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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 228 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Biden: We’ve been reluctantly supporting a very close ally, but it’s gone too far, and now we’re publicly condemning while admittedly still funding them. It’s a complicated situation, and I’m a cautious centrist.

Trump: Why are there still buildings standing in Gaza? That won’t happen on my watch. May as well wipe out the West Bank while we’re at it.

For the life of me, I can’t tell the difference. I have no idea who to vote for to help the Palestinians.

[–] Krono 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There is no one to vote for to help the Palestinians.

The only hope for Gaza is for Biden to change course and use his significant leverage to convince Bibi to end the blockade.

If the status quo of famine is allowed to continue, there will be no Gazans left to bomb when Trump is sworn in on Jan 2025.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

30,000 people are dead. Daily death tolls have fallen by 20% per month since the beginning of the war.

How are you getting to 2,300,000 within ten months?

Can you show your work?

[–] Krono 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People in northern Gaza have described in detail about their decline.

In the first month or two, they ate the remaining food and slaughtered the animals. Then they ate animal feed for months. When that was gone, they ate bird seed. Now with nothing left, they eat grass.

When it's only grass, people start to die. Children and elderly first. And that is the stage of famine we are at now.

People can survive a long time on very low food. But they can't survive forever.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So all 2.3 million people in Gaza ignored the first evacuation orders and warnings and instead of going South, they all went to north Gaza where they proceeded to eat all the food and are now starving to death, and despite only 30,000 deaths in four months, you believe that this month there will be 230,000, and that figure will continue for the next ten months in a row? I don't know sort of seems like you're exaggerating Israel's actions to portray Jews as evil.

If the total death toll doesn't increase by eightfold in the next month will that be sufficient evidence that claims of ethnic cleansing and weaponized starvation are highly exaggerated?

[–] snek@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Ohhh the daily DEATH AND TERROR AND MADNESS HAS DROPPED BY 20%!!

CANCEL EVERYTHING LOL!

So 80 people die instead of 100... That totally means there is no genocide rofl

[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When your highly nuanced and extremely educated political stance is obliterated by an extremely obvious fact that you forgot to consider because you got lost in the sauce of [current hot conversation topic] for [I'm a Leftist!(TM)] identifying individuals.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean I was personally waiting for Trump to say the obvious and finish the punchline for the last couple weeks honestly.

[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, thats good, but unfortunately a huge (over-representative?) amount of online leftist discourse is so subsumed by extremely emotionally driven short sighted glomming onto bullying a particular person that they often say things that are basically obviously ludicrous if you either take a few deep breathes and think about what you're saying, or if you're not really involved in the often extremely petty nature of discourse around/perpetuated by many popular online leftists.

But hey, Not All Leftists, I guess?

Its frankly deeply embarrassing to accurately describe myself as a leftist and then have less politically engaged people often think I'm like one of these over the top internet personalities, and also infuriating when I describe myself as a leftist to other leftists online, who then usually woke scold and purity shame me for having non ludicrous positions.

Hell I'm still banned from like half the hexbear and lemmy.ml communities for pointing out that maybe Taiwan has expressed a desire for governmental sovereignty, you know kind of like Ukraine, even though its obviously not a perfect society, it doesnt deserve to be invaded or subverted by a neighboring state?

Nah. Verbotten opinions.

I think the latest hexbear community to ban me did so because I posted a response to an 'enigmatic, therefore funny and awesome' meme on weibo.

The meme, a kind of wojack meme, boils down to 'Dengist reforms allowed western influence into China, which has resulted in nowadays Chinese incels pretend to be black men online to pick up chicks because many Chinese basically racistly view black men as all having giant cocks.'

But you can't even hint that parts of Chinese society might be gasp racist, or even have segments that view women as only interested in big dicked men because this breaks the brains of many online Western leftists that Chinese society is not actually perfect.

Its even more baffling to me that many online Leftists barely ever mention, or tie themselves up in absurd logical/rhetorical pretzels about how just in general many East Asian societies and ethnicities have large chunks that are extremely racist towards other East Asian and other ethnicities, basically because a good number of East Asian societies are nominally communist or socialist, so that must mean they've solved racism.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think all of what you said there can be summed up with.

Comrade, leftists sure can be infuriating to deal with and talk to, huh?

Pretty sure the most vocal ones arent the most productive ones, and as with most ideologies aren't really representative of the majority. But still can be a headache for everyone involved.

I got banned for pointing out obvious right wing propaganda from a known right wing shill and was told it "emotionally confirmed" how they felt about Biden, so it didn't matter if it wasn't entirely factual.
I mean how do you fight back against that?

People are such emotional little idiots about the things they feel. It's nicer to feel right than be it, because reality is very very often very disappointing. But compromise makes you feel wronger.
We are in very emotional times for sure.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's more comfortable intellectually to think that if everyone was just in favor of X, all the world's problems would disappear. It's like an ignorance is bliss effect.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Blahaj is the craziest to me. There's a huge hexbear influence there. It's like, yo, if you physically tried to go to Russia you would probably be beaten and murdered just for existing.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

Hexbear is Pro Russia, and pro Trans rights, what's so hard to understand?/s