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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 87 points 1 year ago (38 children)

4.5 Million but yeah, glad that the USA and the UK got sanctioned after leading such a genocidal war. This restores my faith in the rules based order.

[–] astral_avocado@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (37 children)

Can we please stop overusing the word genocide

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Also you: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1081955

When you say it like that sure, except they also deny the Uyghur genocide and ignore the fact that China has their internet walled off and heavily censored/policed.

Basically they’re so pro-communism that they looped back around and are now pro-fascists and drink the Kool aid. Not to mention the fact that China is only communist in name lol

[–] astral_avocado@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yes this is me, thank you for advertising my accurate comment. China is indeed targeting and concentrating minorities into camps. Words have meanings.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does not seem like words have meanings. All the nuance in your tank is reserved for the constant America-led warmongering in the middle east with a death toll in millions, many more displaced, and known torture sites like Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and god known how many more black sites. Meanwhile the Uyghur are unequivocally being genocided despite ZERO CONFIRMED CASUALTIES four years into the news cycle. So your litmus test for genocide seems to be US foreign policy despite the emphasis on words having meaning.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

astral_avacado said elsewhere that the Iraq Invasion was just "misguided" so its definitely a case of us-foreign-policy with how they decide what is and isn't a genocide.

Calling that genocide is holocaust denial.

Stop hiding behind pathetic labels, you are in bed with fascists.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago
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