Replace the current israel-cool with this image.

This concept image could also be refined and doesn’t have to be submitted as is, if it really is needed, I can also erase the remnant of the blue star of david and just have the red triangle with the fire with the (also religiously significant blue bars so we are going to be called antisemites anyway no matter what).

note: If someone has a better, higher quality rendition of this image (and it’s done in a libre image manipulation tool catgirl-hiss) then feel free to post it in the comments including if it’s without the red downwards triangle since that should also be considered.

Also the padding on this image is wild (sorry GNU wilbur), it should most likely be resized to the proper dimensions when it goes through.

EDIT:

zionist-despair hamas-base free-palestine and others are all great emojis, but this one of indigenous Hawaiian Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole is deeply offensive to his legacy and is a mistake to even be included.

If this isn’t accepted, IZ should still be removed from :israel:cool: (maybe even just renamed to something better like :stay-mad-iz:)

IZ should no longer be tied to the genocidal entity.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    8 months ago

    While we’re here, I’ll paste my comment from the EM POC thread about the banned user:

    See, so I did some digging around, and while it’s 100% true that they do have a history of hostility, among their alts (or at least what I believe to be their alts, I’m not infallible here) it does appear like there was a clear instance of the same mod telling them to kill themselves and it wasn’t addressed.

    https://hexbear.net/comment/5311481

    This was brought up to a mod who denied that the other mod was talking to the user, but IMO it seems pretty clear that the original message was addressed in the second person perspective.

    https://hexbear.net/comment/5379334

    Borderline cop behavior.

    And also also while I’m here, here’s a thread about this topic that I think was more productive than the one from last night, which mostly ended up with people talking past each others and mods wrongly banning people.

    • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      8 months ago

      Yeah not into that, also wasn’t into that mod recently mentioning being “good friends” with an anti vaxxer anarchist food not bombs founder in a different thread. I’m against having personal beefs with strangers online and find that most users here who I’m not a big fan of also have good comments and posts sometimes. Most of the time that mod seems fine but they and a lot of users here get into a very online “touch grass and/or kill yourself” pattern where they are simultaneously the biggest toucher of grass yet also extremely online and don’t seem to catch the irony

      • hello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        16·
        8 months ago

        The touching grass thing is also insulting because we explicitly don’t want to reveal personal info here that could dox people (everything here has been combed through by LLM slop generators and feds more than once) so it’s an unfalsifiable claim that no one can actually defend themselves against. parenti-hands