A Palestinian man who was detained by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem said he has been physically abused after officers brutally beat him and branded the Star of David on his cheek, according to Israeli media reports.

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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anyone wrote a fictional story like this, people would call it over the top, silly, far-fetched… reality is fucking dummer than fiction I guess. Not to excuse evil, this is evil, not dumbness.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Quote that stuck from a history class I took years ago:

'A key difference between fiction and history is that fiction generally has to make sense or it doesn't circulate and you aren't exposed to it. With history, whatever happens happens, and whether or not there's any rhyme or reason to it doesn't matter: it becomes history.'

Also reminds me of this post, which kinda puts into perspective just how fucking weird a lot of history was as it was unfolding. Studying it after the fact we can get a sense of "oh that must have been shocking" but we don't really get a sense of the absolute "...........what the actual fuck...?!" going through the heads of the people at that time:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d5a5669e-462a-49a8-9911-fd6cf172a39e.png

Makes me wonder if the batshit insanity of the circumstances of Trump's presidency will actually be captured by history, or if it will just get boiled down to "...the US then elected a talkshow host famous for his orange face. It went poorly; and the next president was..."

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah that’s true. Reality doesn’t have to make sense. It exists and that’s it.

I would love to see history books 100 years from now, how people would handle all the craziness in the world…