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How do you feel about financing a genocide? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by selokichtli@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was then the Romans and the Muslims that did the oppression and genocide.

When did the Muslim-world commit genocide against Jewish people? The medieval Muslim-world was a safe haven for Jewish communities - as opposed to Christendom... you know - the place where antisemitism originates from?

Your abolishment of boundaries and countries is also a very simplistic world view.

I'd say that fetishizing lines drawn on a map is a pretty simplistic thing in itself.

Without government, you can’t stop the strong from obliterating the weak.

So your solution is to allow the strong a government so that they can obliterate the weak even more easily?

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

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Why am I actually responding to a comment that is saying muslims don't want to exterminate Jews.

Sure the liberal ones don't, but wtf?

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Why am I actually responding to a comment that is saying muslims don’t want to exterminate Jews.

Let me guess... you're a product of the US education system?

You don't have the foggiest idea of the history you are feigning expertise in here, do you?

Sure the liberal ones don’t, but wtf?

What "liberals," Clyde? The only Palestinian "liberals" you will find are the corrupt lapdog racketeers "managing" the West Bank at the behest of Israel. If Hamas takes them out, very few Palestinians will lose any sleep over it... and rightly so.