After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.

127 points

Clown country

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I wish it was more funny :(

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Oh god dammit put down the monkey paw, we just had this with the last guy.

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38 points

Oh okay we’ll just take your word for it then

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35 points

John Kirby’s just trying to figure out whether or not he’s become a real boy yet.

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55 points

i knew biden would be disappointing but fuck… not “incredibly horrible”

so, now the election is between incredibly horrible and unimaginably worse…

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Yup :(

I don’t envy you Americans. Here in Canada we have our own set of idiots too and it almost always boils down to voting for the least worst person :(

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democracy under capitalism = fascism in cosplay

no matter how much you organize, grassroots, and petition… evil bastards will steamroll your movements with cash, and add a little concession to whatever you were riling people up about…

then you get to vote for the guy pandering to you or the guy who isn’t, but they’ll both do the same shit… give more money to rich people any way possible.

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Yeah you only have Conservatives to choose from. It sucks.

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Love that americans are still worried about elections of all things as if anything other than organized violence will stop a capitalist government from committing genocide.

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Israel is committing genocide with American bombs and American protection and American approval. This war could be ended if Biden just stopped giving them more bombs and stopped protecting Israel from the consequences of its actions. Israel is the 51st State, America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier, it’s an American genocide. We don’t get to hide behind a proxy and pretend we are not directly responsible.

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“Israel” is a US colony; it’s entire existence hinges on the latter.

Its formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named “Colonization Commission”, “Jewish Colonial Trust” and the like.

Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called “zionism”, was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:

“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]

Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.

And capitalist governments work for the interests and profit of capitalists rather than workers as is the reason for the genocide here (keeping the middle east unstable and unable to unite against imperialism with a colony right in the middle of Africa and Asia), so yes that does matter.

The government does not represent you since you’re not a capitalist, so trying to change something as massive as a genocide through it is pointless, specially when the only other option is just as bad, if not worse. The only thing that will change it is organizing and pressuring it from the outside.

Rather than “intervening” like you want other countries to do against a nuclear state, has the US considered not directly funding and facilitating the genocide?

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15 points

whatever country you’re pretending to be from

The american chauvinist cannot comprehend people being from other countries

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The #1 thing I’ve noticed this go round is how the best even the most dem pundits and supporters can come up with is “Yeah Biden does it but Trump will do it worse”

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I’m not even convinced that’s true when it comes to this issue. Trump, at least, narcissistically cares about what people think of him enough that he could maybe be swayed by public opinion. Biden has been a hardline Zionist his entire career and sees backing Israel to the hilt despite the public outcry as a moral imperative.

Besides, how do you get worse than eagerly aiding a genocide?

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26 points

americans are too chickenshit and comfortable to do anything than complain. i wish we were more like the french.

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I thought that was what the 2nd Armament was for, but apparently it’s actually for killing school children.

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report me to the House Un-American Activities Committee you McCarthyist loser

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19 points

lol at this wannabe cop bootlicker

Hey, you gonna file a report with your local intelligence branch about people on the internet mad at their governments?

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4 points

Sufficiently grand disorganized violence or sufficiently organized property destruction could also work.

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Hey we’re not hungry enough yet. Violence is scary and we won’t do it till we absolutely gotta. I mean we absolutely gotta but even as i know this I’m not picking up a gun yet, i still have a lot to lose. It’s not like it’s just here in the states, it’s happening all over the western world. When will you decide to take up arms and take your life back?

I’m not attacking you, just putting you in my yankee shoes

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2 points

Almost like the electoral system is broken and the only solution us direct action?

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119 points

Holy hell, how can he say that with a straight face?

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81 points

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10 points

Politicians are professional liars

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3 points

And I’m really insulted they’re not doing a better job.

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Because the five of us here who aren’t are the only people in the entire world who don’t take MSM at face value

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I always find a weird cognitive dissonance when I talk to people on the street about it. They know its not trustworthy, but they still trust it. They’re more open if you point that out before presenting alternatives.

Its kind of like elections? ‘Everything’s broken, all the systems are bad and will never serve us, vote em all out!’ As opposed to real action.

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