Alistair's First Law of Hyperbolic Limitation:
Before anything can qualify as genocide it must first qualify as decimation.
@cerebrate And “attempted” genocide?
Logically, must first qualify as “attempted” decimation.
@cerebrate @zarpaulus well I’m pretty sure that when the civilian death toll exceeds the membership of the organization you’re professing to fight, you’ve lost all plausible deniability
Also, not to put too fine a point on it and if we reduce it to numbers, if your rate of killing your target group is _at least_ a full order of magnitude below their birth rate, you must be committing the worst genocide I've ever heard of.
@cerebrate @zarpaulus
You said it, not me.
If so, that’s how you can tell that Netanyahu’s government and the IDF are not “the Jews”.
Remember when Benny neutered the supreme court to avoid bribery charges? Or when the IDF had to add a bottle opener to their rifles because conscripts kept ruining their magazines opening beer bottles?
@zarpaulus @cerebrate
Now, admittedly, I may be leaning into stereotypes here, but one thing even their worst detractors never call the Jews is 'inept'.
Given the choice between a scenario in which they have defied all ethics and ethnic history to choose evil *and* are staggeringly, cosmically, couldn’t-assemble-a-blitzkrieg-in-a-Panzer-factory *bad* at it, and one in which they simply *aren’t doing that*…
…what does Occam say?