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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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1332 points Qem | 7 comments | 16 Sep 25 08:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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WuxiFingerHold[dead post] ◴[17 Sep 25 02:43 UTC] No.45271005[source]▶
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mslm ◴[17 Sep 25 04:37 UTC] No.45271726[source]▶
This specific political topic is on the top of everyone's mind. If the US president was assassinated, would you say the same? If your child was killed for political reasons, would you continue your blissful mornings aloof?
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margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 04:46 UTC] No.45271775[source]▶
This specific political topic is absolutely not the top of everyone's mind. The number of people on HN that this tangibly affects is frankly miniscule.

Most of HN is American. It's on the other side of the world. It has about as much actual effect on the typical American as the just as bad events currently unfolding in Sudan.

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1. mslm ◴[17 Sep 25 04:54 UTC] No.45271819[source]▶
This thread's numbers betray you. You're living under a rock if you think this topic isn't a regular at the highest political levels, on the news, and now frankly at the ballot box.
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2. mslm ◴[17 Sep 25 05:44 UTC] No.45272179[source]▶
> What's happening right now is only mildly worse than the last few times this has happened.

So you _are_ living under a rock, okay.

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3. mslm ◴[17 Sep 25 05:47 UTC] No.45272198[source]▶
Those numbers you referenced have nothing to do with the topic. We aren't talking about "americans’ views of global threats". As I saw from your other comment, you're just living under a rock and you know it.
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5. margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 06:15 UTC] No.45272370{3}[source]▶
We all are. Some of us are just aware of it.
6. margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 06:18 UTC] No.45272383{3}[source]▶
> We aren't talking about "americans’ views of global threats".

That...is in fact exactly the topic of conversation? I can't help you with this one.

7. margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 06:31 UTC] No.45272476{3}[source]▶
Why makes you think this is such a hot issue? It's a sporting event.

Two teams of murderous rapists are fighting one another, everyone has their favorite team, and if someone thinks someone else supports a different team they say "how can you support those murderous rapists! Just look what they did to the innocent people on my side!"

It's an opportunity for people to be tribal about something that, for the overwhelming majority of people, will never affect them the slightest bit.