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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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1332 points Qem | 5 comments | 16 Sep 25 08:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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therobots927 ◴[16 Sep 25 19:22 UTC] No.45266704[source]▶
I for one will be holding my representatives responsible who continue to vote for the US to enable a genocide. The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.
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mandeepj ◴[16 Sep 25 21:52 UTC] No.45268633[source]▶
> The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.

Ironically, that was one of the biggest campaign points and voter sentiment on which people flipped to Red. We all know what happened.

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GoatInGrey ◴[16 Sep 25 22:05 UTC] No.45268800[source]▶
People didn't flip to red so much as blue voters in swing states sitting on their hands and abstaining from voting. Now they're looking down the barrel of authoritarianism and they're still unwilling to vote unless Gaza is a fully solved problem. The cruel irony is that this behavior is worsening the situation in Gaza.
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scarecrowbob ◴[16 Sep 25 23:54 UTC] No.45269861{3}[source]▶
Couldn't the Democrats change their positions so that they align with and accommodate popular positions and win elections. I don't think most of the (rather large block) of folks I know who abstained wanted a fully solved problem, they wanted the US to stop funding Israel and that is a position that the Democratic party could have taken if they had chosen to do so.
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1. UmGuys ◴[17 Sep 25 00:47 UTC] No.45270198{4}[source]▶
You misunderstand. GOP breaks all rules and will literally do anything to win because their policy destroys peoples lives. They're the bad cops. Democrats have the slightly less destructive policies and they sort of occupy reality. They're the good cops. Both cops have the same boss.
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2. mandeepj ◴[17 Sep 25 00:51 UTC] No.45270229[source]▶
> GOP breaks all rules and will literally do anything to win because their policy destroys peoples lives.

Not only that, the current president literally promised everything to everyone - just to win! People are too naive (or too innocent) not to notice the lies.

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3. fakedang ◴[17 Sep 25 02:17 UTC] No.45270808[source]▶
Tbf, that's Athenian democracy at work - politicians would promise the most audacious things just to get elected. One could argue that's even how democracy started in the first place - just so that one guy could rule Athens independently and not as a Spartan puppet.

Of course, we haven't adopted the other facet of Athenian democracy which is ostracization by voting.

4. vasco ◴[17 Sep 25 02:29 UTC] No.45270899[source]▶
They are both dirty cops more like it.
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5. UmGuys ◴[17 Sep 25 08:49 UTC] No.45273415[source]▶
It's assumed all cops are dirty. Good cops are few and far between as bad cops have incentive to get rid of them (so they don't snitch or do other 'good' things like police crime).