Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.
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If only #Egypt had any Dignity left
aug 11, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
I personally don't use the word genocide as a descriptor, not because I don't believe it. rather the specific charges of starvation are more effective (mass starvation, atrocities, child murder) and don't elicit defensive response in the same way. But almost no one in Congress is doing this either
aug 11, 2025, 1:30 am • 17 0 • view
If we all do that, we’re abandoning a concept that was created for the defense of humanity. This seems a betrayal of the people who created it, the people who were’t saved, and it puts us into a moral abyss the idea was created to avoid. The conditions you describe are present in all genocides.
aug 11, 2025, 2:35 am • 8 0 • view
I think reaching ppl in your personal circles is the most important thing an individual can do. The reason I pointed this out isn't to downplay the treatment of Gazans (it's objectively evil and murderous) but to note that getting a message across to people you know can be achieved in multiple ways
aug 11, 2025, 4:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Definitely agree with that.
aug 11, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
like, for context, I am a 6 foot 5 blonde hair blue eyed guy with a German last name that married into a very middle of the road Jewish family with direct descendants who were killed in the Holocaust and all have generally Israel friendly view ( hate Bibi tho) Why would I bring up loaded terms...
aug 11, 2025, 5:00 pm • 2 0 • view
instead of just stating my principles of "not casually killing thousands of citizens by any organization or state?" It's easier *and* more effective esp given my particular social skills or lack thereof etc
aug 11, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
But everyone I know has had to slowly re-think some things they believed because it is so incomprehensible. It can be a process.So they know, and they do not know, and can’t believe it. The amount of lies people have absorbed to this point is vast plus the unthinkable nature of the actions.
aug 11, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
agreed. And fwiw, one of the first things I wrote about this invasion was to point out how a very dumb (and very Zionist) professor invented a conspiracy about Hamas to promote himself and theories about Hamas, the organization blog.esghound.com/p/that-hamas...
aug 11, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
So that is why descendants of Holocaust survivors I know are not like this and were the first people to speak out since they were taught by their parents to observe when everyone seems to be lying, to not trust conformity but to fear for other people, and defend them even if there is a cost to you.
aug 11, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I think that’s more a guy who basing the opinions much more on his social sector than on anything about being Jewish. HIS crowd approves, so he flogs X beliefs. People in some social sectors—they just don’t care what’s true, they only care what they are allowed to think. That is how Biden was imo.
aug 11, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah—only people we know who would object to term genocide are elderly. Now they do not. Most people I know who are descendants of survivors were the first to see it was genocide for a very long time…except for one very old person but now she sees. All we do is talk about the Holocaust and Gaza.
aug 11, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Call it what it is.
aug 11, 2025, 3:36 am • 5 0 • view
The fact the word genocide elicits a defense response is exactly why u should use it. They're afraid of it
aug 11, 2025, 1:42 am • 34 1 • view
@repgoodlander.bsky.social
aug 11, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
What the hell are they so afraid of ?
aug 11, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 0 • view
My question. I don’t get how they think. Some theories about it that aren’t just ‘AIPAC’ and so on. On face value, situation where a particular group has a cluster of beliefs required one hold to be a member…To be inside, one then learns not to question. They’re glaring lies but the training holds.
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
#AIPAC, #CorporateDonors, the #BillionaireClass. They aren't afraid of the voters because they can hold us hostage. Any moment now you will hear the outcry of the most important election in our lifetime. They had the same playbook and make the same arguments during every election cycle. No new ideas
aug 11, 2025, 2:03 am • 6 0 • view
Spoiler alert: 1) they're going to get their asses handed to them in the midterms 2) they're going to blame the left
aug 11, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s getting harder and harder to get out of bed in the morning.
aug 11, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Cowards. Absolute cowards.
aug 11, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
it's become an abyss
aug 11, 2025, 2:17 am • 5 0 • view
The leaders have created, stoked and funded the horrors that have befallen Gaza and the divisions between our peoples. The only worthwhile change must come from the ground up. The sorrow and the fight continue. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
aug 11, 2025, 4:21 am • 2 0 • view
aug 11, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
I was in my mom's kitchen this morning just long enough to hear @jbpritzker.bsky.social on MTP completely dodge a question on blocking arms shipments to Israel. Like a solid minute of mealy-mouthed political mush.
aug 11, 2025, 1:29 am • 5 1 • view
Zionists conflate their segregationist project with Judaism and even the most well-meaning liberal would take their word for it.
aug 11, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
$$$$$$$$
aug 11, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
GRAPHIC This is what Israel did to Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues. And not only are politicians silent, Anas' colleagues in the West are promoting debunked Israeli occupation lies to justify his murder.
aug 11, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 1 • view
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
aug 11, 2025, 1:39 am • 5 1 • view
aug 11, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Has Bernie and Chuck said so?
aug 11, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Real leaders aren't afraid to stand up for justice and tell the truth. We almost have no real leaders in our government, especially in the two major parties. Some of us are so wedded to one party that we can't/won't call out our "team" when their actions are clearly in violation of our morals.
aug 11, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
And one of them only called it a genocide because she’s anti-Semitic.
aug 11, 2025, 1:25 am • 20 0 • view
Remarkably vast is right.
aug 11, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
AIPAC/ADL have corroded US politics, among others
aug 11, 2025, 10:36 pm • 6 0 • view
Israel needs regime change more than Iran.
aug 11, 2025, 1:25 am • 16 1 • view
Israel needs to fall into the sea.
