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I don't have a snarky one for this. Literal demon shit, pure evil.
I also have no snark. Israel will claim they did it to themselves
all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.
i look forward to enjoying watching the helmet cans of future Palestinian commandos as they track down each one of these IDF fucks across the globe and execute or capture them for trial
This is going to get way less news coverage than the people who shouted "death to America" at a protest.
Death to Israel and death to America.
more and more people are saying it
Literally Nazi shit.
Just this morning/last night some BBC reporter was trying to say it was 50, when ~200 had already been confirmed.
I just keep thinking about how shit like this is happening and people are just living their lives here in the US.
This is how it's always been. We were here living our lives as they tortured innocents in Abu Ghraib, shoved children into cages at the border, droned Iraqi kids, bombed Yugoslavia, dropped napalm on Vietnamese villagers, razed North Korean villages and spread anthrax to them...
At least the horror is out in the open now. It can't be denied by reasonable people without the blindfold of ideology on.
It was out in the open in the 60's too, though. It only led to a more bleak era of repression. We just have to hope that another 90's doesn't come in to save the powers that be
Majority of people didn't care about the war crimes back then and in fact supported them. It's a bit of a different story now considering democratic staffers are sweating about election results. Don't think any of them were too concerned back in the day. Seeing how they protested the war and nothing changed then turn around to support more wars, then millennials faced the WOT and protested and nothing changed then turned around to support more wars, I'm curious how this one will fare out in the future.
Just trying to visualize that many bodies in one mass grave…that’s just fucking horrendous
Wait til they find the death camps. Libs will still say it's not a genocide.