• @surph_ninja
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    -137 hours ago

    What is defending a politician committing a genocide, if not cult behavior?

    https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/portrait-of-the-bidens-a-family-as-dysfunctional-as-the-kennedys-and-protected-by-the-press/

    The Ashley Biden diary is the most recent example of a blanket media blackout, a July 2019 excerpt going viral two weeks ago. Read this and defend it as non-newsworthy:
    “Was I molested,” the author writes. “I think so — I can’t remember specifics but I do remember trauma. Hyper-sexualized @ a young age . . . I remember being somewhat sexualized with Caroline; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate).”

    • @LovableSidekick
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      What is defending a politician committing a genocide, if not cult behavior?

      It’s people having a different opinion of events than you do. A cult is more like when your group thinks it’s clearly, obviously, inarguably wrong not to see everything through your lens. That’s a cult.

      • @surph_ninja
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        -34 hours ago

        You mean like believing amnesty international, the UN, Doctors Without Borders, and the ICC are wrong about genocide? That kind of “different opinion?”

        • @LovableSidekick
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          No I mean realizing the world isn’t a meme. For example not everybody would think buying a box of screws from Home Depot is genocide because the CEO is pro-Israel.

          • @surph_ninja
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            -24 hours ago

            Sending bombs to arm a genocide, in violation of both international & domestic laws, is in fact committing genocide.

            • @LovableSidekick
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              24 hours ago

              Actually “in fact” and “one way to look at it” are different, and I’m done with this so go ahead and have the last word and award yourself internet moral victory points.

              • @surph_ninja
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                -33 hours ago

                Is it weird seeing yourself in this situation, and finding out you would have supported the Holocaust? What’s it feel like to discover that part of yourself?

    • @[email protected]
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      04 hours ago

      Amidst zero people defend the genocide, hence the part where I pointed out that most people hate him. Are you fucking stupid or something? Do you think that turning every conversation about literally everything into a conversation about Gaza will do absolutely anything about the situation at all?

      Everybody knows it’s horrific. Everybody hates it. I hate it. I can’t fucking stop it, voting for, or supporting, either party wasn’t going to fix it (though one side campaigned on turbo charging it, which still makes them the objectively worse choice ethically and morally), so all I can do is focus on the other things that could change and be better.

      I’m so fucking tired of you morons derailing every conversation to tell us everything we already know because you’re too stupid to understand that other things still exist.

          • @surph_ninja
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            -12 hours ago

            I remember it, too. What’s your point?

            Again, with the current situation under Biden, UN experts project eradication of the population.

            The problem is you neoliberals think words are equal to actions. Trump using harsher language doesn’t make Biden’s actions any different.

            • Flying Squid
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              22 hours ago

              “Trump uses harsher language, therefore he won’t be responsible for genocide” is a weird argument.

              • @surph_ninja
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                -12 hours ago

                Work on that reading comprehension.

                • Flying Squid
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                  Insulting me doesn’t change the fact that you are suggesting Trump will share in no culpability when it comes to Palestinian genocide.

                  If that is not what you are suggesting, you’re sure doing a bad job of it.

                  Let’s see if you will ever admit Trump might even possibly make things even worse than they have been under Biden maybe. I’m betting not.

                  • @surph_ninja
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                    02 hours ago

                    No, I don’t think trading one fascist for another makes a difference. I don’t think choosing between Hitler or Mussolini is a meaningful choice.