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[-] capem@startrek.website 72 points 1 year ago

Nice.

If Americans want the protests to stop, they should stop supporting genocide.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Mm and how has the average San Franciscan contributed to a war on the other side of the planet?

[-] Jamil@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

The same way the average American contributed to black oppression. By being silent observers to your government's actions.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not my government

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

In the same way we all do. Those weapons can't be built without a reliable economy. Interruptions in labor produce ripple effects which disrupt the atrocities of the capitalist class.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, so why haven't you, as I assume an American, stopped working to disrupt the atrocities of the capitalist class?

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hahaha nice, good luck with that

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

With a portion of their taxes.

[-] Please_RTFA@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

Those protestors should have already stopped paying taxes if that mattered.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] Please_RTFA@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

It's like they're not even trying

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That assumes they have employment. Not an assumption I would make.

[-] Please_RTFA@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So everyone's a cunt except the church then?

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But the church doesn't pay taxes?

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the church tries to collect them.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers, but what about the supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others? Whether we’re aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others and have not always used ethical decision-making skills.

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Ah yes collective justice. Punish the population for what their government did. Hmm this feels familiar, is something like that happening somewhere else in world right now?

Be wary of fighting monsters, lest you become a monster.

[-] machineLearner@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

yes bro. Your morning or afternoon commute becoming an hour longer is equivilant to having your people wiped off the face of the earth. Truly they can't see this hypocrisy for what it is!!

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah yes Schrodinger's protest. It is at once not a big deal and at the same time a big deal that will cause change.

Hey just curious, when you were being taught in school to raise awareness did they maybe mention something about how the process of abstraction works? No? Ok, guess it is my job. A =/ B, just because A does not equal B does not mean have nothing in common.

Edit: never mind, just noticed you are using an alt-account. Makes sense now.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

This is so ignorant and entitled. I watched so many videos of kids watching their parents die in front of their eyes in gaza. It's horrible to even imagine. How can you be so heartless?

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

How do you think the civilians on Oct 7th felt?

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Probably the same way as the parents of those killed in the Great March of Return in 2018 where Israeli forces killed 223 Palestinians.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

[Looking at protesters blocking traffic] is this genocide?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to be taken seriously, try not to speak in meme-speak.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

[Guy who thinks blocking a road is genocide]: If you want to be taken seriously...

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Again.

Both acts are punishing a civilian population for the actions of their government. That doesn't mean they are morally or on the same scale equivalent, it does mean they are examples of the same kind of behavior.

You seem really preoccupied by how you are seen.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

One is a state entity committing genocide and the other is a small group with zero legislative backing committing a traffic obstruction. You are really preoccupied with your idiotic classification tho.

[Teacher holding all the kids in from recess] "hmm this is also genocide hmm same behavior."

[-] FarmTaco@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You used the word genocide btw not him. not all collective punishment has to be to the death.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

[Sees a child taking his ball home after being teased on the playground] "wow this isn't quite genocide but it is the exact same thing Israel is doing (if you ignore the scale, the actors, the severity, the racial motivations, and so forth). Some children are being punished despite not actively teasing him. This is a useful categorization for concepts. Blocking traffic is the real genocide."

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Says the guy quoting Nietzsche lmao

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The Hamas genocide of 1200 civilians in Israel? Or using their populace as human shields in Gaza?

[-] rasmus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

So you solve school shooting by bombing the school?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Evidently you solve it by blocking ambulances to "raise awareness"

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

You go where your enemy is hiding. The glorious freedom fighters of Hamas, who have been holding an infant captive for half a year now, use the civilian population that they're supposed to protect as human shields, slave labor, and conscripts.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for providing me the opportunity to share GDF’s video on Debunking Human Shields.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting thanks for sharing.

[-] capem@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

You clearly don't know what the word 'genocide' means.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You missed your turn

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

If all these losers love palestine so much, they should go live there, and see for themselves what a beacon of western liberal values it is.

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