u/frenchfryenjoyer — Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)

Considering the state of Gaza right now, talk about kicking someone while they're down

100% this. calling it a "looming collapse" is downplaying things. the photos I've seen are nothing short of post apocalyptic. people are still trying to survive amid the rubble. once you reach a certain point of loss of infrastructure the chances of recovery are poor. and this is a place where half the population are children, nontheless, which makes it even worse. so sick of people including the media downplaying a genocide

by guards I meant the guard brackets which help prevent accidental movement (source) but I agree I just can't see this being done accidentally. the look and feel of the switches are just so different it'd be almost like mistaking a red light for a green one with normal colour vision or something. it's still early days so i'm sure more will come out about the history of the pilots with time. if this does turn out to be intentional it's pretty scary because it's something that's unrecoverable at that phase of flight if it happens and that needs to not happen again

both pilots were experienced and had also passed breathalyser tests before the flight too (source)

If I remember correctly, those switches need to be physically lifted up and rotated for the engines to switch from RUN to CUTOFF. there's also physical guards there to prevent pilots from knocking them. here's a diagram of the layout (source).

I've read theories that the pilot who manipulated the fuel switches could've mistook them for the stabiliser cutout switch but the switches are very different. the timing is also sus because it would've been at just the right time for things to have not been recoverable. 10 seconds earlier and the takeoff could've been aborted, 10 seconds later and the plane could've had enough altitude and speed to land in a safer area. also the way the pilot reacted to the other pilot suggests he saw the other pilot shut off the fuel to both engines one after the other and was in a state of shock

God that's so backhanded. it'd be like him saying "you're so smart for a woman, which university did you go to?" it comes from the assumption people from other countries are dumb or something. also he himself can barely form a coherent string of words together so... lol

Gee, I'm sure this didn't happen with that *other* genocide /s

Genocide deniers have blood on their hands for allowing this shit to escalate even further

Seeing how so many Israel apologists have so much power is like seeing a headmaster defend the school bully, but much, much worse. they're always like "NEVER AGAIN" about the Holocaust yet they've made a piss poor effort at preventing a genocide that's happening right now and are actively pouring petrol on a fire

Yeah if anything this post is gonna get people curious and look at the modlog like it did with me than help with anything

Prolly somethin to do with you making an Islamophobic dogwhistle? Source modlogs are public

And? that equipment was being used to further a genocide against the Palestinian people. half of which are children. just because a government considers something unlawful doesn't mean it's morally wrong

I can just hear the genocide deniers be like

"There's no genocide, Amnesty international is biased!!!!! *cites ADL*"

"It's just war crimes"

At this point they're either willfully ignorant or just plain malicious because the evidence just keeps piling up and up

And to think, the country with the biggest military budget on Earth (USA, almost 1 TRILLION annually) actively supports this

Let's hope they drop even further 🙏

Ikr? Also if you're against Israel bombing hospitals full of children you're anti semetic! /s

Talk about getting a small dose of your own medicine