresponds to what message on the IMAP server.
When moving a message from one mailbox (folder) to another, this UID changes, because it's per-mailbox only. If you read the manpage for mbsync, it says explicitly that the MUA should strip the U=xxx when moving between maildirs, so the behavior of aerc here is correct.
In order to get to the bottom of this, you'd probably have to enable the debug output of mbsync and look at exactly what IMAP commands it sends to Gmail, then decipher the relevant command(s) by looking at the RFC, and then decide whether it's Gmail or mbsync's fault this gets lost. You could also contact the mbsync devs with this I guess.
I found someone complaining about the same issue, without getting a reply, 7 years ago, except that person was using mutt: stackoverflow.com/questions/52…
That doesn't help you obviously but from this we might guess it's probably not aerc's fault.
isync (mbsync) on gmail marks mail as new after move to another folder
I'm trying to use (neo)mutt combined with isync (mbsync) for reading my mail from gmail account. However I have slight issue. When I use mutt to move mail to another folder, the message is marked a...Stack Overflow
Made the switch
I have moved to Linux. Hopefully for a long time. Or even forever.
Chose PikaOS with KDE.
Based on Debian, but with latest kernels to improve gaming experience. And hopefully make it easier installing various Windows programs I need for work.
Everybody got to start somewhere.
To be honest, I have tried Linux before with Ubuntu(back when those eee PC existed). I also used Manjaro and Arch. Even installed Arch without archinstall. Didn't exist back then.
But I have to say Linux has definitely improved a lot. Almost everything just worked now. To be fair. I don't have nvidia gpu or Intel cpu anymore. Only AMD. So that could be part of why it went smoother.
One small annoyance I got was that my pc could not play from speakers when front audio port was connected by my headset.
And now I need to figure out how to install Filemaker 19 pro on my PC. So I can work from home. Winehq is not encouraging
Can someone also recommend a really good replacement for Directory Opus but for Linux? Paid or free software do not matter. As long as it functions like Dopus does.
Oh, with Filemaker my job built custom tool for invoicing, inventory management. Incoming and outgoing ordersystems and more.
So its not just to switch tools since with Filemaker I would connect to a Filemaker server at work to do all those things from home. While the server has a Linux version(CLI), the clients do not. Its all GUI.
Plus the software is dependent on Bonjour. Since Claris develops Filemaker and Apple owns Claris, Bonjour is used. So it would basically be installing bonjour through wine that needs to interpret apple stuff but in windows language. I think Winapps solution will be the best option for me. github.com/winapps-org/winapps…
For the other software… well if it’s from work, even though I’d also suggest to look at alternatives, e.g. learning Python/Tkinter or even low code FLOSS alternatives or Web based one… you might not have that freedom. Consequently I’m going to make an even more outlandish suggestion : if your work does not trust you to pick your own tool… maybe reconsider your workplace? I know, bit crazy but long term, might still be worth it.
Apologies for the life changing suggestions!
A lot of things I can switch to other software/use online versions. E-mail, excel, word, pdf.
That specific one cant be substituted yet. And switch work for just one software is well drastic 😅
What is more challenging IMHO but also more interesting… is reconsidering how you work, not just the tools you enjoyed so far. So yes, as others pointed in the thread there are custom file managers (beyond the default or popular ones) but, and please hear me out, there is also the command line. I know… I know it is VERY different but that’s a good thing! If you already looked and used an alternative file manager it means you are a power user. The command line (or CLI for short) is precisely a way to have MORE freedom to manager files. There are countless tools that one can combine to modify files. It will take a while to learn but it’s definitely worth it. A good starting point could be wizardzines.com/zines/bite-siz…
If possible I do not to work in CLI even if I have used mainly chocolatey and winget + similar tools in Windows for installing programs. Except games. Much more convenient writing
choco upgrade all
And having all software updated. Like with sudo pacman -Syu or sudo apt update folowed by sudo apt upgrade.
