No bodies, nothing to count. The death toll therefore doesn't increase.
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I remember the Gaza Civil Defense saying there were weapons vaporizing people. I thought they were exaggerating. They weren't.
No of course they weren't exaggerating, even high explosives used on multiple people at once have a similar effect because all of the bones and everything are pulverized.
And the government that helped provide those weapons is going to be demanding your vote this year because 'it's the most important election of our lifetime.'
Eat the rich asap obvsly 💪
This logic will elect Republicans again and they will make the situation worse. There is no option where this stops unless we keep voting in progressives like we did in New York and New Jersey.
If it didn't matter AIPAC wouldn't be pouring money into candidates, an example like think of is the 9th district of Illinois where Kat Abughazaleh discovered that one of the PACS sponsoring their opponents was a shell for AIPAC
All I hear is 'most important election of our lifetime.'
Voting for the people that's helped enable our current situation is never the solution.
Voting for conservatives (and institution Democrats) caused the current situation.
They are all conservative right wing
This logic will elect Republicans again and they will make the situation worse.
Which is why the wing of the party that capitulates to republicans keeps doing it.
Democrats in safe seats capitulate and deserve all the criticism they get but not all Democrats want the stairs quo. Minnesota just passed a wealth tax that they have been using to find better public education and free school lunches. New York Mayor Mamdani has been doing amazing things and New Jersey just elected a progressive.
Positive change is possible we just need more progressives.
Democrats in safe seats capitulate and deserve all the criticism they get but not all Democrats want the stairs quo.
Which is why I referred specifically to a wing of the democratic party and not the whole thing.
the problem is that they're not in control of the democratic party; the capitulators are.
Agree entirely.
which means that they will not give progressives control of the party.
Also agree. If progressives are to have a party, centrists must be replaced with progressives.
so why advocate voting for progressive democrats when moderate democrats will not allow any progressive members to control the democrat party?
you're just going to end up w a bernie, aoc, omar, etc. situation where they're not given enough control to change anything the democratic party's priorities; but trotted out like show ponys to convince progressives to vote for the democrats anyways.
People like Bernie and AOC are not progressive. They're nothing more than sheep dogs for the party to keep people locked in the party with false promises of eventually having a seat at the table. Going back to 1984 Democrats have always had a sheepdog to keep voters herded up like sheep.
People need to get out of the mindset of reform. We plainly seen that reform over the last hundred years does not work. Eugene Debs talked about Democrats trying to reform their party 100 years ago. WEB DuBois talked about Democrats trying to reform their party 60 years ago. They believe that if they change enough cogs within the machine, the machine will operate differently. It's time to scrap the machine
thoroughly agreed and that's what i'm getting at; voting for "progressive" democrats won't get us anywhere.
so why advocate voting for progressive democrats when moderate democrats will not allow any progressive members to control the democrat party?
Because the centrist wing has lost all credibility and we're seeing their power to block progressives waning.
we’re seeing their power to block progressives waning
do you have any evidence for this?
Mamdani's a good proof of concept. The party brought everything down it could to ratfuck him, before and after the primaries, and failed. We just had a progressive win in New Jersey. Another in Fort Worth.
Decisively in all cases.
That last one shows the centrist "we need to run centrists to win in conservative districts" line to be so much bullshit.
that is definitely a litmus test for where democratic voters heads are at, but that's also definitely not control of party.
see schumer's mission statement of protecting isreal at all costs to understand where the democratic party leadership's heads are at despite bernie actually having a say in it.
that is definitely a litmus test for where democratic voters heads are at, but that’s also definitely not control of party.
Not yet, no. But there haven't been a ton of races since trump won and it became undeniable that centrist democrats were both unprepared and unwilling to take on this challenge. The more progressives win, the more influence they can exert on the party.
Ah, I misunderstood. My apologies, it sounds like we agree then.
An Industrialized Genocide
Anatomy of the bombs
The investigation identified specific US-manufactured munitions used in Gaza that are linked to these disappearances:
MK-84 ‘Hammer’: This 900kg [2,000lb] unguided bomb packed with tritonal generates heat up to 3,500C [6,332F].
BLU-109 bunker buster: Used in an attack on al-Mawasi, an area Israel had declared a “safe zone” for forcibly displaced Palestinians in September 2024, this bomb evaporated 22 people. It has a steel casing and a delayed fuse, burying itself before detonating a PBXN-109 explosive mix. This creates a large fireball inside enclosed spaces, incinerating everything within reach.
GBU-39: This precision glide bomb was used in the al-Tabin school attack. It uses the AFX-757 explosive. “The GBU-39 is designed to keep the building structure relatively intact while destroying everything inside,” Fatigarov noted. “It kills via a pressure wave that ruptures lungs and a thermal wave that incinerates soft tissue.”
... they used a bunker blaster on a school?
It gives centrist democrats and other republicans something to masturbate to
And many scums on lemmy try to police anti genocide people and accuse anybody using the slogan fron the river to the sea palestine will be free as genociders