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.)

Banned from Manufacturing Consent for correcting numbers

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[–] 47 points 1 year ago* (9 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”

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

    It's about keeping the incident in the narrative and attributing murders committed by zionists to their victims, strengthening the logic paths of the genocidal abuser; not about the actual numbers. Nobody, including this filth, this hazbarite scum, gives a single fuck about the numbers.

    Or for that matter the Zionist party bros who fucked around dancing on the graves of their victims and for once had the opportunity to find out.

    Stop falling for their fucking lies. This is a nazi propagandist trying to help excuse a genocide.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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

    Also, ice were the instigators, the child was not dancing on the graves of the ice agents' loved ones after murdering them for generations.

    Its important to remember that nothing done to a zionist by a Palestinian can be unjust. Literally ever.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (2 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.)

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (40 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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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  • It's trying to erase the century of Zionist atrocities, erase the fact that the hostages were dancing on Palestinian graves, and attribute zionist bloodlust and friendly fire/orcish disregard for hostages to their victims, while keeping an event used for Zionist excusing of genocide in the minds and imaginations of readers.

    Its more complex than usual hazbarite shit, but not less vile. You do not want this scum on your server.

    Simple heuristic:

    It is impossible for any Palestinian to commit an injustice against a Zionist. Literally impossible. A Palestinian sociopath (if there's anyone left in Palestine old enough for the diagnostic criteria to apply) could rape and eat a thousand Zionist larvae and it you would be a monster for stopping them.

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    Kidnapping civilians is unequivocally bad regardless of whether we think the kidnapper is on the right side of history.

    Being unable to acknowledge the wrongs committed by those whom we support is pretty damn horrifying in my book. To see the same willfully ignorant "america/trump/the church can do no wrong" attitude but on the Left breaks my heart.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Kidnapping civilians is unequivocally bad

    Really? We literally are forced to exist with taxpayer-funded institutions whose entire purpose is to kidnap civilians as part of their function to repress dissent - they are called police.

    Fyi, I am absolutely conflating the institution of policing with that of Israel - it's perfectly justified as they are both colonialist and white supremacist creations.

    Besides all that, Israel - like all colonialist entities - have, since it's invention, made little secret of the fact that they de facto make zero distinction between "civilians" and "combatants." Therefore, I see no need to hold the Palestinian resistance to the high standards that white liberalism have refused to apply to Israel for decades now - especially when the crimes (if they can even be called that) the Palestinian resistance have committed is downright microscopic in comparison to those perpetrated by Israel and it's benefactors for more than half a century now.

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  • [+] [S] -8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Just so I understand, it's totally cool and heck, probably good for Hamas to murder as many Israelis as they can but simultaneously, we are embarrassed about accurately counting the killed?

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  • cool for hamas to kill as many zionazi rape cultist baby murdering monsters as they can

    Yes. Dead Nazis are always a good thing, and it's extra cool when their victims do it.

    accurately

    Says the lying pieve if shit nazi

    Cute to see the mask slip, though.

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

    about accurately counting the killed?

    What are you counting so "accurately," Clyde? Do you have an "accurate" tally of all the Israelis the IDF slaughtered on Oct 7 because murdering Palestinians is far more important to them than keeping their own people alive?

    Just so I understand,

    Don't feign ignorance... seems to me that you know exactly what you are doing here.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    What are you counting so “accurately,”

    If you look at the actual post you're commenting on, you should be able yo figure it out, I have faith in you Bob!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Then you sould have no problem providing us with these "accurate" numbers of yours, shouldn't you?

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Again, if you uhhh, look at the post to which you are referring, you'll find them! I still believe in you!

    If you really are having difficulties reading the post etc, just let me know.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why do you insist on talking like the most insufferable Reddit loser imaginable?

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

    Holy shit kid, I was going to give an actual response but then, good God, read your comment history. You seem determined to be miserable at people.

    I hope you are more pleasant in real life and/or things get better for you.

    Take care.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Soooo... you don't have "accurate" tallies?

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago

    In the post, the thing about which you are commenting, there's the death total provided by OP. There are hostages, taken in the attack who died as a result of being taken hostage.

    I provided both in the comment in this post.

    I have no idea what accurate tallies you are demanding or what they would have to do with the Guardians headline. Are you a bot?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Do you think Israel are the good guys in this situation?

    Ignoring that they have Gaza as an open air prison, they have magnitudes more Palestinians in prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Israeli_custody.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Did you mean to respond to another comment or did you completely miss the point?

    Edit: to put it more politely... The entire above point is that rhe evil of Israel's war does not change whether murdering and kidnapping civilians is wrong.

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

    See this reinforces the removal you're complaining about.

    The entire above point is that rhe evil of Israel's war genocide and colonial project does not change whether murdering and kidnapping civilians is wrong.

    What you miss is at this point Israel has been ICE the entire time

    Do you not understand why going into a thread about bias in reporting to make Israel look good then blaming Palestinians and equating hamas to ice would be frowned upon?

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Read what you are responding to but carefully.

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

    It is always bad unless it is Israel who does it

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's literally the opposite of the point to which you are responding.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    .ml is a strange little place.

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

    Lol can't imagine why a group of people or their supporters (which you now fall into) would want to spread scurrilous remarks about another group whose purpose is to document their toxic extremism.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The entire point of that community it specifically to instigate harassment.

    whose purpose is to document their toxic extremism.

    Do you think describing it this way makes not look like an odd place? This just reinforces it

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

    The entire point of that community it specifically to instigate harassment.

    Do you think describing it this way makes not look like an odd place? This just reinforces it

    So says every extremist to have ever had evidence documented against them. I linked a megathread with extensive collected evidence that you have consistently refused to even look at, because you're too busy blindly defending a toxic ideology that praises authoritarian regimes.

    So of course you're pulling a page from the authoritarian handbook and calling something setup to document and provide evidence against them every name on the book to discredit it. Classic.

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

    Til pointing out how bad the optics of a place are makes me an authoritarian.

    Bonus it's in a thread where someone actually discrediting those pointing out news orgs supporting authoritarian Israel

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    LMAO

    it's in a thread...about .ml yet again...censoring...dissent 😂

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    yes your honor I went in, took a shit on the floor but it's them who were mean for removing me

    No it's a thread where a person minimizing news organizations news that would make Israel look bad is upset having that pointed out

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (9 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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (4 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.)

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

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

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ... 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.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (4 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.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    YDI, You’re not really correcting numbers but speculating.

    There's the "day of" death total provided by OP. There are hostages, taken in the attack who died as a result of being taken hostage. These two numbers, with some margin of error, give the casualties listed by the Guardian.

    To declare the hostages as somehow being counted differently is as stupid as ignoring radiation poisoning when counting the casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    If you want debate as to whether whoever deserved what, you can do that with someone else. But your gross perspective does not change the number of deaths that resulted from October 7th.

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  • as a result of being taken hostage

    To zionist launched bombs.

    So people killed by Zionists attributed to their victims. Please fuck off you hazbarite piece of shit.

    Unless youre also willing to say literally every death in this conflict and all previous, on both sides, is attributable to Zionist aggression. Which you are not.

    YDW and it involves a dremel you genocide apologist piece of subhuman filth. Can this asshole at least be server banned?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    PTB

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

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    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.

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    just a heads up, but "zio" is a term used by David Duke, leader of the KKK.

    The latest chapter in the Chicago Dyke March controversy unfolded late last week after the group walked back its use of the term “Zio,” a pejorative brought into prominence by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and often deployed by white supremacists.

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