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Young people are divided on Israel/Gaza.
@Truth_Hurts
An apparent bug in my instance prevents me from seeing some comments, but I saw yours via the "context" button on replies. Fuck your hive mind shit. Children are being murdered. That has nothing to do with anything other than children being murdered. Suck my ass.
How do you context button?
It's the second icon beneath a comment if you look at your replies (on my instance, but I think the layout is standardized). I need it for about half of replies to make sense. Looks like this (for my instance):
I don’t have that on voyager but it sounds good to have
I don't know if your intention was to prove their point, but you did.
The point is that some young people are mad about Biden's policy, some likely support it, but the biggest group isn't even paying attention.
Politically, that's grounds for maintaining the status quo.
These people don’t want to understand nuance. They’re polarized and want to be outraged. You can’t stop that.
ahh the nuances of supporting an active genocide. It’s strange that might be polarizing and cause folks to be outraged. Whaddaya gonna do? People need to understand that this is an election year /s
Ahhh. The freedom of making up your own headlines for the purpose of a shared hive is outrage.
And the fact that this is an election year isn’t lost on anyone that knows propaganda when they see it.
34,500 and counting
Cool story. This same shit is happening elsewhere too. But sadly, no one cares much about that. Its a shame people only seem to care when they can use it to prop up an agenda.
Hell. Most people didn’t even know where Palestine was less than a year ago. But don’t let this get in the way of some good old fashioned election year outrage.
So predictably obvious. Yet we’re not allowed to point it out.
What a disgusting take
Yeah. It is a disgusting take that disingenuous people are taking advantage of a shitty situation for political gain. If only someone would call it out.
34,500+ can’t say anything anymore because Israel. You do you
And the 30,000 that died so far in a similar conflict that you and your fellow propagandists don’t give two shits about….
What about them? Because you have said nothing at all in their defense.
Nothing.
The US can do a major part by simply not finding it! That’s why it’s a no brainer. When you start funding and taking sides it gets complicated; this is rather clear, that’s why.
I’d be careful with relying on poll cross tabs on issues of morality. The sample size is usually too small to tell right from wrong.
Sure, but if Biden is guided by his moral code instead of politics then he has even less reason to care if young people are mad at him.
This is correct, you are being downvoted for being right but the hive mind on here tends to support terrorism & murder as long as they are Muslim and the victims are not Muslim.
This, and the opposite "wow feminists and LGBTQ+ people supporting people who would see them dead" are both woefully awful takes.