621
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
621 points (95.1% liked)
News
23311 readers
2278 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Genocide is the breaking point for me. I voted for Biden to stop fascism and I got a genocide. I will not vote for genocide again.
Why aren't you mad at Biden for ruining his own election chances by supporting genocide? Why attack us for opposing genocide?
This genocide has been going on for decades. If it wasn't a breaking point in '20, why is it a breaking point now?
For fuck's sake. Swear to fucking god, I can't tell the difference between the tankies who are disingenuously using this incident in the ongoing genocide to push a "TRUMP NOT SO BAD" narrative, and those who, like most Americans, learned about the existence one of the biggest issues in international politics just last fucking month.
This is worse than it's ever been in my entire life, surely you realize that?
It's more prominent. It's more visible. It catches the attention of those who don't usually pay attention to international politics. But I don't know why you weren't concerned when they were shooting up hospitals full of wounded and shelling children with naval artillery, but are now that it's proper flashy.
It was genocide. It has been genocide. It will likely continue to be genocide once the current operation finishes. And there's zero chance that it will stop as long as Bibi's government is in power.
I'd argue the scale of this is much worse than anything in the past few decades. There's a reason they're calling it a new Nakbah.
Nobody voted for a genocide. I certainly doubt that anyone in the USA let alone Biden would endorse genocide.
There are not a small number of people in the US that support a genocide. It was a more popular slogan a couple years ago, but there are quite a few right wingers that would say the phrase 'six million wasn't enough' meaning we need a new holocaust. There are numerous groups with dozens to hundreds of members in the US that support that ideology. If you haven't heard of the Turner Diaries, it's a book that advocates a day of white supremacist mass murder of leftists and less 'racially pure' people, (referred to as the 'day of the rope') it has been popular for decades and is seen as a guide for neo-Nazis.
So now that Biden admin brokered a ceasefire and hostage exchange in the Palestine Israel conflict, is he still genocidal or?
That's not a ceasefire, it's a 5 day pause. The genocide starts back up next week.
But this is a good start! This was exactly my intent of threatening to withhold my vote and why it's important to apply pressure to Biden - he knows he needs us to get reelected and so he's working to make sure we have a reason to vote for him again.
Keep the pressure up until there's a ceasefire. No ceasefire, no votes. I just want this one thing. He's let me down over and over on so many different issues, but if he can give us this one fucking thing I will vote for him. Is that so wrong?