r/InternationalNews • u/Passervore • May 03 '24
Opinion/Analysis Biden backs police repression against non-violent anti-genocide protests
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/03/dcxb-m03.html114
u/Odd_Ant7906 May 03 '24
He's gonna go full LBJ over this. He won't hesitate to call the National Guard in once the voices get loud enough.
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u/StrikingOccasion6459 May 03 '24
He's gonna go full LBJ over this. He won't hesitate to call the National Guard in once the voices get loud enough.
This is starting to look like 1968.
Look up the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. It was a blood bath.
The police and the national guard love to crack the skulls of young protesters.
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u/anticomet May 03 '24
I was thinking 1920s Germany.
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u/StrikingOccasion6459 May 04 '24
Trump's Beer Hall Putsch was the attack on the capitol.
Except Trump didn't go to jail and he's too stupid to write a book about his struggles.
A more accurate time frame might be the period right before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany 1932-1933.
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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24
That will eliminate any chance he has at reelection. He might even have to step down if things get bad enough. This summer is going to put his administration to the test.
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u/VexisArcanum May 03 '24
Unless it's just him against Trump again. Democrats will think they can win with literally anybody against Trump (again)
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u/CommiBastard69 May 03 '24
Worked out real well for them the first time lol
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u/VexisArcanum May 03 '24
That's how we got president Hillary Clinton!
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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24
Hilary Clinton was up in the polls right up until the election night and she lost. Trump is a wild card. If enough democrats stay home because they don't like Biden anymore. Trump will easily win. I think over the last 4 years his base has grown. But IDK what will happen. It might be a very close race, unless Biden does something very stupid this summer.
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u/SexualityFAQ May 03 '24
Sounds like Democrats need to be campaigning harder instead of siccing violent State actors on their own voter base, otherwise they’ll hand the country to Trump again.
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u/Dineology May 04 '24
Polling aggregate for 2016 showed Clinton pulling 45.7, Trump 41.8, Johnson 4.8, and 7.7 undecided/other (excluding Johnson the third/independent candidates got 1.81% of the actual vote combined, 5.09% with Johnson included) right before Election Day. That’s a damn thin lead of only 3.9, more than thin enough that she could have still lost the popular vote depending on how those undecideds broke. Any reasonable and objective look at those numbers should have screamed “this is up for grabs”, especially when you break it down by individual states. But her campaign and their media connections made a deliberate call to spin it as her being oh so popular because they bought into the idea that positive polls illicit positive responses from voters (everyone wants to be on the winning team) and they were more worried about the sort of mandate she’d have in office if she were perceived to be popular instead of being a candidate that barely made it through a tough fight in the primaries and then barely made it over the finish line. But Clinton was a hot garbage fire of a candidate who never should have been pushed forward by the wealthy and the powerful trying so hard to keep their death grip on power.
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u/TheRiverHart May 03 '24
Biden was never supposed to get re elected. It's crazy that so many Americans think we live in a democracy. We DO NOT. Elections have been rigged for decades. That's why they killed JFK
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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24
Typically, in the modern era, Presidents have had 2 terms, Trump being the exception so far. I would except Biden to complete his 2nd term, or Trump might have his 2nd term. Going to be an interesting election.
Yes, I remember Bush/Gore back in 2000 being a really big deal. Elections have never been fair. This country has certainly gone down hill.
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u/Lazy-Jeweler3230 May 04 '24
His administration has already been put to, and failed the test. He was on damn thin on ice already, at best, and he just dove right in with this fascist stance.
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May 03 '24
What? Are people going to vote for Trump instead?
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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24
I hope not. I think the lack of turn out for Biden could cost him the election.
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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 May 03 '24
From the UK, I'm struggling to understand why both of your parties are putting forward senile candidates who are looking like they're going to die in offi..... oh no I get it now. You guys are almost as fucked as we are over here.
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u/Cleanbadroom May 03 '24
It's bad. We only get 2 choices every 4 years. This year it really doesn't matter who wins. Either choice is going to be bad. Biden is aging rapidly, and is doing anything he can to win. Changing marijuana laws, trying to erase college debt, and appeal to young voters. While Trump is campaigning while in court and people seem to show up by the 1000s at every rally.
