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[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 229 points 11 months ago

Encouraging Jews to leave "voluntarily" was Hitler's first step, too. Then when most people don't want to leave their homes, you justify your escalation by saying you gave them a chance.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah and back then it was Zionists who collaborated with him to populate Palestine with 60,000 German Jews.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's annoying making the comparison derails the conversation so much. Yeah, sure, one of the ethnicities involved happens to be repeating and that sucks, but that's the one genocide people know stuff about.

Edit: Lol, didn't expect this to get downvoted. Why?

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I think the downvotes are from people with poor reading comprehension. Like the guy who thought you were laughing about genocide.

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[-] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 126 points 11 months ago

Saying the quiet part out loud again. Forced relocation through either terror or expatriation is Ethnic Cleansing. Ethnic Cleansing may fall under the Genocide Convention.

WTF?

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We are there.

I will vote for Joe Biden if he publicly condemns Israel. From his lips. In an address to the nation.

I will not if he doesn't.

Simple as that.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 54 points 11 months ago

It's a two party system. You vote Biden or get Trump. Trump has less problem with ethnic cleansing. If fact Trump is the kind that might try it in the US.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 23 points 11 months ago

He already has plans for it, and using the military to do it. He has made it clear he plans to go full fascist right from day one if he were to win again. It's his only way to not spend the rest of his life in prison (and he loves the idea of being a dictator).

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think if he tries that, the US breaks down as there is no way everyone will go with it.

Trump winning is a win for the enemies of the US and a win for the enemies of the wider free world.

Edit: Add a few words for clarity.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So Biden is allowed to do whatever he wants, we are obligated to vote for him, as long as he's just a tiny bit less bad than trump would be?

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Logically, yes, unless you come up with another option that realistically results in a better outcome. Nobody's asking you to be happy about the shitty state of affairs.

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[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 38 points 11 months ago

Idiotic reason to vote for Trump who is far worse toward Palestine.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 36 points 11 months ago

Then the democratic party should make the most basic effort to condemn genocide. I wont vote for the support of genocide. It's really not a high bar. It's frankly pathetic that you are suggesting we have accept that. That makes you explicitly in support of the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the people of Palestine. You are evil.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Plenty of them are. But you're willing to toss them all out with a figurehead. The AICP is currently campaigning against several Democrats for calling out the genocide .Yeah Biden's out of touch and a bit problematic. But this is the height of self-defeating virtue signaling. Not that it has stopped a lot of you in the past. San timoniously and hypocritically criticizing everyone else while doing nothing to make the situation actually better. Soothing your own conscience with trying to convince yourself that you're meaningless gesture was worth it.

Biden is what we are saddled with and it could be far worse. You need to take care of business this election cycle and the moment it's over start pushing better people for 2028 or sooner.

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[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

I'm evil? Strong language for someone suggesting Trump is a worse alternative than Biden.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

You are evil and acting in bad faith. It's hard to imagine how you think wanting a president who will condemn genocide means supporting trump. You don't, you want to continue the dishonest dialog that the only discourse is we must accept the democratic party as is or else. What it is a threat and acting in bad faith.

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[-] Melkath@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

Stop doing that you insufferable pea-brained dolt.

Not voting for Biden doesn't mean I'm voting for Trump.

Idiots like you sit there like your vote is a party popper you MUST use to show if your streamers and confetti are blue or red.

I am disgusted with the options I am presented with. I get no streamers or confetti...

Unless Biden condemns the Israeli genocide of Palestine and champions imposing massive embargoes on Israel while fully ceasing any funding in full.

Then I might believe he (and the DNC) are humbling WAY the fuck up, listening to their constituents, and correcting course is the SMALLEST of ways.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

If you think Palestine is in bad shape under Biden, try to imagine how much worse it'd be with Trump.

The only way to get Democrat candidates on the left is to crush the right wing so that the Overton window moves.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago

You are the uncle Tom piece of shit that has lead this country here.

I do not vote for Biden. I do not vote for Trump.

You can't make me.

Your rhetoric is outdated, idiotic, and counter-productive.

[-] bear@slrpnk.net 28 points 11 months ago

One of those two will be president no matter what you do. They will then be in a position capable of inflicting great damage. Trump will use that position to hurt more people than Biden. The math here isn't complicated, and it continually astounds me how many people on the left cannot actually solve the trolly problem when faced with it for real. It really shows which people are engaged in politics as a means to an end rather than as personal expression or a hobby.

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[-] drewofdoom@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Nobody is going to make you vote one way or another, but please recognize the following:

The United States is currently a two party system. It sucks. We need to push for more ranked choice voting, as well as direct popular vote.

However, until we're able to achieve something that makes this parties viable, we will continue to have issues with the right wing getting undue influence in our politics.

