Fair enough, especially since I wasn’t responding to OP as I thought I was.

Sorry, I thought you were OP. I should have made a top level comment.

If you think that one can only enjoy serenity with a spliff then my comment was for you. It took decades for me to get to this point.

Which Lemmy downvotes?

I got banned temporarily (but actually permanently) from TheGuardian for posting newspaper articles reporting on evidence that Assange’s Swedish alleged rape victims boasted about their sexual encounter on Twitter and SMS (which bus lawyer submitted as evidence). No commentary from me.

I got banned from r/worldnews without warning because I posted an article by Seymore Hirsch suggesting that the NordStream pipeline was sabotaged by USA themselves. The only commentary there was to add that he is a respectedjournalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam.

I had a comments deleted on Lemmy WorldNews because the Mod did not like my politics. At least I wasn’t banned.

Friends have set up a private forum and server which is a solution however it doesn’t have much activity. Those in our circle are too attracted to popular socials instead it seems.

Am still on Reddit and was reminded just minutes ago of what you just said.

Here is 20 people downvoting me for giving a TL;DR which is somehow both good and bad simultaneously.

Seems you are looking for “supernatural” experiences however the following probably sounds supernatural to some:

Contentment in the serenity of what appears to outsiders to be a boring situation.

Took me a while. It is the peeling underside of the cladding which is supposed to run alongside the rear window. Compare left of the window vs right.

Might be worth paying for a VPN to avoid this.

It was some New Age NZ woman who destroyed reading education in the Anglosphere despite her anti-phonics method having been disproven in a study at the time.

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

The division TheGuardian talks disingenuously about is actually this woo vs evidence based science.

Surprisingly, NSW outsmarted Victoria on this…

In 2015, a report from the New South Wales Department of Education,[4] concluded that Reading Recovery was largely ineffective, and should not be used for most children.[5] As a result, in 2016, Reading Recovery lost its “mandated status” as part of the curriculum in NSW’s more than 900 public schools, although individual schools may still opt to use it.[6] A further consequence of this shift in policy is that, in 2017, the NSW Department of Education initiated a hiring program to recruit dozens of new literacy and numeracy experts to support teachers in “evidence-based professional learning”, according to NSW Minister for Education, Rob Stokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Recovery

Why is the headline mentioning Abbott? How is he relevant?

It should say “with Opposition leader support”. Am impressed with his stance.

Firstly, you really ought to see that documentary. I repeat: America is not given a free pass.

And finally Israel didn’t retaliate, Israel started it a century ago.

That is arguable however…

The practical starting point is that neither Jews nor Arabs are leaving the Levant. The Gazans’ inability to accept this is why the conflict continues.

The West Bank, however, I admit has seen Israeli expansionism regardless of Arab terrorism. Obama disappointed me greatly there.

One example. I already revealed another example: The first suicide attacks were on US military occupying Lebanon .

That is two examples vs countless suicide attacks on civilians and daily rocket attacks which were not military targeted, starting the day after Oct 7 (ie before Israel even retaliated).

Terrorism is always for a purpose. You listed several purposes, all of which are pursued via terrorism.

They only exist because of their willingness to use terrorism.

Except when it literally is suicide attacks on civilians as innovated by Hezbollah That is pretty black and white.

Each of those goals are pursued by means of terrorism.

There were people pursuing those goals before Hezbollah existed. AFAIK they merely added the tool of terrorism.

Am not an expert in this field. If someone is and can take us deeper I would appreciate it.

But I have changed my mind after reading further about the things he has said. He deserves extra scrutiny.

Am not going to delete my comment because Lemmy is all about civil disagreement, even if it is with myself 😁

Elsewhere in these comments, the mod just disagreed with me. On Reddit WorldNews I was banned for less.

Hezbollah have only one reason for existing: terrorism.

USA is guilty of its own terrorism but that is not the reason for its existence.

That documentary doesn’t give anyone a free pass. If you have not heard of Adam Curtis, you are in for a treat.

I agree (except for the “scum” part) but would not complain if border security singled me out like they did him.

He wasn’t beaten up or thrown into prison.

Going out of his way to declare “No issue with Hezbollah” is the equivalent of support for terrorism IMO.

They started the whole suicide bombing thing with their killing of American soldiers in Lebanon. This went against Islam, but was given the green light by Ayatollah Khomeni and was weaponised by Assad.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM&amp%3Bt=32m32s

I Imagine you would not be defending someone if they were going around saying they have “no issue with pedos”.