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Right now, the US is supporting attack after attack on schools in Gaza. I'm not cherry picking anything here. This is just the result of searching "school" on an Al Jazeera RSS feed. All of these massacres have happened in the last two months and not a single one has had near enough media coverage as some lunatic shooting up a school in the West. Some of those demonic shells of people that only cry over massacres in the US might say something about "oh but that's Israel, not the US". To those people, I say, fuck you. The US does it too, you testicle brained buckaroo. You don't fucking care about children dying. You support a government that has committed massacres miles worse than any gunman, and one that currently is committing massacres on the daily. They don't care about kids. They don't care about safety. They don't care about education. They only care about keeping white kids safe.

So if you're doing this, shut the fuck up and recognize nothing domestically is even half as important as the genocide going on. Any "harm reduction" you support that involves keeping the genocide going isn't harm reduction. It's sacrificing Palestinians to make your life just a little better. It's sacrificing kids, doctors, mothers, sisters, and brothers. It's sending young men to a painful death from bombs and it's sending old ones to slow organ failure. You're single issue is healthcare in the US? Fuck you. At least you have hospitals that aren't being bombed in the daily. You only care about your own kind. You are the "America first" types you claim to hate.

There is no fate cruel enough for those that support the United States.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

These motherfuckers will never shut up about supporting the lesser evil until you tell them that Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, and Iran are the "lesser evil." Armed struggle against occupation is righteous. Armed resistance to genocide is righteous. The US, calling in every favor and applying pressure on every last one of its vassals as the global hegemon to permit a genocide to take place while providing arms and intelligence to the genocidaires is an abominable crime. The US has ceded the mantle of "humanitarian intervention" to Iran. You have to swallow that pill before I'm willing to listen to a single word out of your mouth.

Edit:Post originally said "Iran." I changed it to "Yemen" because Yemen has actually made a big impact, but then edited back to Iran because a reply already came in at the same time.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Support for democrats isn't "harm reduction". It's a blood sacrifice. Adding on to your point, how is a country in the process of changing the age of consent to 6 for marriage more moral than America. The bar is in hell and so are we.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Any time some lib says "harm reduction," just immediately slap the taste out of their mouth. Follow it up with "a republican would have shot you."

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Which country is in the process of changing the age of legal marriage to 6?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tennessee has proposed a bill to eliminate age requirements for marriage.

There is no federal legislation in the United States regarding the minimum age for marriage, and states are allowed to set their own parameters. Currently, child marriage is legal in 44 states and nearly 300,000 children were married between 2000 and 2018 across the country,

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I confused Iran and Iraq there. Iraq is trying to lower age of marriage to 6, whereas Iran is steady at 9.

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Apparently there is a bill that has been proposed in Iraq that would change the legal age of marriage to 9 for girls (not 6) and 15 for boys. Iran’s steady at 13 for girls and 15 for boys, with exceptions including 9 year olds and potentially younger with parental consent and court approval. According to my internet perusal.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Specifics aside, Iran is not a shining example of humanity or morality. Yet it's a more moral nation than the United States.

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“What all these gentlemen lack is dialectics… they do not see that here nothing is absolute and everything relative. For them Hegel has never existed.” — Engels

You’re taking a very undialectical approach to the issue, where the problems within Iran (age of marriage here), stemming in large part from economic problems brought on by Western and particularly US imperialism, are proof of the “moral” quality of Iran as compared to the US, and, so too, Iran’s underdevelopment brought upon by these factors in main being its “moral” pride compared to the US as it cannot oppress other nations to nearly the same degree and often must act against national oppression.

The very idea of the comparison of the “morality” of nations like Iran and the US is beyond nonsense.