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Netanyahu’s Speech Is a Gift to Future Genocide Historians (jacobin.com)

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

I see that my boy Bernie Sanders boycotted his speech, a true Mensch. Is there a list of everyone who showed up and clapped? I know people are ragging on john fetterman for wearing a suit, but he's actually just abiding by new senate rules that enforces a dress code. I'm more upset that he showed up and fucking clapped for this war criminal. But who else? Do we have a list?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 12 points 3 months ago

Rashida Tlaib held up a sign saying Bibi was guilty of genocide.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

It's a shorter list of those who didn't clap...all the Rs clapped some of the Ds may not have.

[-] zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Don't need to wait to study the history of genocide, it happened again a few days ago... 11 children in a playground.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Horrible, but not a genocide. Still, really really horrible and those that call them freedom fighters are delusional

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Eight comments atm, per lemmy dashboard. I have all of them blocked apparently, as it shows as “blank”.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

I often see this happen, where a post says there are several comments but there are none when I click through, and I very seldom block users so there must be another cause.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

I would guess that it's an activity pub thing where the comments haven't actually synched to your instance yet

[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -105 points 3 months ago

US voters think that the choices are Trump or Biden and that a little genocide with Biden is better than more genocide with Trump and have been calling the genocide a single-issue that should not go into people's decisions this November at the ballot box

not going to lie intentionally have been skipping over news about the situation because it so sickening and know powerless to do anything

reading this article was very disheartening

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

It's a two party system. You can either vote for the person who advocates for more genocide or the person (not Biden, just FYI) who is looking at active de-escalation.

It's America, there are only two choices. If you refuse to chose less genocide you're furthering the deaths of Palestinians.

You need to be an adult - sometimes there's no nice option... sometimes the choice is between shitty and even shittier. Be the person that makes the world a less awful place.

[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -57 points 3 months ago

thanks for proving my point

in the US the biggest perpetuated piece of propaganda myth is that we have only two options and we will never rise above the shitty choices so pick the one that smells better

obviously with that mindset nothing will ever change

elites have won for now

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They’ve won forever if you check out. Use your vote to move the needle just a bit - waiting for a perfect solution means things get worse.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Given the current electoral system it isn't a myth - it's how we ended up with Woodrow Wilson after all.

I'd love to see us break out of it too but the voting system needs to change before we can seriously consider a third party option.

America was basically the alpha release of Democracy and it has an absolutely broken electoral system - ideally the president wouldn't even be elected and we'd only have one branch of congress but we're working within the boundaries of what we have and if you choose to help get Trump elected that's fucking on you.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

US was the beta system at best, based on Greek/Roman democracy including the slavery!

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Jill Stein had 1/3 the popular votes of libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016. They both had the same number of EC votes.

At 3.3% of the popular vote, Johnson did better than any third party candidate since '96. Maybe if you close your eyes and wish really hard you could get a libertarian to claim a single EC vote.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There are only two choices that win Presidential elections. Everyone else is "Vermin Supreme" at 0 to 5% of the vote.

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

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

US voters think that the choices are Trump or Biden

If you don't think this then you've been paying zero attention.

Edit: yes I know it will be Harris not Biden. I read this more as R vs D which is the state of elections in the country

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Most of us think it's Trump or Harris at this point.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I mean , yes, obviously

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Sorry, it was directed more at OP than you.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

You do know Biden is no longer a choice, right?

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