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I find it interesting that the people ripping apart Biden for "supporting genocide" completely forgot about Ukraine. If Trump had won, there would be genocides in both Palestine and Ukraine.
You can absolutely criticize Biden's position regarding Israel even if you intend to vote for him as the lesser trouble.
Yeah But on Lemmy, that's not the take. I've stopped opening threads on the conflict after reading articles because it's so obnoxious. I absolutely agree with you for the record.
Their whole personality is being AGAINST something and not being for something since that would potentially make them vulnerable for criticism
I'm convinced they're just brainwashed tankies or psyop operators or some shit.
There already is genocide in both those places…
I find it funny that Americans can’t even bother thinking about anyone else except two extremely shit choices.
Found the Russian. The difference is night and day.
In occupied regions where Russians have stolen children, murdered entire families, and forcibly relocated people and that is not comparable to you?
And you say I’m the Russian? Get off it mate.
I know there are a lot of innocent conscripted Russians who don't want to be there any more than I want them to be there.
Stuff like this makes it really easy to feel that's not true, like Russia is monolithic and evil.
They've committed and continue to commit so many atrocities. Something is deeply wrong there beyond just the megalomaniacal despot at the top.
Read any objective book of russian history and you'll see it yourself. There was a reason Ukrainians called USSR the prison of nations.
Why hesitate? They went through the trouble to sow the seeds, tending to them carefully to ensure strong growth, and now that they're finally bearing the fruits of their labour they don't like the way it tastes? They want to take it back? Tough titties. Russia has sown a lifetime of hate, and that's exactly what they'll reap.
Russian government is not the Russian people. For the last 30 years or so, the only bad coming out of Russia was trade wars and proxy wars, all exclusively perpetuated by the elite. The general masses were innocent.
The problem now is that the general public is complicit with this war war. Those that haven't fled or rioted.
And their soldiers are committing unspeakable horrors beyond the bare "necessities" of war. Torture, rape, genocide. It's sadistic what they have done.
I felt compassion for the first wave of unwitting soldiers who suddenly found themselves in a war, many from poor rural territories where joining the military was the only feasible way to provide for their family.
Now? Not so much.