So, I realized something while listening to the Kan news report from Israel last night:
Western pro-Palestinian protesters don't think that Hamas exists as a unified fighting force.
Many probably don't even believe that Hamas is an elected government that represents the people and fulfills governmental duties.
I think they probably think of Hamas as "a few dozen" extremists, rather than having a membership (prior to the war) of around 40,000, with a trained and well-armed military fighting force in the thousands.
And, polling in Palestine shows Hamas with over a 70% approval rating among the civilian population! During the war!
My brain just didn't realize that protesters would ignore or reject the truth, or I guess that they would unquestioningly repeat their assumptions as truth.
@em
calling opinion polls elections is a bit of a stretch anyway, isn't it? there is that saying: in wars, truth gets killed first > let's not be killers @noharmpun
Also, thank goodness Israel stayed out of the conflict. Can you imagine if Israel meddled more than it already did?
There could easily be an argument made that if Israel had not fully withdrawn from Gaza then the lives of Gazans would have been much better off for the entire last 17-18 years of Hamas control.
do want to imply that israel had not interfered in order deliberately making people's lives in gaza more miserable? if so: thinking of it is already despicable in itself
with each post, you are stretching it even more, so let me be clear on this:
hamas is a terror organization
in 2007, hamas took over in gaza in a coup d'état, with israel staying passive
do yourself a favor: stick to facts instead of alternative history @em
@geraineon
yes, bluesky is very popular among germans: it's a twitter clone, so the typical overaged german former twitter user would not be forced to learn something new lol
re: friendica: its philosophy is to federate with everything (remember the friendica - facebook bridge killed by zuckerberg) > for professional media outlets, friendica is indeed becoming a hidden gem within an increasingly scattered socmed landscape > friendica is even a secret weapon within the fediverse: from friendica, it's possible to start threads on lemmy, kbin and mbin (interaction rates tend to be higher in threadiverse, compared to microblogging fedi)
Dude. I've always used the default (on #Plasma, I think) #Okular app for my PDF needs on #Linux, and it's been fine and I'll continue to do so. But annotation isn't its best quality.
I needed to sign some documents today and was looking into any apps I could use my cheap "drawing tablet" with to annotate. You could sorta make do with Okular for that but it's "drawing" annotation isn't really designed for anything but to draw lines - so everything will be "blocky" or "jagged" rather than appear natural/free flow.
Looking up online people kept recommending #Xournal, I ignored it too many times just bcos of its very Linuxy name lmao but IT'S SO GOOD and is exactly what I (and YOU) need. You could use it to draw/write notes as you would on say, an #iPad, or even to draw/annotate on PDFs. I've just started using it at the time of writing this but I love it already and can see that it's very capable, and intuitive.
I literally just connected my drawing tablet to my #SteamDeck dock, installed the Xournal app from the #Discover app store as a #Flatpak, open up my PDF with Xournal and started writing and exported my doc as a PDF. People need to know about this app.
@gombang
i think that this students' protest was being paid for by the local government - i cannot remember any demonstrations happening in aceh since autonomy, and hell, there are tons of reasons to protest against the bullshit going on in aceh everyday > it is not credible that acehnese students would protest only when they see some refugees arriving on aceh's shores imho - to quote lady leshurr: "you don’t want smoke / i keep it blunt / look / issa publicity stunt"
@kierkegaank
this happened in aceh which is an autonomous region, where shariah law is used to suppress everything > any protest going on in aceh is a staged move #aceh#tootSEA @raymondpert