"I mean outside of the areas that are documented by people that work, it is impossible."

Because CBC is using murder as a legal definition…

[citation needed]

But I get it, you don’t want technicalities.

I don't want FUCKING LEGAL DEFINITIONS in a FUCKING NON-LEGAL CONTEXT you UTTER FUCKING IDIOT. For a pedant you FUCKING SUCK at words.

Stop digging. You don't get out of a deep hole of idiocy that you've dug for yourself by digging harder. Just shut the fuck up you idiot.

You know what else is small brain thinking? INCORRECTLY being pedantic about word choices. That's the part that pisses me off the most with these apologists. They are literally incorrecting people using words properly.

I cited the definitions of "murder" above. Explain to me, with reference to these definitions, how the term "murder" doesn't apply. (Hint: this is not possible.)

"Legal" definitions are for "legal" actions and "legal" contexts. Like an international criminal court.

This is reportage for a general audience, not legal briefs. Fuck off with your legalistic shit.

I quoted the dictionary definition of murder above. Can you point to the part that says governments can't murder?

Yes. Murder has very specific definitions. (Note the plural.) Let me help you out with this, Sparky:

murder

/ ˈmɜr dər /

noun

1. Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder, ormurder one ), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder, or murder two ).

2. Slang. something extremely difficult or perilous: That final exam was murder!

verb

3. Law. to kill by an act constituting murder.

4. to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.

5. to commit murder.

The slang definition doesn't apply, so 2. A newspaper is not a court of law, so the legal definitions are gone: 1 and 3. That leaves 5 (which itself is just a reference to the legal definition, so 5) and 4.

I think 4 applies fully here. What's happening in Gaza is definitely a slaughter, definitely inhuman, and definitely barbarous. This is also the correct register for informal reportage not related to legal actions.

So perhaps if you want to argue based on definitions you should fucking read the dictionary first, Sparky. Or get used to people pointing and laughing at you in your clown pants.

Where, precisely (and be detailed, with a map) do you think Hamas should be locating itself in Gaza that doesn't have civilians all around them?

You go get a map of Gaza and point it out. I'll wait.

You'd think that it would be considered more brutal given that the people committing the killings aren't even exposing themselves to a threat.

Cowards, in a word.

Which part of "set up and run your own instance" is unclear you whiny buffoon!?

I was in China during the pandemic. In 2022 everyone got COVID. Literally everyone in every big city.

No you weren't and no they didn't.

In motherfucking WUHAN, when "let 'er rip" opened up, about a third of the people got COVID-19. (Source: It's where I've lived since 2003; lived in Jiujiang before that.)

But go ahead and lie about shit you clearly know nothing about. Your China Watcher friends will give you handjobs for it.

The CPC […] is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level […]

They’re vile authoritarians […]

Do you actually fucking READ before reacting you utter fuckwit?!

Talking with Americans is like talking with ADHD-addled toddlers for fuck's sake!

Which rule at the right says that again? I'm not seeing it.

What is the "right way" and which of the rules at the right explain this?

Wow! Someone who gets "choice" and "freedom of association"!

I'm sorry. Does actually having to put a bit of skin in the game offend you? You'd rather the people spending the actual money and doing the actual work just bow to your whims?

Compassionate fucking BUDDHA are the anti-defederation crowd a bunch of entitled, whiny asses!

Usually it’s just the self-righteousness instinct…

I love¹ telepathic people who can read other people's minds and post on their behalf.

¹ This is sarcasm. I hate the delusional who think they're telepaths.

So it's freedom of association you're opposed to then?

Holy shit! There's not a single bit of the Official Narrative™ that you didn't swallow there, Sparky, is there?

• Your view of how COVID-19 mitigation worked is skewed by breathless, click-baiting media reports (known by most as "lies") made by people who could not, at a very deep, very primal level, admit to even themselves that brown-skinned people outperformed white-skinned people by orders of magnitude and made up shit to placate their humiliation.
• Typical workdays are not 14×6. Hell the places that are counted abusive here are "996" shops: which is 9AM-9PM, 6 days per week. And those are getting cracked down on. (Though not at a high enough rate for my tastes.) More normal is like my employer: 8AM-5:30PM, five days a week 1 hour for lunch. In manufacturing this can get a bit more abusive where the 8.5-hour workday (after 1 hour removed for lunch) is closer to 10 hours, and in service industries it's a shorter workday, but often 6 days per week. 14×6 is fantasy, however.
• The average wage here in Wuhan is approximately 1500RMB/mo which is about US$200/mo. This sounds absurdly low, but once you factor in the huge cost of living disparities, people living on 1500RMB/mo have enough money left over to actually be able to afford home ownership. (Are they great homes? No. But neither are they living in squalor at that wage.) The average wage in the countryside is lower, to be fair, and a lot of people (but not the majority by any means) in the countryside (especially the elderly) do live in poverty ... but ... ah ... hot news flash: China is a fully-urbanized country and rural population is nowhere near one billion.

The CPC (note the correct initialization: Use of "CCP" is an instant ignoramus detector) is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level (and most community cadres aren't great either), but they're not cartoon villains like, say, Republicans in the USA. They're vile authoritarians, but they're in it for the long haul and they know (from reading Chinese history alone, not to mention from examples around the world) that authoritarians who get too abusive tend to get lightly killed. This contrasts with, say, the USA's Republicans who have absolutely no sense of history (that would require education, see) and are working their level best for upheaval and destruction because they're too stupid to understand the consequences of that. (Don't like that characterization? Well, turn-around's a bitch, ain't it?)

Stop being an ignoramus and start questioning the pabulum narrative you've been spoon-fed.