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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Supporting a genocide means you're responsible for it. The US should be ashamed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same thing happened in South Africa, Rwanda, Bosnia, etc.

Nobody with power will ever stop a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opération_Turquoise And, sometimes, they just make it worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A good portion of US citizens are ashamed of their government's actions and speak out against them by protesting. The government knows no shame tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Our broken electoral system means that our only real resolution to pressure politicians is primarying - in a healthy multi-party system one or a few parties would likely defect to the public will. Since it's awful democrats or world ending republicans there's almost no justification for democrats to reform their position as a group - just for vulnerable ones to defect to defend from being primaried.

The key here is to remember these votes for the next primary.

[–] vexikron 12 points 7 months ago

Right as the White House is saying that the US does support a ceasefire 'when it is practical to do so.'