Biden appeared to accuse Putin of committing a 'genocide' in Ukraine : NPR

April 12, 2022

"Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away," he said.

Asked later what made him use the word "genocide," Biden replied, "Yes, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being — being able to be Ukrainian.

  • Kaplya
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    8 months ago

    On the other hand, already more dead Palestinian civilian in Gaza than in Ukraine and 6 TIMES more dead Palestinian children than in Ukraine, all happened in less than 1 month versus 20 months in Ukraine, in a country with a population 20 times smaller than Ukraine’s, is clearly not a genocide.

      • JustMy2c@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        How many fridges is that?

        As a european, that's the only American measurement I understand. I mean the small one door fridges btw

        • the_kid
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          8 months ago

          As a european, that's the only American measurement I understand. I mean the small one door fridges btw

          we don't have those in the US, fridges here need to be big enough to hold your 100pc hot pockets from costco

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I fucking hate liberals so much. The fucking sanctions are war, the occupations are war, the entire American foreign policy is a strategy of tension and you are all warmongers intent on exterminating anyone poorer and browner than you who doesn't submit. frog-no-pretext

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    The tone deafness of this speech in the midst of the Israeli slaughter in Palestine is... Just holy fuck.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    so to be clear Biden has decided that oil and gas prices should have nothing to do with cutting the supply of oil and gas via sanctions because he doesn't want them to