• zipper [any]@hexbear.net
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    “israel has a right to defend itself” motherfuckers reeeeeeeal quiet today, huh.

    i also skimmed the article, and apparently the figure was estimated by comparing gaza to other similar conflicts and accounting for non-direct deaths, as opposed to palestine only adding to the death toll if 1. a body is retrieved 2. a body is identified and 3. it is determined that the body belongs to someone whose death was directly caused by the IDF (shot/ blown up/ died in the rubble). i knew that the 60k dead was a rather low estimate but i did not expect it to be that low. this is sickening. why doesn’t anyone give a fuck?

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      why doesn’t anyone give a fuck?

      It’s mostly officials, political and business leaders etc that are profiting that don’t care, average people do seem to care from what I can tell. Even my libbed out coworkers now agree Israel is a genocidal nazi state that must be stopped and aren’t shedding any tears for nazis like Kirk getting killed.

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        same sentiment here from the people i volunteer with, but there’s still so many dumbfucks that consider israel’s actions a “necessary evil” and it makes me so depressed.

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          They mostly go along to get along, pretending Just selfish cunts more than believing them.

    • “israel has a right to defend itself” motherfuckers reeeeeeeal quiet today, huh.

      Nah their too busy crying about how Charlie Kirk had his throat exploded by a Nazi that thought Kirk wasn’t enough of a Nazi. And if they weren’t doing that they would be calling the source anti semitic Hamas terrorists, and arguing for more weapons shipments.

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      Another thing is, it is very easy to dismiss these figures as ‘speculation’. Hence it is easy to blame people who voice this estimates…