You know what they say about assuming

I went on a blocking spree several weeks ago, and suddenly, most of the conversations on the topic were magically allowed to have nuance. Only had to block 8 or 9 instigators who were apparently the ones derailing every conversation.

I have a block list of about 40 thats taken a year to curate, and yes, Lemmy has been absolutely fantastic since I filled it out. It's like wearing noise canceling headphones.
- Right?! I almost gave up 6 months in but getting over my hesitation to just block and move on was a game changer.
- On reddit, blocking people was pretty useless long-term. It did get the more aggressive assholes to leave you alone, at least, but there are SO MANY awful people on that site that trying to block them all is like trying to stop a tidal wave with your hand.
I’m pretty sure I know who’s on that list.
How antisemitic of you!
- I'm assuming there's an implied /s there? lol
How do you choose who to block?
- Spend enough time in the comments and you'll notice a handful of "usual suspects" sticking out. So I'll usually look at their profiles to see their history. If a pattern emerges, block them.
  They're usually ones that immediately jump to extremes, make bad faith comparisons right off the bat, or otherwise Godwin's Law a comment thread between 0 and 1 replies in.

Proposal: The entire area goes under the control of a UN appointed panel of atheists.

"Oh, your sky daddy says you own this land? Yeah, no."

Maybe we can move that fucking ladder

The real politics of this is that nothing will happen unless the US allows it. And so far the US have only allowed continued violence.
There's too many voters in the US that believe their sky god is the sky god that should rule those lands.
- this. providing arms and the empire's backing to israel is what enables them to bully the entire region.
It honestly astonishes me that even only the christians in that city are so at each other's throats that they can't even agree to move a fucking ladder, can only imagine how big the grudges are between faiths.

Uh, uhhh, uhhhhh, instructions unclear; genocide Joe, liberal, neo nazi, ppb!

i feel you but i think conservatives are the ones who need to hear this

Let's pray they continue to hurt each other forever and ever... Amen 🙏

Why are we still using BBL Drizzy in memes?

Everytime I see him now I just hear that song in my head lol

i like this post, this is a good post.

Rule of thumb for anybody picking up politics. If you're picking sides you've already fucked up.

there are no sides, merely degrees of varying and dynamic inaccuracy.

This is just thinly veiled anti Israel propaganda. One side bombs innocent children, the other is trying to hide and flee.

Eh? You know all Hamas has been doing for the past decade is yeeting unguided missiles at Israel. Sometimes they land in Gaza and kill Palestinians, most of them get intercepted, occasionally one makes it through and lands on a random building. That is the definition of an indiscriminate terrorist attack. It serves no military purpose whatsoever. If Hamas had the firepower they would kill every last Jewish person in Israel.
- I never knew there were so many Zionists on lemmy. Sad.
I'm all for the Palestinian people getting their freedom and lives back and stopping the Israeli government dead in its tracks if not replacing it, but I'm not going to pretend that Hamas is innocent. Just because the Palestinians are victims of the worst crime of this century, doesn't mean the governing body that rules over them with an iron fist is good.
I think you're misinterpreting it. Every Zionist is pro-genocide, but obviously not all Jewish people.
Obviously the sides aren't equivalent, but it's true that not all Jews support Israel and that pro-Palestinian activists aren't generally antisemitic.