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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Fascists gonna fash.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

It wil not stop war at all, because Bibi needs wartome mandate to stay out of jail

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (16 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago

This is it. Why the fuck is the blame on the people who didn’t vote for a terrible candidate supporting a genocide and not the fucking people supporting the genocide?! Why did the dems all support that censorship bill, when they were initially speaking up about it? Why does it seem like the more exhausted he populace got with trump and his shit, he more democrats seemed to use that as an excuse to start supporting the republicans? Where is all the “stop trump” and “stop fascism” dems now? Why does it seem like they’re done grandstanding about standing up to trump and seem to have rolled over to keep their jobs or whatever it is? Why does this seem all okay, and why is the blame for all of that on people who couldn’t stomach supporting a candidate that was not standing up to a genocide and was parading around the fucking worst of the neocons? Why is it always on the people who didn’t sacrifice their values to once again stomach a candidate that goes against their basic human morals, and not on the politicians continually moving to the right? Why blame the people who see the rightward march of the Democratic Party as a death knell for the country, and not on the people who are fucking marching right as fast as the fascists continue to radicalize? Why the fuck can these assholes not see that we don’t give a shit that you think you’re morally superior to us because you “voted against fascism,” when the party you voted for seems to be actively ushering fascism in through the door?

Where is the fucking class solidarity? These people are selling you out, and you turn to your neighbor to say, “well, you should’ve just voted differently.” We are well beyond this being on us. This is on the people driving the ship, not the ones stuck in the cargo hold screaming that we’re fucking sinking.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Surely thrilled that they were able to punish Democrats

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks 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.

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

The Israelis are the one's actually murdering people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

With weapons from multiple other countries who keep resupplying them or giving other political cover to prevent consequences to Israel committing genocide and other preemptive attacks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Nobody said otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

We dont have to wonder. Biden proposed moving the Palestinians to Egypt, at Netenyahus suggestion. Egypt rejected the idea and warned it would shut down relations with Israel if they tried, and then Israel backtracked saying they would never have allowed it anyway because it might permit "terrorists" to return and attack someday.

https://reason.com/2025/01/27/trump-revives-bidens-failed-proposal-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (19 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not clear the alternative strategy would have helped AT ALL. A very large portion of Americans actually believed that Trump would either help the economy or help the position of white folks and Christians. Everything else was a side show. That is why they elected him. Things were going pretty good economically before the pandemic and white Christians. That is why we elected essentially Hitler because we are stupid bigots.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Its absolutely clear. If Harris had acknowledging the genocide about 2 weeks before the election would have won over youth, the left, and muslims, which is a vastly larger voting group than the 80% of jewish people who support israel-- or even all jewish voters. Jewish voters are a tiny group-- even just muslim voters are a larger group. Jewish voters arent a compelling voter group, they are a compelling funding group.

But two weeks before the election Harris could have weathered the funding downturn. Her husband would have left her, but no great loss there. Harris could have won.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago

Gone.

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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