I don't know why I'm surprised they don't but I really expected that maybe this time they would care even a tiny bit.

Like they kinda sorta cared a little bit about healthcare for a minute and that blew over, and then they kinda sorta cared about minority rights for longer than I expected so that was cool but these issues are actually kind of historically complex and difficult to solve so I wasn't too surprised when libs just... fucking forgot. Climate change, me too, student loan debt...all sorta kinda complex in certain ways.

But genocide is so simple. It's probably the least complicated issue that libs have ever had to confront. Bombs go out children go boom it cannot be less complicated.

And yet here we are with libs across America hand wringing about how well it's maybe not genocide and maybe it's somehow complicated and maybe we should talk about it after we defeat Trump who we're SURE will do this complicated thing we can't quite understand worse somehow.

I guess if genocide staring libs in the actual face isn't enough to get them to care a tiny itty bitty bit about maybe trying to do something good for once...is there anything that possibly could? I can't imagine much worse of a thing than literal genocide. Maybe libs are just wholly incapable of using their brains or their hearts in any capacity at all.

And if that's the case is there any hope at all? I know there is but man this moment watching this election and everyone cheering wholeheartedly for as much genocide as they possibly can might be one of the most hopeless I've ever felt

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    They only care about genocide when they’re told to by talking heads on tv. They’re against Russia “genociding Ukraine” and “Uyghur genocide.” There was also that brief bit during SOSCuba when people were saying that Cuba was committing genocide.

    Anything else is just too complicated. Even their own genocide. Disease killed all the natives. The centuries of targeted, mass genocide were only a tiny portion of it. Easy way to wipe their hands clean of any wrong-doing.

    Edit: oh yeah, Sudan too. Only brought up as a “whataboutism” whenever people talk about Palestine. Like they actually give a shit about African genocide.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Edit: oh yeah, Sudan too. Only brought up as a “whataboutism” whenever people talk about Palestine. Like they actually give a shit about African genocide.

      The response should be "Oh, do you want to discuss the OTHER massive human tragedy that's being underwritten with US financing and weapons?"

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      They only care about genocide when they’re told to by talking heads on tv. They’re against Russia “genociding Ukraine” and “Uyghur genocide.” There was also that brief bit during SOSCuba when people were saying that Cuba was committing genocide.

      To libs genocide is just something bad people/bad country does. I don't think they actually care about genocide on any of those cases. Its justca way to say "(State Department designated enemy) bad." I can't imagine believing that a genocide was actually being conducted in a the world's largest manufacturer and only ever using it as some sort of rhetocical point. Why aren't they trying to BDS China? It's because they don't actually care.