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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The US attacks a Venezuelan boat in international waters, Israel attacks a Portuguese boat in Tunisian waters.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is terrorism, terrorism perpetrated by the same authorities that use everything as a leverage to counter terrorism. Our governments are rigged to the core and evil, it's about time people comes to term with it.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Check the propaganda on r/worldnews people because it's insane

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Previous Lemmy post said it was an Israeli drone and Greta thunberg was on board. Then there was some debate over whether there was a drone or not.

    For those of us who don’t want to go to Reddit, what is r/worldnews saying?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    How does this person watch the video of a flaming object clearly falling from the sky and come to the conclusion that it started on the boat?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Ill give you a hint, it rhymes with “gastroturfing”

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    gastroturfing

    You mean like when you cover your yard in vomit?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Gastroturfing sounds like it would be a portmanteau for when terrible restaurants pad their reviews online with fake ones, so they look better than they are

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sounds like the ghost kitchens that were popular during COVID. Iirc places like Applebee's would create branding for a new business (cosmic wings in Applebee's case) and just sell Applebee's products via door dash under that new 'exotic' name.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    In one video you can hear the buzz of a drone getting closer until explosion, in other you can see a flaming object falling straight down exactly like an incendiary device dropped from a drone. The only way could be more obvious is if the drone itself was on video.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    A lot of denial, victim blaming and screeching about fake news.

    In fact, the only front page article I see on that subreddit is of Tunisia denying that the flotilla was hit by a drone.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Israel is a misserable terrorist country, US is misserable terrorist harboring country. What a time to be alive.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    There was also a manufactured outrage on tik tok of some white girl crying on a plane because she misspoke at the airport and thought she was going "to Nice" and was actually being sent to Tunis AFRICA!!!

    Then everyone reacts, calling her dumb and racist and talking about how cool Tunis is, so when you search on tik tok for Tunis, you just get the drama about this instead of war crimes...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't look to be a drone, but a flare coming down?

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  • [+] -47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not justifying this in any way. This is an atrocious act. But talking about this topic... I don't know what to think.

    If you actually want to reach Gaza, you don't set sail from Spain, because it is going to take forever to get there.

    Also, I've seen videos of them partying on their boats. That just looks weird, I don't know. Not saying that they have to be sad and crying the whole journey, but partying feels wrong.

    Opinions?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I wont even comment on your weird opinions, but obviously you will sail from wherever your ships are...
    You think they will put their ships on a truck, drive to italy and then go from there?

    The flotilla consists of dozens of ships from all over the place and at different times. More will join starting from Italy afaik. https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The partying? That's just humans united by a common (and good) cause, bonding and letting off some steam before they go into a perilous situation.

    It's harder to hide the sinking of a boat than it is to hide arresting people.
    And activists have more boats than trucks, due to protests against drilling, fishing, wars. And I guess there are protections in international waters that don't exist when travelling through different sovereign nations.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Spain to Gaza is less than a week.

    I think they're "partying" because Israel has machine gunned civilians in boats carrying aid. Israel considers it "self defense" to kill these people. They shot up a boat and killed 10 innocents and when the world got mad... they sent Turkey $20 million to fuck off.

    It's an efficiency equation for Israel. The tiniest thing can tip the scales and then you're dead because it was a better play for Israel compared to letting these Freedom Flotillas intrude on their plans. You gotta party before some bomb with a cringey name like "David's Scrote" turns you into spaghetti.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Tunisia’s interior ministry said reports of a drone hitting a boat in the port “have no basis in truth”, and that a fire broke out on the vessel itself.

    The GSF video showed an object landing on a vessel, with smoke rising soon after. Dozens of people gathered at the port after the strike, waving Palestinian flags and chanting: “Free Palestine.”

    Looks like the Tunisian gov is corrupt as fuck... If you weren't guilty, you'd investigate before asserting anything.

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