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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 112 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He woke up and thought "today, I'm going to be the shitty politician that punk rockers sing about", and then he did it.

[-] neuropean@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

Had to do a double-take, thought this was an onion headline.

[-] obscura_max@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

The picture even looks like the parody version you'd see in the music video.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 9 months ago

Can YOU, a regular citizen, openly declare your desire to commit genocide and still retain YOUR job?

[-] Leg@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Fortunately, the wealthy aren't a race of people, so it isn't considered genocide if I begrudgingly devour each and every one of them for the good of mankind. Checkmate moralists.

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[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

The people I work with sure can.

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[-] Gazumi@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

What a piece of sh1t he is. Dismissing lives with the ease of a psychopath with power.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 50 points 9 months ago

You can say "shit," it's okay.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 9 months ago

But instead they said shONEt

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[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago

Turns out yes, things can get much worse for Palestinians if Republicans win in November.

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[-] Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

This is hate speech and illegal in my country.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

It should be illegal in any country.

Sadly, in the U.S., "freedom of speech" has become almost totally meaningless. Our supreme court decided that money is speech, which is why we now have things called political action committees (PACs) which aren't supposed to work with campaigns *wink wink, nudge nudge* and can raise unlimited funds from anyone anywhere in the world legally. Unsurprisingly, Trump's PAC has been paying his legal bills.

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[-] los_chill@programming.dev 46 points 9 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Andy says, "darn tootin' it is!"

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago

You can tell the press is broken when he isn't permanently called a "Genocide Enthusiast" or something similar by the press for as long as he lives.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 39 points 9 months ago

And this is exactly what will happen if Trump is re-elected.

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 months ago
[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

No, they are not all being killed. There are about 2 million innocent people in the entire Strip. Death figures according to the Gazan Health Ministry are around 30,000 currently.

It's not impossible though, it's been attempted before in history, by ethno-nationalist asshats just like Netanyahu's supporters.

This can get much worse. Many zealots want it worse.

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

Just because we're not yet at MegaGenocide™ package doesn't mean much, most of Gaza is rubble now. That two million people have pretty much nowhere to return to. Israel wanted ethnic cleansing (as they have explicitly stated time and time again, Zionism is a fascist ideology) and they're getting it

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[-] zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I love all the comments like "Biden isn't being tough enough on Israel! Biden isn't stopping the genocide!"

Besides the fact that people are asking Biden to do something that directly hurts US foreign policy interests.....

Do they REALLY think that the Republican party is on the side of stopping brown people dying? Biden in office is probably the most gentle response Palestine is going to get for 10/7. Republicans are frothing at the mouth to boost JDAM and Paveway kit sales.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 32 points 9 months ago

If preventing a genocide is hurting "foreign policy interests", then those interests are shite.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

exactly what i was thinking.

if this is the lesser of two evils, you probably have reached evil long ago.

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[-] beardown@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

Supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians is directly harming the US' foreign policy interests.

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[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

The foreign policy of most on the right is basically "Turn it all to glass." Which is terrifying.

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 12 points 9 months ago

Are you seriously incapable of viewing Biden's actions outside of a lens related to the upcoming election?

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[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

...which translates to genocide.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago

My grandpa said the same thing and now he’s gonna die without ever seeing me again. Hope he’s proud.

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Can we bring back the proposal that any politician who advocates in favor of an offensive war/conflict be then immediately pressed into service on the front lines?

If he wants to kill Palestinians so badly, maybe he can man up and do it himself rather than speak platitudes across a desk.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Shove this in the face of the GeNoCiDe JoE!!1!1!1 idiots who can’t seem to grasp that they face a binary decision.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

What's fun is that I regularly ask, "who should I vote for to prevent Trump from being president?" I rarely get an answer, but I do get told I support genocide. It's extra-fun when I tell them I want to stop Trump to stop people like my queer daughter from being the victims of a genocide. That often makes them double down on telling me how much I want there to be a genocide.

I've even been told I should care more about people on the other side of the world than my own daughter's life.

I am extremely sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and absolutely condemn Israel's genocide... but at the expense of my own child's life? Fuck no.

Anything to stop Trump and Republicans from putting queer people in "conversion" camps where they're tortured to death. Because that's the goal.

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[-] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah, so I watched the video. He got upset because he was getting pressed against his beliefs. So he said something to try and trigger them. Although, I totally believe he meant it too. Who the hell are these lizard people. Stop voting for lizard people ffs.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

But if I were to say that about him and his family, he would want me prosecuted.

[-] Toastypickle@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Fuck this guy and all the TNGop that gerrymandered Davidson county (Nashville) to get rid any dissenting opinions.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

And yet I'm sure he GASPS when other people say the same of Americans...

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago

Hey wait a minute I thought we were all voting for Republicans because the Democrats didn't immediately get Israel to do all the things we wanted them to do.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Literally who is voting Republican over Gaza? And before you say it, no. Not engaging with a two party election in which both candidates support genocide is not the same as voting for the one you don't like.

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[-] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Practice on yourself, traitor.

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