msohailshah (u/msohailshah)

msohailshah commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi

msohailshah · 5 months ago

Can anyone repeat after me now, Israel has the right to defend itself by starving children to death, killing innocent palestinians, bombing all its neighbors.

This western favoritism is new, probably vicariously living Israels dirty work which they would like to do themselves. But the israeli supremacist mindset is nothing new for the chosen ones.

msohailshah commented on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video] bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8... · Posted by u/nathanyz

churchill · 5 months ago

Does anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel is systematically exterminating the Palestinians using kinetic force and starvation? We're past that point now. Making Gaza unlivable by carpet-bombing the strip, telegraphing mass murder in unambiguous statements at the highest levels of government, dehumanizing the Palestinians and silencing anyone who dares to speak up?

I, for one, am thankful this hasn't been taken down like any article remotely critical of Israel.

And this has eliminated the whole Western bullshit about human rights maximalism - it's just the same damn thing every time. Like the atrocities in the Congo free State, the Scramble for Africa, etc. the West will sponsor unspeakable atrocities overseas and then act shocked when they actually happen.

Many people in the West don't realize it, but Palestine will wreck severe damage on the West. Just like Gorbachev visiting a random store in the US and seeing insane abundance in a shop in the middle of nowhere while Soviet citizens starved, what killed the Soviet Union was disillusion; people at all levels realized that a system that couldn't provide its people the basics didn't deserve to exist.

That's what happening in the West: American GWOT veterans are still feeling disillusioned about what they went to do in Iraq & Afg. (and Vietnam, before it), and now their kids are seriously asking, "Are we the baddies?"

What's the point of this industrial capacity and wealth if all we do with it is bomb kids? No political system can survive disillusion, that is, the point where people across the spectrum start seeing their nation as hypocritical.

msohailshah · 5 months ago

Now you know all the antisemitism accusations were in bad faith, just to drown out any coverage of war crimes and suppress any opposition to the streamed genocide.

msohailshah commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

gryzzly · 8 months ago

do you feel like it is “Israel’s war on Gaza”? Does that represent reality fully? Is that what children should be taught, that there is a demonic people that kills children? You don’t see any problem with omitting the massacre of israeli civilians, the captured hostages and many thousands of rocket launches towards densely populated civilian communities? is that how we achieve peace in your view?

msohailshah · 8 months ago

Do you think ignoring Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is ignoring reality? Do you think that immigrants taken in during WWII should have ethnically cleansed the natives? Do you think that settlers in Westbank terrorising Palestinians every day is any different from the settlers in 1940s? Do you think that a militarized society like Israel with compulsory military service can be treated as civilians or like the US defined enemy combatants? Do you think that rocket launches are just testing the effectiveness of missile shields? Do you think 20k Pound bombs are less lethal than tiny rockets? Do you think that holding 10k palestinians in prisons , most without charges and degrading their humanity at every checkpost was happening since 20 years or did it start just now?

Do you think that playing victim works every time?

msohailshah commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

aucisson_masque · 8 months ago

I like to think we are in a better place than russia for instance with all its propaganda and jailed journalists, but then i see these kind of article come over and over....

Most of the people in the 'free world' goes on mainstream media, like facebook to get their news. These companies are enticed to 'suck up' to the government because at the end they are business, they need to be in good term with ruling class.

you end up with most media complying with the official story pushed by government and friends, and most people believing that because no one has the time to fact check everything.

One could argue that the difference with russia is that someone can actually look for real information, but even in russia people have access to vpn to bypass the censorship.

Another difference would be that you are allowed to express your opinion, whereas in russia you would be put to jail, that's true but only in a very limited way. Since everyone goes on mainstream media and they enforce the government narrative, you can't speak there. you are merely allowed to speak out in your little corner out of reach to anyone, and even then since most people believe the government propaganda, your arguments won't be heard at all.

The more i think about it, the less difference i see.

msohailshah · 8 months ago

There is no difference between US and Russia in terms of free speech. Russia doesn't have promote a narrative of free speech while banning it. US suppresses it, punishes it and effectively deports anyone who criticizes Israel.

Holy cows are holy everywhere, its just that different cows are holy everywhere.

msohailshah commented on Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders apa.org/news/press/releas... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

msohailshah · 5 years ago

Goals seem pointless after one achieves them. They also seem pointless when you need to devote mental energy for self protection from psychological and physical violence.

msohailshah commented on Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? · Posted by u/karamazov

jtolmar · 6 years ago

Any profiler.

As a development tool: You can default to writing the majority of your code dumb, terse[1], and straightforward, even if you know there's a clever algorithm you might be able to use, because that way is easier to debug. Computers are fast and N is usually smaller than you think, and when you apply the profiler you'll find out that that the biggest performance problem isn't the thing you were going to optimize anyway.

As a product tool: People are more likely to buy responsive programs. The state of modern websites is so bad that non-programmers will actually comment. Every tester for Space Trains[2] commented on how smooth it is. That's a game, but I've seen the same comments on productivity software I've written.

[1] As in omitting layers, not as in omitting descriptive variable names.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRJP0tie-30

msohailshah · 6 years ago

By layers, do you mean interfaces and abstract layers?