Both candidates will likely do the same thing over the next 4 years. Trump will take a hands off approach and let states decide what to do , while Biden will be more aggressive in changing policy. Both will still fund the war in Gaza. There is no end in sight.
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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 May 03 '24
I found myself feeling a pang of nostalgia for sean spicer the other day. Going to hell in a handcart is more fun than being in hell.
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u/Subject-Leather-7399 May 03 '24
I am not american, but with your choices, I would just put Sandra Bullock as the name on my vote. She'd potentially be a good president.
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May 04 '24
No, they just won’t vote. It’s apathy.
“Why vote for someone who shut down my right to protest.”
I’m stuck voting for Biden. The alternative is having something like Roe overturned again.
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u/stealthylyric May 03 '24
And they'll start blasting 😮💨
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u/Starwolf00 May 03 '24
Bros finna lose the election. He had a chance for narrow victory. I voted against Trump twice, but damn I might vote for him out of spite. Maybe that will straighten out the other democrats if Trump wins in a landslide.
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u/toddlangtry May 04 '24
I'd agree if the alternative was any better....it's worse.
USA needs a third party not beholden to corporates or the pro-Israel lobby.
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May 04 '24
Never gonna happen. Maybe more parties but they’ll all eventually run candidates owned by the powers that be.
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u/Weak-West2149 May 04 '24
Haha I also thought about it. Fuck Biden.
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u/dewgetit May 04 '24
Vote Green Party for Prez. Vote Dems for House and Senate just in case Trump wins.
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u/holydildos May 04 '24
So in light of the status of both potential shitty candidates for president, where do you stand with RFK?
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u/Formal_Ad_2266 May 04 '24
Please don't, vote independent or any other candidate, Trump is not the answer.
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 03 '24
Remember when backing police oppression was bad because Trump was doing it? But I'm sure they'll keep repeating "vote blue no matter who" and then blame everyone else if this dirt bag loses in November.
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u/Cautemoc May 03 '24
As always. If they win it's a commentary on how centrist politics is actually super popular and the left is irrelevant, and if they lose it'll be used as a cudgel to blame everything Trump does on the left. I'm so sick of neo-libs.
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u/wetbirds4 May 03 '24
This is terrifying. I don’t live in the US but I hope more citizens start standing with the students. The amount of military response I’ve seen has been shocking.
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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 May 03 '24
If they do they are "outside agitators". The establishment already planned for this, this isn't their first rodeo. The most effective counter is a bipartisan protest -free speech, agenda driven mainstream media, malicious deep state/establishment - there are plenty of key issues for both groups. But that well has been so thoroughly poisoned I don't see it happen.
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u/Lazy-Jeweler3230 May 04 '24
It's hard to say. Liberals, their pols, and the media are in lockstep on this one. Unsurprisingly.
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u/Dsstar666 May 03 '24
Never expected him to die on this hill to such an extent than he’d risk losing to a dude who will Have to be strung up on a poll to make it to November AND who wants to end democracy.
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u/PubisMaguire May 03 '24
it just shows you how thoroughly purchased he and the whole cursed machinery of governance are. they're all puppets of AIPAC and the military industrial complex. multimillionaire clowns 🤡 installed and regulated by our billionaire masters and owners
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u/HopeToHelpNBeHelped May 03 '24
Biden is a life long and loudly declared zionist, this isn't him being forced to die on this hill, it's something he believes in wholeheartedly. There is a common misconception where people project policies into politicians as if "they are being forced into this opposition, if we talked in private he would agree with me". Which it's not completely untrue, he might say anything to you face to face, he still would do what he believes is the best for himself.
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u/Dsstar666 May 03 '24
Nah, I certainly didn’t think he was forced. I’m aware he’s a lifelong Zionist. But I just thought his desire to uphold democracy, even a failing one, meant more to him than this slaughter. But I was waaaay wrong. He’d gladly let Trump win.
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u/HopeToHelpNBeHelped May 03 '24
My family has lived and been persecuted in an US created dictatorship in Brazil. Much like in most fascist leaning or full blown fascist dictatorships, the literal liberal elites cared more about private property and profit margins than lives. It's what means to say that "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds". There is very little that will convince them that they will be the ones to suffer. Mainly because, historically, they won't. They get to play the "exile" and "opposition leader", which is a role that pays well and lets them continue to enjoy their life of luxury. The ones dying in the cellars, planting bombs and actually fighting are the nameless young radicals that they will disavow.