However, I do appreciate the suggestion going all CLI. I'm just not there yet now 🙃
GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...GitHub
KDE is releasing its yearly report for 2024. Read about what we did 👩🏻💻, how much money we raised 💶 and the projects we started 🚀
2024 KDE e.V. Report - KDE e.V.
KDE e.V.’s latest report is out. In this issue, we cover the activities of our association in 2024. KDE’s yearly report gives a comprehensive overview of all that has happened during 2024, covering the progress we have made with KDE’s Plasma and appl…ev.kde.org
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I fucking hate corporate use of emojis.
Just feels like some businesspeople were convinced it drives up "engagement", so that's what their underlings to do.
It makes me sick. I support any and all efforts to remove these ideas and the people who perpetuate them from the free software space.
Crontab problems... 😤 [solved]
Hi
When I setup a cron job like thiscrontab -e
*/1 * * * * echo $A_VARIABLE > /home/user/Desktop/test.txtno problem, the file is created whether the variable exist or not.
BUT doing
*/1 * * * * cd /Path/To/Script && Script.sh\#The Script.sh
echo $A_VARIABLE > /home/user/Desktop/test.txtDo not generate the file ! and The CRON log give me
(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discaring ouput)
and yes, the Script.sh has the execution bit.
Any ideas ?
Thanks.
Crontab.guru - The cron schedule expression generator
An easy to use editor for crontab schedules.crontab.guru
US manufacturing activity contracts for sixth straight month in August: 'It's survival'
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/50889682
Respondents to the ISM's survey widely cited tariffs as putting pressure on their planning, sales, and costs.
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Review of the Star Labs Starbook7: thanks i hate it
Hey, folks. I wanted to share my findings about the Star Labs StarBook 7 (AKA mk7 AKA mark vii). I've been daily driving this laptop for about 6 months.
Hardware
- Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 165H × 22
- 32.0 GiB memory
- 1TB storage
Display
I have historically been against hidpi displays for laptop because they just don't work 100% of the time on Linux. No matter how many brittle workarounds I've applied, hidpi displays have always hurt more than helped.
However, the StarBook 7 laptop absolutely nailed the display resolution. 3840x2160 is perfect for 2x integer scaling. When I ran Arch, I never ran into an app that was tiny or blurry. From Bitwarden to Claws Mail to Reaper. I'm happy to report everything worked fine. The ONLY app I was able to find that looked blurry was Cambalache for GNOME dev. All of this with ZERO workarounds, ZERO tweaks. It Just Works.
This has been the best hidpi support I've experienced. However, it's still not as good as running standard dpi. Despite the apps not being blurry, some apps like Bitwarden would forget the size of the window when I closed the app. This means, sometimes, some apps, would start in a tiny, little window, and I would have to grab a corner to stretch it out. Annoying.
When I switched to Guix Linux. UUff. This was bad. Almost all non-wayland apps did not respect GNOME's integer scaling. And when I got GTK apps working, QT apps were still broken.
So even though the Starbook 7 has the best hidpi support I've ever experienced, I will gladly take a more stable system, with less workarounds, and a larger amount of supported software over a slightly crisper screen.
Keyboard
The display was the best part of the laptop. The keyboard might be the worst.
This is easily the worst keyboard I've ever used anywhere, by far.
The keyboard is backlit, which is nice. The keys themselves feel a little light and wobbly, not great, but fine.
However, the actual output signals coming out of the keyboard hardware are trash. VERY often a key signal is sent more than once. The space bar in particular VERY often emits two spaces. But this happens with other keys too. I thought I just had to get used to typing on this keyboard, but no, it's not me, it's the keyboard.
The other trash thing about the keyboard is the placement of "home", "pgup", "pgdn", "end", and the freaking ~~print screen~~ sysrq key. This vertical row of keys is not very visible in the product pics on the website. But the placement of the ~~print screen~~ sysrq key in particular is HORRIBLE because it's right next to the right arrow key. And since the arrow keys blend together (another bad layout choice), I very frequently press the ~~print screen~~ sysrq key on accident.
