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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I Wouldn't expect any less from this gold plated cesspool founded on genocide, slavery, and exploitation.

"herp derp but we saved the world and beat the Nazis!" Yeah, we fought and defeated the Axis... after they decimated our pacific fleet and brought the war to us. Prior to that, eugenics were popular here, and practiced. Hell, some of our most infamous capitalists supplied and financed both sides of that war, after all, private profit is what America is all about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/

We're dogshit, all the way back to the zealots fleeing Europe to be bigger religious prudes and nutters. The only amazing thing about our country is its ridiculously massive, undeserved ego.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Not to mention that they didn't join the war until the Russians and Germans had bled themselves dry on the eastern front and the soviets were well on their way to Berlin.

If you wanted to debate who won the war based on how many of their men, women, military and civilian sacrificed themselves willingly and unwillingly, the Russians were far and away the obvious victors.

20 million compared to America's half million during the war.

The Russians died and killed more Germans than the Americans.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Good to know our government can still get shit done when it's something fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Not just stupid, absolutely depraved!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I almost typed "I don't know why we invest in ignorance," but I do. Goddamn dude

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I dug up the roll call for this vote, if anyone wants to look up how their representative voted.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Let me guess where most of the yay votes came from...

Edit: checked and surprise! Most Aaye votes are Republican. Only actual surprise is that there are 62 Democrats in there who should spend a week in Gaza to understand what they really really votes for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Most of NY, NJ, and CA reps

Wonder where AIPAC spent all their money bribing and buying politicians

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The only lesson learned from the COVID years: if you stop reporting the numbers, the numbers stop going up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it always irks me when someone says that biden handled covid when he simply had the numbers hidden from the public like a few state governors and trump tried to do, but got a lot of blowback for it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

#MissionComplete

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

The parallels between Ukraine and Gaza has made it clear that if you want public outrage those babies better be white or else they will be reported as collateral damage instead of genocide.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

"...with a death total so high that we have been banned from telling you the number..."

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"as we are prevented from giving numbers, we will now read out every name..."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

when pbs did that during the afghanistan and iraq wars for american service personnel; they got so much blowback that they had to stop.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man what the fuck. What is their justification for this.

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

that anything coming from a gazan mouth must be propaganda; but they're the only ones on the ground counting their numbers are smaller than others' estimates

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Should be mentioned that the Israeli gov kicked out all the other human rights orgs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The American Empire requires Israel as an Imperialist foothold in the Middle East. They will protect Israel and manufacture consent as much as they can to prevent public backlash.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's because it's a severe undercount, right?

...

Right?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Bought, cheaply, and paid for by AIPAC. Until this war I had no idea how politically deep they are.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department

from Citing Gaza Death Toll

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want names. I've got some angry letters to write.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Government banning speech, I understand it's what the government says, but I feel someone is going to test the limit on this, and the first amendment is going to suffer for it.

[–] prole 8 points 1 month ago

This has nothing to do with the first amendment. It's fucking bullshit, yeah, but not 1a related.

This is about parliamentary procedure, they can (and do, and always have) make whatever rules of decorum that they want.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LADY, WE DONT TALK ABOUT THE GENOCIDES THAT WE COMMMIT

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

bipartisanship 🥰

[–] gravitas_deficiency 16 points 1 month ago

I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Someone should send them all copies of “The Monster at the end of the book”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is why we don’t like censorship culture.

Everyone who summons a demon to help their cause thinks they can put a leash on the demon and keep it in its lane.

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