• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    There is no context in which “more dead people is not a worse outcome” is a moral answer.

    And the context in which you said that saving one life during the Holocaust didn’t matter?

    I’d say most people here would be absolutely willing to save a single person’s life from genocide.

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      You’re not understanding what I was saying (or you’re continuing to try to intentionally misrepresent what I was saying).

      Using your analogy, you’re the one saying 6 million deaths is acceptable as long as it doesn’t get to six million and one. You’re trying to simultaneously say we need to accept mass slaughter to avoid mass slaughter, it’s nonsense.

      The “six million deaths” are happening in Gaza right now. They are actually suffering and dying, but you’re telling us we should accept that since you’re afraid of not being able to kick the political can down the road and kerp pretending everything can be fine.

      It doesn’t matter, I can’t make you understand why rewarding the Democrats for genocidal fascist policy is a losing strategy when they’re suppose to be the alternative to genocidal fascists. You either let yourself understand it or you don’t.

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        4 months ago

        Using your analogy, you’re the one saying 6 million deaths is acceptable

        That is not what I am saying at all. If you’re going to accuse me of intentionally misrepresenting what you’re saying, don’t do it to me.

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        No, what you said was that it doesn’t matter if Palestinians are being genocided only by Israel, or simultaneously by Israel and The USA.

        The latter results in significantly more civilian deaths in Palestine. To you, these lost lives don’t matter, because genocide is apparently equally bad no matter how many people die…

        Which is just to say that “genocide” in your worldview is just a buzzword you use to attack people with, and not an actual atrocity that ought to be opposed.

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          No, what you said was that it doesn’t matter if Palestinians are being genocided only by Israel, or simultaneously by Israel and The USA.

          That’s what you want me to be saying, not what I’m saying.

          The latter results in significantly more civilian deaths in Palestine.

          This statement keeps being repeated, but it’s simply baseless. Nothing is holding Israel back, they are slaughtering and starving just as many people as they want, right now. And you are arguing for people to accept that.

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            That’s what you want me to be saying, not what I’m saying.

            No, it’s what you’ve literally actually said. Gaslighting doesn’t work when we have the things you’ve posted in writing.

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              Ok, you’ve got to be trolling.

              I’m protesting the slaughter of Palestinians and saying it’s unacceptable and that I’ll never vote for anyone who is pro-genocide. You’re arguing for me to accept it as inevitable that democrats continue supporting genocide. And somehow you think that translates into me holding your pro-genocide position. It’s nonsensical.

              You’re desperate for other people to accept your justification for supporting what’s going on in Gaza, you can’t face how sick that is. You want to believe you’re a moral person, but you’re literally the cowardly towns folk who sees the plumes of smoke from the camps over your village and tells everyone who mentions it to shut up because “it could be worse.”

              Fuck. That. Zero tolerance on genocide.