aug 11, 2025, 2:09 am • 5 0 • view
the Zionist entity must cease to exist just like Nazi Germany.
aug 11, 2025, 4:25 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah but IF @slotkin.senate.gov HAD made the vote—instead of doing an interview with Colbert where she talked about hot dogs—she WOULD have voted against arms to Israel.
aug 11, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
And talk about how the Dems need to be more like Dan Campbell (maybe more like Nick Sirianni since he won the Super Bowl 🤷🏻♂️)
aug 11, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It's seriously hitting "Don't look up" levels of nonsense.
aug 11, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is bought and paid for by AIPAC. The money trail is public and the leaders in question don’t hide it. They parrot the messages they are paid to endorse.
aug 11, 2025, 2:56 am • 3 0 • view
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
aug 11, 2025, 8:01 pm • 2 0 • view
The disconnect is so disturbing
aug 11, 2025, 1:19 am • 4 0 • view
We have no leaders...
aug 11, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Expecting Congress to stand up for anything is a failure from the start.
aug 11, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
I like to remind genocide deniers that technically Nazis did not commit genocide because it wasn’t codified into law until 1948.
aug 11, 2025, 1:28 am • 5 0 • view
They care more about the AIPAC money. They're loyal to Israel's Genocide They are Genocidal Eugenicists. They don't stop Trump from sending Americans to concentration death camps either. They're NAZIS!
aug 11, 2025, 9:19 am • 5 0 • view
The gulf between reality and what most of our leaders will experience is so remarkably vast.
aug 11, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
One person I heard call it a genocide blamed American Christian Nationalists. Those people are eagerly awaiting the rapture.
aug 11, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
This is one of several reasons why I don’t give even a penny to any larger Democratic org I only fund dem candidates directly and if they’re not protesting against a f’n genocide, they ain’t getting shit from me except scorn
aug 11, 2025, 2:59 am • 5 0 • view
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aug 11, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 11, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Somehow MTG is one of them. What is this fucking timeline?
aug 11, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
Honestly, calling mass murder Mass Murder would be enough for me. What is wrong with these people?!
aug 11, 2025, 2:27 am • 5 0 • view
In their language, it translates as "achieving objectives, which involved collateral damage". That doesn't sound so bad, now does it? Such men demand we be polite about it, indeed that we admire them for it. Always have. Push comes to shove, they kill us casually until we give them a medal for it.
aug 11, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 0 • view
The people see. Even Jewish population dont agree aside from the horrific 10/7 massacre. Bibi is using other assistance propaganda
aug 11, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It exposes them for the greedy and corrupt criminals that they are.
aug 11, 2025, 1:28 am • 57 8 • view
Bernie's chief of staff from 2020 started a right wing podcast
aug 11, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Why can't people see this? They have demonstrated this time & again, and people are still blind enough to follow/believe them. They vote for them because they are on the blue team. Are our standards so low that we can't see that they are using us. #BlueMAGA is no better #RedMAGA. We need 3rd parties
aug 11, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Edgy meme! Meanwhile: it’s just 15 months until the midterms and where’s the nationally visible, viable third party? When that election rolls around, will millions of progressives sit it out again 🤔
aug 11, 2025, 1:59 am • 7 1 • view
if there continues to be no good options beside 'not republicans', they absolutely should stay home
aug 11, 2025, 2:28 am • 4 0 • view
if democrats want leftist votes then they gotta offer SOMETHING other than the same status quo since reagan
aug 11, 2025, 2:29 am • 7 0 • view
Will Democrats keep trying to pander to GOP voters? That's what drives progressives to sit out. If they keep trying to shift right, why should the left show up? They can either HAVE or OPPOSE fascism; there's no middle here.
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 am • 7 0 • view
Effective third party leaders tend to come down with a bad case of assassination-by-FBI
aug 11, 2025, 2:24 am • 16 0 • view
Shitlib says what?
aug 11, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
Is this comment to me or someone else in this thread?
aug 11, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
It doesn't matter. Once someone starts name calling, they are just showing that they have nothing to add.
aug 11, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
I agree
aug 11, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
Not advocating for a third party. It is just showing how broken the system is. Winner takes all is flawed. A multi-party system avoids some of these issues. But at the least, the Dems need to clean house and embrace the progressive agenda. Which means getting corporate money out of elections.
aug 11, 2025, 2:06 am • 11 0 • view
Gotcha. But that’s just it: I think I only have one friend advocating for a third party. Meanwhile, I foresee the Democratic circular firing squad continuing until November 2026 🫤
aug 11, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Democrats have already started firing shots at us trannies, with Newsom, Buttigeig and the entire consultant class advocating for full abandonment (or even agreement with Nazis) when it comes to our rights. Are we supposed to take it without firing back, or what?
aug 11, 2025, 2:33 am • 7 1 • view
All I’m saying is: I do not see the masses coalescing around an alternative now. (An alternative that should have been prominent on like November 6, 2024). So it’s looking like the same old same old dynamic between (and within) the two parties will play out.
aug 11, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, decades of media suppression of actual progressive or even liberal values are in full swing and as effective as ever. The capitalists are getting what they want and the DNC is happy to help. I would love for things to be different but you can't beat the matter with his own tools, ya know?
aug 11, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
So, it sounds like the consensus above is: the status quo will continue
aug 11, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
Sure fuckin will if the Democrats think I'm not a person worthy of full rights and representation. They've given me absolutely zero reason to vote for them.
aug 11, 2025, 3:27 am • 4 0 • view
This has been happening since the beginning over 270 journalist inaliated
aug 11, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view