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Sure. Even plenty of dem voters! But just to be clear, do you think that the WiFi issue or the genocide issue is costing democrats more potential votes?

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The genocide that Israel is doing, or China?

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According to article 2 of the genocide convention, actual killing is not necessary for a genocide.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948/article-2

"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

✅ (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

✅ © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

✅ (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

✅ (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

"The declarations follow reports that, as well as interning Uyghurs in camps, China has been forcibly mass sterilising Uyghur women to suppress the population, separating children from their families, and attempting to break the cultural traditions of the group.

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said China is committing “genocide and crimes against humanity”.

The UK parliament declared in April 2021 that China was committing a genocide in Xinjiang.

A UN human rights committee in 2018 said it had credible reports that China was holding up to a million people in “counter-extremism centres” in Xinjiang.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute found evidence in 2020 of more than 380 of these “re-education camps” in Xinjiang, an increase of 40% on previous estimates.

Analysis of data contained in the latest police documents, called the Xinjiang Police Files, showed that almost 23,000 residents - or more than 12% of the adult population of one county - were in a camp or prison in the years 2017 and 2018. If applied to Xinjiang as a whole, the figures would mean the detention of more than 1.2 million Uyghur and other Turkic minority adults."

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15k of them were Hamas terrorists. More civilians die in every war and that’s really fucked up. And do you really not believe the Uyghur genocide is a thing?

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Which one are US elected representatives actively supporting with US taxpayer dollars?

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Are you talking about the ten year weapons contract that started in 2016?

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