Eventually, if one of their sons or daughters turns too radical, gets tortured and killed. Or, if it's just politically convenient, they might turn against the dictatorship in full force. But they won't actually move to stop it, the risk isn't for them physically. At most, it means Biden will be a 82 year old, likely lionized in history as "the one that put up a fight" or something. It's the pact between the leadership that keeps these things running, don't arrest the opposing leader and they won't arrest you when they hold the pen. Call it their own social contract, if you wanna atomize it.
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u/MomSaidStopIt May 04 '24
I loathe Trump, but Biden is equally repugnant. The solution in my household is that we will leave the ballot lines for President, US Senator, and House Rep blank.
There’s zero difference between Trump’s relationship with Putin/Russia and Biden’s with Netanyahu / Israel. Both are willing to destroy the US on behalf of another country. Both should be jailed.
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u/SatanIsLove6666 May 04 '24
He was against the Veitnam War protesters, too. So, at least he is consistent???
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u/Lazy-Jeweler3230 May 04 '24
Joe biden has a ghoulishly awful history. The DNC saw trump as an excuse to sprint to the right and stop just short of full fascism with joe biden. Except they didn't stop.
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u/reddubi May 04 '24
His crackhead son married a Zionist he met only 6 days prior to the wedding after dumping his former sister in law.
It was suppressed in the media. To say his family is compromised is an understatement.
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u/SneakyRussin13 May 03 '24
Biden and Bibi will come up with some sort of cease fire soon enough, ( probably after Israel kills 20-30K more civilians) and then will flaunt this as an example of his great political skill. Would smear the right and will be back up in polls (at least in media)
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u/Mindless-Emu-7291 May 03 '24
Biden is an Israeli controlled traitor. The interests of the US come second to the zionists. This president has been bought.
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u/chatte__lunatique May 03 '24
Tbh I think it's more of a combination of his being a true believer of Zionism and a cynical geopolitical calculation to support Israel, despite the ever-growing mountain of corpses. The AIPAC funding is just the cherry on top of his beloved ice cream.
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u/wibo58 May 03 '24
Why do redditors always jump to “traitor and ____ puppet!”? Last week Mike Johnson was a traitor and a Russian puppet because he didn’t support millions or billions more going to Ukraine. Now Biden is a traitor and an Israeli puppet. I mean I know Reddit’s SOP is to overreact to everything, but you can’t just keep calling everyone you disagree with a traitor.
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u/JasonVoorhees95 May 03 '24
you can’t just keep calling everyone you disagree with a traitor.
Do you think putting foreign interests over your own citizens is just a matter of "disagreement" and compeltely unrelated to treason?
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u/CardButton May 03 '24 edited May 04 '24
Because its easier and more comforting to pretend this issue is as small as just Biden alone. Rather than him, and Trump, both being symptoms of a very sick and broken political system. One that's been slowly devoured by a generally functional, albeit creepily deified, economic system for decades.
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u/truthishearsay May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
Democrats more worried about letting Israel kill Palestinians with impunity than they are allowing full fascist takeover of our govt by the MAGA cult..
Seriously our entire govt needs to be burned to the ground. Both sides are pro-genocide and one side is full on Nazi if they get power.
So the choice is genocide with Nazis or genocide with Zionist pets.. This is the govt of the people its govt of tryants.
We need to be focused on destroying AIPAC and other foreign governments lobbies. We should be protesting AIPAC and force the govt to make them follow the law and register as a foreign entity same along with the other Israeli lobbyists.
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May 04 '24
We should probably just abolish the constitution
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u/truthishearsay May 04 '24
The current Supreme Court is working on that.
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May 04 '24
Under what authority?
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u/truthishearsay May 04 '24
Which ever special interest group pays them the most it seems..
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May 04 '24
If only there was something worth more than money
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u/truthishearsay May 04 '24
The dollar is the Republican Jesus
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May 04 '24
And the Democrats'?
