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Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno as Gaza Family 'Burned Alive' in Israeli Massacre
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A couple of mods here seem to downvote every post that draws attention to this sort of atrocity. One of them is even on YPTB defending banning people for criticizing those who approve of war crimes.
https://lemvotes.org/post/sh.itjust.works/post/38794521
Wow, I didnt know admiral patrick is a zionist. Might just be an accident tho.
Edit: Not an accident, there is a pattern. He even downvoted the same thread about the airstrike on three different subs in the space of a minute.
When I had an account in lemmy.world my registration e-mail was leaked to Israel and I started receveiving invitations in my native language from a Tel-Aviv based organisation to attend an online "Learn about Israel" course.
Getting my registration information including e-mail requires the level of access of an admin of the instance rather than merelly that of a mod.
It makes sense that as maybe the largest Lemmy instance in terms of number of users lemmy.world is targeted by the propaganda ops of the biggest players and since Israel spends a ton of money in propaganda plus Lemmy being a left-leaning community tends to side with the oppressed (so, Palestine), it's absolutelly logic that Israel has at least one full time sock-puppet here.
I believe in the old reddit century club notion of "courtesy voting". If it's interesting enough for me to comment, everyone gets an upvote. :)
I upvote comments even if I don't quote agree but I feel it advances the conversation
I try not to downvote just based on disagreements, but based on degrees of bad faith, at least on politics. My upvotes are definitely progressive and anti-genocide. With this topic I think it's fair to say that every comment defending genocide is inherently bad faith.
I wouldn't personally care too much how mods vote, so long as they're not botting. It is far more concerning to see reported instances of violent rhetoric being ignored on an instances and that may warrant clear cases being reported to the instance mods.
It could be beneficial to the world news portion to adopt a similar recommendation in their rules to politics, which is recommending that they vote more similarly to Jordan, EG not downvoting people who make real arguments to support their points. The point of these discussions should be dialog between competing viewpoints and it gets hard to do if they're downvoted into oblivion for not knowing something you do or vice versa. It would then also be much harder for mods to justify their votes on validly sourced genocide coverage. Just my 2c