#propaganda debunking

[deputy-videogamer]

Have you seen this tweet/picture providing evidence that UNRA is working with Hamas?

This evidence was created by Dr. Eli David on Twitter proving that Hamas is working with the UNRA on Jan 27 a day after the UNRA announced that nine countries has suspended their funding after accusation of Hamas working for UNRA

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When I first saw this post I found this really suspicious as the UNRA had just announced their situation and the allegations against them. So with the help of Reverse Google Images I manage to find out that the so-called "Hamas militants" are actually the Rafah police.

The picture was from the Rafah Police Facebook account with the captions translating saying they are sending aid into Gaza back in Jan 10 on a Facebook post.

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As of right now the post has gain over 1 MILLION views, 12.2K reposts, and 381 requotes with NO COMMUNITY NOTES debunking this post.

[str8upjorkinit]

I spent fucking 19 hours drawing Leogina George I fucking hate this bitch (I did this to myself)

[alwaysbewoke]

the moment they get hit with a disaster, they suddenly want the gov't to give them everything under the sun smfh.

[gaylenin]

general dprk discourse is genuinely insane when you've stepped out of the whole western brain rot that views the country as fucking mordor. its genuinely depressing too because the dprk's history isn't hard to learn or understand, i learned about how millions of civilians were bombed and killed in my conservative history class age 15

but its still so easy to find videos or tiktoks with millions of views saying how the dprk has this scheme to lure people into the country for vaguely nefarious means, or whatever insane diatribe yeonmi park went on in a conservative podcast - that's not just cycled round by people who are just not political, but leftists who are fully educated in all of this but still refuse to re-evaluate their understanding of a foreign country

its such a terrifying and annoying testament to capitalist brainwashing that a lot of conceptions of north korea that can easily be explained by logical facts of its readily available history (sanctions, after effects of the korean war, foreign relations) are ignored for instead the most fantastical explanation like kim jong un's the grinch or something

[noneun]

Un esempio di propaganda pro-nucleare

Mi è capitato di nuovo un video dell'Avvocato dell'atomo e, se non fosse che l'argomento è serio, ci sarebbe da ridere. L'argomento principale erano le scorie radioattive.

"Anche gli ospedali producono rifiuti radioattivi di basso e medio livello: che facciamo un referendum per chiuderli?" C'è davvero bisogno di specificare che possiamo produrre energia in tanti modi diversi ma non ci sono alternative agli strumenti diagnostici e alle terapie che fanno uso di materiali radioattivi?

"Il nucleare consuma meno materia per produrre energia". Questa informazione è vera, almeno per ora. Ma non è una argomentazione a favore del nucleare visto che la pericolosità della produzione e dello smaltimento delle scorie non è proporzionale alla massa ma -chi lo avrebbe mai detto- alla pericolosità. Vi piacciono i controesempi banali? È più pericoloso un cuscino di lattice di un kg o un proiettile di 5 grammi di piombo? Da prendere in faccia, intendo.

"Le scorie sono radioattive per millenni, ma non significa che siano pericolose per millenni visto che la radioattività scende con andamento esponenziale negativo". Dipende da che isotopo consideriamo: possiamo andare da un tempo di dimezzamento della radioattività di decine fino a miliardi di anni. E comunque il ragionamento spiegato così non dimostra nulla: nel caso del Cesio 137, con la radioattività che si dimezza ogni 30 anni, se partissimo da un livello 1.000 volte superiore a quello non pericoloso, ci vorrebbero comunque 300 anni prima di tornare a livelli accettabili. Con il Plutonio 239 servirebbero 240.000 anni. Per lo Iodio 129, ci vorrebbero 157 milioni di anni. Senza dimenticare che il livello di radioattività da sola conta poco se non associata al tempo di esposizione: vivere tutta la vita accanto ad un terreno contaminato è peggio che farsi una radiografia.

