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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

The US needs to stop funding genocide.

Use the word. It's important. It's what it is. This is a modern holocaust happening before our eyes, and we are complicit in it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

How the fuck are 'we' complicit in it when our government only follows the average citizen's will in 10% of their policies?

You're just like the megacorps chiding us for not recycling our water bottle caps.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The American public isn’t trying to recall or remove politicians who support unrestricted arms sales to Israel. Both Biden and Trump are for unrestricted sales, it seems.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I agree that the word is appropriate, but it's also problematic because it has legal definitions that are almost never met. Someone will inevitably argue with the use of the term, and the conversation will be completely derailed by a vocabulary debate

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I just say genocidal actions.

Hard to disagree there

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Ignore them. You can't patent the term genocide

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

They can argue all they want. I really don't care.

The legal definitions of genocide are only difficult to meet because they were written by countries with their own histories of genocide. That's why it's so hard to prove.

That's not a standard we need to hold ourselves to.

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