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For the First Time Ever There Will be a Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel (scheerpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I hope you're prepared for a lot of "abstain" votes.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd say fence-sitting this vote is even more an indictment than just a "No" vote personally; it doesn't take a MENSA candidate to tell whether or not funding a genocidal morass of settlers is morally correct

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] Vertelleus 3 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence

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

Thats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Abstaining is pro genocide imo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

That is a perfectly clear message for me actually.

It's about opposing genocide or not. "Do nothing knowing that will cause the genocide to continue" is close enough to "continue the genocide" for me.