Krono

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[–] Krono@lemmy.today -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Biden was changed out for Kamala and that wasn't good enough for a portion of the Democratic Party electorate because both candidates support the Israeli genocide. If you were paying attention before the election this should come as no surprise.

Your strawman arguments and insults do not change the ground reality. Your argument is the same as theirs: "if my political opponents would have acted differently then fascism wouldn't have taken over." This is a childish way to look at politics; political factions and voters have never behaved this way.

Your impotant rage does not align with the fact that, even if all third party voters went for Kamala, she still would have lost.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago

principled men

Sadly one of Biden's principles was blindly supporting Israel no matter what they do, even through an ongoing genocide.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today -3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Don't you see that the uncommitted movement has the exact same argument?

They told you repeatedly, over and over, clearly, for over a year, that running a Democratic candidate who supports the ongoing genocide will drastically reduce turnout in the Democrat base.

The voting results show that they were right.

You can try to self-soothe by saying "I told you so", yet they can do the exact same thing. This accomplishes nothing except further factionalization of the Democrat vote.

Your focus on infighting is misplaced at a time when we need to be building coalition to fight Trump and fascism.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 31 points 5 days ago

He told a joke about how a former Israeli soldier from the 8207 battalion was eaten by a shark. “The shark swam past Israeli children, but it didn’t hit the children,” Schirtzer said in the video. “So even a shark can tell the difference between a child and a soldier.”

lol

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

No, we should strive for a candidate who is against all genocide. Let's not compromise in advance.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago

There's far too many to name, but the first things that come to mind are Collateral Murder, Haditha Massacre, and literally anytime the US military has been involved in the Gazan genocide of the past year.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, plane rides and sleepy time are not immoral in my opinion :)

There's probably a good argument about plane emissions and climate change tho

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It seems we are in agreement then, the troops are self-interested rational actors; all of the supposed virtues are propaganda.

But I think there is a moral imperative that says "do not obey immoral orders", and that imperative does not come with a clause that says "unless there is a pending court case".

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Or to put it another way, do you expect our enlisted men and women to uphold the high moral virtues of honor, self sacrifice, and protection of innocents?

After seeing what horrors American soldiers are capable of, I'm not holding my breath.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is it. The real economic usecase for AI.

Anyone from Tulsi Gabbard to United Healthcare to the Israeli Occupying Force can add in a layer of AI to their operation and poof there goes the responsibility and accountability.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

That may be true, but it doesn't excuse the list at all.

My country is responsible for the majority of international violence since WWII. I find that morally unacceptable.

I make posts like this because I want my country to do better. But the sad reality is we have yet to learn our lesson. We have been aiding and abetting an ongoing Holocaust for almost two years now.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today -3 points 1 month ago

My best guess is that the Chinese government will admit fault long into the future, when most of the accountability and backlash has already faded into history.

Which is no different than how the US has handled many of the atrocities I mentioned.

When will the US acknowledge and release info on the 100s of Yemeni and Pakistani civilian targets that were destroyed by drone strike? When will the US release the warcrimes reports from the War on Terror? Does the US even still have these warcrimes reports, or were they destroyed (as whistleblowers and Amnesty International have suggested they were)?

If you can't answer questions like these without resorting to cries of "Whataboutism", then fuck off hypocrite.

 

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