Thanks, did not know about this.

So, from a technical view…

There is a person who is mad about the fact that a different opinion might exist… That person clicks downvote in their app and it does not have any effect??

Showing upvoters and removing downvotes completely!!

People downvote totally harmless posts and comments, just because they have a different opinion.

This useless and contraproductive negativity is the reason why YouTube removed downvotes and many other platforms never offered such a feature.

That’s probably true, but just to highlight this: Bitcoin is not untraceable

Well, there are countries like Turkey with a currency that lost 95% of its value during the last 10 years. In such countries, Bitcoin is a way to have a currency that does not have a guarantee to ruin you. When your country has 60% inflation like Turkey, the deflation currency might be seen as a gift. So, this might be a legal use case…

Let’s ignore crypto for a second…

People in the USA loose around $10.000.000.000 per year to scams according to FTC…

And for donations to Wikileaks, we don’t want the government to be able to reverse or block them. That’s what PayPal did with then before Bitcoin was invented.

I don’t think that Bitcoin can or should replace the current system, but it can be an addition for rarer cases.

But yes: Most of the other blockchain stuff is just completely useless and therefore not used.

In Germany, we have a guy Wallraff, who gets a job at Burger King with a fake identity every few years, just to uncover hygiene scandals every time… Reminds me of that… Nowadays, no one seems to care anymore…

Turkey’s currency dropped 83% in the last 5 years and 94% in 10 years (per USD). And by the way: It dropped and did not rise the same amount ever again…

Why can’t we just agree that different people might have different views whether it’s useful for them?

Is it more stable compared to USD? No. Is it more stable compared to dozens of other currencies? Yes.

I think, there are very good arguments against BTC, for example the energy consunption… But whether it’s too risky for you or not… That’s highly subjective IMO. There is no country on this planet with only BTC as official currency. So, no one is forced to hold 100% of their total money in BTC.

I think, whether it’s helpful is an individual decision. E.g. for people in Turkey, it’s a lot more stable than their own currency. Same logic for probably dozens of other countries…

Maybe, it’s not useful for you, but that’s OK. No one is trying to replace your currency with it and force you to use it.

Short reminder that Bitcoin was created as a reaction on the world finance crisis and to allow people like Assange to receive donations, because PayPal and similar just blocked them…

That does not mean that Botcoin is perfect, but: If the alternative system was perfect, there was not bitcoin.

Now, do we need an emoji? I don’t care TBH…

Hello, is this the Qatar water park support line? I’m stuck on level 17 in the north east block. People are piling up behind me. Get us out of here!

As I said: Neither you nor me are the ones who will classify whether it is a genocide or not. Feel free to use the word. I won’t for now…

It’s interesthing how both sides think, I’m at least partially against them…

“Jesus. You’re a lost cause”

I assume, you don’t want to tell me what’s wrong with the quote of me? I re-read it 4 times… You could argue against “don’t want to negotiate”, because they might have to do so during this conflict… But the main goal that Hamas defined is the destruction of Israel… How do you want to negotiate the bigger picture of this conflict with them? “ok, destroy us, but only 49% of our area”?

Hamas has constantly advocated for the total destruction of Israel. That’s their main goal. I think, your view is that Netanyahu wants to conquer all the Palestine area? They want something similar. They want to conquer all the Israel area…

Hamas did not even attack the Israeli government last year. They attacked pretty much only civilians.

What do you call that? You use the crazy words (facist, apartheid, genocide, Hitler, …) quickly, but don’t agree that Hamas is a terror organization??? Seriously???

Hamas is a pain in the ass for Israel and also for the people in Gaza. They use their own people as human shields. They don’t even want to negotiate. They want to destroy Israel.

My view: Hamas in power is a guarantee that this will go on for many more decades.

Just curious because you wrote “dispassionate observer”… Do you think that you can put yourself in the place of both sides? Can you understand why Israel didn’t just stand still after the massacre last year? Can you understand that they would like to solve the Hamas problem once and for all (the HOW is of course always debatable) to not get attacked again?

Do you want to challenge your beliefs?

Compared with others here, I think, I can actually understand the dilemma on both sides.

I hope, that Hamas loses power first and then Netanyahu. I think, this is the only way that can lead to peace in that region in the future. Otherwise, this will continue for even more decades. Hamas’ main motto is still the total destruction of Israel. And Netanyahu’s seddling strategy is also terrible if you want a solution.

But what’s your idea to solve this? It’s a complex conflict that is happening for decades and you and others act like it’s easy to solve it… If the terror organization Hamas keeps power, you can already put an event into your calendar when the next rockets will hit Israel… With other words: What’s YOUR strategy to get rid of Hamas?

You wrote or copy-pasted a lot of stuff, but…

the first part is not about concentration camps.

the 2nd one is about terrible discrimination, not about what I wrote.

and the 3rd part is about a 2.000 years old book. Really? Some chapters in there probably explain in detail how many goats or sheep we need to exchange to solve a conflict…

I’m not sure, what you are trying to do… But if you really want to think that Netanyahu is pretty much Hitler and that it can’t be any worse, feel free to do so… I won’t stop you. I have a different opinion.

BTW: I don’t think, anyone uses spirituality to justify what’s happening in Gaza. They usually use the massacre in Isarel of last year as justification.

Imagine, Netanyahu would actually build concentration camps or declare to kill all palestinians or explain that Jewish people are surpirior because of their blood and then conquer the whole middle east region?

I mean… Who do you compare him with in that case? You have already used the Hitler comparison, which is already a 100/100 on the “very bad person” ladder…

I’m just differentiating between facts and accusations.

The status quo is that there are states accusing Israel of comitting a genocide.

What’s interesting: I think, I have a somehow similar opinion about the brutality happening in Gaza and that there must be a plan to end this as soon as possible. But just because I don’t use an emotion driven buzz word, people tell me to fuck off or shut up…

Originally, I did not want to write this, but… What’s somehow ironic: I’m probably talking to people here whose own current and future government (does not matter whether Biden, Trump or Harris) states clearly that it’s NOT a genocide. So, my “let’s wait for the experts to classify it” view is not even as crazy as to the one of their government. But yeah… I don’t know where you are from… So, this is an accusation, too.

But whatever… I’ll keep describing what’s happening in Gaza without using that word, as long a it’s only a Genocide accusation.

Why do you even write this text, if you don’t want to hear what I want to say?

BTW: I don’t argue against the fact that terrible things are happening there. But that’s not the definition of genocide. If you want to call it a genocide, go ahead. I’ll just go ahead and mention the terrible things happening there without using buzzwords.

It’s interesting that professionals who know about public international law are usually careful calling it genocide, because this is a complex topic, but random lemmy users with no experience are 100% sure (probably because they heard it from others).

I have no problem calling it genocide when it is actually classified as one. But sorry… I think, it’s just stupid to use this word as a buzzword.

Can’t we just criticize whatever he is doing wrong without stupid comparisons?

No, he is not a Hitler. No, Gaza is not a concentration camp. And the classification of whether it is a genocide or not will not be the job of a random Lemmy user.