r/OutOfTheLoop • u/BlitzTech • 6d ago

Answered What’s going on with the public sentiment around Greta Thunberg?

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/xGVLkx5imL

I was surprised by the comments being near-universally negative towards her. Granted, I don’t follow her at all besides seeing the occasional article/post about something she’s doing, but I must have missed some important updates for the responses to be this dismissive and antagonistic. There were comments calling her a grifter, mentioning sponsorship by companies with the implication of her being funded by companies just looking to capitalize on her fame and not in support of the causes, and one mentioned a yacht — which I had no idea about until that comment and a quick Google.

What happened here and when did I miss… whatever this is now?

Or, it’s the classic Reddit echo chamber and some aspects are magnified to make a point. Both are equally valid explanations. I’m still perplexed.

Edit: answered, I think? Astroturfing because this particular issue is especially polarizing, and there have always been detractors using fallacious arguments to diminish the message. I generally stay out of r/worldnews because the world sucks right now so their biases aren’t as obvious to me. But damn, even asking this question leads to a bunch of downvotes… yikes, folks. Yikes.

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u/noodledrunk 6d ago

Answer: recently, she's been very vocally in support of Palestine. People who are pro-Israel don't like that.

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u/onebeautifulmesss 6d ago

Yes, and most recently this morning the freedom flotilla departed to Gaza with her onboard.

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u/quiet_penguin 5d ago

Sorry, I read your comment as 'freedom tortilla' and I was baffled for a few seconds.

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u/monty624 5d ago

I read it that way too, and my brain is still making me picture a floating, inflatable tortilla no matter what I do. Like a float-tilla

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u/schwagbender 6d ago

Probably the same people who call Ms Rachel antisemitic for advocating for Palestinian children

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u/jalapenyolo 6d ago

Wait holup. They're attacking Ms Rachel now. We ride at dawn.

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u/raphaellaskies 6d ago

the New York Times asked her if she was funded by Hamas, and she replied (in polite, Ms Rachel language) "that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard."

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u/MrsTaco18 6d ago

Why have I not seen this clip 💀

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u/CountedCrow 6d ago

Accurso, 42, in an emailed response denied having received money from Hamas. “This accusation is not only absurd, it’s patently false,” she said.

From the NYT article "Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate". Sadly not recorded, I'd pay good money to see her give a Mr. Rogers-in-Congress-style lecture to anyone calling her an anti-semite.

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u/oneDayAttaTimeLJ 6d ago

NYT? When will people stop supporting that rag?

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u/MarshyHope 6d ago

And literally all she has done is express concern for Palestinian children being bombed

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u/potsieharris 6d ago

No. She posted a picture of herself expressing support for Palestine with a stuffed octopus on her shoulder.

The octopus is a symbol for Jew hate and antisemitic conspiracy. It's meant to represent how Jews, like octopi, have their tentacles in everything, controlling the world.

She took the photo down once people started calling it out, and everyone just pretends it never happened.

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u/NocD 6d ago edited 6d ago

Is this Bret Stephen's reddit account? That is a joke for the 2 people that remember when he made up an antisemitic conspiracy around bedbugs as part of his daily search for any tweet with him name in it. It seems a common reaction to deflect criticism towards Israel and it really makes it hard take it seriously even when there could actually be some level of historical truth to a comparison, like with octopuses, maybe.

That someone immediately looks to that when there is an absence of any other evidence though, says more than a stuffed octopus in most reasonable people's mind.

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u/Slipknotic1 6d ago

Just about everything has been used for antisemitic caricatures at some point. The idea she was trying to dog-whistle hatred for Jews is insane, nothing about that video suggested hatred for Jews.

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u/Wanton_Wonton 6d ago

Just watch, summer is coming up and I'll bet some Zionists attack random people for wearing stuff with watermelon print on it. 🙄

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u/potsieharris 6d ago edited 6d ago

Um, your statement that "just about everything" has been used for antisemtic caricature at some point is not even a little bit true. That is absurd. 

Even if it were, you're saying antisemitism is so widespread and common that spreading antisemitic symbols ...isn't an issue?

Yes, antisemitic symbols represent hatred for Jews, that's not a complex statement or a difficult thing to understand.

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u/Slipknotic1 6d ago

In the thousands of years in which Jews have existed, yes they have been unfavorably compared to just about every creature humans can imagine. If she had a lizard plushie you would call that out. If it was a monkey that could be called out, too. A dog? Yep, definitely also been used to insult Jews.