And other thing. I keep saying ~~print screen~~ sysrq because there is no print screen key on this laptop. If you press the sysrq key, you may be fooled into thinking it's print screen. Do not be fooled. It actually sends a totally different keyboard event signal. This means you loose the ability to use GNOME's built-in screenshot tool. I never found a way to fix this.
The keyboard is so bad, that sometimes it interferes with entering my password. I frequently have to toggle the switch to view the password in plaintext that way I can see when the keyboard doubled up a character.
Other things
Cons:
- About 1 out of 30 times I startup the computer, Linux fails to boot. Like the laptop doesn't even try to boot the kernel. It gets stuck on the boot screen. There are no errors. I just have to force power off and try again.
- There is no fwupd support on non-official distros (Ubuntu is official).
- The laptop has BRIGHT ASS pure blue LED lights on the side and right in front of your face. The front facing LED in particular is horrible at night.
- The headphone jack is absolute trash, specifically the mic input. It is extremely noisy. Unusable even with software tweaks.
- Laptop is heavy.
- Laptop gets HOT, fans frequently need to go on.
- Battery life is abysmal
- Shits expensive
Meh:
- The trackpad is all right. It clicks.
- Coreboot is cool for being open source... but I didn't really notice any performance gains compared to the other big, bloated, firmwares.
Pros:
- Port selection is good.
- No barrel jack for power, just plain ol' USB-C
- The camera is decent.
- Wifi works.
- Bluetooth works...
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Am I the only one that thinks that USB-C power delivery is a con?
Having the option to charge with usb-c in a pinch is a really nice feature, but for longterm use I'd really rather usb-c plus a seperate barrel jack for power.
The barrel jacks on business line laptops are usually a separate module that if it breaks from catching the cord with your foot and ripping it out of the laptop, you can replace the module. I'm not sure I've really seen replaceable usb-c power jacks very commonly, they're usually part of the motherboard because it's a combined power delivery/thunderbolt port or something. Now if you rip the cord out the jack is totally fucked And you have to solder a new one on.
I guess how much people care also depends on whether they tend to use laptops in ways and places that are prone to causing damage to the ports. I've never damaged any port on any laptop I've ever owned, and it's unlikely I ever will because I like to keep the cables organized and out of the way (so it would require conscious effort to tug on them), and when I want to pick my laptop up, I always quickly run my hand around its perimeter to make sure everything is disconnected.
I do not claim that this is the correct way to use a laptop or that others should do the same, it is a tool that should be used the way its user needs, I just want to point out that for some usecases, this is simply a non-issue in the same way a non-replaceable CPU is - nothing's going to happen to it.
Also, my current laptop does have both a barrel jack (probably works, I've never used it) and a USB-C charging connector, so it's not necessarily an either-or proposition.
Sorry you hate it. Thanks for being honest.
I avoid all of those kinds of devices because the price in no way reflects the mediocre hardware that we'll be getting.
When we can get 4070 Lenovo laptops at Walmart for $1,000, it just doesn't make sense to be spending a comparable price on something without a fucking GPU.
We're lining the pockets of businessmen at that point. And don't be fooled: it's all business at the end of the day.
Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias against Israel and Ukraine
In the letter, Comer and Mace referenced a report from the Anti-Defamation League, in which they allege that Wikipedia coordinated a campaign to manipulate entries related to the War in Gaza, which they allege advanced “antisemitic and anti-Israel information.”
"As our research showed earlier this year, antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia are a significant problem. We welcome the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opening an investigation into this issue and thank Rep. James Comer for his leadership effort to address this hate," in a statement released by ADL on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
The lawmakers also referenced a report from the think tank, Atlantic Council, which alleged that pro-Russia actors used Wikipedia to push pro-Kremlin messaging on its platform.
Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias
Republicans in Congress said on Wednesday, Aug. 27, that they opened a probe into Wikipedia, alleging they had organized efforts to “inject bias.", USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias against Israel and Ukraine
In the letter, Comer and Mace referenced a report from the Anti-Defamation League, in which they allege that Wikipedia coordinated a campaign to manipulate entries related to the War in Gaza, which they allege advanced “antisemitic and anti-Israel information.”
