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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials (www.aljazeera.com)

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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I assume you're joking but just in case you're not (or for the sake of people reading this that didn't catch it) by crypto- as a prefix I mean deceptively veiled fascist ideology that pretends to be something else or justified in some ostensibly politically acceptable way.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypto-fascist

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why assume he's joking? It's probably the first time many are hearing that term.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because I assumed that not many would immediately associate cryptofascism with cryptography.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was not joking. If you say "crypto" without specifying, then you'd expect cryptography.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This chapter on photovoltaics says nothing at all about composiiton, foreground, perspective. What a useless book!