The state of the discourse. - eviltoast
  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Is that really what we’re debating? We all know it isn’t.

    What’s important is can they get away with it before losing the support of those propping them up.

    When the US and their buddies bombed the fuck out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and we all gathered around to watch the display of “shock and awe” did we bother to find out what they were bombing? Or did we just just go “take that, Taliban and Al-Qaida”?

    Anything Israel are doing has been done before by their allies. They know it’s shady as fuck, but also know they got away with it too.

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      1 year ago

      When the war on Iraq and Afghanistan started, I stood with my children, one in a stroller outside of Dick Cheney 's house in silent protest. During the Vietnam war I made several trips to Washington DC to protest the war. There is no upside to war. What we can do today, is call, email your senator and congressman that you want the killing to stop, you want the USA to stop funding this genocide. Call every day, it only takes a few minutes and if everyone did that, we would have an impact.

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      1 year ago

      We did actually. With embedded reporters and human rights activists keeping an eye on things to make sure. There aren’t a ton of headlines about the US bombing hospitals because we avoided doing that. Shocking, I know.