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[–] givesomefucks 78 points 11 months ago (4 children)

And in America's next election, we get to pick between a guy who has spent 50 years saying nothing will change his unwavering loyalty to Israel and has been calling himself a Zionist ..

Or a crazy criminal that will support Israel just as hard because Palestinians are just a shade more brown and his daughter he wants to fuck asked him too.

There's literally zero option for an American who doesn't want to support one of the worst genocides in modern history.

Because even the lesser evil will go around Congress to "sell" the weapons used to do this, for our own taxpayers money he just gave them.

And before anyone says it'll stimulate the economy, it would even more if we spent it on social programs, with the added benefit of not funding a genocide.

[–] filister 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And you just discovered the simple fact that you don't really have democracy in the US, or at least not a healthy one. How a two-parties political system is called democracy boggles my mind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Stimulating the economy is a nebulous pie in the sky. Does stimulating the economy improve the lives of everyday people? Not really.

Cheap public transportation would be good for the people, but everyone buying a new EV would "stimulate the economy." How much is it going to take before people understand that their wellbeing is, at best, only weakly tied to the economy?

[–] Nudding 4 points 10 months ago

Don't forget Joe signed over more land for oil and gas than trump did. Y'all never had a chance

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Not yet, Palestinians are still alive. Genocide Joe, probably.

[–] Burn_The_Right 7 points 10 months ago

If Republicans really wanted to go after Biden, they could be howling about his complicity in the Gazan genocide. They could use that as a reason for impeachment and even be calling for a Hague trial.

If they had half a brain, they could enjoy the genocide they proudly support all while (accurately) blaming Biden for much of it.

[–] Oneobi 5 points 10 months ago

This admission is to create an avenue for deniability when South Africa’s case starts to really ramp up.

These guys are experts in who, us, never.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The UN humanitarian chief has described Gaza as “uninhabitable” three months into Israel’s war with Hamas, warning that famine was looming and a public health disaster unfolding.

In a grim assessment of the devastating impact of Israel’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks on 7 October, Martin Griffiths said that Gaza’s 2.3 million people face “daily threats to their very existence” while the world just watches.

He said tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet and areas where Palestinians were told to relocate have been bombed.

The few partly functioning hospitals are overwhelmed and critically short of supplies, medical facilities are under relentless attack, infectious diseases are spreading and amid the chaos about 180 Palestinian women are giving birth every day.

He said the humanitarian community is facing an “impossible mission” – trying to help more than 2 million people while UN staff and aid workers from partner organisations are killed, communications blackouts continue, roads are damaged, truck convoys are shot at and vital commercial supplies “are almost nonexistent”.

Israel’s air, ground and sea assault in Gaza, aimed at obliterating Hamas, has killed more than 22,400 people, two-thirds of them women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory.


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