Oh yes, I remember that. It inspired me to re-read The Masque of the Red Death.

At first I was like: How can capitalism allow this to happen without Bo being disappeared? But then I realized that not enough people will even hear about it for it to make a difference, and even fewer will believe it or listen seriously to its message, and in the meantime capital will just profit off of it. Also they let George Carlin live for quite a while and he said essentially the same thing.

It was kinda fun to watch corpos shit themselves, even briefly. Unfortunately this triggered their narcissistic rage which has been on an endless tear since, but for a brief moment in time the thing they cared about was hurt: their money.

Ooooo, “idealistic anti intellectualism” huh? Well check out the big brain on Brett, you’re a smart motherfucker!

You won’t be missed

Killing civilians is “precisely” what they want

‘What do you mean by “Why do you keep beating that straw man to death?”’

Young Democrats face Gaza blowback as they try to mobilize students for Biden

Perhaps instead of trying to mobilize students to support an active genocider, they can go fuck themselves instead?

The cruelty is the point

And so you see children, that was why we prosecuted Bush for War Cri-- oh wait nevermind.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 strikes, you’re out

Agreed, but it’s more important to them that they look like they’re fair. You see, they had this really bad PR period during the whole colonial era and they’re really working on their image.

Hard to say, I suspect people decide on a case by case basis, though I myself often hear the term genocide used after the group targeted or the location. The genocide in Germany and its occupied territories during World War II was uniquely historically bad to warrant its own terminology (hence “Holocaust” in many instances).

Most genocides actually don’t have as high a percentage of people killed as the Holocaust did, the Armenian and Greek genocides by Turkey during WW1 are actually more historically representative in that significantly more of the population are displaced, assaulted, and/or culturally destroyed than outright killed. The Holocaust combined the typical traits of genocide with a truly monstrous murder-industrial complex.

This is also why the Gaza genocide is particularly worrying, because unlike many other historical genocides (and none are acceptable), the people of Gaza are boxed in to a very small space, told to migrate to different parts of it, and then attacked in the places they move to. There is no escape for them, and this situation was entirely manufactured by Israel. Whatever the official death toll is at this moment, the real death toll might never be known and is likely significantly higher.

I’ve considered making a comm, possibly something that would be ideal for these kinds of posts (maybe where I could normalize the titles), just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I am noticing that text articles do definitely get more positive engagement, possibly because people can scroll through them at work here and there and quickly pick up where they left off, whereas videos can only be viewed at work in the background at office jobs while other things are getting done, and people have to be extra careful about video links they click at the office. Youtube doesn’t make that easier, for sure.

On that you’ll have to blame Breaking Points, I just copy the title from them per most communities’ recommendations. They’ve explicitly stated in the past that this is a tactic geared to youtube where their main hosting is and wouldn’t do it otherwise (and used to not do it). I don’t like it any more than you do but it’s a pain to change it for a few specific communities’ tastes.

They really don’t want to do that last little push do they? Just to hop that little hill into non-complicity in a genocide?

No one could have predicted this /s

Ukraine still retains the ability to militarily defeat Russia but the west has been a day late and a dollar short.

I think that may have been the case at one point, but if you look up Ukraine and prosthetics, and compare to the population and military strength you’ll see that it’s more than a day late at this point. Even if you’re of the opinion that deaths aren’t that high, prostheses need paints a grim picture for the future of that conflict. Countries like France were trying to negotiate settlements and ceasefires earlier in the war but the US kept blocking them and hinging financial and military support on not negotiating, which is how we got where we are there.

The residents of Gaza choose this by choosing Hamas as their government and starting a war with Israel. Iran is similarly responsible.

First, I disagree. Hamas was elected decades ago and there have been no elections since, and more than 50% of Gaza was children before Oct 7th. The majority of people who live in Gaza did not elect Hamas.

Secondly, even if this was the case, what were Gazans going to do about their situation, protest? Israel controls and controlled flow of trade (via a blockade), water, and electricity into Gaza before this conflict. A huge percentage of the Gaza population had injuries from IDF soldiers deliberately shooting them in the kneecaps from earlier protests or getting too close to the fences they erected. On top of that, Israel helped fund Hamas and got them into power, so Oct 7 was just Israel reaping what it sowed. Gaza was an open air prison hosting a slow genocide before this conflict, all that’s happened now is Israel moving up the timetable.