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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social

You can say the same about military conquest -- polite drone strikes that murder people -- not because of the religion or race natch but despite it -- from afar versus Eddie Gallagher executing Muslims with his knife and bragging about it afterwards. Conquest is conquest.

sep 1, 2025, 6:56 pm • 16 2

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social

And so it goes. You can say the same about genocide/ crimes against humanity. Many in the West will readily say Rwanda was a genocide because it was bloody and involved machetes. Starving the people of Gaza? Same result, less blood on specific hands. There's nothing clean about violence.

sep 1, 2025, 7:02 pm • 16 3 • view
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social

Is crime interpersonal -- attacks, assaults, murder, domestic violence, carjackings -- or is it the polite kind -- pollution, starvation, lack of medical care, substance abuse, destruction of the natural landscape.

sep 1, 2025, 7:05 pm • 22 6 • view
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social

Which is worse, bloody or bloodless. If you ask me, dead is dead is dead.

sep 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 15 2 • view