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Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They were (lightly) publicly criticised and privately supported, but yeah, point taken

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

and privately supported

we openly sent over thousands of MK84 2,000lb bombs that have used to kill thousands of civilians. not really private to be honest

hell, right after Oct 7 Biden personally made the trip over to Israel to bend the knee on live TV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I know. "Privately" should probably have been "quietly." Of course you may say it wasn't quiet, sure, but I think the meaning is clear. Telling them off with the right hand while the left is busy dropping more weapons into their lap. Just enough deniability for anyone who insists the democrats do nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

yeah well said. and while there probably isn't much of a difference to the people getting rained on with bullets and bombs... i think there is a fundamental ideological difference between at least pretending like you care.

we've reached the point where the executive is so powerful he doesn't feel the nice to put the mask on. it's a blatant and almost ostentatious use of power.

i think one thing he said in the 2016 election cycle was so spot on.

“I have the most loyal people – did you ever see that?” “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” “It’s, like, incredible.”

Trump says and does ridiculous things (did you see that Gaza AI video?) that have no coherence because he understands his power lies in the chaos. one day he says one thing, one day he says another. ukraine and US will make a good deal one day, zelensky's a dictator the next day, zelensky's a good leader one day, and then zelensky's disrespectful the next, etc etc

it's sort of like when Stalin would go through one of his purges. He would have a long list of names on a paper and he would look through him. Every once in a while, for no apparent reason, he would cross a name off the list. He was reminding everyone that his power was absolute and he could arbitrarily choose to end you or spare you.

Trump is toying with this same type of arbitrarily derived chaos but instead of it being occasional he seems to be embracing it as his source of power. everyone (both his opposers and his appeasers like rubio) get their nerves frayed. you don't know what's coming next. who is next on the chopping block. the truth is slowly dissolving until it's meaningless