"Non sappiamo cosa succede in Cina agli acidi di raffinazione delle rinnovabili". Chissà perché i pro nucleare tendono sempre ad attaccare le rinnovabili. Ho notato che solo raramente dicono qualcosa contro i combustibili fossili. Forse perché alla fine si tratta dello stesso tipo di business: estrarre il combustibile da sotto terra e usare una grossa centrale per produrre energia. In ogni caso, invece di chiedere maggiore trasparenza alla Cina, si usa questo come difetto delle rinnovabili, come se non esistessero altri paesi produttori. Chiediamo tracciabilità e normative, non usiamo l’opacità altrui per assolvere un’altra filiera.

"Non sappiamo come vengono stoccati i rifiuti chimici che non durano per millenni ma per sempre". Questa frase, collegata ancora alla Cina, non ha comunque senso di per sé. Si potrebbe ironizzare sull'assoluto "per sempre", ma se vogliamo rimanere seri bisognerebbe almeno indicare di che sostanze stiamo parlando, di quanto a lungo rimangono pericolose. Non tutti i rifiuti sono come i metalli pesanti. E invece, "per sempre" e via.

Infine nei commenti si leggono persone preoccupate per le infiltrazioni mafiose nella gestione delle scorie che vengono puntualmente derise e dirottate su altri contenuti ancora meno seri, senza grandi risposte. Ridicolizzare chi pone la domanda non è un buon segnale. Qualcuno argomenta con "ma anche gli altri paesi hanno le organizzazioni criminali". Mal comune, mezzo cancro?

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[callimara]

I don't know what to do.

When I tried talking to a close relative of mine about Palestine, they went on a spiel. They insisted that it wasn't genocide, that Isr*el had given them their land, that Palestine was warned about the Hamas and still voted for them, that Palestine struck first, that Isr*el warned them and gave them time to move south before Isr*el attacked. They insisted the support for Palestine is spurred on by propaganda!

When I asked my relative for proof, they dodged the question, claimed they've known about the whole thing about Isr*el and Palestine for a very long time, and said something about something being in the quran.

Now I'm torn and I'm not sure what's true anymore!

I have so many asks to go through, but I think this one is very important to answer.

To start, I think you are very brave for asking questions and trying to find the truth amidst all the propaganda, so here's what I know.

For some context, I am an Indonesian, and Indonesia and Palestine have very close diplomatic relations and share many similarities in history. We were both colonized and had to resist occupation in a white supremacist world where you are seen as lesser if your skin isn't white and savages/terrorists if you resist or if you want your land back.

Palestine was also the first to recognize Indonesia's independence in 1945, and Indonesia has built a hospital in Gaza that is one of the last ones currently standing due to relentless Israeli bombardments.

People who have gone through oppression recognize oppression. And so far the only people I have seen supporting Israel have been people who had been indoctrinated with Zionist views from childhood, people who are NOT educated on the history of Israel (and why they were there in Palestine to begin with and it is NOT because of the holocaust, which I will explain further down), and Evangelical Christians who want to bring on the rapture. Even then, what they are so angry and appalled by are people calling to send aid, and their only argument for not allowing aid into Gaza because they will be used to create weapons and rockets.

They genuinely believe that Palestinians have a magical ability to turn things like food, water, and medicine into rockets.

So, I will go through your relatives' points one by one.

Firstly, it is not a religious issue. And it never had been. This is colonization and apartheid. Do not let the media or uninformed people tell you otherwise, because that is how they justify and defend its existence.

Israel gave them their land back

Lots of Israelis say that Israeli forces completely pulled out of Gaza in 2005. That isn't 'giving land back' that is 'withdrawing from taking more land.' The entirety of what is now Israel WAS Palestine, and Palestinians aren't even asking for ALL of it back, just the borders that they had in 1967.

Also, if you're wondering why they pulled back, it's because you cannot bombard your own occupied territory, which we see them doing freely now.

Palestine was warned about Hamas

Really? That's so funny because Hamas is backed and funded by Benjamin Netanyahu (his own words at a press conference with an Israeli news cite, not mine) and his US minions to try and oppose the PLO (Palestine Liberation Movement), who were seen as a more legitimate governing body that would make Israel and the US look bad for trying to eradicate them. So, they chose a more extremist group that they'd have an easier time selling as "barbaric terrorists" as a justification to bombard Gaza with impunity. If this sounds familiar, that's because it should. It's all part of their playbook.