"As our research showed earlier this year, antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia are a significant problem. We welcome the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opening an investigation into this issue and thank Rep. James Comer for his leadership effort to address this hate," in a statement released by ADL on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
The lawmakers also referenced a report from the think tank, Atlantic Council, which alleged that pro-Russia actors used Wikipedia to push pro-Kremlin messaging on its platform.
Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias
Republicans in Congress said on Wednesday, Aug. 27, that they opened a probe into Wikipedia, alleging they had organized efforts to “inject bias.", USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
[Solved] My OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install broke and I can't rollback
Update #1
I fixed my boot issue, but now I have to fix the issue with snapper not working right.
The boot issue: Something—I don't know what—added a removable drive to fstab, and the error was that drive couldn't be mounted at boot. I have two guesses:
- I formatted a microSD card using YaST Paritioner sometime before doing the distro upgrade.
- The drive might have been mounted during the distro upgrade, though I don't think it was.
At any rate, I commented out that line in fstab and it booted right up.
Mullvad is working fine when I boot normally. I guess it was only broken when booting a snapshot from before I upgraded it.
Update #2
I also fixed /.snapshots by adding it to fstab. Now it gets mounted on every boot, and this version of fstab will be in all future snapshots. I just took a manual snapshot for good measure.
I don't know which action caused the issue, so I'm going to list everything I did. I'm new to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I haven't used Linux since like Linux Mint 17.
- I disabled KWallet because I got tired of typing in a password every time my desktop launched just for wifi passwords. I decided to just let Linux store them in plain text since my whole system is encrypted with LUKS.
- I did a distro update. (
zypper dup) After that succeeded, I logged off and back on. - I noticed Mullvad had a new version. They don't officially support OpenSUSE, so I downloaded the new RPM. I ran
rpm -e mullvad-vpnto remove the old one. That might have been a mistake since my notes say I used zypper to install it the first time. I installed the new one with zypper. It launched and connected just fine. - I had some trouble getting network settings to store/retrieve my wifi password, so I decided to reboot my system since I changed so much stuff.
- It wouldn't boot. I see a few "BIOS" and "ACPI" errors.
- Time to try out Snapper! I reboot and choose the most recent snapshot from before tonight.
- It boots, but when I try
snapper rollbackI getIO error (.snapshots is not a btrfs subvolume) - I get the same error trying to open the YaST snapshot viewer.
- I check
btrfs, and I see@/.snapshotsplus a bunch of numbered snapshots, of course. - I check
fstab, but I don't see an entry mounting anything on/.snapshots. - I do see a directory at
/.snapshots, but it appears just be an empty directory.
Mullvad seems broken with this snapshot. I can't connect to the internet. The mullvad-daemon won't start, so I think the killswitch is active. I've had to type all this on my phone.
What can I do to fix this? I just want to rollback to this good snapshot, and then I can worry about fixing Mullvad when the filesystem isn't read-only.
One month. That's how long it took me to break my system. ☹️
Is it possible that you didn't enable snapshots during installation of TW, and then turned it on later?
That seems to be a common explanation on the openSUSE forum when .snapshots is missing from fstab (found by searching for the error you are hitting). There are some threads with workarounds. Basically, mount the .snapshots subvol manually, re-try the rollback and then add .snapshots to fstab so it works in the future.
LTT Labs blog + benchmarks for linux vs windows performance AMD/Intel/NVIDIA
Part 2: lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is…
LTT Fourm discussion as well linustechtips.com/topic/161659…
They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.
I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.
They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.
Not bad. I take issue with the part of the article called "distro wars". There is no war, but I dont expect them to "get it". These cringelords seem to have a need to meme-fi everything, really dings the tone of the reviews. Am I reading a tech review or an opinion article?
Eeh
using the 24.04lts was an odd choice.
and it did prove odd when they noticed the drivers were out of date.
LTT Labs blog + benchmarks for linux vs windows performance AMD/Intel/NVIDIA
Part 2: lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is…
LTT Fourm discussion as well linustechtips.com/topic/161659…
They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.
