Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”
I Wouldn’t expect any less from this gold plated cesspool founded on genocide, slavery, and exploitation.
“herp derp but we saved the world and beat the Nazis!” Yeah, we fought and defeated the Axis… after they decimated our pacific fleet and brought the war to us. Prior to that, eugenics were popular here, and practiced. Hell, some of our most infamous capitalists supplied and financed both sides of that war, after all, private profit is what America is all about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/
We’re dogshit, all the way back to the zealots fleeing Europe to be bigger religious prudes and nutters. The only amazing thing about our country is its ridiculously massive, undeserved ego.
So, what I’m hearing is we have lots of room to do better. 😃
…our most infamous capitalists supplied and financed both sides…
Not the least of whom happened to be Fred Trump, the former president’s father. Unfortunately there is a large gap in his FBI file before and after the war, where we would expect to find documented proof of these activities. Still, it seems pretty clear what happened, and he certainly didn’t hide his racism publicly.
The parallels between Ukraine and Gaza has made it clear that if you want public outrage those babies better be white or else they will be reported as collateral damage instead of genocide.
Good to know our government can still get shit done when it’s something fucking stupid.
I almost typed “I don’t know why we invest in ignorance,” but I do. Goddamn dude
Yes. It’s the facts that are misleading, not us. The ole “you can’t handle the truth.”
I dug up the roll call for this vote, if anyone wants to look up how their representative voted.
Shame to see Colin Allred voted yea. He’s the only hope we have to unseat Ted Cruz this year.
The only lesson learned from the COVID years: if you stop reporting the numbers, the numbers stop going up.
it always irks me when someone says that biden handled covid when he simply had the numbers hidden from the public like a few state governors and trump tried to do, but got a lot of blowback for it.
CDC Covid data, as of June 29, 2024.
i think you mean to imply that there’s no obfuscation of covid data since we can lookup covid stats from the cdc; like everything with a strong enough political quality, the devil is intentionally situated in the details to hide it from those who don’t look close enough like this example. i’ll provide the article supporting it if i can find them and assuming they’re still around.
Man what the fuck. What is their justification for this.
that anything coming from a gazan mouth must be propaganda; but they’re the only ones on the ground counting their numbers are smaller than others’ estimates
The American Empire requires Israel as an Imperialist foothold in the Middle East. They will protect Israel and manufacture consent as much as they can to prevent public backlash.
They actually don’t even need Israel, Turkey is our NATO ally already and has the same access to the sea. Obviously Erdogan is a authoritarian dickshit, but at least they’re not actively committing a genocide.
Israel has no dramatic geopolitical value to the US at this point, they’re basically just a client. Though you wouldn’t think it by the way Netanyahu yanks Biden around by his testicles. The unquestioning support for Israel is ideological for people like Biden, and for others it’s all the money from AIPAC and JStreet
This vote, not to mention the history of the last 70 years, shows that they very much do think they need Israel.
wtf
“…with a death total so high that we have been banned from telling you the number…”
That’s because it’s a severe undercount, right?
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Right?
Don’t need to talk in memes there brother.
House of Representatives Votes 269-144 to Ban State Department
from Citing Gaza Death Toll
I want names. I’ve got some angry letters to write.
Mine said “not voting.”
Just as bad as voting for it, honestly.
Depends on whether it means she was actually there or not.
A vote not for Biden is a vote for Trump. 👍
A vote not for Trump is a vote for Biden. 👍
Bought, cheaply, and paid for by AIPAC. Until this war I had no idea how politically deep they are.
Let’s not forget CUFI’s part.
This is insane.
This is conservatives.
This is the bipartisan rules-based international order. There are 220 republicans and 213 Democrats in the House, and the vote was 269-144.
99% of the repubs votes yes. 30% of the dems voted yes.
Leans conservative not surprisingly. Only point I was making
i’m not usually “both sides,” but i think some Dems voted for this as well
If you look at the vote count it was 99% of the republicans voted yes, and 30% of the dems voted yes. I think my point still stands
true
Not allowing People to Know how many people have died is called being PRO LIFE!
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Government banning speech, I understand it’s what the government says, but I feel someone is going to test the limit on this, and the first amendment is going to suffer for it.
This has nothing to do with the first amendment. It’s fucking bullshit, yeah, but not 1a related.
This is about parliamentary procedure, they can (and do, and always have) make whatever rules of decorum that they want.
