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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 34 points 10 months ago (7 children)

1 in 200 Gazans were killed, for people who has family in that area of the world, they were someone's old neighbour, friend or relative.

I get that not voting for Biden effectively helps the Republicans, but those groups won't agree to be political pawns, not at least without actions supporting an immediate ceasefire first.

[–] ira@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

It's closer to 1 in every 80 who have been killed now (26,083 out of apx 2.1 million).

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

1 in 200 Gazans were killed

How'd you get that? I come up with 1 in 80 using 25,000 dead and population of 2,000,000.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Abssolutely right... so much has happened since I got those numbers in November... :(

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Other than the actions Biden has already taken to get a ceasefire, including the one which happened, what specific actions would you suggest that wouldn't damage his chances at the polls more than it gained him?

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Ronald Reagan stopped Israels invasion with a single phone call in 20 minutes

And no, it didn't cost him votes.

This is such a helpless 'well what can I do' abdication of responsibility. It's also completely ahistorical.

Contests on your propaganda.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, Biden has always been to the right of Reagan on nearly every issue.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you're getting paid for this, whoever is doing so deserves their money back.

You're too incompetent for this to be trolling though.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Stop giving billions of dollars of weapons for free to a country actively committing genocide.

  2. Stop spreading false Israeli propaganda ("40 beheaded babies", "only democracy in the middle east", "human shields" etc)

  3. When Israel commits war crimes on camera, criticize them publically instead of running defense for them.

  4. Call up Netanyahu and tell him that, if he continues this war, the US will withdraw support for Israel. If it worked for Reagan, why can't it work for Biden?

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How many people were killed by Hamas rockets fired at malls and schools over the last decade? They had families too, but you never cared about those.

And frankly you only care now cause the news told you to, this has been going on for a long time and it's been allowed because Arabs want Palestinians wiped out too

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I know it's been a long term conflict, I was hopeful for peaceful negotiations to happen but clearly Bibi doesn't want that through Israeli proxy funding of militant terror groups.

I was upset at Hamas' October 7th attack. But what has happened since is unprecedented in recent memory of that conflict. The number of Palestinian casualties is multiple times higher than the cumulative amount in the 15 years prior to October 7th 2023.

The reaction to this massacre, a systematic destruction of life and property, is inappropriate and I don't stand for it.