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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Genocide don and genocide bibi, right? Funny how some slogans stick and some don't.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Casually saying just kill them all, wow

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No. The other genocide, destroying the cultural identity. The article says he wants to relocate the Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt (no matter what all they’re of those peoples think). And he’s supported by zionists who want to redevelop the Gaza Strip for Israel once the Palestinians are gone

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Casually calling nfor a genocide, you mean

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Every single one of you who attacked Biden and dissuaded turn out for Democrats in November need to sit the fuck down.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I live near a college town and I was seeing banners and signs like this everywhere: "Stop genocide; vote 3rd party".

Today's kids are so god damn stupid.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Haven't you figured it out yet?

Those weren't actual Americans.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

"Bu-bu-but how would donvict be any worse?"

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (46 children)

As usual, dead silence from the “Democrats bad, Genocide Joe” crowd.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Time to face the facts: Those people just wanted Trump to win.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That’s definitely the point.

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[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not silence, just more bullshit unfortunately. I’ve seen them continue to defend their position.

Edit: In this post!

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 128 points 2 days ago (26 children)

People who sat out on voting for Kamela over the Biden handling of Gaza voted for this.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They never gave a shit about Palestine. It was just another example of "The Issue" for them to base their entire personality around to pose online.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 40 points 2 days ago (22 children)

I'm married to a Palestinian and so I'm hyper-aware about lip service, and I think you're right. My perception is that they are weak-minded people too naive or stupid to realize they've been conned into sitting out the election by a right-wing psyop. And they also have this mentality that a candidate has to be perfect in every way (by their standards) or they won't sully their purity by voting for them. They're the same sort of people who shop at Whole Foods because anything less than perfect should never pass their lips, and don't notice or care that it's just funnelling their money to Bezos.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Hmm... not sure if its just those people who swayed the election. I think you are overestimating just how little the average American care about brown kids dying in the middle east.

If you look at the inflation, its correlated with Biden's presidency, but voters don't understand the idea of

Correlation =/= Causation

They forgot the whole Covid thing caused it, it was trump fucking up covid that exacerbaed the inflation.

And voters immediately thought its Biden's fault, so those who voted democratic in 2020, decided to not vote because "prices didn't go down so why bother voting"

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Anyone who isn't a moron knew that would be his plan.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Predict? He literally said it, out loud, before now.

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (35 children)

I hate to say "I told you so", but there it is. Nothing is in place to stop Trump and Netenyahu from going truly scorched earth on Gaza and the West Bank now.

Time to see what a real, unmitigated genocide looks like.

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 45 points 2 days ago

Who could possibly have predicted he'd do such a thing?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Clean it out with US supplied 155 mm artillery shells. To the Muslim MAGA voters, you got what you asked for...FAFO! Zero sympathy. The Orange Nero would like to do the same thing to Blue States.

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[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 days ago
[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What's the opposite of a humanitarian?

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