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Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Palestinian here, not in the US. So Harris would have done genocide but without more 2000 pound bombs. Trump does it with them.

Your voters couldn’t decide against genocide, they could only decide with which weapons it will be continued. You guys have a problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Does anyone decide against genocide when it suits them? There's some irony in both Palestine and Israel supporters whining to the Democrats about not opposing the respective genocides hard enough while ignoring their Hamas and Netanyahu doing it to the other side. Take the log out of your own eye before complaining about the speck in the other's.

On a rational level, we all need to oppose killing of civilians and children. But man, it's hard to convince people to care when the people you're trying to save won't help themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t think I understand your comment. You think it’s hard to side against genocide? Because that’s what most of us are doing here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And is it working?

Point being, the whole "genocide" thing is useless because people don't care. No one thinks they're committing a genocide. If you went to Nazi Germany, they'd tell you the holocaust is not a genocide, it's a security measure or something like that. Just like you probably don't look at Oct. 7 as a genocide. It's the same thing. We're all human, we're all easily tricked into being monsters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're mixing up what people say and what they think. Biden and Blinken both denied the war crimes and the genocide, and we have evidence that they knew what it was. Nazi Germany might have spread propaganda about security, but they DEFINITELY knew they were exterminating entire "races". Maybe not the randos in the streets, but anyone operating in a camp or the government.

Propaganda is not what these people actually believe, it's the tool they use to give cowards plausible deniability. Those participating actively, and those not stopping it.

Yes, there are people who are in fact monsters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Biden already sent 14,000 of those bombs so you’re wrong. Both candidates are pro genocide.

I was hopeful about the peace deal with the Muslim countries signing on but as usual our politicians flood everything with shit so no one knows that’s up or down.