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[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago (15 children)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale

Literally today. Just because you don't give a shit about Palestine and are ignoring their struggle, doesn't suddenly make it stop. The same groups who were protesting the genocide when it was happening under Biden are still out there protesting.

I can't help but feel like the Dems end goal with this kinda bullshit is to try and manufacture this idea that leftist outrage over Gaza is entirely fabricated. We couldn't really care about brown people, we must have made up a bunch of nasty lies to make Kamala Harris look bad! It's really self-telling that they can't imagine genocide would be a bridge too far.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

Still here, way less inclined to waste my time. I'm just not going to waste my time on the centrists who insist that the left is small and unpopular so we should only cater to the right of the democratic party. They were wrong, we're fucked because of it, but they want a punching bag to try and alleviate their feelings and I don't care to be that anymore.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're over here, and they don't want to end up over there. So they probably are staying quiet cause the guy they helped elect wants to send them over there, wherever that ends up being.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't go anywhere, but the media now doesn't need to paint the current admin as "the bad guys" by highlighting the protest groups, so they are not getting the same amount of screen time.

Now the playbook is to make it look like everyone agrees with the governments stance, so quash the protests, ignore their efforts, arrest the instigators.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 89 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It's just not being covered.

Attention is everything, folks. Palestine protestors could be mowed down on Capitol Hill, and if its blotted out by everyone's feeds... Well, it hardly even matters, it terms of policy and public opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 16 hours ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale/ar-AA1yqJeO

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/28/students-protest-settlement-standards/

It's still happening, just not getting anywhere close to the level of coverage it was during the election. Because back in October the big US media companies were trying to paint Biden, Harris, Walz, and the entire Democrat party as being much worse than Trump would be for Palestine. I didn't see much coverage of Trump's relationship with Netanhyahu or looking back at what happened in 2017-2020 back the either.

Now that Trump has won there's no point in stoking any unrest. He's instead cracking down on protests and cancelling the visas of foreign students who are caught protesting.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago

Why aren't y'all as vocal about an ongoing genocide as you are about a completely failed candidate from months ago?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale

Looks like outside the White House today...

Why are people still shitting on the people protesting genocide now that Biden isn't in charge?

I thought it was blind loyalty to the letter D, but if that was the case you'd be against genocide now...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

“I closed my eyes, why can’t I see anything?” -OP

[–] [email protected] 107 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Wtf are you talking about? Free Palestine protesters are still actively organizing their communities and providing support where they can. The same groups are literally still staging actions and fighting for the freedom, liberatation, and survival of Palestinian people at home and abroad. Who do you think you're clowning on with this meme? The people fighting against genocide didnt just give up because we have a new worse president.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago

“I started ignoring the pro-Palestinians because I decided I don’t care anymore. Where did all the pro-Palestinians go?” -OP

[–] [email protected] 45 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're literally at the White House as we speak lol....

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale

The real question is why is OP still supporting a genocide now that it's trump in office and not Biden.

Like, it apparently wasn't about blind loyalty to Biden, they just authentically support genocide.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The people "fighting against genocide" in exactly one place in the world and no others played a not insignificant role in why we have a new worse president in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

America and the west is so racist even the rise of fascism is blamed on brown people

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Blame the people who support genocide, not those who oppose it. jfc libs.

in exactly one place in the world and no others

Where else are you and the USA supporting genocide?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When there are exactly two options before you, and one of them will be selected, and neither one is perfect, and you spend all your effort bitching about the least bad choice, you're helping get the most bad choice selected.

Good work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Despite what you may have been led to believe, anti-genocide groups have never spent "all their effort" on electoral politics. You're choosing to spend your time right now bitching about those fighting oppression rather than joining the fight.

Good work.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

How many comments have you made about what China is doing to the Uighurs?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

In addition to the other replies, there's also quite a large difference between the actions of a foreign government doing something our current government already considers human rights abuse and the actions of a foreign government defended by our own, carried out with weapons manufactured and supplied by us, and where any criticism or protest of said support is categorized by nearly every politician as either antisemitism or tacit support of republican extremism. Both are genocide, but trying to protest the actions of the Chinese government as a US citizen in the US is pretty pointless, it's better to focus efforts where it has a more direct impact. You don't need to evenly split your attention between every single issue in order to be allowed to talk about any of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

I align with what Twiddle is saying and as for me, plenty, across multiple platforms. Genocide is bad whether you choose to pay attention or not. Thank you for asking!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm an anarchist not a tankie thank you. Typical lib behaviour to assume though. Very helpful to your case.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

They all went to Jill Stiens cave to hibernate until next general election.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Misinformation but if that makes you feel better feel free to believe that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

It was a TikTok disinformation campaign and they are embarrassed to learn how fake the whole movement was.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 15 hours ago

yikes brother yikes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If you think the Uncommitted movement was fake or a TikTok disinformation campaign then I suggest going outside and touching some grass.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago

TikTokers are clueless. That’s how the communist like it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's accelerationists cosplaying as leftists.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Probably because they like the hateful things he's doing. Bunch of hypocrites

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