• Dippy@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    I mourn the lives lost to hate. I dont just mean victims of hateful violence, but I also mourn those who lose their own life by dedicating it to hate. We only get one chance at life, and to waste it all filled with anger is a tragedy. It is a different tragedy, and my mourning feels different for the hateful from the mourning I do for the hated. But there is in fact room to mourn the end of every life as a tragedy.

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      5 hours ago

      You speak like a true politician lmfao

      no commitment to anything, vagueposting and both-sides approach to an obvious genocide

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Sure, people died on Oct 7th, which is the subject of that anniversary/mourning day, but it’s used by the Israeli government as justification for an ongoing genocide that killed and continues to kill way more Palestinians.

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      2 days ago

      it’s used a false flag by the Israeli government as justification for an ongoing genocide

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      2 days ago

      People die every day, i can’t find statiatics anywhere but I’m certain 1000s die in israel every week. 11000 peopled died from corona virus, is anyone stopping to mourn them?

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      2 days ago

      The rank and file of a terrible organization are victims of that organization in their own right. You are right to be critical of said organization in exploiting these victims for their own gain. Let’s also remember the individual human on any side of a conflict, most of whom are wonderful people being lead to do horrible things. Tribalism is how the powerful continue to convince good people to commit horrible acts.

      • freagle@lemmy.ml
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        How many horrible acts does it take for a wonderful person to no longer be a wonderful person? Is it a point system? Is the curve linear or logarithmic?

        You think we don’t understand that babies are born innocent? You think we believe these people commiting atrocities are all evil grade school bullies without any humanity?

  • mystic-macaroni@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Imo, saying 1k let him drop the 74k in a “more meaningful way” to the majority of people. That juxtaposition was deliberate

  • XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
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    Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.

    • “Concerning the International Situation” by J. V. Stalin (1924)
  • goferking (he/him)
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    Did they ever work out how many Israelis were killed by Israeli forces that day?

    Oh right all just blamed on the terrorists, nothing the idf did that required apaches to be rearmed

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      24 hours ago

      They did. Then they hid the investigation and refused to release it till this day.

      Israel censored everything and then blamed it all on Hamas. How very convenient for them!

      And Zohran is repeating that level of propaganda.

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          Nothing real about fake outrage against a true ally while the facsists plot your demise in the open.

          “fake outrage” - outrage for supporting zionists

          “true ally” - a true ally who gets you beaten up and arrested by NYPD while supporting zionism

          while the facsists plot your demise in the open.

          Who are the fascists?

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    I’m going to mourn some Saudis on 9/11.
    And I wish I could piss in that silly tiled urinal memorial too.

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    Mamdani is a serious person. He is capable of feeling and thinking. More people should really try the latter more often.

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        Would that make it “fair,” in your mind? If he only mentioned the 800 or so civilian Israeli casualties from the October 7th attacks, instead of just mentioning the whole number without specifying that about 300 or so were IDF security forces? Or if he includes the IDF soldiers in the total then he must also mention the roughly 1,200 Palestinian fighters who were also killed? That’s what matters here?

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          1. We still don’t know how many people were killed by Hamas because Israel still refuses to release the October 7 investigation. In this case attribute every single IDF kill to Hamas and all others to the Israeli government unless the opposite was proven. If Israel wants to hide facts we get to interpret them however we want.

          2. Yes dont put the IDF genocide troops in the mourning numbers???

          3. Your position is like demanding people commemorating the bombing of Dresden during Holocaust memorials because it’s unfair if they wouldn’t. (Not to compare the surgical precision the Palestinian resistance fought with did that day to the Dresden firebombings of course). Ideally Mamdani would only celebrate the resistance but since I’m such a nice guy I’ll condone him shutting up instead.

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      He is capable of feeling and thinking.

      Feeling the need to get the NYPD to beat up and arrest people protesting genocide. Thinking that it’s good to defend Netanyahu and side with Zionists while he has that feeling.

    • Narri N. (they/them)@lemmy.ml
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      I’m not Usian, but by what I can tell it’s Mamdami’s nontransparent decision making combined with hypocritical both-sidesing of an ongoing genocide, along with what seems like capitulation to Zionists and the police state. Along with walking back on promises to voters, with insufficient explanations as to why which ties back to the nontransparency.