Palestine struck first

This did not begin on October 7th. This has been going on since the Nakba in 1948. What happened on October 7th was tragic, but it was IDF bullets that killed those hostages. It took them 6 hours to respond (a survivor said that Hamas had to ASK them to call the IDF, because they were not coming), and when they came, they killed their own civilians and hostages in the crossfire. Watch this video for the full evidence.

Hamas took hostages for a hostage swap. For the thousands of Palestinian civilians that had been kidnapped and wrongfully detained (some of them WITHOUT CHARGES) in Israeli prisons, which included KIDS. And as of now, Israel has rejected the Israeli hostages 3 times even though they are killing them in the bombardment.

Israel has something called the Hannibal Directive. Go look it up.

Because no one in their right mind would agree that just because there is a school shooter hiding inside a school with hostages while using the students as human shields, the only course of action is to then bomb the entire school.

And ask yourself, if this is truly a war on Hamas and Israel valued Palestinian civilian lives as much as they do Israeli lives, then if Hamas was hiding in Israel, would the IDF be using the same approach as they are currently using for Gaza? And if not, then why.

Israel warned them and gave them time to move south

They gave 1 million people 24 hours to complete a trek that would have taken 72 hours. 1 million people who had mostly been women, children, and the handicapped. And during the evacuation, they were bombing convoys, ambulances, and safe routes. Then when they finally got to the south of Gaza, they were bombed there too. In the place where they were supposed to be safe.

Also, if Russia had warned Ukraine that they were going to bomb them and gave them time to evacuate, does that then make it ok for Russia to bomb Ukraine? Of course not, that's a silly argument.

The support for Palestine is spurred on by propaganda

Well, which one between Palestine and Israel literally has the entire western media in their pocket? Which one has been PAYING influencers to voice their support for their country? Which one has been proven to spread LIES unquestioned? (Like 40 beheaded babies, for instance? Or using AI generated images for proof?) Which one has been posting tweets proudly declaring that they have committed war crimes, deleting the tweets, and backtracking?

Which one has fucking social media accounts that are beefing with models and celebrities who are against them, and are using influencer's images without their permission to make it seem like they're on THEIR side?

So now, let's talk about Israel and Holocaust Survivors.

First of all, the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine began in 1917 when Britain signed the Balfour Declaration, which states that they are giving away their occupied colony of Palestine to a group of Zionists immigrating to Palestine from Eastern Europe and Yemen. First thing to note here, there were already Palestinians living on the land, it was not a barren empty land, and it was colonized by the British. So the British gave away stolen land that they had no right to give away in the first place.

The holocaust survivors didn't arrive in Israel until the end of WW2 in the 1940s where they were then scorned and laughed at by the Zionist settlers in Palestine for being 'weak victims.' The holocaust victims continued to be discriminated against and left to live in poverty by the Israeli gov't.

However, their arrival gave the west a reason to arm the settlers so that they can 'defend themselves' from all the 'vicious, evil, uncivilized Arabs' they were surrounded by. And they used this excuse and dehumanization to displace 750,000 Palestinians from their land. The Nakba.

And they continue to use the holocaust survivors (that they are also treating badly) as a shield from international criticism to expand until we have the borders we have today.

[lloydgaymerdyke]

i actually don’t mind blogs w llorumi dni and shit like that like i actually prefer not to interact with you truly🤗 let’s all be friends mentality pmo like no i can enjoy my shit and you can enjoy yours and we can never ever cross paths how fun!

and i don’t want to convince ppl to ship it? like if they see my posts and like them and then like the ship that’s so cool i love bringing ppl to the dark side! but also i don’t feel the need to defend myself or my ship to anyone. seriously ive been in fandom and loved hated ships for so many years its tiring as hell trying 😪

[moonlayl]

DEBUNKING LIES ABOUT RECENT EVENTS IN SYRIA

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[mithwitch]

look at this absolutely unhinged zionism on tumblr rn. “there is no genocide in palestine” type psyop

[Image description: a screen shot of a tumblr reply chain that begins in the middle of a longer post. user spacelazarwolf writes “thank you for the context! this actually makes a lot more sense now.” user mithwitch writes “this is a new low for “nonzionist” tumblr. Suggesting there isn’t a genocide of palestinians is too wretched.” user the-library-alcove writes “And thank you for proving my initial point and all of the subsequent points on how you're viewing this solely as an ideological belief, and not one based on evidence. It's "wretched", not something substantiated.” athingofvikings writes “And another one who decided to block my original post... but obviously didn't read the whole thing because they're emotionally engaged with this. And I can say that because they missed that the-library-alcove is my main blog AND DIDN'T BLOCK IT.” Screenshot ends with more replies extending past, the post goes on.” End image description.]