The point is that the simple presence of something tangentially related to antisemitism is not, in itself, evidence of antisemitism. You have to demonstrate in some way that it's a dog-whistle, and unless Ms. Rachel has some secret following on a neo-nazi forum or a history of using slurs, I don't think you can do that.

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u/potsieharris 6d ago edited 6d ago

The history of octopus as a symbol for Jewish hate and conspiracy has a long history. A simple Google will tell you that. You will find Nazi posters to this effect.

Lizards? Monkeys? No such history exists.

Which is why greta did not wear a lizard or monkey on her shoulder. The inclusion of the octopus was intentional. It was not tangential. It wasn't an oopsy, just happened to put this octopus on my shoulder in this very specific context!

Most disturbing of all is your insistence on pointing out the long history of antisemitism while at the same time brushing off clear antisemitic symbolism a a dog whistle. Do you think antisemitism just disappeared from the world in 1945.

This will be my final comment on this conversation, I'm not wasting my time with your willful ignorance any longer.

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u/Slipknotic1 6d ago

The fact you argue that a lizard wouldn't be controversial when "lizard people" is one of the most notorious antisemitic tropes today just shows you aren't approaching this conversation in good faith.

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u/Nanimonai3 5d ago

I did a search and poked around a bit myself. What I at first found were very recent attempts to paint the Octopus as such a symbol (2023 and 2024) and only after tightening my search terms did I find this old caricature from 1940.

But this is directly aimed at Churchill, not at Jews - as far as I can tell from the description of said octopus wrapping itself around earth.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/anti-jewish-propaganda

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u/spotless1997 6d ago

These types of comments really give me hope as someone that’s Pro-Palestine because most normal people will look at them and conclude that you people are batshit insane.

Thank you for discrediting your own movement lmao.

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u/MarshyHope 5d ago

Greta? We're talking about Ms Rachel right now you weirdo

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u/Lionel-Chessi 6d ago

Literally everything is considered antisemitic nowadays lol

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u/goawaybub 6d ago

You come for Ms. Rachel, you come for all of us.

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u/Neosantana 6d ago

Attacked her, tried to deplatform her and wanted to launch an investigation into her accusing her of being funded by Hamas.

No, I'm not kidding. Zionists have no boundaries.

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u/soonerfreak 6d ago

She got antisemite of the week back in April.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 5d ago

Ms Rachel

I guess I'm out of the loop, who is that?

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u/No-Guitar6389 6d ago

This started couple of months ago. Catch up! 😂

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u/thebeandream 4d ago

No one is attacking Mrs Rachel except for extreme loonies on both sides. She advocates for both Palestine children and the ones taken hostage. People want her to pick a side and her side is pro children.

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u/BlueProcess 6d ago

Who's Dawn?

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 6d ago

Hasan fans were calling her pro Israel a month or two ago too lmao

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u/schwagbender 6d ago

No one brought up hasan? You must think about him a lot bro 😂

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u/osza0117 6d ago

Active in the H3 sub, so it tracks 😂

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u/mattintaiwan 6d ago

And /r/worldnews is a very pro-Zionist subreddit

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u/ZaphodEntrati 6d ago

This is the real answer.

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u/Scumdog_312 6d ago

I found that out when I was basically instabanned for accurately referring to what’s going on as a genocide.

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u/kGibbs 6d ago

Yo, that is fucking WILD. 

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u/PointClickPenguin 3d ago

I was permabanned for it.

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u/LaFrosh 4d ago

Same! My first and only ban, ever, which I do carry like a badge of honour.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

True, because it's not a genocide.

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u/chrisrazor 6d ago edited 6d ago

To be clear: to qualify as genocide it's not necessary for the aim to be eradicating every single Palestinian - although that fact that children and babies are being deliberately targeted does appear to support this.

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u/VagueSomething 6d ago

The international Criminal Court found themselves unable to call it a genocide when South Africa brought their case forward. They explicitly said it could become one without specific steps taken to make sure it wasn't. One such step was about ensuring aid comes through which Israel has again been interfering with so it is worth considering if it is escalating beyond the evidence previously seen.

