• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I haven’t heard any liberals trying to “both sides” the issue. I have heard Republicans expressing their support for the genocide though.

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      You didn’t hear the US state dept repeatedly claiming “Israel has a right to defend itself” for 6 straight months after the Hamas attack? They still won’t let corpo media use the term genocide, some high profile reporters have even resigned over it.

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        I see people agreeing it’s complex, because it is. But the majority of liberals I see, across multiple mediums, are against this. Not all of course, %100 of a group rarely does something, but anyone in these comments both siding this while also just oddly admitting to being liberal are not the majority.

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          There are liberals, in this very comment section, saying things like, and I quote “neither side is particularly justified IMO”. Take your bullshit “they’re just saying it’s complex!” lies elsewhere, because they aren’t true, and you know it.

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          That’s too hard to understand. Just say they support Genocide, it makes it all so easy! Surely, they can’t be deeply dissatisfied while remaining rational about the devastating implications of wavering when christo-fascism is looming on the horizon.

          Now that I kinda think about it… no no, they love genocide. Ez pz.

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            History isn’t kind to regular Germans during the holocaust who were “deeply dissatisfied while remaining rational”, and it won’t be kind to your genocide defending ass.

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              Average citizens didn’t get put on trial. If you knew anything about WW2 you’d know the citizens suffered from the Nazi uprising as well.

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              So now america is preforming the genocide in palestine? Or you talking another genocide in america?

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              Please I’m just looking for a single coherent thought.

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                So now america is preforming the genocide in palestine?

                Essentially, yes. It’s providing the weapons, it’s propagating Israeli propaganda (40 beheaded babies anyone?) it’s blocking any attempt by the international community to intervene legally, it’s deploying it’s military to defend Israel and prevent anyone intervening militarily, It’s actively attacking countries trying to stop Israel, and, above and beyond that, Israel only exists in the first place because the US props it up. Biden could call up his subordinate Netenyahu at any time and tell him to knock it off, but he doesn’t, because he supports what is happening.

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      6 months ago

      It’s likely that the use of “Western Liberals” here is meant to include both major US political parties.

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      My brother in Christ, our president is literally Joedolf “if there wasn’t an Israel, we would have to invent an Israel to secure our interests in the region” Bidler.

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      You won’t see many of us both side shit regarding this. It’s an attempt to genocide, pretty easy. What you will see are people, often very angry, who immediately make assumptions, claim we are genocide lovers, and refuse to listen to literally anything, including their target agreeing with them. Tbh part of me feels as if Republicans are in the comment sections trying to split hairs and widen divisions at times.