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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterates call for 'hundreds of thousands' of Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (9 children)

Where is the “I won’t support Genocide Joe” crowd now?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

Eating popcorn. Where are the dems who will fight for their constituents now? Looks like they just nearly unanimously passed a law that will let the administration take down any web content the want, not just revenge porn or deepfakes like they claimed.

So thats the end of free speech. Trump said outright he'd use it to censor his oponents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws Did the dems just not have time for ammendments?

So was all this trumpery worth it all so the DNC could continue to take AIPAC money?

Or the Laken Riley act passed with dem support.
https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/ We're deporting anyone now, with democratic party support. They are even trying to use it on citizens. Heck of a job, DNC.

Or when the dems voted to advance trumps budget-- about the only card they had in their hand right now, and they just didnt use it. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209

And now you want to what, fingerwag like you have a leg to stand on here? I mean come on man. Show me proof beyond Booker sitting on the steps in theatrical protest that the dems are working some angle thats not just secret support of anything the republicans want?

I guess at least Schumer, who says his whole job is to keep the dems supporting Israel, sent a "very strong letter" to trump. So we have that going for us. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pathetic-critics-cringe-leading-dem-191116497.html

Yay Schumer, way to go.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Surely thrilled that they were able to punish Democrats

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I see — As long as the democrats suffer, it justifies the actual genocide that will take place on account of their decision.

It’s good to see the left punishing people who agree with them on 50% of things over people who agree with them on 0% of things. That is a recipe for success. Go team.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 points 9 minutes ago

You just had a full back and forth with sarcasm and came away despondent.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 0 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

I voted for Harris, and voted for Biden before that, and Clinton before that. With shame as I should. Harm reduction, methadone instead of heroin.

It's nothing to brag about. You guys try to make them sound like a good choice, when neoliberals are for the same status quo, only minus the scapegoating. They're just a lesser degree of bad. They're for mass homelessness, they're for entire murder for profit economic sectors including American "Healthcare," they're for ever worsening income inequity, because on economic policy (that informs and often dictates social Ills) they're on the same take as Republicans. Just because they don't cheer and pour the blood they're drenched in over their heads in celebration like Gatorade, doesn't mean their hands are any cleaner.

That scapegoating makes Republicans worth voting against, but you're praising Jack the Ripper in the face of Adolf Hitler. No American should feel anything but shame about only having a extreme right wing party and a fascist party as our only two options. No one should have left an American polling place with a smile or pride for the last half century, it's been a rocketship to avarice diseased oblivion, that Trumpism is just a newer symptom of, not the cause.

Reagan toppled this empire, it just takes an empire a while to hit the ground. We have arrived at a while. Trump is more of a vulture come to feast on the corpse.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They all realize they were part of a targeted disinformation campaign and regret their life choices.

Tbf though, Kamala could have gotten 4% of inactive voters in 3 key states she could have won. Instead those voters stayed home and now we've got front row seats to the end of an empire

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's not disinformation that Joe Biden enabled and aided the Genocide of Palestinians. Trump doing the same doesn't rewrite history.

Kamala could have gotten all those voters if she just took a stand against genocide.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

I think the thinking was that turning against Israel more publicly would have mostly garnered more entirely worthless votes in states that are already blue and risked losing at risk rust belt states.

If those voters would have been a bit smarter they could have threatened to stay home but actually voted against fascism then continued to petition the incoming regime which unlike Trump isn't actually for genocide. Now there is a good chance for most of those folks you want to save being dead when its possible to reverse course IF its possible to reverse course and we don't have a canceled election and a civil war thereafter.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

And they lost with that strategy. So their thinking was clearly wrong, unless they planned to lose.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 hour ago

They were actually for genocide. That's why they partook in an ongoing genocide for over a year. Your entire premise is wrong.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 33 minutes ago (2 children)

I voted for Harris.

But can you explain exactly how things would have gone differently in Gaza other than the rhetoric if Harris had won? She was all in on the genocide just like Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, etc.