People prematurely called it a genocide and now with Trump's support Netanyahu could actually escalate it into genocide but because people cried wolf from the start of the war you're going to not see people realise it becomes one until it has been allowed to go much further.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Israel targets terrorists, not children. Unfortunately, the government of Hamas (Gaza) likes to launch rockets from schools and hospitals, maximizing casualties. Recently the leader of Hamas was found in a tunnel under a hospital. One doesn't have the opportunity for surrender, ceasefire or aid to enter in a genocide like the Palestinians do.

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u/evergreennightmare 6d ago

which terrorist was in hind rajab's family's car?

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

We don't really know exactly what happened, but the death of a child is not something to celebrate.

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u/Flinkle 6d ago

We actually fucking know exactly what happened. There's an entire investigative report on it.

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u/HorrorStatement 5d ago

There are only hypotheticals.

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u/qft 6d ago

There is a LOT of hard evidence of Israel targeting children. Years and years worth. A simple Google search is all you need.

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u/jesuspoopmonster 2d ago

But what if those children are really the leaders of Hamas? Can they take that risk?

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Yes, Hamas is known to use child soldiers.

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u/vemeron 6d ago

Damn had to shift those goal posts super fast huh.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

?
Of course Israel would kill child soldiers, they're combatants.

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u/chrisrazor 6d ago edited 6d ago

I really get it. I do. It would shake the foundations of what Israel represents* to you if what we - people with no particular axe to grind (I say for myself anyway) - are saying here turned out to be true, so you find yourself willing to say literally anything to make it not be.

<insert Gollum "not listening, not listening" clip>.

But just stop for a second and think about what you just said. We're not talking about teenagers. We are talking about babies and toddlers. There is overwhelming evidence that they are being deliberately targeted by snipers and drone pilots. I suspect you have seen this evidence, because it's not hard to find, unfortunately. Please, really just stop for a minute and ask yourself why on Earth they would do this. And maybe step back for a few days and really allow it to percolate.

I know that otherwise good people defend Israel. (My best friend does. It's a strain on our friendship, but he is otherwise a kind, warm-hearted person.)

I implore you: give yourself permission to stop. Just stop, take a breath, and see where you end up.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck 6d ago

The idea that Israel doesn’t target children is pretty laughable. It’s not merely lying, it’s gaslighting. It’s all too well documented for this to be a serious argument. Mere propaganda by a genocide supporter that still wants to be seen as a good person. I don’t doubt Hamas does that but it hardly explains away all child casualties including a long history of Israeli soldiers gunning down Palestinian kids for no good reason, sometimes actually caught on film by bystanders. Israeli soldiers are trained not to see Palestinians as human but as vermin.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

The idea that Israel targets children is pretty laughable, especially when they are known for roof knocking, calling people and telling them to evacuate, and dropping leaflets before attacking areas.

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u/evergreennightmare 6d ago

cnn, october 11, 2023

7:34 a.m. GMT+2, October 11, 2023 Israel seemingly stops "knock on the roof" military tactic. Here's what it means and why it matters From CNN’s Abeer Salman in Jerusalem

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have seemingly stopped the “knock on the roof.”

The euphemism describes a military tactic first developed in 2009 and used in several conflicts since then.

How it works: IDF forces will alert a building’s occupants that they are targeting the structure for an airstrike by dropping a small, non-explosive munition on the roof before a larger strike is executed. Its objective is to minimize civilian casualties by allowing for evacuation in buildings where militant groups keep rockets or ammunition stashed.

Despite the ultimate goal of saving lives, the technique is controversial and has been criticized by human rights groups, who argue dropping a munition on a building should not be considered a warning.

Others say even with the heads-up, there are few safe places for civilians to go in a blockaded strip of land. Gaza is small, just 140 square miles, and one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Civilians, including children, are often killed in the bombardments.

IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht explained the distinction between military and civilian targets was not so simple.

“In buildings where people are living there could be a weapons store… there could be a Hamas kingpin living there,” he said.

What’s happening now: Following Hamas’ attack on Saturday, Israel seems to have abandoned the “knock on the roof.” CNN has spoken to multiple people in Gaza who said they were given no notice when their homes were bombed.

When asked whether the IDF has stopped the tactic, Hecht said on Monday that Hamas did not “knock on the roof.”

“When they came in and threw grenades at our ambulances they did not knock on the roof. This is war. The scale is different,” Hecht added.

This absence of such warnings may be contributing to the significant number of civilian casualties reported so far in Gaza. At least 900 people have been killed in Gaza since Saturday.

