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How do you feel about financing a genocide? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The only thing I'm dissatisfied with is their free hand with bombing civilians along with military targets. I can understand that Israel is angry, and rightfully so, but they fancy themselves a western country, being better than terrorist Hamas. They can't let their anger take control. Bombing civilians undermines their legitimatecy, I think they should try and be as surgical as possible, like they did in previous rounds of fighting. Other than that, I fully support their desire to root out Hamas. Though conquering Gaza only has any merit to it if they decide to stay and govern it themselves, otherwise Hamas would just rise up again.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

PIGPOOPBALLS

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Wat?

Why even post?

Are you going to edit later?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is Pig Poop Balls, which shows that this person disagrees with my opinion, to put it mildly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, thank you!

I would rather not have known, hahaha

I did not know people replied with that, thought it was a bot/troll.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I must have blocked whoever posted that.

Yay!

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