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In so far as it being a reflection of his intentions when otherwise entirely plausible? Yeah, sure. This isn't him drawing on a hurricane map with a pen.
Fifty thousand dead Palestinians is fifty thousand too many - or however many the real number is by now - but there are two million Palestinians in Gaza, and three million in the West Bank. Despite how bad it already is, this can still get so, so much worse.
Your claim to not choose genocide is, in fact, a choice to let the rest of the country decide without your input. If Harris' lukewarm opposition saves literally any Palestinian lives whatsoever relative to the alternative, that's worth more than someone feeling smug about not voting. I don't know about you, but I think that the most ethical choice, if you are voting solely on the matter of Palestine, is whichever option is materially best for actual Palestinians even if that option is still horrible
Are you suggesting it is not reasonable to judge a politician based on the things they say?
But don't worry, because I'm also judging him on his actions when he was president last time. Like pardoning American war criminals, massively increasing the amount of drone strikes conducted, assassinating an Iranian general, recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, attempting to extort Ukraine for his own political gains, and actively backing the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen. And as a reminder, even the Biden administration dropped support for that last one. He's as belligerent as any American president and no hypotheticals are needed to demonstrate that. So when he says he wants Israel to do more in Gaza? Yeah I consider that a genuine and meaningful threat to the millions of Palestinians that haven't been killed yet, and I will absolutely take Harris' nothing response over that.
So on what basis do you think that Trump is the preferable option?
50k is not a true figure, it's confirmed deaths. most are stuck in rubble and israel destroys all of their heavy machinery they have no way to dig up the bodies. and no, Harris nor Biden are holding Israel back. what a joke. I hope you're a paid poster and not a real person because that's a real dumb opinion. I don't care if you read it in MSM and for some reason believe it. It was such a blatant attempt at damage control. If you're a real person I recommend you get your news from sources such as the grayzone, mintpressnews, mondoweiss, the electronic intifada, etc
I know 50k is the confirmed number, that's why I specifically made an aside about the real number
I'm not even saying Biden or Harris are holding Israel back. I'm saying Trump has openly stated that he wants to push Israel even further than it is already going.
Considering you apparently didn't read what I actually wrote and instead chose to insult me over something you made up, I'm hardly about to take your news recommendations. I'm even less inclined to do so when the first one is the Grayzone.
Yes, you are repeatedly stating this while seemingly ignoring that Kamala and Biden are already doing genocide, because it doesn't get worse than that. If Kamala isn't stopping the genocide or even holding Israel back, how will Trump be worse? What could Trump possibly do that's worse than genocide? "Finish the job" vs "finish the job faster", either way the same result, genocide.
As I stated in my last message, if Trump gets in and starts directing Israel how to do the genocide and demands they do it faster, there's a real chance his incompetence leads to its failure. Whereas under Kamala Biden it's already been ongoing for over a year.
If we have to choose between "slow effective genocide" vs "fast sloppy genocide" I'm choosing the sloppy one. As it has the best chance of failing. (I don't support this argument of choosing a "lesser genocide" though, just stating the flaws in your argument).
They most likely insulted you because they read what you wrote, the same reason I didn't respond initially.
Your entire previous reply to me is ignoring context almost to the point of strawmanning and borderline genocide denial*. It comes off as someone who doesn't actually care about the issue and just wants to get their talking points out about why genocidal Trump is bad and genocidal Democrats are good.
*edit for clarification: the "Trump would do it faster" is an echo of the "it's not a genocide because they could destroy Palestine anytime and haven't" form of denialism
America absolutely has the capacity to supply far more equipment than it already is, and it has a track record of engaging in bombing campaigns in its own right in similar situations. Like in Yemen, under Trump. I do not want America to start bombing Palestine directly as well
If they get to finish the job. The less quickly they can finish it, the more of a chance there is of Israeli and/or international public support turning against it enough to actually change it. The American election is not going to do that by itself because both realistic candidates are pro-Israel, so there is no point in making decisions that only work if they completely stop the genocide by voting or not voting.
You clearly also think that there is a chance of it being stopped since that's your foundation for saying faster genocide is preferable. I don't think your logic holds there, because I don't see why a faster one would be likely to fail faster. On that basis, slower means fewer dead Palestinians.
Literally every point I made was explicitly rooted in what I believe will result in the fewest Palestinian deaths.
I accused them of not reading because they started off by trying to nitpick me by restating the exact same thing I pointed out literally in the same sentence.