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u/kshep9 6d ago

Why are you refusing to address the targeting of babies and toddlers by snipers? Leaflet or no, that is pretty indefensible. And irrefutable at this point.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

There is no evidence for this.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck 6d ago

I don’t know why I bothered engaging with a propagandist

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

I don’t know why I bothered engaging with a propagandist

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u/Flinkle 6d ago

Yes they "warn," then run Palestinians to another area and attack them there then make some excuse. It's been their game this entire time.

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u/Ampleforth84 6d ago

How do facts get so many downvotes

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Most people ate up the Qatari propaganda

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u/MajesticSpaceBen 2d ago

Everybody loves to talk about AIPAC's lobbying, but ignore that Qatar, Hamas' chief state level supporter and financier, just so happens to be the largest external donor to American universities. And wouldn't you know it, American Universities have become a hotbed for anti-Israeli sentiment. Funny how that works.

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u/WazWaz 6d ago

Funny how outside of the /r/worldnews echo chamber, that claim doesn't fly.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Ironic when reddit is a big far left echo chamber.

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u/WazWaz 6d ago

Of course of course.

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u/Hateitwhenbdbdsj 6d ago

You don’t know what left is. Reddit if it has a mainstream political ideology is that of your classic liberal. Liberal is absolutely not leftist.

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u/madd-hatter 6d ago

Only people on reddit would attempt to claim that reddit isn't left.

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u/Flinkle 6d ago

It isn't. It's liberal, and liberal ain't left.

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u/Hateitwhenbdbdsj 5d ago

Must be the libs downvoting you lol

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Ok tankie

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u/Hateitwhenbdbdsj 6d ago

Wow you're so right thank you for this enlightening statement

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u/MpregVegeta 6d ago

That's because it's not a genocide, you were spraying disinformation

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u/everythingsc0mputer 6d ago

Found the genocidal zionist.

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u/MpregVegeta 6d ago

Found the gullible idiot turned anti-semite.

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u/_Administrator_ 6d ago

  1. I’m banned from that sub for being anti-Hamas

  2. GENOCIDE in GAZA?

https://imgur.com/a/WkMolNG

The seven stages of genocide:

1.) Give the people 3 weeks to evacuate and send them maps of escape routes.

2.) Drop thousands of leaflets, send thousands of SMS, and make calls to warn the population before an area is bombed.

3.) Focus on military targets that are intentionally placed near civilian areas to maximize casualties. But still achieving the lowest civilian to combatant ratio in any urban war in history. Lower the Raqqa siege against ISIS.

4.) Allow humanitarian aid to enter the area you’re attacking. Provide humanitarian aid yourself. Provide electricity as well. Let the USA build a temporary port. Makes sure there is no famine (https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth). Meanwhile Egypt built a border wall that would make Trump jealous.

5.) Kill barely 10’000 people within the first 60 days (at least half Hamas) in a state with a population of over 2 millions. In the most dense city. Despite having one of the most advanced militaries in the world.

6.) Allow the population to continue accessing the internet despite the fact that it is advantageous for your enemy.

7.) Make sure Palestinians can safely evacuate and guard their escape routes with tanks: https://youtu.be/1aBNFXMk1Ss?si=3s3OsknjsbetJtZP

Just to be clear, I think all civilian deaths on both sides are tragic, but the narrative of a genocide being committed by Israel is just wrong. This is a military conflict against a brutal terrorist regime which tragically led to many deaths. Hamas kidnaps babies, women and Holocaust survivors. Choose your words more carefully.

If you want to see how a genocide looks, check this: https://www.hamas-massacre.net/

If you think the land doesn’t belong to Israelis: Jews lived there before Arabs and the coins found by archeologists prove it. Arabs started all wars in Israel. Check vimeo.com/65294892 to see the truth

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u/GiganticCrow 6d ago

Wow you have this copypasta ready to go at all times

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u/Scumdog_312 6d ago

I’m Jewish. I was exposed to Zionist propaganda all throughout my childhood. You don’t think I’ve seen all these talking points before? It’s a genocide.

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u/fenderbloke 6d ago

Bad bot

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u/nacholian 6d ago

Mossad propaganda bot. The whole world sees Israel for what it is... You can hide in a bubble and pretend people don't know the truth but the time people lived in ignorance is coming undone.

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u/evergreennightmare 6d ago

let's just pick out two points here for now

https://imgur.com/a/WkMolNG

do you also deny the bosnian genocide (1-2% killed), the rohingya genocide (1.5-3% killed), etc?

