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For the First Time Ever There Will be a Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel (scheerpost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I hope you're prepared for a lot of "abstain" votes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Abstaining is pro genocide imo

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

That is a perfectly clear message for me actually.

It's about opposing genocide or not. "Do nothing knowing that will cause the genocide to continue" is close enough to "continue the genocide" for me.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd say fence-sitting this vote is even more an indictment than just a "No" vote personally; it doesn't take a MENSA candidate to tell whether or not funding a genocidal morass of settlers is morally correct

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress