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Israel-Hamas war: Bombardment of Rafah intensifies as Gaza death toll reportedly near 30,000 (www.irishtimes.com)

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[-] blazera@kbin.social 72 points 10 months ago

pfft, remember all those countries telling Israel they better not bomb Rafah?

So anyway they started blastin'

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

"Whats everyone so upset about? We've only killed 1% of the Palestine population. We're minimizing civilian deaths. Ignore the fact it's overwhelmingly women and children though."

[-] livus@kbin.social 40 points 10 months ago

30,000 of 2 million is 1.5%.

That's halfway to the Bosnian genocide levels in less than a year.

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I don’t know what makes my head spin more, the rate at which Israel is slaughtering Palestinians not just with the absolutely mental amount of bombs they are dropping on a tiny area but also with the cutting off of basic necessities and the associated starvation and deaths of despair….. or the fact that US media, Joe Biden and US centrists just don’t seem to have a “too far” for Israel slaughtering Palestinians.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

According to the UN it may be as much as 6 percent. Nobody has looked under the rubble yet.

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Definitely the most moral army💕

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

But they text people before destroying their lives!?

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

“Your home and everything you’ve worked for will be completely destroyed in 15 minutes, flee while you can. We are good guys btw”

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

"Hey guys pick up all your shit and move to this safezone. We won't bomb it."

"Lol oops jk"

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[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

‘Everywhere you go will be bombed as well LOL’

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[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I've had some ex-girlfriends like that

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

But Genocide Joe told me that he wouldnt allow it! Especially not now he's trying to send israel 17 billion in bombs!

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Genocide Blind Biden more like. He's not doing the genocide directly just completely fucking ignoring it. The pool of blood is going to reach his knees soon, I wonder how long he can ignore it before he drowns.

[-] livus@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

Actively vetoing proposals for a ceasefire isn't ignoring.

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Huh, he is not ignoring anything, you can’t just ignore 30000 deaths, he is actively funding it, just the normal brown and religious hate ya know, nothing new

[-] spacesatan@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But don't forget to let centrist dems know you'll keep voting for them even if they support a genocide.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hey, stupid, the other choice is letting Trump win and even if Biden personally grabbed a gun and started murdering Palestinians in the streets he'd do less damage than Trump would.

Please remove your head from your ass or we will, yet again, let that flagrantly fascist psychopath take charge.

[-] spacesatan@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn thats crazy, maybe the centrist dems should have voted for a candidate in the primary that wouldn't abandon the critical "anti-genocide" voting bloc. I'll gladly take a term of trump if it means less shit dem candidates in the future.

Leftists and progressives have 0 leverage against centrist democrats if our votes are unconditional, if supporting a genocide isn't a line too far then nothing is.

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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I, for one, don't think we should give our elected officials a free pass just because the other guy would be worse.

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[-] Jamil@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I'm starting to turn around on this. I feel like Trump is corruptable, so some Saudi money can make him change his mind.

Biden is okay with genocide. I don't know how Trump can be much worse than what Biden is already doing.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure Trump has openly supported the IDF and said he'd do worse. Protecting the weak isn't in the GOP playbook and hopefully we won't have to see if he can be bribed to change his mind.

[-] Jamil@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Open support is better than what Biden is doing. Gas lighting.

I don't think it's possible for Trump to do worse. What can be worse? Sending more money to Israel? Obstructing any ceasefire or mechanisms of international justice? Not recognizing Palestinians sovereignty? Bidens government is already doing these things. What does worse look like? I think what Biden is doing is as bad as it gets, he needs to be shown that he lost the left and we don't have to vote for him.

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[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 1 points 10 months ago

biden is flagrantly fascist, too, so maybe we should choose someone else, like cornel west or jill stein.

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh boy get ready for the downvotes

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[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I hope people would just learn to apologise to each other for their mistake instead of fighting to the death like cave mans

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