I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.
They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.
Forget Linux vs Windows, the real question I have is why is Black Myth Wukong so poorly optimized that on a 4060 or 5060 it can't reach 60 FPS at 1080p even on Windows? Freaking unacceptable.
You would think coming from the mobile world, Game Science would be used to low-spec hardware, e.g. phones, but this game can't run well even on pretty new GPUs on PCs??? I had no idea this game had such abysmal performance. I wish people hadn't bought it, so it could've flopped
After about 8 months, I love this Android browser. Not Chrome, FF, or Edge based.
UPDATE: THIS USES GOOGLE WEB VIEW. DO NOT USE.
I can't figure out why nobody talks about this. I see all kinds of alternative browsers on here, but never this one. I especially like the color coded bookmarks for different categories (my news is gray, my searxng/swisscows and other search engines green, my tech solutions purple). It has anti-fingerprinting and a quick toggle for if you need to quickly adjust javascript or cookie setting to make a quick exception. There are lots of features. If anyone else has tried it, it would be interesting to hear your feedback too.
I've seen this when bopping around in the F-Droid catalogue. Never took it seriously because it didn't seem to communicate well what it was doing.
In general; I usually dislike using Chrome anyways....so much so that I hard disable Chrome on my device, oftentimes via ADB, and download a wide range of alternatives; Kiwi (Plugin enabled), Hermit ([Closed source] Forced Isolation of all domains/sites along a side of ad-blocking and web-app caching baked into the app wrapping it's renderer; which is, of course System Webview. Unfortunately this one is not open source, so I do not often recommend it here and while I trust it; your decisions may be different.) and Firefox (Plugins installed, seems to be replacing Kiwi because it's likely a dead/gone/depreciated/archived project.) I even use URLCheck from F-Droid itself as my "Default Browser" so that I have the power to review each URL and open it in a browser I feel is most appropriate to the context of my browsing and choose the browser I feel can best protect my privacy for a given site. One-off visits often go to Hermit; which promptly isolates away and forgets I ever visited the site while blocking ads with a lighter touch than most plugins I've seen that exist. If a site often breaks in Hermit; usually due to ad-blocking hostile scripts; I kick it over to Firefox where I have extensive plug-in tooling to defang the beast...including tools like JShelter, Canvas Blocker, LocalCDN, Chameleon, Decentraleyes and uBlock Origin.
What I do know is that Android System Webview is far more configurable than you might realize; and that it is absolutely possible to build a browser on top of it. Most importantly; Android System Webview IS NOT Chrome! Yes, it is extremely similar and it behaves mostly the same; but it is based on the Chromium project; which is basically what Chrome is before Google applies all of its own Branding, Customization, Policies and Application touches on it. Does Chromium project mirror what Chrome needs? Absolutely yes, but it does not follow Chrome exactly. In general; Android System Webview is a Web rendering component that other applications can call on and wrap their own code around. This means you are basically free to implement whatever other features you want around the webview; including adding plugins and other things like ad-blocking. My favorite closed-source lite-app browser Hermit does this; and I'm not seeing any significant privacy concerns with that one.
Review of Cory Doctorow's *Enshittification*
Why the Internet is Turning to Shit
Cory Doctorow’s new book is an insightful diagnosis of how Big Tech is making every app and website worse—even if his solutions leave something to be desired.Alex Skopic (Current Affairs Inc)
AutoHotKey Alternative on Wayland
The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven't found a usable alternative in Wayland.
Thought I'd check here to see if anyone has any suggestions?
I'm on hyperland, and I've configured ydotool to do some of this work. It can move the mouse, enter keyboard shortcuts and do a bunch of things that autohotkey can, however it is by no means a complete solution, or one that comes with sensible defaults. It's just a daemon and client, and you'll need to set it up to do what you want.
As far as I know there's no record and replay function, though you could likely script one.
Also, for triggering the scripts, you'll need to set your Desktop's keybindings to point to them.
For me, it filled the requirements that it was launchable by systemd unit, as the user on login.
