Firass Abiad says many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks targeting Hezbollah were civilians.

Lebanon’s health minister has said what is happening in his country is “carnage”, as hospitals struggle to cope with the number of casualties from two days of widespread Israeli air strikes targeting the armed group Hezbollah.

Dr Firass Abiad told the BBC it was “clear” that many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks were civilians, including children and women.

  • @FlowVoidEnglish
    3•15 hours ago

    it would force the government to legitimize itself

    LOL, no. It wouldn’t force the government to do anything.

    Since you’ve never seen a ballot, try googling one. You’ll see a bunch of downballot races in which very few people vote. Those races all have winners, and those winners always have and always will give zero fucks about legitimizing themselves to nonvoters.

    • @[email protected]English
      -3•14 hours ago

      OK then it sounds like voting and not voting have the same result so why should I bother?

      • @FlowVoidEnglish
        2•7 hours ago

        It’s not the same result. Politicians have to appeal to voters, they are free to ignore nonvoters.

        If you’re not voting, then you’re not voting for Trump as well as not voting for Harris. Are you surprised that Trump isn’t courting your vote? You shouldn’t be.

        But Harris has no more reason to court your vote than Trump does. You’re a nonvoter, so they are both ignoring you.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 minutes ago

          OK I don’t understand your logic. They spend billions of dollars to get people to vote. Door knockers are there to get people like me to vote. Do you not understand how elections work?

          • @FlowVoidEnglish
            1•9 seconds ago

            No, they are trying to reach people who are not sure if they are going to vote.