Israel war

I make the analogy with North Korea. North Korea is obviously a threat to South Korea. But if South Korea were to start bombing North Korea and kill 250 people a day the question would be how long it would take for people to ask "Why are you doing this?"

This is going to likely get me called a tankie, but the civilian massacres South Korea didn't cause a blink to the US. They killed whole communities that had a communist insurgency in them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Korea

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the zionist brain-rot is real

Fuck Israel and the Palestinians for being endlessly shitty to each other and dragging the whole gottdam world into their regional territorial dispute over and over for the better part of the last century. Fuck the whole lot of them together for perpetuating the most narcissistic conflict of the 20th century. Everyone's a victim and everyone's an aggressor and we are all supposed to dissect their long historical bullshit and form a moral opinion?! Fuck off and leave us all out of your fucking drama.

I voted you down because I think you are making a few errors here:
Not every Palestinian is Hamas. Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli, including civilians, but not every Palestinian believes in that. And not every Israeli agrees with IDF's genocide, although a disappointingly high proportion of them do.
IDF is clearly more successful in their genocide of Palestinians than Hamas is in their attempted genocide of Israelis.
Even if Hamas and IDF both were equal, a lot of the English-speaking Internet (including many Lemmings here) are Americans, and pay American taxes, and therefore have an obligation to stop the genocide funded by our taxes, through money and weapons the US government sends to Israel. Even if both sides were equally bad, we (I and other Americans) recognize the need to stop Israel, but have no obligation to stop Hamas because we aren't sending them the weapons in the first place.
- Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli
  Hamas is pretty careful to differentiate Jewish people, some of whom have lived in Palestine for millennia, and the Zionist project, which requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Fuck Israel

argumentum ad populum

edit: ~~LOL i've never seen such butthurt from a simple link to a logical fallacy, which 100% applies in this case~~

thank you, @SmoothOperator@lemmy.world for the insight:

evidence gathering and following genocide evaluation can be much better performed by organizations with expertise and authority on such matters. Most of the listed organizations are considering expert evidence gatherers and experienced, empowered authorities of genocide evaluation.

expertise. authority. truth.

That’s incorrect, this isn’t talking about what the masses believe but what actual experts and legal scholars and courts are overwhelmingly saying. That fallacy doesn’t apply to a judge’s rulings.
- actual experts and legal scholars and courts are overwhelmingly saying.
  wow, "overwhelmingly saying" i guess what they say must be true then LOL
  argumentum ad populum
The majority of zionists believe killing children is a valid way to wage war so it must be true!
If anything, this would be an appeal to authority. It's not like the post is saying half of the American people believe it's genocide and therefore it is. No, the claim is that several relevant organizations like the ICC, ICJ, and Human Rights Watch, etc., are saying that it is genocide. That'd be like claiming that the vast majority of climate scientists believing in global warming is supporting evidence that global warming is likely true. It is. It's not enough evidence on its own, but it is evidence nonetheless.
That's the thing. Not all appeals to authority are fallacious. Supporting a claim with an expert's opinion is a logically sound way to support an argument.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
- thank you! i'll keep this on deck in case i ever make a fallacious argument
Okay
- lol got'em
Nope!
- LOL wow. were you president of the debate club in high school?

I'm going to lock this. You guys have been mostly great, but I don't know enough about the situation to know who to delete their comments. People twitter isn't really a community that talks about world politics normally. Sorry about this.