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Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza
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Funny enough, this is the second time in as many days that I've seen one of you people specifically singling out LGBTQ+ people in your little temper tantrums. Makes it pretty obvious that Palestine was just your excuse to welcome the christian nationalists in. You see, we suspected that you didn't care before but now it appears your masks are slipping off.
Some other asshole told someone with a trans kid that they should care about Palestinians more than their son.
And when I pointedly asked that person (as I often do in these situations) what specifically they have done about this genocide other than berate people for not caring as much as they do, they did not answer. I never get an answer. As if it's a challenge to send form letters to politicians, but they don't even bother doing that. Easier to sit on their ass and tell other people how awful they are.
Yeah, the Israeli or Russian troll farms that were driving this whole thing and providing the slogans and snappy comebacks have achieved their goal and left now. So now the confused kids that are left don't have any snappy comebacks anymore, except to repeatedly take digs at LGBTQ+ people and reveal the real reason they were drawn into this.
Amusingly enough, right after I posted that, they responded to me again and told me they refused to tell me what they are doing about the genocide because it would get rid of their anonymity.
Unless they are literally in a militant group fighting Israel, that's a stupid as fuck excuse. And even then, "I am in a militant group in Gaza and fighting Israel" doesn't let anyone know who they are.
Not necessarily. I have family members who are active in supporting Palestine, and they have been systematically harassed by pro-Likud groups. This has included offensive phone calls and emails to their employers, poison-pen messages sent to their university administration calling them antisemitic, people coming to their house to harangue them as they go out the door, and other interference. So far, at least there's been no violence or vandalism, though the one who's most active is also a hard target. It's nerve-wracking, and I can easily see the case for maintaining anonymity when that sort of shit is happening.
Yes necessarily. There is literally no way for us to find out who that person is. No way at all.
Well, a considerable proportion of these users are likely trolls/propagandists trying to fracture the non-fascists even more. It's worth remembering that many people who protested against the Democratic Party's approach to Israel voted for them anyway because they thought it was still the better alternative. There are true assholes in the world too of course, including pro-palestine ones, there are in any movement, but there is a risk that they are exaggerated and made to seem more common through the work of propagandists.
I have probably spent the equivalent of weeks since this genocide began working with JVP, spending 4-5 hours a week making phone calls, sending form emails, showing up to my representative's district office and talk directly to his staff, etc. I am dealing with two chronic illnesses and a bunch of other shit and I can still make the time and the effort. Other than going to their office, I would barely call it effort.
And every single time I ask people like this what they have done, they either don't answer or do what this moron I am mentioning just did a few minutes ago and claim that if they say what they are doing, it would get rid of their anonymity.
They clearly aren't willing to even send the form letters I mentioned, despite them being readily available, complete with lists of email and snail mail addresses to send them to. Sending one a month would be more than they are currently doing.
Most of them clearly didn't even know what Palestine even was prior to October 7, and others still, aren't aware that the West Bank is even a fucking thing.
They're clueless.
Settle down love, he already has.
So we'll all be nonbinary?
Gender on my DL: human.
I'm a cishet male, but I'm 100% ok with this. Only medical doctors really need to know anyhow
I'd be fine with that too, to be honest. It's a social construct anyway for the most part. We could all agree to eliminate the concept of gender entirely if we wanted to and very little in terms of anything significant would change.