i read it rbg, and it was delightful

Speaking of shit I don't read


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dont reject duo's friend request, he takes it pretty hard

you all seem to have found a lot of unnecessary words in that post considering you didn't read it

I was going to go through it and bold every unnecessary word but it would have taken too long. Maybe next time I'm on my laptop I'll do it.

Just tryin to help, bro

you wrote a 360-word paragraph. half that would be too much in most contexts

I think actually you believe it is too much in one particular context, which is a message board. because in the context of meaningfully discussing one of the most contentious international relations issues in modern times, supporting points with examples and evidence that may oh my god take a full minute to read is really not too much. sure there are some superfluous words because I was more or less talking conversationally. If I were actually being graded trotskilicious, I would have read it through before posting. I guess I should try to use the quote feature more often, but I was specifically engaging mayfuck or whoever was making fun of people for saying the situation is complex by actually giving some examples of the situation being complex and difficult to work through in terms of fault

Israel bad

Hamas bad

/thread

Jews bad

All religion bad

Some good parts most bad

One would be a fool to assert that Hamas is doing the Palestinian people any favors, or that it is justified in its acts of terrorism, but "fairly" is an interesting choice of words considering not only armament disparities but also access to basic resources essential for survival. The degree of suffering is weighted against the Palestinians by several orders of magnitude such that it would not be incorrect to refer to the "armed conflict" as genocide

Bill Maher was half correct when he referred to Hamas as a mentally insane woman who is restrained at the wrists and occasionally slapped out of frustration. The missing component is that the woman is deprived of food, water, and shelter, and then systematically beaten for becoming violent under these conditions

And electricity, they cut the power in Gaza City.

War casualties is also not the right term when you happen to kill more children and women than militants.

(28 words.)

that was unmistakably implicit, surely

supporting statements don't need to be contained within the same paragraph. that just makes things hard to read. but the general issue really is the signal:noise ratio. it's not everyone else's job to mentally edit your verbiage. there's nothing special about your thinking or writing ability that shifts the burden of work onto the reader. if you want to be read and understood, you have to be clear and succinct. consideration is not owed to you

uh, no. I read this on facebook the other day as well. it's not a genocide. calling this a genocide saps the gravity of meaning from the word. Words have actual meanings and relying on emotionally charged buzz phrases in an argument is both polarizing and disingenuous. Obama is not a socialist, the war in Gaza is not genocide.

I think that it was obvious I was not interested in being read by people with a two sentence attention span because, you know, I wrote more than that. I don't care if you think the post is too long and skipped it, my feelings are unwounded. The annoying part is that you all have now spent probably ten times as much time as it would have taken to read what I wrote to critique posting anything long on message boards. Just typical netphorian spitefulness. let's start a fight about literally anything possible hurrah!

do you know what genocide is

It's not about attention span.

I understand there is an effort that has been made by some liberals to make genocide mean any sort of mass killing, but I fail to see the efficacy in conflating these things other than to legitimize their own sensationalism

You're in a position to make that claim?

No one here is special

so you never used the term "Rwandan Genocide"?
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/...56384-0029.xml

my opinion on the matter:

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well no, not in the way you've selectively quoted it out of context

that's concerning

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