• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    What an incredible idea, right? And then there won’t be any negative aftermath like radiation or anything, right? Right?!

    Asshole.

    • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee
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      As I understand the geography, nuking Gaza would also irradiate a portion of Israel, so its not realistic anyway. I agree that genocide is asshole behavior.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I once considered myself an Independent voter who could go with either a Democrat or a Republican. Republicans are making it very easy these days to call myself a Democrat.

    • My wife’s family was all Republicans. The matriarch is even a politician and was elected as a Republican.

      With my goading, Trump’s four years in office was enough to convert all of them to Democrats.

      They see it like, to the extent they were ever Republican, that’s not today’s Republican party, period.

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        That’s great, but unfortunately that’s only a temporary victory since once trump is gone, it’ll be seen as if the problem has been rid of, when in reality the problem is republican policy as usual, which trump is following to a T.

  • To All Points West@lemmy.world
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    The tragedy here is that supporting genocide isn’t a criminal offense. Censure at a minimum, but he really needs significant legal consequences

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    These aren’t weird people with mental health issues standing on the corner with signs. These are elected Republicans. I’m afraid of Republicans. I’m afraid of the world. I’m afraid I can’t help it.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    If I was on the governing committee of a major political party, I’d be funding trips to places like Hiroshima and Auschwitz for members of our party that are running for office for the first time, not for the photo op, but so that maybe they can get some fucking perspective and not say batshit stupid things that make us look like a bunch of genocidal racists.

    Idk, just a thought. Assuming that “genocidal racists” isn’t a significant voting demographic that you are trying to appeal to.

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      That’s the problem, for republicans “genocidal racist” IS a voting demographic they’re trying to appeal to.

    • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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      so that maybe they can get some fucking perspective

      Your idea could maybe work, if they didn’t think was staged and part of some conspiracy. The real (harder to implement, but long term) solution would be to fix the education system and nip this in the bud.

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        This is exactly the sort of nonsense that my suggestion is designed to avoid.

        If all you know about Hitler is that he was in charge of Germany during the second world war, they lost, a bunch of people died, but their uniforms looked cool (Hugo Boss, looks sharp) and people called him “Fuhrer” (German sounds so badass) then yeah, this kind of thing doesn’t seem so off.

        I want my representatives - whatever their affiliation - to have stood in front of the pile of children’s shoes and the mass graves and the charred ruins. I want them to have stared at the abyss, felt the horror and the despair and the inhumanity and the evil and truly understood the weight of the responsibility they have to ensure we learn from our history.

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          You don’t understand.

          You can show them all the horrors of war, and they’ll tell you that they have the fortitude to do whatever is needed to protect the homeland. To them not flinching shows how tough they are.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    This isn’t new. I remember them talking about glassing Afghanistan and Iraq back in the “turrerists hate our freedumb” days.