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May 04 '24
This man loves Isreal more than anything on this earth..LBJ and Hindenberg all roled into one. The most hated president in history..for now
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u/BaBa_Con_Dios May 03 '24
Well he and the media better not be clutching their pearls if things do turn violent. You cannot inflict violence on people over and over and expect them to just keep taking it.
Famously outlawing protests and criminalizing dissent has always led to peaceful utopias /s
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u/Teddy-Bear-55 May 03 '24
Well of course he does; he's a liberal!
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u/revel911 May 04 '24
Huh? Liberals saying he is too repressive, republicans saying he needs to be stricter:
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u/Lazy-Jeweler3230 May 04 '24
Leftists are calling him oppressive, liberals are making excuses for him.
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u/DynamicDolo May 03 '24
I think this is why the Columbia protest went down so quickly. The Administration is trying to paint a negative picture of peaceful protests, but couldn’t even get anyone in to spy/disrupt the protesters. Columbia did it right.
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u/Amazing_Battle_4122 May 03 '24
Just look how FUCKING OLD he is. He is braindead. This is the alternative to trump? We're fucked.
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May 04 '24
He’s so fucking senile god damn. I can’t wrap my head around why logic and ethics is the OPPOSITE criteria of ANYONE in our gvt
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u/TheUnbendable1 May 04 '24
So we're getting trump again. Is he the giant douche or the shit sandwich? It's hard to keep track nowadays.
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u/United-Carob-234 May 04 '24
Isreal military contract money Baby the only thing keeping this going in my mind anyway.
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u/bayern_16 May 03 '24
That would be our mayor daily. We would never have the crime we have now with the il man
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u/OccasionallyReddit England May 04 '24
Is he trying to win Republican votes that won't support a man guilty of sexual molestation and fraud?
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u/waywardwanderer101 May 06 '24
But please, blue maga, tell me how Genocide Joe is better than Trump. (they’re they same fucking evil)
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u/Kiboune May 04 '24
"if people want to stop genocide, they need to overthrow government" or something like this Americans love to say about Russia. So how does this plan work out in US?
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u/Discussion-is-good May 04 '24
If we end up with Trump, I hope the people who think these kids deserved this feel it was worth it. Same withe the pro Isreal left.
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u/dewgetit May 04 '24
Vote Green Party for Prez. Vote Dems for House and Senate just in case Trump wins.
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u/DBeumont May 04 '24
There is no "pro Israel left." The Democrat party is right-wing, they're just left compared to Republicans.
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u/Lifewalletsux May 04 '24
Where do you live? I would like to stage a non violent protest with 100 other people in your house.
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May 04 '24
that would be trespassing on private property. unlike the student protest which was on public land.
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u/Lifewalletsux May 04 '24
There are plenty of public land where it is “trespassing” in we go on it. Try harder, Skippy.
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u/Reddit_Sucks_1401 May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24
Evil is evil. There is no lesser, and Biden is currently at the head of the table in a roomful of devils
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u/NoCeleryStanding May 04 '24
Someone who kills one person is just as bad as someone who kills a million people?
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u/Reddit_Sucks_1401 May 04 '24
Obviously not, because this isn't the same case as that. They're using this whole argument that Biden is the lesser of two evils to force/guilt people into voting for him and not Trump. Obviously Trump is bad, but Biden isn't too far off
Right now, its Biden who's in office, and its Biden who's funding and supporting a genocide. So yes, I consider this whole argument of him being the lesser evil absolute rubbish
But to be fair, being a president of the USA means you have to be a terrible person. You can't rule an imperialist empire by being just and fair, so there is that
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u/NoCeleryStanding May 04 '24
Honestly I will personally probably be better off under trump, so if all you rubes want to drink the Russian propaganda cool aid and let him back in office because "they are basically the same" then I guess go ahead.
But you are basically throwing everyone who isn't a wealthy white male American under the bus in a stand for idiological purity. I'll be voting for Biden because the alternative is so much worse for so many people.
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u/Riptiidex May 04 '24
the white liberal has always told voters and people of color to wait for a better season to protest. We have students being beaten, jailed, harassed, & our first amendment right stripped away and yet he’s supposed to be the guy we’re voting for?
Let me ask you this, your best friend’s entire family in Gaza was horribly killed while the Biden administration is funding & arming their killers, are you still voting for this guy? Hell no.
