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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

I would like ANYONE to stick a camera into the face of these Arab and Muslim leaders who told their followers to help get trump elected because they didn't think Joe Biden was acting fast enough or giving them the attention they wanted and ask them if their feelings are still hurt with news like this.

I'm sure the people of Gaza are so pleased with them and their stupidity

[–] index 5 points 1 hour ago

They have always wait for US green light to do it and they have always had it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

They've been waiting for our permission each time?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

And exactly zero people are shocked by this.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, the Gazan civilians must have done something really serious to merit being attacked like this, ending the cease fire...

Right? Um... right? /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

they survived? i have no snark left

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

The people in Gaza survived a lot better than I predicted ; but I think the mortality from all causes is huge, under reported and still minimized.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The ceasefire was the only positive thing going on during these past two months. This is fucked up!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (5 children)

I don't care who gets bitchy over this;

America chose bald faced fascism and genocide, over the chance to end genocide and not-fascism.

Suck eggs, whenever you can save up for them. The stay-at-homes are just as guilty.

[–] index 1 points 1 hour ago

Stopping the genocide was never a choice in the table with the red and blue party

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Suck eggs = children are dying and I’m gloating over it.

Anything to own the lefties though, eh.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

America chose bald faced fascism and genocide, over the chance to end genocide and not-fascism.

There was no chance under biden or harris that the genocide would end without running to completion. None. They're both centrists, and genocide is the only policy I've never seen a centrist abandon.

Voted harris but refuse to carry water for genocide supporters.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry your blue team proto-fascists couldn't contain their disgusting bloodthirst enough to win the election from the red team fascists. Think outside of this bullshit electoralist thinking for just a second.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago

I'll vote so hard for the 3rd party next time! Just your wait and see

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

You got the genocide you wanted either way. Now you get the bonus of being able to blame the people who tried to warn you what was going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

There was no chance to end genocide.

[–] index 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yes there was: not voting red or blue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Well, that's what happened and now you get extra genocide plus total capitulation to russia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Grater than this 0% ? Sure was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Not with pro-genocide centrists running against pro-genocide fascists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

...yet i was told that the biden genocide was somehow worse...cake and eat it shit.....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I was told that protest voting would save Gaza, is Gaza saved? /s

[–] index 1 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

Unsupporting the red and blue party is the correct thing to do and what will ultimately lead to a positive change. The duopoly party narrative is holding on a really thin line because everyone is unsatisfied on both sides, in europe third parties win plenty of times.

If you throw your trash out of the window that isn't going to change world pollution but you don't do that because we live in a society and everyone is supposed to do his part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I was told that protest voting would save Gaza

Nothing was going to save Gaza. That didn't mean we needed to continue being complicit. But at least centrists didn't have to consider abandoning netanyahu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

What a strawman of an argument you’ve created. That was never an argument being made, it was that genocide wouldn’t be any worse because genocide is genocide.

And how is this at all different from any of the strikes Biden agreed on that resulted in mass deaths?

Oh and the cake you’re laughing about? Those are children’s lives. Get some perspective and stop reveling in misery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Get some perspective and stop reveling in misery.

Centrists are stubbornly determined to move right from here. Introspection is a threat to that, so they won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That was never an argument being made

Bullshit. It was absolutely an argument being made. "We kNoW BiDeN sUpPoRtS gEnOcIde; MaYbE tRuMp WiLl Be BeTtEr" (paraphrased) is very much the sort of dumbass rhetoric that was being tossed around and don't you dare try to gaslight me otherwise!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago

You're just mad that trump is implementing centrists' only policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Biden’s help killed more at this time, but Trump should catch up by late summer or early autumn this year. Then we can say Trump killed more than Biden.

But Trumps crimes elsewhere will eclipse this grim milestone , and I doubt most commentators here will remark on that when it happens

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a tally for each president?

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

Yes, kind of, if one follows these things enough

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

I have this idea for a site like a high score thing, where you could (with citations provided) the kill total of world leaders. See how Stalin, Hitler and Mao stack up to Nixon, Bush, Clinton and Trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Where it gets difficult to estimate is when people die many years later from the effects.

Even hurricanes are only recently understood to be a huge cause of mortality over a decade later. So where does one draw the line? When support structures in a society are destroyed by nature or man things happen years later.

And then one had to decide how many a leader is directly responsible for, and how many subordinates acting on their own did.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago

Nixon, Iran, hostages....