So now genocide can only be recognized genocide AFTER THE FACT when it can be “substantiated”………..WTF (enjoy this free blocklist)

feel free to read the post here where they think it’s somehow good to phrase it as “hey guys stop calling it a genocide!! It hasn’t happened yet!! :)” unhinged.

[snarkleharkle]

[beardedmrbean]

[str8upjorkinit]

And her name is Leogina (George) Kurosagi

[officialmyshithole]

I'm kinda a hater but going into tags for something I've loved for years and seeing misinformation about the source material for and from newer fans is going to make me into the joker

[dayinadream]

Debunking israeli lies

[callimara]

Important PSA

Criticizing Israel is NOT antisemetism or an attack on Jewish people because

ISRAEL =/= ALL JEWS

And while I am not saying that there is no antisemitism because there is plenty of that too, this is not a case of that. But grouping all Jews together as Israeli and presenting them as a monolith erases their individuality and identity. It's like calling all Asian people Chinese, and that if you criticize China, then you hate all Asian people. It doesn't make sense.

I am so frustrated seeing people who are trying to raise awareness about Palestine be called antisemetic and disgusting by people who cannot perceive Jews and Muslims as anything but a monolith. That's the reason why so many people are having trouble distinguishing between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, because to them, they're all the same.

And that's why they don't see an issue with collective punishment.

And you know what? Palestine is NOT just the Jewish holy land. It is also the Christian holy land, and the Muslim holy land. Palestine wasn't even the first choice for a Jewish homeland because it was heavily contested by Jewish rabbis at the time.

Turning Palestine (I say Palestine because the entirety of what is now Israel used to be Palestine) as an exclusively Jewish ethno-state means that people of Christian and Muslim faith all over the world are stripped of their holy land. The oldest church in the world, dating back to the times of Christ is located in Gaza, and who are the ones protecting it? Palestinians.

And you know who bombed it? Even though it had 500 refugees of both Muslim and Christian faith inside? Israel.

Even the slogan used for the founding of Israel itself, "A land without people for a people without a land." Is blatantly revisionist and erases the existence of Palestinians already living there. It erases all the historic religious sites that stand there and are frequented regularly by their respective devotees. Or worse, does not consider the Palestinians as 'people.'

Some people tend to forget that religious belief is NOT the same as race, and so you CANNOT claim indigeneity just because you are a certain religion. I am an Indonesian Muslim. Born Muslim, raised Muslim, and every generation of my family have been Muslim. That doesn't mean I can say I'm indigenous to Saudi Arabia. Let alone that Saudi Arabian land is my birthright.

If a white American woman born and raised in Seattle decides to convert to Hinduism, can she then say she is now indigenous to India? Or if she has a child, and that child had a child, and they were all raised as a Hindu, but have always lived in the US all their lives, can they claim that they are indigenous to India?

No.

And the fact is, the first Jewish settlers during The First Aliyah (great Jewish migration to Palestine) came from Eastern Europe and are genetically closer to Russians and other Slavs than they are to the Jews who remained in the Middle Eastern region after their exile (and I guess some people forget that you can convert into Judaism even if you didn't come from "The Promised Land." Like for marriages and stuff.) That's why they feel the need to distinguish themselves from the word "Arab."

Granted, there were also Yemeni Jews that migrated with them (whom I would say have stronger claims to indigeneity), but even in the transition camps, there was a clear divide between the European Ashkenazi Jews and the Yemeni Jews, who literally had their kids taken from them to give to the Ashkenazi Jews.

And let's not forget that when Jewish migrants from Ethiopia came, they were given contraceptives without consent to make sure they didn't impact the "desired" population.

Wake up. This isn't a religious war. This is European colonization.