• abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    36 minutes ago

    I know this is not the point, but “begs this question” is the oddest construction of that phrase I’ve heard yet.

  • trolololol@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know, I still want to do something but I don’t think street protests are enough. And I am against violence.

    With Ukraine I donate money, early on I donated for buying drones. With Palestine it’s so bad that I think donations won’t reach them.

    Source: I grew up in 3rd world countries where pacific protests for teachers salary are common place but won’t solve anything. I’ve also lived in another 3rd world country with strong unions where at least once a month there was a 1000 people protest in the main street in the capital, plus ad hoc protests that are much bigger, and that country is still sinking very fast.

  • dumbass@leminal.space
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    3 hours ago

    Grandson: What were you doing during the genocide?

    Me: Probably making shitty memes about it.

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    2 hours ago

    I wonder how future historians will compare the October 7th, 2023 and the April 19th, 1943 events.

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    4 hours ago

    “Well, you see son, the perpetrators of that genocide were the victims of the largest genocide of the 20th Century, so nobody felt comfortable doing or saying anything.”

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    5 hours ago

    When people ask “What would I have done during [insert genocide or apartheid]?” Your answer is what you are doing now with swapped ethnic situations. Also, the same “they won’t come for me next” alliance of corrupt Sunni despotisms are behind the genocide in Sudan as part of an ill-conceived scheme to like, do this insane Africa to India corridor thing Netanyahu raged about like a madman to an empty theater at the UN a month ago, so anyone with solidarity for Palestine should extend it to Sudan as it’s literally part of the same WWII-era-style global domination scheme by evil men.