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[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 111 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Wtf are you talking about? Free Palestine protesters are still actively organizing their communities and providing support where they can. The same groups are literally still staging actions and fighting for the freedom, liberatation, and survival of Palestinian people at home and abroad. Who do you think you're clowning on with this meme? The people fighting against genocide didnt just give up because we have a new worse president.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 47 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They're literally at the White House as we speak lol....

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale

The real question is why is OP still supporting a genocide now that it's trump in office and not Biden.

Like, it apparently wasn't about blind loyalty to Biden, they just authentically support genocide.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

Rather alarming number of people I've encountered in the UK have a view something like "it's horrible, but they brought it on themselves". These don't seem to be straightforward horrible people. As they would also say the Holocaust and Armenia and Rwanda (etc) were evil.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 28 points 17 hours ago

“I started ignoring the pro-Palestinians because I decided I don’t care anymore. Where did all the pro-Palestinians go?” -OP

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

With that kind of "support", why have enemies? The Free Palestine movement is doing their opposition's work far better than they could. Helping along the movement's self-defeating strategy could be their best move: with a few more antagonistic governments, the Palestinian cause will be over in no time.

[–] ScumSpotted@r.nf 2 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

They are not supporting you, idiot. They support genocide victims.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The people "fighting against genocide" in exactly one place in the world and no others played a not insignificant role in why we have a new worse president in the first place.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Blame the people who support genocide, not those who oppose it. jfc libs.

in exactly one place in the world and no others

Where else are you and the USA supporting genocide?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When there are exactly two options before you, and one of them will be selected, and neither one is perfect, and you spend all your effort bitching about the least bad choice, you're helping get the most bad choice selected.

Good work.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Despite what you may have been led to believe, anti-genocide groups have never spent "all their effort" on electoral politics. You're choosing to spend your time right now bitching about those fighting oppression rather than joining the fight.

Good work.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

Most Palestine spaces banned anyone who explained why Trump was objectively worse so yes, the ones who created those echo chambers and participated spreading those narratives to the wider population deserve to be called on it.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

How many comments have you made about what China is doing to the Uighurs?

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Don't worry, their efforts here have not only made sure THAT genocide keeps going, and the Palestine one gets worse, but also the new Axis powers now have America in their pocket. So we will get to have even more genocides for them to protest from prison. Good job everyone!!

[–] WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

In addition to the other replies, there's also quite a large difference between the actions of a foreign government doing something our current government already considers human rights abuse and the actions of a foreign government defended by our own, carried out with weapons manufactured and supplied by us, and where any criticism or protest of said support is categorized by nearly every politician as either antisemitism or tacit support of republican extremism. Both are genocide, but trying to protest the actions of the Chinese government as a US citizen in the US is pretty pointless, it's better to focus efforts where it has a more direct impact. You don't need to evenly split your attention between every single issue in order to be allowed to talk about any of them.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 17 hours ago

I align with what Twiddle is saying and as for me, plenty, across multiple platforms. Genocide is bad whether you choose to pay attention or not. Thank you for asking!

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm an anarchist not a tankie thank you. Typical lib behaviour to assume though. Very helpful to your case.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We are. Your options were genocide and uber genocide.

[–] ScumSpotted@r.nf 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

So they picked genocide instead of rebelling? What a bunch of pieces of shit lmao

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 17 hours ago

America and the west is so racist even the rise of fascism is blamed on brown people