Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from...
by ignoramous on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:57PM
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> empowered by their self-righteousness ... Total dehumanisation
Jeez, just like those supremacists of the yesteryears Hollywood made movies to warn us about, then?
Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from...
by megous on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:05PM
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Those warned us that we westerners are not immune from getting manipulated into engaging in, and turning a blind eye to mass atrocities against entire groups of people. Even to attempts at their eradication. It was a lesson about the west and humanity.
We didn't learn though.
Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from...
by rightbyte on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:53AM
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I believe Telegram channels in them self are an enabler in this. Some sort radicalizing, dehumanizing
Radical elements can find each other and (dis)organize between themself and instigate such actions between military groups outside the chain of command.
Telegram is used to for this in other current wars.
It's been that way with Syria conflict, too, though. A lot was shared in twitter/youtube during that one.
One thing that's seemingly a bit new is how much ordinary Israeli soldiers are sharing their behavior, empowered by their self-righteousness, I guess. Videos from shooting unarmed deaf people up close in their homes, to all kinds of calls for atrocities, actual assaults on international humanitarian aid trucks and violence against the drivers, cheerful mocking of starving people, dedicating videos of them blowing up peoples homes as gifts to their spouses back home in Israel, looting and stealing, wanton destruction of property (like going around and breaking things in someone's gift shop), burning people's houses down, etc. There's so much of this.
Entire 130k strong Israeli telegram channels are dedicated to collective cheering on and mocking of dead and suffering people: https://t.me/s/dead_terrorists Total dehumanization.