I use it for a vairiety of tasks, but the primary one is typing out my clipboard as if I had pasted something. I rebound alt + shift + p to that, so I can paste windows login passwords or whatever in to Teamviewer/other stuff that doesn't accept a paste command.
GitHub - ReimuNotMoe/ydotool: Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
Generic command-line automation tool (no X!). Contribute to ReimuNotMoe/ydotool development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign; 4 top health officials quit
White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign; 4 top health officials quit
Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was sworn in on July 31.Annika Kim Constantino (CNBC)
queermunist she/her
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •eldavi
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to eldavi • • •That's why they need denazification. Much like the Germans they need to be given a thorough tour of the concentration camps.
As a start.
underisk [none/use name]
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to underisk [none/use name] • • •A lot of them simply haven't actually seen what is happening or they think it's all lies. Rubbing their noses in it would have at least some effect.
But that's just the start.
They also need to have their government abolished and all their war criminals tried for their crimes.
cfgaussian
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Unfortunately that is not true. The problem is that they do see it, and they like it. They applaud it, they get off on it.
They organize parties to watch the bombings, they have hundreds of telegram channels proudly sharing some of the most horrific and psychopathic atrocities and congratulating themselves for it. They are ecstatic about how much terror and death and suffering they are inflicting. Genocidal rhetoric is completely and totally normalized in the "Israeli" mainstream. And that's only the tip of the iceberg compared to what is shared and expressed in private.
This is not a society that is unaware of what is happening. This is a society that knows exactly what it is doing, loves it, and in a bloodthirsty frenzy cheers for more, demands more. Even the Germans knew, despite their weaselly denials and claims of ignorance after the war, what was happening. It is impossible that they didn't know, but at least back then their denials could be spun as semi-believable because there were no videos and livestreams of the atrocities. There is no such plausible denial today.
queermunist she/her
in reply to cfgaussian • • •And what do they see? They see what the government wants them to see, they don't see interviews with Palestinians or humanitarian workers or doctors. They need to turn off internal Israeli media and watch Al Jazeera or DemocracyNow for that. What they're seeing is propaganda, not reality.
They're not unaware of what's happening, per se, but they have been programmed by Israeli propaganda and only made aware of what Israel wants them to know. The start of deprogramming them would be to give them an unfiltered look at Gaza.
And then the reeducation can begin. Don't get me wrong, these sick freaks need serious intervention beyond just a tour of the concentration camp.
But I really think they need that first step.
cfgaussian
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •These are people who burn olive groves to make it impossible for Palestinians to live on their own land. Who go with assault rifles up to unarmed Palestinians, threaten them, assault them, kick them out of their homes to steal them and live in them. They are people who protest when the government tries to prosecute prison guards who rape Palestinian prisoners to death. They are people who share with each other videos of Palestinians being murdered as a form of entertainment. They post pictures of dead Palestinians to laugh and mock. They are people who not only feel safe but completely unashamed to say openly on TV and on social media that Palestinian babies should be killed before they grow up. They are people who go to loot aid trucks, to burn and destroy food for Gaza so that more Gazans will starve do death, and when they do this they take their children with them so that the children can joyfully participate in this "family activity". This is not the government doing this, it is regular "civilians".
They have an unfiltered look at Gaza, that's the point. The IOF are the ones proudly filming themselves committing atrocities, looting and blowing up homes, sniping women and children, desecrating mosques, churches, even graves, and then they share and post these videos for Israeli society to see and cheer and celebrate and feel proud of what they are doing. Giving them a tour of a concentration camp where they tortured and murdered Palestinians is like giving them a victory lap.
I repeat: They see what they are doing and they like what they are seeing. They feel justified and righteous, and even the ones who are not openly celebrating it, or who feel somewhat squeamish and prefer not to look, are still happy that it is happening because it brings them one step closer to the complete ethnic cleansing and theft of the entire land of Palestine that they believe is their God given right.
