r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24

Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Jul 23 '24

Dementia is a threat to US imperialism and US capital, genocide is just the cost of doing business. The simple logic of imperialism is that the lives of workers (especially those in the imperial periphery) are value only as foreign secondary markets (with low rates of profit) and as cheap sources of labor. On the other hand any threat to the maintenance of Imperialism must be removed.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 23 '24

I take issue with the notion that genocide is a "cost" of doing business. Munitions are single-use, and as such avoid the phenomenon of market saturation. This is great for the weapons manufacturers.