This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…
“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”
"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.
@augieray Do you realize that the choice of Biden or Trump is a choice forced on the people? That with sufficient pressure, a man deeply complicit in the slaughter of innocents could be forced to step down? That you are framing people of conscience as the problem at a time that your candidate is supplying murder weapons to murderers?
If you do realize, you are immoral, regardless of any “pragmatism”.
The problem is in Biden, not in those who refuse to support his complicity in genocide.
@augieray Limit the violence by bypassing Congress to give the Israelis weapons?
But, anyway, that is a detail.
The point is that the electorate is being given a “choice” between two monsters; and you are blaming those who will not choose one. Not the monster; nor those responsible for making him the candidate. But those who have conscience.
And, thank you, I know my conscience won’t help me when American bombs fall on my country. Biden’s or Trump’s.
@lednaBM When asked if he thought he could ever become a Christian, Martin Heidegger responded that he could not rule out the possibility, but, if he did, he “would no longer be able to do what I do now; which is to say, think.”
Sadly, rather than Christianity, it was Nazism that took him.
And, despite later revoking it as his biggest idiocy, he remained antisemitic.
Like Hemingway, a man of complexities and contradictions.
So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option
@QasimRashid At least most people now know where they would have stood when the Native Americans were being decimated. There’s a reason so many posters go back to 1947, or 1948 but not, say, to 1937 or 1938. The White solution to collective guilt after the Nazis was to steal somebody else’s land. Talk about that. Hamas is a consequence of that, like the IRA, a response to colonialism in their land.
@zachklipp Watch what Google, Meta, and Biden are doing to support Israel’s murder of civilians. If you are a dissenting American, think hard about how the same profiling and technologies and political attitudes might intersect at home. These evil people are not your friends.
Heartbreaking.
Zelensky: ""The Tripilska power plant, electricity in the Kiev region depends on it. Eleven missiles were headed towards it. The first seven we took down. Four destroyed Tripilska. Why? Because we had zero missiles. We ran out of all missiles." #Ukraine
The thing I am most interested in is time travel. I would be real interested in connecting with people on mastodon that have same interests 👌🏾
I tried writing a book last year but lost interest. Need more inspiration 🙏🏿 #TimeTravelAuthors
@Jaden3 I’m a short story guy. Try Ann Vandermeer’s The Time Traveler’s Almanac and Mike Ashley’s The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF for some great stories.
Did you know that Trump can receive classified intelligence briefings as the winner of the GOP nomination? An erratic candidate who openly sides with dictators, stokes conspiracy theories and faces prison for mishandling classified materials should not have access to sensitive intelligence. Add your name if you agree: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/deny-trump-classified-briefings?source=mastodon&medium=directpost
@indivisibleteam You know, four years in, people really should be asking why these posts are still necessary, and why those who could do something to stop him, simply, do not.
"What is happening at Boeing is happening in every industry. A general trend toward financialisation & hedge fund culture that sees only numbers, not peoples lives or wellbeing. It's just that aviation has a way of making the corruption impossible to hide. It's the dead canary." - Ben King
@ned@DoesntExist And it is exactly what the British government is doing and enabling. When Trump comes back, the process will, no doubt, accelerate in the US.
@dangillmor Perhaps, sir, you might consider changing “fundamental weakness”, which is a traditional liberal kindness, to “fundamental complicity”, as, after all this time, there must be little chance that it is anything else.
Exactly! All this “let the people decide” talk is remarkably backwards. The people decided in November 2020: Trump lost, and attempted an auto-coup in response. That is the sole reason why the insurrection clause came into play at all: January 6 was the anti-democratic part. 1/