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.”

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[–] 124 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I Wouldn't expect any less from this gold plated cesspool founded on genocide, slavery, and exploitation.

"herp derp but we saved the world and beat the Nazis!" Yeah, we fought and defeated the Axis... after they decimated our pacific fleet and brought the war to us. Prior to that, eugenics were popular here, and practiced. Hell, some of our most infamous capitalists supplied and financed both sides of that war, after all, private profit is what America is all about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/

We're dogshit, all the way back to the zealots fleeing Europe to be bigger religious prudes and nutters. The only amazing thing about our country is its ridiculously massive, undeserved ego.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Not to mention that they didn't join the war until the Russians and Germans had bled themselves dry on the eastern front and the soviets were well on their way to Berlin.

    If you wanted to debate who won the war based on how many of their men, women, military and civilian sacrificed themselves willingly and unwillingly, the Russians were far and away the obvious victors.

    20 million compared to America's half million during the war.

    The Russians died and killed more Germans than the Americans.

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    [–] 91 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Good to know our government can still get shit done when it's something fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The only lesson learned from the COVID years: if you stop reporting the numbers, the numbers stop going up.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago

    "...with a death total so high that we have been banned from telling you the number..."

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I dug up the roll call for this vote, if anyone wants to look up how their representative voted.

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago

    The parallels between Ukraine and Gaza has made it clear that if you want public outrage those babies better be white or else they will be reported as collateral damage instead of genocide.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    "as we are prevented from giving numbers, we will now read out every name..."

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    when pbs did that during the afghanistan and iraq wars for american service personnel; they got so much blowback that they had to stop.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Man what the fuck. What is their justification for this.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's because it's a severe undercount, right?

    ...

    Right?

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department

    from Citing Gaza Death Toll

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not allowing People to Know how many people have died is called being PRO LIFE!

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bought, cheaply, and paid for by AIPAC. Until this war I had no idea how politically deep they are.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I want names. I've got some angry letters to write.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    LADY, WE DONT TALK ABOUT THE GENOCIDES THAT WE COMMMIT

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Government banning speech, I understand it's what the government says, but I feel someone is going to test the limit on this, and the first amendment is going to suffer for it.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    bipartisanship 🥰

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  • [+] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    United States of Israel.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Someone should send them all copies of “The Monster at the end of the book”

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    [–] 9 points 2 years 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.

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