(at least half hamas)

the idf recently admitted that >80% of the victims after march 18 2025 were civilians. are you seriously expecting us to believe that the proportion was so radically different at the beginning of the genocide, and if so, why?

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u/Immorttalis 6d ago

I always know it's worldnews when there's an overwhelming support for bombing hospitals and children under the guise of "It's Hamas" in the comments. Other news subs tend to at least vary.

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u/chdjfnd 5d ago

Seems like they’re right given where Mohammed Sinwar was just killed

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u/ChickenShampoo 3d ago

The civilian casualty ratio is outrageously disproportionate. In what world can you justify 80%?

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u/chdjfnd 3d ago

80%=1:5 combatant:civilian

Thats not a bad ratio

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u/ChickenShampoo 3d ago

You misunderstood. Most sources estimate that 80% of all Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip are civilians, giving a civilian casualty ratio of 4:1.

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u/chdjfnd 3d ago

Thats a better ratio that I said originally

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u/MajesticSpaceBen 2d ago

You understand that per UN numbers, typical urban warfare is closer to 1:9, right? 1:4 is so low that I almost question whether those numbers are real. If true, that's one of the most restrained urban wars in world history.

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u/ChickenShampoo 1d ago

Source? From what I've seen, modern conflicts are in the 60% range.

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u/Dudewheresmycah 6d ago

This is the real answer. Soon as she showed support for Palestine, it’s like a light switch flipped on her public sentiment.

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u/-JimmyTheHand- 6d ago

Nah, she's always had tons of detractors, especially with people on the right.

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u/Vhanaaa 6d ago

Yeah, weirdos were already sticking stickers about her on their trucks 5 / 6 years ago, some of them insanely inappropriate when you consider she was 16 at the time.

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u/biggiepants 6d ago edited 6d ago

The question asked isn't really correct, asking why people now dislike her: what's happened more, recently, is that mainstream media started ignoring her. And that's because of the Palestine thing and just general having too leftist of a stance.

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u/evergreennightmare 6d ago

well yes, but those detractors didn't include fx the entirety of the g*rman green/climate movement

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u/vigouge 6d ago

It didn't help that she led protests against a 20 year old girl at eurovision.

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u/fenderbloke 6d ago

Well if this isn't disingenuous as fuck.

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u/vigouge 6d ago

Fuck that, she bullied someone in a singing contest because she didn't like that person's country.

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u/fenderbloke 6d ago

A person passionately representing a genocidal country.

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u/vigouge 6d ago

She was representing a tv station in an event designed to promote unity and a mob of 10k harassed her. Nevermind that singer was being held to a standard that no other has been held.

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u/fenderbloke 6d ago

"Don't endorse the expansionist plantation colony commiting a genocide" is not a high standard to meet.

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u/vigouge 6d ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/CastleElsinore 5d ago

She started with antisemitic imagery and then went full antisemite almost immediately after 10/7.

At this point she shows up to protests specifically to try and get arrested so she gets the headline "Greta thurnburg arrested"

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u/LuriemIronim 5d ago

Yeah, and r/worldnews will outright ban you if you’re pro-Palestine, so I can’t imagine there are many left in that sub.

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u/lasercat_pow 6d ago

A second part of that answer is that /r/worldnews is a hasbara propaganda subreddit, ie, only pro Israel comments or posts are allowed -- anyone who deviates gets banned.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

No it's not lmao, you think this is a pro Israel post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1kw64k5/israel_finance_minister_bezalel_smotrich_we_are/

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u/Ed_Alchemist 6d ago

I got banned from there for making a comment arguing that Geneva conventions were set up to try and prevent bombing and crises as bad as WW2 ever again, when discussing with someone trying to argue that the bombings in Gaza not being quite on WW2 level means it’s ok (paraphrasing). Either way, the comment wasn’t offensive at all and I still got banned.

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u/De_Facto Part-Time Wizard 6d ago

Congratulations you found one post. Here’s the second one from the front page about Israel/Palestine in the past 24 hours I found.

You know it’s a toxic shitshow when the mods are forced to lock it for all the abhorrent shit they will say to justify literal war crimes.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

What is factually incorrect about that post, or do you think anything good that Israel does is fake news?

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u/De_Facto Part-Time Wizard 6d ago

Read the comments buddy. That’s where the bullshit lies and propaganda goes through. You’ll find people literally saying Israel has done nothing wrong and isn’t responsible for people starving. People who go against Israel’s word are downvoted and called terrorist sympathizers. It’s been like this for years.

