The rats would love to have a coherent position on the Palestinian genocide but there’s just no one from the polycule that’s written about it in their nerd blogs so they’re all going to have to continue rejecting all evidence.

After being admonished by Paul Graham for baselessly questioning the veracity of a Palestinian child saying goodbye to their dying father, Yud writes

Why do you believe that any of this is true? Serious question. I haven’t been able to find any blog with two serious nerds fighting it out, each side says the other side’s stuff is all fake, and each side has compelling instances of other-side stuff being fake.

Aella too finds this all very confusing due to the low IQ of everyone with an opinion

I do really wish someone smart and good at critical thinking would sit down and invest a lot of research into which claims by both sides are accurate and which are propaganda. This would be so good for the world

Nathan Young is also Spartacus, and none of your mean taunts to “open a newspaper” will change that

I respect Eliezer’s public confusion here. I too am confused and struggling to find good sources to understand Gaza.

Nor does people yelling at me make me believe them more.

The important thing is that they are actually very open minded and unbiased and will figure this all out someday when the mass graves are exhumed.

  • cornflake@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Not your main point, but the “this is an ancient feud” line is a mystifying trope. Jews lived in peace and safety among Muslims (and Christians) all around the Levant all the way through the Ottoman era, especially compared to their brutal persecution in Europe. The precipitating shift was modern Zionism, a European settler colonial project with an explicit goal of displacing the inhabitants of Palestine to create a supermajority ethnic Jewish state.