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u/NoCeleryStanding May 04 '24
Dude go ham protesting. Biden even said peaceful protesting is as American as it gets. You act like he is personally ordering local police precincts how to manage their affairs.
Let me ask you this, your best friend’s entire family in Gaza was horribly killed while the Biden administration is funding & arming their killers, are you still voting for this guy? Hell no.
Trump will be at least as bad, so yes, I'm still voting for Biden, because he isn't going to also trample on the rights of pretty much all minorities and women domestically. He is also substantially more likely to listen to those protests, rather than actually personally get involved in shutting them down.
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u/Riptiidex May 04 '24
i guess it really is hard for the average white male to sympathize and understand what minorities in this country go through. for you, its easy to just sit back & tell people how to protest a “correct way.”
fascism is already here, even under the biden administration. he is fueling fuel to the fire & allowing peaceful protesters to be beaten. sorry to tell you this but as a minority, i will not let other minorities be beaten, even by my own party. that must be a new concept to you but for a majority of minorities that’s reality.
and please save that “biden is not responsible” bullshit because when this happened under trump y’all were the first ones to blame trump about the beatings of protestors INCLUDING biden himself. Biden is responsible.
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u/NoCeleryStanding May 04 '24
Again, I'll probably be better off under trump. I don't get why you guys would vote against your own interests like I'm going to. If trump gets into power the Overton window will swing even further to the right, as if it's not already bad enough under Biden.
Protest peacefully. Civil disobedience can be part of that but be tactful about it if your goal is increased support for your cause, it's an inherent balancing act.
But come November you will have two choices. I'm not sure how anyone can see them as the same.
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u/Riptiidex May 04 '24
Because it is once again, not our fault Biden is throwing democracy out the window for a genocide. MLK warned us about white liberals using your exact logic, why can’t you see how inhumane and quite frankly, insane your logic is?
Fascism is already here, Dems just want to hide the fact they are while Republicans are at least up front about what they stand for. LGBTQ rights are already being stripped, abortion access is deteriorating, & what has Biden done? Has he used any leverage or threatened to withhold funding like other Presidents have?
You are not on our side. Who are you to tell protestors how to protest liberation?
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u/Reddit_Sucks_1401 May 05 '24
They're one and the same. Both egotistical, senile maniacs bringing their country to ruins for Israel
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 03 '24
Lesser... you'll really need to try harder to explain how Biden is any less evil than Trump.
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u/BuzzBadpants May 03 '24
Trump would have already dismantled the DOJ and the DoD to be his personal military. Gaza would be bulldozed into the sea, we would currently be fighting a war with Iran, and these American protesters would be scooped up and “disappeared” by Trump’s henchmen.
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 03 '24
Trump would, Trump could... are we just going to pretend we don't see what Biden is actually doing right now under our own eyes?
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u/Rolex_throwaway May 04 '24
What exactly is Biden doing?
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u/Real_Boy3 May 04 '24
Funding a genocide and backing police brutality against those protesting said genocide, for starters.
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u/BuzzBadpants May 04 '24
No, and you shouldn’t, and Trump isn’t the president, but we can absolutely infer what he and his completely obliterated state department would be doing in these scenarios based on his first term. We would absolutely have American soldiers killing and dying in the Middle East on behalf of Netanyahu.
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 04 '24
Looking at their record side by side... it's Trump that's going to start a new war? Lol what? Is it opposite day today?
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u/BuzzBadpants May 04 '24
He would absolutely. You really think he would have been able to stop Netanyahu from going after Lebanon and Iran? It wouldn’t have been Trump to start the war, but we would absolutely be in the midst WWIII right now. You saw what happened to the state department during his term, there would be nothing left of it (or Ukraine) at this point.
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 04 '24
Like when John Bolton tried to start a war at the behest of Israel and Trump fired him and made fun of his mustache?
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u/BuzzBadpants May 04 '24
Exactly. If you hadn’t noticed, the state department has been working overtime to keep this massacre from spiraling into a larger conflict. The state department would be gone, but our foreign policy wouldn’t. Israel would have started WWIII and we would be obliged to help.
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u/AyeCab May 03 '24
How is using the police to violently crush a national student movement against genocide protecting democratic institutions. He's setting what little is left on fire.
