Hecklers ejected from Dublin event as Bernie Sanders refuses to call Israel’s actions genocide : politics

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 74 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

should have ejected bernie instead

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 60 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

IRA needs to release an apology press release for missing their chance to do something very funny

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 68 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In Ireland? An odd choice to take a pro genocide stance there

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 59 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

flattened-bernie

We need a flattened Jane as well now. Holy shit.

Ms O’Meara Sanders said calling the current events genocide would alienate significant allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few, and provide opponents with an opportunity to shift the focus of the debate.

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 45 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh great! Thank god he’s not going to call it a genocide so he can get zero bills passed instead of zero bills passed

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

Oh I assure you the Dems are passing plenty of bills. They’re passing the ones Republicans are writing!

Really weird how it’s never the other way around yet they continue this behavior.

Well I guess there’s nothing to be done except vote for the Dems again. It’s all those damn tankies fault.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 44 points 4 weeks ago

significant allies like good friend chuck schumer?

the fuck she talks about

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Call me an uncompromising radical, but I don't consider genocidaires or their abetters potential allies. We're just too different!

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago

I hope an Mk84 2,000 lb. bomb shifts its focus onto her fucking bedroom

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few

Gee i wonder why

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 56 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What’s causing the horrific events? Who knows? Maybe the hospitals just did that.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

Vaxxed?

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 55 points 4 weeks ago

COME OUT, BERNIE SANDS

COME AND FIGHT ME, YE OLD MAN

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 50 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

flattened-bernie "but some people want to argue about a word which the United Nations is now working to define.”

"...and I don't want to use that word until we can abuse the US's power over the U.N. so that it doesn't include openly declaring your intent to destroy a people and their civilization while doing so, but rather focuses on the evils of providing vocational training like those bastards in China!"

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 48 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Social fascism on full display. I can't wait for this fucker to die.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 37 points 4 weeks ago

Damn look at the liberals coming out of the wood-work.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago

then bernie comrade-birdie

now dead-dove-1

nobody has fallen off quite like Bernie

(yes i know he's always been a liberal zionist and a social democrat)

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 30 points 4 weeks ago

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago

Who remembers the Bernie Sanders song from 2015?

Whooooooooo... betrayed Gaza?
I said whooooooo betrayed Gaza?

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

again??

[+] recall519@lemm.ee -3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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[–] underisk@hexbear.net 45 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

what's the valid reason? all im seeing is him saying he doesnt want to get "bogged down" by describing things as they are. the un he claims is still working to define the word has basically declared it a genocide; if he wants to defer to an authority to deflect then he should probably choose a body that hasn't already made their stance on the subject pretty clear.

edit: i guess maybe you mean this?:

would alienate significant allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few, and provide opponents with an opportunity to shift the focus of the debate.

which is utter nonsense. if your allies are alienated by calling the genocide a genocide then they aren't going to be your allies in stopping the genocide they wont even admit exists.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 weeks ago

There's no legitimate reason to defend Israel in any capacity. It's a genocide, full stop, and fuck anyone who won't say so

[–] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

your comment is trash

[+] Archangel1313@lemm.ee -7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

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[–] elpaso@hexbear.net 48 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Gregory Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch, defines “ethnic cleansing” as a “euphemism for genocidal practices” used to cover up events that should be prosecuted as genocide and to dehumanise its victims.

Source: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/18/2/204/449611?login=false

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's only genocide if it comes from the genocide region of Germany, otherwise it's sparkling Ethnic Cleansing.

[–] elpaso@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I have a cold and a final exam coming up and this made me have that sick cough laugh 😭

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I too have a hard time distinguishing between “good” and “bad” things.

The “radical Islamic fundamentalism” thing was a cynical, racist ploy from the GOP to fire up their little hogs. We call it a genocide because it is a genocide, jfc this isn’t hard. If there was a word that described something worse than a genocide I would use that word, because what is happening in Gaza is one of the worst crimes committed in this world in decades.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

eat my entire ass, genocide denier

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That's better than I expected from him.

It still hurts to see him use euphimisms like this directly afterwards

"He added: “I think I, and a majority of the American people, do not want to be complicit in the humanitarian disaster that Netanyahu is causing in Gaza right now.”

but it's further that I thought he was prepared to go.

Thanks for sharing!

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ketchup vs Catsup