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Japan in BRICS when???

Fuck yes! It’s about time.

China is most definitely in a position to stop this

I know? I literally said “China could stop this.”

That doesn’t tell us why they haven’t, though. The only thing that makes sense is their usual abundance (or excess) of caution. Any actions taken against Israel will be seen as an attack by the West, even something like a drone blacklist, and they’re keen to avoid direct confrontation with the West as long as possible.

This isn’t a justification, just an explanation.

This is a consequence of not cutting off trade with Israel. These are commercial drones from independent sellers that Israel is converting to military use (so it’s not like China is selling them weapons) but China could stop this.

China has been reducing trade with Israel since this phase of the genocide began, but it has been a slow process. I suspect that China is worried about Western retaliation, which doesn’t really excuse trading with Israel but does help to explain it.

I don’t get it. Why do you think this is heavily downvoted?

They aren’t necessarily trying to make us support Israel, they just don’t want us to support Palestinian resistance. They like the status quo of people condemning Hamas.

He doesn’t kill political opponents just to watch them bleed? My point is that he does things for reasons.

The fact that Westoids can only imagine Russians as subhuman violent idiots is fascinating.

He’s not a demon that craves blood for no reason. There’s geostrategic goals at stake.

It was all fun and games until he said Israel doesn’t know that the fuck it’s doing.

They don’t report Russia’s claims this way. They don’t report Iran’s claims this way.

And people can see it, which is why they don’t trust the media anymore.

Because Israel has a complete ban on reporters in Gaza, for example, there’s no way to corroborate or refute what Israel said. It’s newsworthy to repeat what Israel said, but you can’t blame the media when someone reads that and assumes that the government is telling the truth

If there’s no way to corroborate or refute what Israel said, don’t print what Israel said. Lies aren’t newsworthy, except as a way to report on the lies themselves for the purpose of debunking them.

Remember when Israel first started bombing hospitals and blamed Islamic Jihad for it? They still don’t claim responsibility for Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, but after a year of targeting hospitals and doctors it’s ridiculous to deny it at this point.

Yet there were few retractions or corrections. As far as CNN and The Guardian are concerned, Israel didn’t bomb that hospital. What a joke.

As you said yourself, the government lies all the time, so why would you assume that “the government said X happened” means that “X happened”.

I don’t think people make that assumption anymore, but that’s because people stopped trusting the media. They published and promoted so many government lies that they’ve destroyed their own credibility.

People expect the media to investigate government claims and to publish the truth, not just parrot the lies they’re fed. When the media doesn’t do that, when all the major news outlets become court stenographers, people lose faith in the media.

Maybe people are expecting too much, but that’s what people have been taught to expect. They were taught that journalists find the truth and report on it. They’re finding out that journalists basically just print what their sources say and they can’t just trust things because they’re in the news anymore.

And it’s going to get worse forever.

I see what you’re saying here: if the media prints lies from a government it’s not the media lying, it’s the government. If Israel says Hamas beheaded 40 babies and that’s found out to be a lie, it wasn’t the media lying about Hamas beheading 40 babies and so the media is entirely innocent of printing the lies fed to it by a government like Israel.

Here’s the thing: if a government lies all the fucking time and the media keeps printing what the government claims anyway, then that makes them complicit in spreading the government’s lies. We all know Israel’s government spreads lies, so printing the lies it spread about Hamas is just doing the government’s work for them. The media doesn’t get to wash its hands of the things it prints just because it puts “Israel says” before the headline.

Even conventional detonations on top of nuclear reactors or nuclear stockpiles?

What’s so fantastical about the US using a tactical nuke and then lying about it?

Looks like that didn’t happen here, but I see no reason that it couldn’t.

*immense relief*

There’s different isotopes in the fallout, different radio spectrometry or whatever, but I think they could lie and say that the reason it looks like a conventional nuclear weapon is because Iran was hiding a nuke and they blew it up.

It’s the perfect crime. They bombed nuclear sites, which means there are going to be radiation spikes regardless of what kind of bombs they dropped, which means they could drop small nukes and probably get away with it.

Israel is murdering and starving women right now.

The reason the US supports Israel is exactly because Israel is a settler-colony. They’re part of the same genocidal settler project, Zionism is Manifest Destiny.

If landback wins in Israel the ones paying attention know that it’s coming for them too.

USAmericans sweating rn 😬