Vote with your heart, but make sure that you're okay with another Trump presidency of you decide not to vote for Biden.

Keep in mind as you do so that more than one state had enough votes for Jill Stein that if they had gone to Hillary, Trump never would have become president.

We should have viable parties outside of the two not great to horrible parties we have now. But that's simply not the way our government works as it stands now.

Last thing: you've become a single issue voter. This is the lefty equivalent of only caring about abortion and ignoring literally everything else. Politics is complicated, and I personally find single issue voters incredibly shortsighted and lazy.

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[-] explodicle@local106.com 16 points 11 months ago

I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

First they think of not voting. That's one vote for Trump.

Then they decide to vote for Trump. That's two votes for Trump!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

By this logic, every dollar you don't donate to Biden is a dollar donated to Trump.

[-] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 months ago

I ask you, if there is one party that tries you stop you from voting in any way they can, doesn't you not voting play into their hand?

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[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I don't think any presidential candidate would do that, even if that's how they really felt. It'd be political suicide.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

You don't think any candidate would condemn genocide. Condemning genocide as a US presidential candidate is suicide...

Isn't that how fucked America is in a nutshell.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 11 months ago

"We won't do genocide, but what about 90% genocide?"

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago
[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Is it really genocide if there's at least a few left?

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 82 points 11 months ago

Okay hear me out, what if, after you make sure each person isn’t hamas, you tattoo their arm, and…

[-] Mir@programming.dev 35 points 11 months ago

Yes and maybe make it trackable, like a number or a barcode, just to make sure

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 11 months ago

I believe IBM could help with this.

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[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 82 points 11 months ago

So he wants to kill 90% of the populace in a geographical region.

How does anyone deny this is genocide?

[-] zbyte64 34 points 11 months ago

I think their goal is to displace 90% into Egypt and kill the rest. Still genocide.

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 73 points 11 months ago

Yet again,

But remember, not a genocide.

[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

What the fuck. Fucking sickos.

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 33 points 11 months ago

The US is really fucked up on this. I mean Israel is a tactical ally, but how do you turn a blind eye to genocide?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago

If by turn a blind eye you mean supply vast majority of the weapons used to commit the genocide then sure.

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It looks like Zionists were taking notes during the Holocaust

“What we do not understand is that while there were protests against Germany’s defensive action in this field, there was, on the other hand, no willingness to absorb the excess Jewish population emigrating from Germany.”

• Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of propaganda.

[-] NeatNit@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago

This idiot doesn't know when to shut up. This war started when Israel had the worst and most extremist government it's ever had, there were many protests about it in the first half of 2023. That minister in particular is possibly the craziest of them, and easily the one least able to co-ordinate his statements with the rest of the government. It's both a PR disaster for Israel and plain misleading information - this is not a policy that Israel has.

Unless I'm mistaken, he's even been banned from cabinet meetings because of this kind of shit. So please, take everything he says with a mountain of salt.

Disclaimer: I'm Israeli. I know Israel is not handling this war remotely well, but it's also not guilty of the extreme accusations the internet blames it for.

P.S. mods, if you decide to ban me (as another community did) then at least have the courtesy of informing the rest of the userbase about it, and ideally leave my comment intact. If you just delete and ban every comment that doesn't uphold a specific viewpoint, you're just making an echo chamber, and the whole community becomes more extremist by the day.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Disclaimer: I’m Israeli. I know Israel is not handling this war remotely well, but it’s also not guilty of the extreme accusations the internet blames it for.

It is guilty of genocide, and this is not an internet accusation.

this is not a policy that Israel has.

Yes, it does. It has been stated numerous time, the plan is another Nakba.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

To be honest I would argue the sentiment that this approach isn't what most Israeli civilians envisioned for some years now, but seeing as how all actions taken by both IDF and Israeli government, I seriously doubt this guy is alone in his fascist thoughts when he bursts out these inhumane sentiments.

I would advise against defending these genocidal state apparatus, nor mixing the views of civilian population of Israel with these bloodthirsty colonialist monsters.

Israeli people are innocent in this conflict, as are Palestinian people. However, Palestinian people are too poor and oppressed from all sides to make a conscious decision to root out Hamas, so the part of responsibility that falls on them is hard to accomplish. Israeli people, on the other hand, still have enough faculties, although at the brink of destruction by the fear-mongering campaign of Bibi the Genocider, to carry out their part of the responsibility in forming peaceful living by dismantling their current terrorist and fascist government (at the elections at worst).

What I advise is don't try push the blame under a rug by making scapegoats out of a few people while letting the rest ruin the last semblance of your democracy.

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[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

I wonder if he literally meant 100, not 100,000.

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