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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

The military aid being illegally used in international piracy to block and destroy humanitarian efforts?

Your duty does not under any circumstances include assisting genocide. (Including by spreading bullshit memes while you turn a blind eye to the slow torturous deaths of hundreds of thousands.)

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, some quick red herrings and false equivalence you've provided so you won't have to discuss your genocide denial.

Here's a hint before your next personal attack, my friend: the world is not all American, and memes from whatever your local country's politics are mean nothing to me.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

I do in fact know a few. So I shall. Although I don't have the contacts I used to when I actually worked in medicine.

For one well worth following here, I recommend @girlymicro.bsky.social who somehow got through the lockdown intact despite politicians undermining her work at every possible stage.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Wait till you meet people who work in microbiology, vaccination and medical ethics. It's a wonder they can still function.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Jewish, you blithering idiot.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that most human beings are terrible at geography. I don't understand why you think this means they shouldn't oppose genocide.

Quick, where is Darfur? And do you think the genocide there is a bad thing?

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Just as Israel already shot Palestinians waiting to meet their families.

Neither Hamas nor Likud have ever wanted peace. And Netanyahu has helped them recruit every Palestinian - those who survive - because the only alternative he offers to Hamas is being tortured to death by the IDF.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair, the man who singlehandedly helped Bush destabilise the entire Middle East in the first place? The single most hated westerner in the area who isn't Trump? The man who not one Palestinian would ever vote for? Yeah, what a perfect choice to impose a government on the conquered.

tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

The world did absolutely nothing. The perpetrators of genocide are being rewarded with the land they stole over the bodies of their victims.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Every single Republican without exception has looked like a deeply unserious idiot since the moment they refused to impeach Trump.

Trump's only foreign policy is to be bribed for large amounts by anyone in reach. In this case he was bribed with Gaza. Of course it works; corruption is easy.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Free Palestine had zero power whatsoever. Netanyahu violated every cease fire repeatedly because he knew damn well he was about to go to jail the instant he lost power and keeping a genocidal war going was his only chance to avoid it.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas are monsters who will no more disarm than the monsters in Netanyahu's army. Their power over other Palestinians comes primarily from murdering rivals, and from Netanyahu's repeated endorsement of their ideology.

tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking for the British, nothing could possibly do more harm to Palestinians and Israelis alike or do more to perpetuate Netanyahu's genocide than allowing our government within a thousand miles of the place. We're utterly compromised by Russia and the international far right.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Look, at this point pretending that genocide didn't happen is just pathetic. Netanyahu and multiple ministers of his openly boasted about committing genocide, literally every international observer with genocide experience says it's a genocide, the courts agree.

It's genocide.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

For comparison: Corbyn led a party more than twenty times the membership of Farage's, with a hundred times as many MPs, by massive popular acclaim despite being hated by the right.

And was invited on Question Time ONCE. Ever.

To Farage's 38.

"Connecting very well" had nothing to do with it.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

He's "one of the most influential UK politicians" BECAUSE the BBC violated its charter to give a racist agitator a megaphone, and broadcast his lies without any pushback, while right wing news owners fearmomgered for him.

Before that his career was twenty years of laughable political failure.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

No, that had not occurred to me for a second, because it's not in any way true.

Farage's QT appearances happened BEFORE he "connected" with anyone. When he had no votes and sod all MPs he was given dozens of appearances while party leaders with far more votes and MPs got none.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

Because they gave him massive publicity and a free ride across dozens of episodes even when he had no MPs at all, while other party leaders with more votes and more real support were never invited.

He's popular because they actively helped him spread lies without pushback, while denying opponents.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 1d

They won't bother with an excuse. Netanyahu will just do it.

The cease fire is ALREADY being violated.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 3d

It's not even the first time Israel complete ignored a ceasefire specifically in Gaza this year.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 4d

No thanks. I'm Jewish with Israeli family and I don't want them charged with every war crime Netanyahu and the IDF committed; there were a hell of a lot of them and I want the actual scumbags responsible in jail.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 4d

It's not over. Netanyahu will do exactly the same as he did at the last "cease fire", i.e. ignore it and keep randomly murdering Palestinians.

When he's already declared two cease fires and not actually, you know, ceased firing, he doesn't get benefit of the doubt on the third try.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, Churchill was an asshole of the worst grade but when the choice is binary between him and Hitler I'm still on team Churchill.

That's kind of the point here.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 5d

Not really. He _knew_ that wasn't consistent or ok; he just wasn't willing to do the work to change it. He wanted the generation _after_ him to do that, when it wouldn't cost him anything.

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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, that's still somehow giving them too much credit. They're never turning ICE loose on red states where illegal immigrants make money for Republican masters. This is about control, they've never actually given a fuck about the things they talk about.