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- palestine@lemmy.ml
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”
- Godort ( @Godort@lemm.ee ) 42•2 months ago
“…with a death total so high that we have been banned from telling you the number…”
- conditional_soup ( @conditional_soup@lemm.ee ) 39•2 months ago
Good to know our government can still get shit done when it’s something fucking stupid.
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 32•2 months ago
The only lesson learned from the COVID years: if you stop reporting the numbers, the numbers stop going up.
it always irks me when someone says that biden handled covid when he simply had the numbers hidden from the public like a few state governors and trump tried to do, but got a lot of blowback for it.
- No_Eponym ( @No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ) 8•2 months ago
#MissionComplete
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 3•2 months ago
I think the phrase you’re looking for is #MissionAccomplished
- No_Eponym ( @No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 months ago
It was, and yet, the mistake feels even more correct in this context.
- tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@kbin.run ) 29•2 months ago
“as we are prevented from giving numbers, we will now read out every name…”
when pbs did that during the afghanistan and iraq wars for american service personnel; they got so much blowback that they had to stop.
- ssj2marx ( @ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 months ago
alternately: "As we are now forbidden from using the gaza health ministry, let us cite this study published in Lancet that puts the number of dead at “up to 186,000” from all factors including direct bombings and the ongoing famine created by the IDF’s siege.
- finley ( @finley@lemm.ee ) English23•2 months ago
wtf
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 22•2 months ago
House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department
from Citing Gaza Death Toll
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 22•2 months ago
That’s because it’s a severe undercount, right?
…
Right?
- Zeratul ( @Zeratul@lemmus.org ) English1•2 months ago
Error on the link
- BigMacHole ( @BigMacHole@lemm.ee ) 17•2 months ago
Not allowing People to Know how many people have died is called being PRO LIFE!
- menemen ( @menemen@lemmy.ml ) 16•2 months ago
This is insane.
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 12•2 months ago
LADY, WE DONT TALK ABOUT THE GENOCIDES THAT WE COMMMIT
- GulbuddinHekmatyar ( @Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
That’s cuz it’SS SSettler SSolidarity in action between Amerikkka and ISSrael…
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English10•2 months ago
I want names. I’ve got some angry letters to write.
- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 9•2 months ago
Someone should send them all copies of “The Monster at the end of the book”
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 7•2 months ago
This is why we don’t like censorship culture.
Everyone who summons a demon to help their cause thinks they can put a leash on the demon and keep it in its lane.
- 2484345508 ( @2484345508@lemy.lol ) English6•2 months ago
Whaaaaatttt?
This world.
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
Why is this surprising? America was founded on genocide and settler colonialism, those are core values.
- 2484345508 ( @2484345508@lemy.lol ) English2•2 months ago
Most countries were.
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
Maybe most countries need to be reorganized along different lines that don’t have direct traces to said settler colonialism and genocide.
- neutronst4r ( @neutronst4r@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
Welcome to WW3, the last war.