Hecklers ejected from Dublin event as Bernie Sanders refuses to call Israel’s actions genocide : politics

[-] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago

should have ejected bernie instead

[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

IRA needs to release an apology press release for missing their chance to do something very funny

[-] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago

In Ireland? An odd choice to take a pro genocide stance there

[-] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What’s causing the horrific events? Who knows? Maybe the hospitals just did that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Vaxxed?

[-] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago

COME OUT, BERNIE SANDS

COME AND FIGHT ME, YE OLD MAN

[-] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

flattened-bernie

We need a flattened Jane as well now. Holy shit.

Ms O’Meara Sanders said calling the current events genocide would alienate significant allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few, and provide opponents with an opportunity to shift the focus of the debate.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago

Oh great! Thank god he’s not going to call it a genocide so he can get zero bills passed instead of zero bills passed

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Oh I assure you the Dems are passing plenty of bills. They’re passing the ones Republicans are writing!

Really weird how it’s never the other way around yet they continue this behavior.

Well I guess there’s nothing to be done except vote for the Dems again. It’s all those damn tankies fault.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Call me an uncompromising radical, but I don't consider genocidaires or their abetters potential allies. We're just too different!

[-] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

significant allies like good friend chuck schumer?

the fuck she talks about

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few

Gee i wonder why

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

I hope an Mk84 2,000 lb. bomb shifts its focus onto her fucking bedroom

[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

Damn look at the liberals coming out of the wood-work.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Social fascism on full display. I can't wait for this fucker to die.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

flattened-bernie "but some people want to argue about a word which the United Nations is now working to define.”

"...and I don't want to use that word until we can abuse the US's power over the U.N. so that it doesn't include openly declaring your intent to destroy a people and their civilization while doing so, but rather focuses on the evils of providing vocational training like those bastards in China!"

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

again??

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

then bernie comrade-birdie

now dead-dove-1

nobody has fallen off quite like Bernie

(yes i know he's always been a liberal zionist and a social democrat)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Who remembers the Bernie Sanders song from 2015?

Whooooooooo... betrayed Gaza?
I said whooooooo betrayed Gaza?

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 days ago

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's only genocide if it comes from the genocide region of Germany, otherwise it's sparkling Ethnic Cleansing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have a cold and a final exam coming up and this made me have that sick cough laugh 😭

[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I too have a hard time distinguishing between “good” and “bad” things.

The “radical Islamic fundamentalism” thing was a cynical, racist ploy from the GOP to fire up their little hogs. We call it a genocide because it is a genocide, jfc this isn’t hard. If there was a word that described something worse than a genocide I would use that word, because what is happening in Gaza is one of the worst crimes committed in this world in decades.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

eat my entire ass, genocide denier

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's better than I expected from him.

It still hurts to see him use euphimisms like this directly afterwards

"He added: “I think I, and a majority of the American people, do not want to be complicit in the humanitarian disaster that Netanyahu is causing in Gaza right now.”

but it's further that I thought he was prepared to go.

Thanks for sharing!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Ketchup vs Catsup

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago

Gregory Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch, defines “ethnic cleansing” as a “euphemism for genocidal practices” used to cover up events that should be prosecuted as genocide and to dehumanise its victims.

Source: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/18/2/204/449611?login=false

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

what's the valid reason? all im seeing is him saying he doesnt want to get "bogged down" by describing things as they are. the un he claims is still working to define the word has basically declared it a genocide; if he wants to defer to an authority to deflect then he should probably choose a body that hasn't already made their stance on the subject pretty clear.

edit: i guess maybe you mean this?:

would alienate significant allies in the US, of which, she suggested, there were already too few, and provide opponents with an opportunity to shift the focus of the debate.

which is utter nonsense. if your allies are alienated by calling the genocide a genocide then they aren't going to be your allies in stopping the genocide they wont even admit exists.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

There's no legitimate reason to defend Israel in any capacity. It's a genocide, full stop, and fuck anyone who won't say so

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

your comment is trash