And yes this is a product of propaganda. Generations of propaganda that has produced an entire society of sadistic, genocidal psychopaths. But it's not just the government. It starts in the home. It starts in the schools. And in the religious institutions. And the media. The entire society from top to bottom feeds them from birth with genocidal dehumanizing hate for Palestians and for Muslims as a whole, with racist supremacist propaganda, with the messianic "Greater Israel" narrative, and with a cult of perpetual victimhood that justifies any and all genocidal acts as "self-defense".
The first step isn't to show them what they already support and know is happening (many of them having participated in it themselves). The first step is to comprehensively defeat them and dismantle the entire genocidal project.
queermunist she/her
in reply to cfgaussian • • •Sorry, to clarify, I mean it's the first step in their reeducation. This would presumably happen after Israel has been abolished and their Nazi army was defeated.
eldavi
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Samsuma
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •That starts and ends with the Euroanglo-zionazis fucking off where they belong to, or facing resistance. They've had decades upon decades to do so.
Where denazification should actually take place is within their respective home countries from they actually come from. But sadly none of this seems to be ever happening soon, or at all.
queermunist she/her
in reply to Samsuma • • •I don't think they should be sent back before at least being forced to see their crimes with their own eyes. Denazification is much harder without that first step of shoving their nose in their crimes, they need to see it.
And then they can go back to Europe.
Tangentism
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Samsuma
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Why should the indigenous have to wait until the entire sex abusing lunatic Euroanglo-Zionazi society are done looking at their own crimes against humanity, when they already have for 90+ years and already have livestreamed their own warcrimes that include their own laughter before for the entire world to see?
Descending from the Discovery Doctrine, then Manifest Destiny, then Lebensraum, then to today's Greater "Israel", we should understand that the West never learned their lesson, and never intend to do so today or tomorrow, , not France, not the U.S., and especially not the Zionazi settlers. Even if denazification were to take place in the way that you suggest, it doesn't change the fact that they are settlers, occupiers and a whole lot among them sex criminals, all currently occupying the land rightfully belonging to Palestinians.
It's not even an ultra position to want settlers out and to want landback (even both of these and Nuremberg would be too kind of a punishment given the depravity of the entity and its vile society).
If I haven't stressed this enough or hinted at this, I urge you to consider focusing on the liberation of the occupied, not on solving the occupier's depravity.
- YouTube
www.youtube.comqueermunist she/her
in reply to Samsuma • • •Without denazification (or mass executions I guess) they are always going to be a threat. You send these freaks back to Europe without reeducation and they'll rally a fucking crusade behind them to "take back Jerusalem."
The only options are to either make them not want to colonize anymore, so denazification, or to just kill them all.
Samsuma
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Pragmatically speaking, that's why denazification efforts should be done at the source of all of Global South's miseries: in the West, outside the occupation.
The entity is literally on life support from the West, because the entity IS the West, it is the West's liberalism at its peak projected on to West Asia (and that's not an exaggeration, this is why I deliberately use the term "Euroanglo-Zionazi").
Take China as an example, reeducation efforts didn't occur in Syria or Iraq to curb the thousands (IIRC) of Xinjiang opportunist terrorists (and domestic) joining CIA's ISIS, but rather it was done directly in Xinjiang, with some degree of success. Of course the deindustrialized West won't follow this example because it absolutely needs Nazism and in general, liberalism, to sustain itself.
The point is, if liberalism continues to be the modus operandi in the West, settler-colonies and other forms of imperialism won't stop being a thing. This is why liberation of the Global South from its Western shackles should be the prime focus, comrade.
China releases English documentary on ETIM terror group’s dark hand in Xinjiang
www.globaltimes.cnqueermunist she/her
in reply to Samsuma • • •I didn't mean to imply they should be completely reeducated before they're sent back to Europe, merely that they need to see with their own eyes what their colonialism has done. Right now they get a filtered view of what they are allowed to see, even soldiers are mostly behind screens to operate their tanks and terror drone army. They're alienated from their crimes.
It won't be good enough to just show videos and interviews, they'll always believe it's fake. They need a hands-on demonstration.