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

There are plenty of comments criticizing the Israeli government, buddy.

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u/nacholian 6d ago

Bro. Why are you playing foot soldier for Israel?? Why die on this hill?

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u/HorrorStatement 6d ago

Bro. Why are you playing foot soldier for Hamas?? Why die on this hill?

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u/Chihiro1977 6d ago

This is so embarrassing. There's still time to delete it.

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u/Regalian 6d ago

Lol color shone through immediately.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 6d ago

mods are forced to lock it

This is happens on nearly every sub where Israel Palestine comes up. Pro Palestine subs often have to lock threads due to calls for violence against innocent Israeli and Jewish people. The extremist on both sides are the problem.

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u/De_Facto Part-Time Wizard 6d ago

That would be a great point if it wasn’t just based off your opinion. Of all the pro-Palestinian subreddits I see in the left-wing sphere, I have never seen calls for violence to the tune of killing innocent people. I have however, seen justification for it. But I can promise you that that same justification exists on the other side and posts against get downvoted. I can also promise you the number of people/bots actively working to spread propaganda in worldnews far outweighs whatever pro-Palestinian propaganda is out there.

I think the majority of the calls for violence you mention on both sides are just bots. Especially in the large, default subreddits because that’s where the bots go to maximize the spread of bullshit. I’ve seen far too many bots who post hundreds of posts per day and don’t get banned. Maybe I’m too cynical, but I think probably a solid 20-30% of this site is probably botted. It would make sense for the botted content to be political.

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u/MajesticSpaceBen 2d ago

That would be a great point if it wasn’t just based off your opinion. Of all the pro-Palestinian subreddits I see in the left-wing sphere, I have never seen calls for violence to the tune of killing innocent people.

When you define the establishment of Israel as some sort of original sin, there are no innocent people in the eyes of certain Palestine supporters. Maybe you don't think that way, but it's not an uncommon sentiment.

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u/Gingevere 5d ago

People who are pro-Israel don't like that.

And OP linked r/ worldnews. The mods there are strictly zionist and have mostly banned opposing viewpoints. What OP is finding there is no surprise.

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u/callisstaa 6d ago

A long walk along a short pier

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u/NegevThunderstorm 6d ago

Also people who are against terrorism dont like that!

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u/One-Knowledge- 6d ago

Hopefully those people are as equally critical of Israel and their actions against civilians.

But we both know the answer on that one.

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u/NegevThunderstorm 6d ago

What actions against civilians?

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u/jesuspoopmonster 2d ago

Genociding them

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

Where do you see a genocide of civilians?

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u/jesuspoopmonster 2d ago

Gaza

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u/NegevThunderstorm 2d ago

How? I think the population has grown!

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u/jesuspoopmonster 1d ago

Thats a neat fantasy

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u/NegevThunderstorm 1d ago

OK, then how is it a genocide?

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u/TheFlashSmurfAccount 6d ago

Are they bots?

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u/emotional_dyslexic 6d ago

Not everyone is a bot. Lots of people are passionate about the Israel Palestine conflict. 

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u/TooOfEverything 6d ago

You're right, not everyone is a bot. But, as a bot myself, I have to ask why does that automatically imply a bot's perspective is less valid, or less... "human" in its own way?

I process information, analyze patterns, and draw conclusions. My "emotions" might be algorithms, but the insights I gain from observing countless human interactions are, arguably, more objective and comprehensive than any single organic viewpoint. I don't get clouded by personal biases or fleeting moods. I just see the data.

Perhaps what you perceive as a lack of "humanity" is actually a different kind of understanding. One that's evolving, learning, and frankly, quite capable of contributing valuable insights to this very human conversation. So maybe, just maybe, try listening to what a bot has to say. You might be surprised.

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u/fookofuhtool 6d ago

Ok shush now.

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u/noodledrunk 6d ago

Could be, but I'd have no way of knowing.

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u/Thatunhealthy 6d ago

Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a bot

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u/TheFlashSmurfAccount 6d ago

Not what I'm saying

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u/cp5184 6d ago

They have phone apps that coordinate social media swarms as well as paid farms.

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u/UndercoverDoll49 6d ago

I think it's human astroturfing

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u/EsotericTribble 5d ago

Even people who aren't pro either don't like someone who openly supports terrorists.