Yea, i guess the Budapest Memorandum meant nothing huh? Thank you “yankstupids” what an insightful

What a naive and infantile way of looking at the world.

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Yea. Totally. It’s the way we are built you know, as “filthy little genocide deniers”. I’m good man.

Also, not once have you addressed the fact that several other comments with well over 60 upvote have pointed out the ambiguity. But because I casually dropped “everyone” to imply a good majority you think you have some kinda gotcha. Is this… The best you can do?

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You’re saying everyone in the comments is interpreting this headline as prescriptively as you pretend it is meant. Us using the same bar of prescriptiveness for your statement means you mean literally every single person is interpreting it as literal physical branding using a hot iron.

No. That’s not what I said. You keep insisting on things I did not say. Of course not literally everyone is taking that interpretation. That’s like one level of an exceptional stance no one here is taking. But many are reading ‘branding’ it as such as exemplified by most of the comments in this thread. That’s undeniable.

There is no “half a dozen people explaining this”. There is you and one other user or so. There’s plenty of people holding my position in the comments here.

Listen pal, I grew up speaking English. Your cherry picked examples are nice though. To reiterate: there is no ambiguity when it comes to branding and products. This is the second time I’m stating this. Why do you keep bringing up objects and products to assert the shift in language here? We are all clear about this. The ambiguity is when the use is applied to human beings-people.

There is no need to bring up journalistic integrity or standards. MiddleEasteye is not the bastion of ultimate journalism. I’ve been around a while. This could just as well be an unintended consequence of not understanding the language. I didn’t attribute malice to the author, because I don’t make judgements before knowing the full story, unlike “filthy little genocide deniers”.

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You keep bringing up the branding of objects or products as a counter to the branding implied when humans are the subject. In the AAP article you linked it is referring to product branding.

I know for sure English is not your language now.

Almost everyone in this thread that did not read the article took the physical scarification implication of the headline.

This in such a weird hill to die on. Unless you are the author of the article it’s odd how much effort you are putting into discussing the semantics of branding when it comes to humans. Right now the IDF is committing genocide and there are so many more horrendous acts being neported in actual news sources to refer to but here we are super concerned with explaining how the word “branded” akshuallly really means printed text haha no really gotcha (in every colloquial context - not news articles discussing products! - in the English language when the physical branding of humans is mentioned it is universally taken as physical scarification; Not drawing with a sharpie).

Like, why?

Edit: just reread your comment and just caught the labels. Holy shit,

“filthy little genocide denier”

How sad that even after people mention they agree that Israel is committing heinous acts (I’ve stated as much numerous times) you can’t help yourself. We are all in agreement here that Israel is committing genocide but I want nothing to do with you. You are incapable of discussing anything that disagrees on the slightest fact because your feelings are unable to handle any criticism. I recommend you stick to some safe bubble or echo chamber from now on.

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Who. In. The fuck. Did any apologia here? What a fucking imbecile thing to write to someone that stated clearly and emphatically that the IDF is committing plenty of heinous acts.

Hoooooly shit.

How insecure do you have to be to just pivot to name calling without engaging with what is being said. Are you a child?

Every single day heinous actions by the IDF are being reported in mainstream news. You’re straight lying or stuck in online echo chambers. The fact that this comment has any up votes is really frightening.

I’m curious, are you a native English speaker? In colloquial English the term “branded” is almost never referred to the second point in the Webster dictionary. The term originates from a particular context and the etymology derives from germanic “to burn”. I’m not doing the semantic bullshit game that already happened in this thread. No one uses “brand” colloquially for printed form. I suspect you know this.

So… 99% of the users in these comments?