Just because Harris was clearly the better choice overall doesn't mean she (and Biden) wasn't and isn't dead wrong about their fealty to Netanyahu.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 points 10 minutes ago

My brother in Christ. Israeli officials were literally waiting for Trump to get elected. They KNEW people like you were going to hand them the Gaza Strip. Acknowledge that you fucked up and move on with the rest of us.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Doing the both sides thing won’t help here. It distracts from the real problem.

[–] finder585@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Gone.

Their man, Trump, got elected, so they don't need to exist anymore.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Probably discussing the latest news about how Biden never pressured Israel for ceasefire

It was just another lie to give political cover as he aided and abetted an ongoing genocide.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, at least Joe is out of power, now. Phew! Crisis averted.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No, Gaza is still being bombed. Children are being intentionally starved. It's still a crisis.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

So you’re saying the current president is supporting Genocide? It’s weird, I don’t hear anyone on the left yelling about it. It’s almost like they don’t actually care.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 31 minutes ago

Dude you're either thinking emotionally or being disingenuous. Take a step back.

[–] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

tf? you are the one using this to aire a political grievance.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 hours ago

Yeah dude, Biden totally got "political cover" about Gaza.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Not supporting Genocide Donald.

You say this like Biden was bringing an end to the Genocide.

Trump partaking in Genocide doesn't mean Biden didn't. It was just publicly revealed that Biden never demanded a ceasefire (as if we didn't know that already), Biden sent weapons to Israel to use in their genocidal campaign, Biden sent warships to ward off and defend against any attacks against Israel for their genocidal campaign. Trump doing the same doesn't mean Biden didn't do those things.

You so smugly using Trump's continuation of the genocide as a form of "gotcha" (again, as if we didn't know he would do that) is truly just absolutely morally gross and despicabe.

You deserve Trump.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Israelis are the one's actually murdering people

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Nobody said otherwise.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago) (1 children)

There they are!

You say I deserve Trump… like I’m the one suffering here. Question: do you honestly think Joe Biden would have permitted the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza? Would that even be a conversation right now? How about turning Gaza into a real estate opportunity for the sitting president?

I’m not the one suffering the brunt of consequences for your decision to elect Trump over Biden, it’s the Palestinian people who are. All of you made a choice based on principles that you don’t have the political power to support, and the result is one that is far worse for the actual people affected. That makes the choice morally inferior. And, it’s a shame to see what is happening to the people impacted by it.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

"You say I deserve Trump… like I’m the one suffering here."

If you're American and not ultra-wealthy you are/will be, just like I will.

"Question: do you honestly think Joe Biden would have permitted the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza?"

Yes. Just as he was perfectly fine with them bombing everything from hospitals to schools usimg the weapons he continues to send and using genocidal rhetoric. You would have to be insane to think otherwise.

"Would that even be a conversation right now?"

No. It would just be another day of Joe Biden and the Democrats enabling the genocide while "liberals" sit by and let it happen and calling anyone who opposed it a crazy radical. Just like it was during the year long genocidal campaign he DID engage in.

"I’m not the one suffering the brunt of consequences for your the decision to elect Trump over Biden, it’s the Palestinian people who are."

This is the same blatant denialism of Genocide because Joe Biden was the one doing it I just critiqued.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you can’t stand up against actively supporting an open genocide, you aren’t going to stand up for democracy.

America has been cooked. And yes, Biden is/was complacent

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 points 51 minutes ago

I hope when you're in the prison camp you'll understand that there may have been a slight chance to get Kamala to end the genocide, but there was zero chance to get trump to end it.

Has the united states been fascist for decades? Yes. But even the fascists knew there were limits. But maga fascists don't have limits, don't care about laws, don't care about what you think. Maga fascists only care about their own self interest, and if it hurts the citizens, or requires aiding a full genocide to build a resort, then so be it.

So please, enjoy your high horse, I'm sure the dead children of Gaza who might have had a chance of being saved under a Harris administration will understand and forgive you.