I find a direct correlation between the Mass media reporting, and activity on many threads. Once the TV shifts to a new emotive topic so does the posting. Though not always... Consider the Israeli conflict/war. Even the US President goes over there, but for some reason the subject is completely ignored here? I think people have an aversion to discussing Israel. I think the nation and it's people are universally hated.
Consider the facts. Palestine was never a recognized state, had no recognized capital, even among the islamic nations. The region was basically a wasteland up until 1948. Then the jews reclaim it as their state and this is globally accepted, except by the Islamic nations that hate them for religious reasons. They attack it, relentlessly, their stated goal, the genocide of the jewish people. America, as the global bastion of democracy lends aid to the nation, Israel defeats the Islamic armies, and after the defeat and the conquest of more territory (buffer zone) it seeks peace with it's neighbors but they double down on the genocidal rhetoric.
So we move to today, the Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization attacks across the border and murders hundreds of civilians. Their primary target was the civilian population, the murdering of men women and children, and the abduction of many which they took back across into the Gaza. Not as prisoners or hostages for negotiation, but to make sport of and murder. And the average response of a Western person. "Well they had it coming because they stole the Palestinians homeland and oppress them." Very interesting attitude.
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford is much in the news this week with his celebration of the Hamas attack on Israel.
While insisting he does not condone the targeting of civilians, he heralded as “exhilarating” an attack that led to the massacre of civilians, the raping of women, and the taking of hostages.
Now "this" stuff is being pulled off the web faster than cloths of the line in a spring shower.
Shani Louk 22-year-old German national. Positively identified by dreadlocks and unique leg tattoos
https://www.kaotic.com/video/1b23bb6a_20231007164416_t