"Benjamin, STOP!"
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Weren't we going to level this place and build hotels like a month ago?
He loves Ukraine and wants best for Gaza now. At least in lip service.
Embrace Liberal Trump. The least of evils
What? Didn’t this MF just share AI generated images of Gaza as a refurbished resort with him and Netanyahu chilling?
Trump says a lot of things. Granted about 99.99% of it is lies. But he says all the things. He has no plan on anything.
I've been told that this qualifies as an attempt to stop Israel's genocide
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What the everloving fuck is wrong with you?
He's correct, in that it was policy according to Trump back in February. Gaza was prime real estate to be developed by the US after relocating the population.
Edit: I'm probably replying to the wrong comment!
Lol. I don't agree with what this user said, but he should be allowed to say it.
Tired of all this censorship of opposing views. Let me decide for myself what I get to see, damn it!
lemmy.ml is not a general-purpose instance. We have community standards. To quote from that post, linked on our front page:
If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.
lemmy.ml, as a community, don't tolerate posts advocating the invasion and genocide of Gaza. Why should we? There's no value in their offensive post whatsoever. There's no societal benefit in allowing it just because, there's no reason in some abstract liberalist tolerance of everything, we are an anti-bigotry community and our moderators have an obligation to our community to kick that junk out. So why should they be allowed to say it?
And I think it's harmful to frame this as being about "opposing views" or "disagreement". It's about kicking out someone who wants innocent people, including some members of our community, killed by a proudly-genocidal ethnostate's imperialist invasion. That's not merely an opposing view or a disagreement! That's not even some abstract what-if or some reasoned critique, that's simply endorsing a threat to our community. If you want to see that stuff, for whatever reason, then you'll need to look somewhere else. We don't platform trash here.
(And, in case you need the cherry on top, they've also made another post supporting rape as a war crime ^[link]^)
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Or we can not have people excited or advocating for genocide?
- You can check the modlog
- You can stay on .world where they let users deny or outright advocate for genocide
There are standards here.
If Trump does a better job with Gaza than Biden a lot of liberals will owe a lot of people a lot of apologies.
What planet are you on? He’s already greenlit ‘the gazification of the west bank’ and exacerbated the genocide, lifted sanctions, and has suggested a little light ethnic clensing so he can get to developing Gaza. Just like everyone with a clue said he would pre election to appease his massive West Bank donors.
Yeah, because of course this is the only single issue liberals might be angry about...
Better how? At least Biden wasn't arresting students for having an anti-Israel opinion.
At least Biden wasn't arresting students for having an anti-israel opinion.
Yes, actually, he was.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68895250
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_pro-Palestine_campus_protests
Americans must have the memory and/or the attention span of a goldfish.
American liberals like to think of themselves as more intelligent than their Republican counterparts but the truth is that they’re just more well spoken. When it comes to actual knowledge of the world and history and economics they’re basically the same level of indoctrinated.
Biden was not deporting students. Biden was arresting students for protesting against genocide
Can you send me a source on Trump deporting student protesters first? Since we are asking sources on obvious facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/students-trump-ice-detention.html
I really hope you read these articles and round out your knowledge of what is actually happening.
My comment was sarcastic.
Is it possible to send a source without resorting to sarcasm?
Another person did so above and you ignored them so I don't think so.
Those are sources about what you sarcastically asked, not sources on Biden arresting students for protesting against genocide.
That explains a lot, thanks. I compared the six links and it seems under Biden local law enforcement was involved while the federal response was hands-off, meanwhile Trump issued an executive order targeting international students who protested and ICE is handling arrests.
Do you not see the difference between the federal approach? Or is anything happening under Biden his fault, and the same for Trump?
Biden was very much painting students as agressors and there were top down orders for crackdown on protesters.
Trump only took what Biden did further. Similarly ICE was already heavily abusing migrants under Biden.
Democrats just don't care when their guy does it in the same way Republicans don't care when Trump does it.
"... but the trains ran on time!"
Neither of those absolute morons have any interest in making any “trains run on time.”
You've never taken a hint in your life.
I just don’t think you’re smart enough to make the point you’re trying to make is the issue here chief.