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Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

None of those with #Ukraine, #Canada, #Mexico and #EU flags on their profile raising their voice condemning this outrageous crime.

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The sheikh wandered around the city with a lamp

I'm tired of all the devils and the death, and seeking one human

They said it cannot be found, we have searched, As we said before

That which cannot be found I desire

Rumi
دی شیخ با چراغ همی‌ گشت گرد شهر
کز دیو و دد ملولم و انسانم آرزوست

گفتند یافت می‌ نشود جسته‌ ایم ما گفت
آن که یافت می‌ نشود آنم آرزوست
#poetry #Rumi #Gaza #Inhumanity #Death #politics #Israel #Genocide #WarCrime
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

FUCK Zionists and their supporters

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

The needle is moving. The latest genocidal attack has received far more negatively loaded coverage for Israel than ever before. Even TheGuardian and Reuters are starting to name Israel as perpetrator in their headlines. European countries are condemning Israel. Keep pushing for public awareness. Soon politicians will openly start condemning Israel because the overton window has shifted.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I want my country to stop supporting this

[–] [email protected] 121 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds, and in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent." -Marwan Makhoul

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (57 children)

@Zzyzx

I'm so disgusted by hypocrisy of all the blue MAGAts so disgustingly silent about Trump bombings of Yemen and massacre in Gaza

These hypocrites were so loud about tariffs against Canada and Mexico

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This is sadly how mainstream liberals have always behaved. I remember when all the anti-war folks seemed to disappear into thin air once Obama got elected. I guess extrajudicial drone strikes are cool when Democrats do it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That reminds me of a quote (kinda poem like) I made after directly seeing the destruction in Gaza

"One day the bombs will stop falling from the sky, the barrels will fall silent, and a "normal" will set in, but the soil will be forever drenched with the blood of the innocent"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hopefully the tide turns, and Palestine can be free. May the people of Palestine have strength, and the Zionist entity dissolve. One, single, secular state of Palestine for Palestinians and former Israelis alike.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Where have all the "humans" gone?

Gone to graveyards, every one

When will they ever learn?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

they didn't get graves, dear. you know that. not enough humans around to bury themm, and the zionists certainly weren't gonna. they're just under the rubble.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

🇨🇦 My MEP will be having a Q&A in a week and I will go and pressure him on this. I'm not sure what more I can really do.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (27 children)

Where is the outrage?

It's there but media and the government are not covering it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Over 400 in the latest bombings.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (17 children)

The poem is beautiful. This is truly the greatest moral stain of this generation upon the West; to have supported genocide, and not any genocide but the clearest case of genocide in this supposed era of 'progress' and 'open-mindedness' There is no progress, people are clearly just as racist, imperialistic and backward as they were in the 100s of years ago. A genocide unfolded and the 'enlightened West' watched on. How will you get the blood off your hands?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

That was possibly the hardest thing to take, surviving the genocide(s). The banal evil, the indifference, the apathy, the heads in the sand, so many wannabe good falling to inaction and wilful ignorance upon confrontation with the overwhelm at the horror... some even going back into denial. Horrible catch22s and psychological fatiguing as strategies to further defeat and divide us by. I KNOW it is hard, but still have compassion and sympathy for those who succumb to losing theirs, while encouraging them back to sense of empowerment, reassuring them, there is something they can do, they will seek it, find it, and do it. On and on. No room here for defeatist self fulfilling prophecies of despair and ignorance. Awaken, mendwards, because it's necessary. Amazing grace... We're not done here. We can still mend this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

the outage is gone, you've used up your yearly alloted outrage quota, you will no longer experience anger, nor most other emotions.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Governments are largely those who decide what will be outraged by the majority of people.

There have been protests for east Congo here in Belgium and now Rwanda is cutting ties with my country for siding with Congo. It's a conflict that started in 2022 but I had no idea. It was just not covered. I still have no idea.

Palestine Israel conflict is well covered. I saw it on the news today, it was an hour long discussion. They showed Oxfam commercial about it, which includes a Belgian young celebrity. She then spoke about it.

The outrage bout Gaza is more present in the younger generation.

Politician of the social democrats at the table said that she hopes that Europe will put sanctions, as it's part of the trade agreement that it will be abolished when human rights aren't being respected.

Trump is choosing the side of murderers with money in each conflict.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

a conflict that started in 2022 but I had no idea. It was just not covered. I still have no idea.

Your country is on the right side of this.

The tldr is that Rwanda under Kagame has been stealth invading DRC for several years and is emboldened now to openly occupy using M23. His allies are the US and the UK and the target is the same as last time (DRC's vast mineral wealth).

The last Congo War involved a genocide (Bambuti). This one likely will as well.

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[–] humanspiral 7 points 3 days ago

While Trump attacks every traditional US colony/ally, he is masterfully successful in getting them to all cower and increase division with Russia, Palestine, and in Canada's case, China as well. All of the colonies are simply shamefully isolating themselves in hope that their CIA handlers will ask Trump to be nicer to them instead of extorting their weakness much harder.

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