• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    If preventing a genocide is hurting “foreign policy interests”, then those interests are shite.

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      9 months ago

      exactly what i was thinking.

      if this is the lesser of two evils, you probably have reached evil long ago.

      • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Yep they keep saying lesser of two evils while the options get more and more evil despite claiming “incremental progress”. Moderates are completely disconnected from reality or they’re just too afraid to actually push for something better.

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          9 months ago

          The problem is with Trump, particularly, there’s good reason to be afraid.

          “We want to punish the democrats for supporting Israel, so we are going to let Trump win”

          GOP proceeds to double down on oppressive wars, no improvement for Gaza. Further, you get a government full of leaders that, in the wake of losing in 2020, openly pondered ways of just rigging the election so they don’t have to get votes to win anymore. You had laws proposed in GOP states to declare the legislature could pick whatever electors they wanted ignoring their voters. You had people running for non-partisan election administration positions promising they’ll make sure Republicans win, no matter what. They actively tried to send fake electors that particular cycle, even without any legal backing.

          So, in at least one scenario, congratulations, you successfully admonished Biden for his misbehavior, and now, we have at least as bad misbehavior, and maybe some unwinding of democracy to make sure we never get to influence foreign policy ever again.

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        9 months ago

        Quick question, can you explain to me how it wasn’t evil to burn babies in their cribs, rape daughters in front of mothers, and behead fathers in front of sons? Cause I really can’t see it any other way after 10/7.

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          9 months ago

          the world isnt black and white and one evil can’t justify another, even greater evil. its a convenient excuse, but its good to notice oppression has the habit of creating more of the twisted people you speak of.

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            9 months ago

            the world isn’t black and white

            Evil

            Incredible that this amount of cognitive dissonance can fit into one sentence.

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                  9 months ago

                  i’m sure you are sadder for the couple israeli dead by hamas than the ones killed by the idf themselves.

                  and i’m guessing the tens of thousands dead and many more expelled by us bombs are not people to you.

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                    9 months ago

                    You sure seem to put a lot of words in my mouth for someone who believes that a genocide wasn’t perpetrated on 10/7.