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u/Sh4dow101 May 03 '24
Biden didn't "use the police" for anything... Those are all local authorities
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u/AyeCab May 03 '24
The repression was nationally coordinated and encouraged by the administration.
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u/MelodramaticaMama May 03 '24
Also, insults are not appreciated on this sub. Maybe you should return to politics or whitepeopletwitter.
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u/AyeCab May 03 '24
Trump is a fascist piece of shit, but the person who has actually been directly responsible for carrying out a genocide is objectively more evil than a hypothetical fascist dictator.
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u/MahaanInsaan May 03 '24
The "lesser of two evils". Can you explain who is the lesser of the 2 evils, by what measure and how?
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u/Riptiidex May 04 '24
jesus, yall really care about property more than a genocide, huh. Protest are meant to be disruptive, who the hell gives you the right to tell people how to protest over human rights violations.
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u/DieselZRebel May 04 '24
Though in fact acts of violence were rather committed against the protestors than by them, the protests themselves were neither legal nor protected by constitutional rights. No one prevents the students from protesting, however they did it by occupying private properties and safety concerns were real, even if exaggerated by the media.
So to be fair, a police crack down wasn't out of place here.
We have been protesting for months now under constitutional protections, students could have joined and many did, but those ones just chose a more illegal path.
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May 04 '24
this protest and the counter protest had been permitted by the school, which is on public property.
the police should have protected the protestors from violence, or leave them alone.
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u/InternationalNews-ModTeam May 05 '24
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u/Reginald_Venture May 03 '24
I don't understand this, because the actual statement he gave isn't really saying that? Was it an ideal thing, what he actually said? No. But it wasn't a "we need to beatdown everyone protesting," that a lot of people posting seem to think it was.
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u/revel911 May 04 '24
He came off pretty centrist. Pretty much saying they had right to protest, but people need to keep it peaceful. What did people expect him to say?
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May 04 '24
basically saying you arent permitted to have effective protests.
only performative liberal bs that can be easily ignored.
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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 May 03 '24
That's an exceptionally bad take.
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u/Old_Heat3100 May 04 '24
Oh no Isreal and Palestine are fighting?
That's so different from 2014
And 2004
And 1994
And 1984
And 1974
And 1964
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u/AVelvetOwl May 04 '24
Damn, Israel has been invading Palestine for close to a century? Guess that means it's gone on long enough that we shouldn't care about it. Statute of limitations and all that.
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u/Old_Heat3100 May 04 '24
If two countries are still fighting after 80 fucking years why should I give a shit?
There's a dozen conflicts in Africa happening right now but the media isn't covering them so I guess you only care about what the media screams at you to care about
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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 May 04 '24 edited May 04 '24
Because one country is the USA, and it's doing some really nasty sh*t, and it is choosing to be in this "war". Palastine cannot walk away from this conflict, because it's pushed on them by a hostile invading force.
The "Israeli" side of the "war" is financed by the US, fought with US weapons and ammunition, fought by a vast number of US citizens, and whitewashed by US media.
People don't want the US to take action to stop the war. They want the US to stop taking action because the US is the invader.
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u/AVelvetOwl May 04 '24
I mean, normally, I'd say basic human decency would be the reason to care about people suffering and dying, but that ship seems to have sailed.
I do appreciate you telling me what I do and don't care about, though. That's very insightful of you. Here I was, thinking I cared about people dying in conflicts no matter where they are, but apparently, that isn't the case.
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u/Old_Heat3100 May 04 '24
You only care about this conflict because it's trendy
Same fucking conflict has been happening for 80 fucking years
"I'm gonna take your land and laugh as we murder you"
"I'm gonna respond to this oppression by blowing people up and murdering hostages"
Fuck BOTH OF THEM
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u/AVelvetOwl May 04 '24
I do? You mean I haven't cared about this conflict for years before October 7th, 2023?
Man, that's crazy. I can't believe I just made up all those memories I had. I'm glad you were here to inject some logic and truth into this discussion.
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u/InternationalNews-ModTeam May 04 '24
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u/AVelvetOwl May 04 '24
caveman savage tribes
Least racist liberal
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u/AVelvetOwl May 04 '24
Screaming on reddit about how Israelis and Palestinians are cavemen would count as caveman logic, I'd say.
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