China's task was actually easier than the denazification that Israelis need, and required totally different intervention. Extremists from Iraq and Syria are, honestly, far less damaged than the Zionists.
I'm being optimistic that we don't need to kill them all, but the level of reeducation they need is basically unprecedented.
Zerush
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Time to use the consent manufacturing machine for good, instead of evil!
Zerush
in reply to Thordros [he/him, comrade/them] • • •Tangentism
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to Tangentism • • •Tangentism
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •No child chooses to be a bigot, a zionist or a fascist. It's environmental.
We're not the monsters!
EarthshipTechIntern01
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Sure. Explains the THOUSANDS of Israelis protesting the genocide in their own streets.
Polls are (especially in propaganda-driven regime land) often garbage.
geneva_convenience
in reply to EarthshipTechIntern01 • • •PyroNeurosis
in reply to EarthshipTechIntern01 • • •Polls are rubbish, but assuming this one is completely accurate:
Israel's population is 9,842,000 (per Wikipedia). 24% (those that don't believe either partially or fully that Gazans are universally guilty) is ~2.4 million. A gathering of thousands in that population is not unreasonable, especially with a war on that directly impacts their quality of life.
That said: only one city seems to be over 500k people (Jerusalem) and I have doubts people are travelling very far to march about.
BrainInABox
in reply to EarthshipTechIntern01 • • •KimBongUn420
in reply to EarthshipTechIntern01 • • •Zerush
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •nutsack
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •regular people in israel are told constantly that muslim people hate them because they are jewish. it's the narrative that is used every time they hear about rockets flying over. they live in the old testament. they think this is the only way that things could ever be, because of some curse put on them by god.
the middle east needs atheism.
geneva_convenience
in reply to nutsack • • •Samsuma
in reply to nutsack • • •They are Euroanglo-Zionazi Settler-Colonialists.
Euro, because most of them are European, most previously came from Eastern Europe, and on top of that, the white settlers dominate the political, social and economic aspects of the entity. Nowadays they come from all over, but the largest influx is still from Europe, the aforementioned dominating group is the same.
Anglo, because USonian, Australian, Canadian, etc.. settlers just couldn't get enough out of settling in land that don't belong to them, so they want a take-two.
Zionist, because the settlers needed a crutch to justify their presence, their occupation and the existence of the entity, the settlers chose Judaism for their symbolism (don't get it twisted, Zionism is not a religious belief), and bastardized the living hell out of it to create an artificial identity of their own and to purposefully conflate the religion with their racist, white supremacist, colonial beliefs.
Nazi, because Zionism is the successor to Nazism (again, nothing to do with Judaism).
Settler, because they're occupiers forcing their presence upon the indigenous' land via expulsion, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc.. to make way for more settlers.
Colonialist, because they're stealing the land's resources from its rightful people, because they are trying to canonize the Indigenous' food, art, way of life, history, etc.. as part of their own superficial "culture", because they're revising history to justify even more settler-colonialist behaviors described here.
I'm saying all of this because there are no "regular people" in the entity. At best, they are reservists. To monolithize the Euroanglo-Zionazi entity with every other country from the "Middle East", then suggest that religion (a HUGE contributing factor to the actual culture of West Asia) should be erased from the collective consciousness of Levantine and Gulf Muslims, Jews (not European Zionazis) and Christians whom at one point co-existed just fine* without the West's meddling, all because of the actions of settler-colonialists, is downright ignorant, knowing all of the previously mentioned descriptors.
* There were some minor problems (relatively speaking), but none of them justify Westerners playing dress-up and going into land that don't belong to them.
Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
in reply to nutsack • • •The French who colonized Algeria were secular and they committed horrific atrocities against the Algerians (also the other African nations, but as little read as I am about the extent of the atrocities committed against the people of Algeria, I am even less so about their other colonies).
The British were also not motivated by Christianity when they committed atrocities against the people of India.
It's colonialism that is the source of the violence against dehumanized populations.
nutsack
in reply to Evilsandwichman [none/use name] • • •herseycokguzelolacak
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •vfreire85
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • • •小莱卡
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