It's not even enough to say that the US is merely complicit in this genocide, Israel wouldn't even be able to do a genocide without US backing. The US is an equal partner and collaborator in this genocide. It's those of us who live in the US who are complicit in the US's genocide. It's like Bushnell's last post:

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”

The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now."

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The US uses their convoluted visa process to blackmail foreigners into submission, dangles the American dream in front of immigrants, keeps Americans in debt, and filters all wealth (and thus, in a capitalist society, power) to the 1%.

This has always been a class problem. The people who are working to build a better America are not the people who make the decisions and they are not the people who have actual influence on America. Treating the working class as an unexceptional, unwanted "element of society" rather than it's backbone was always going to have this effect.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Each of us in the imperial core chooses to live and work every day. We directly contribute to this genocide with our labor and tax money and consumption. We have the power to stop this, we are not powerless. We are all complicit.

Bushnell, acting alone, got a member of the State Department to publicly resign. An ordinary person without wealth and power had a concrete influence on the US government, all alone and with nothing but the willingness to die for what they believed in.

I think Bushnell killed the wrong person, but I can recognize they are my moral superior. I can barely hope to be half as important.

What would I do if my country was committing genocide?

Post, I guess.

[–] palestinian@toast.ooo 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please explain to me at this point how anyone could be worse than biden in this conflict?

Sorry, I am a single issue voter when it comes to genocide.

[–] topnomi@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm pretty sure the orange guy would have given the same amount or more to Israel.

Supporting genocide in Israel is pretty bipartisan.

That being said, I'm pretty sure the jew that was running against Biden in 2020 would not have supported this...

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

The development underscores that while rifts have emerged between the United States and Israel over the war’s conduct, the Biden administration views weapons transfers as off-limits when considering how to influence the actions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some Democrats, including allies of President Biden, say the U.S. government has a responsibility to withhold weapons in the absence of an Israeli commitment to limit civilian casualties during a planned operation in Rafah, a final Hamas stronghold, and ease restrictions on humanitarian aid into the enclave, which is on the brink of famine.

The 2,000 pound bombs, capable of leveling city blocks and leaving craters in the earth 40 feet across and larger, are almost never used anymore by Western militaries in densely populated locations due to the risk of civilian casualties.

The Post’s reporting on the new weapons authorizations follows a visit to Washington by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant this week in which he requested that the Biden administration expedite a range of weaponry.

A massive influx of aid trucks is required to remedy the situation, but U.S. officials say Israel has imposed onerous restrictions on deliveries, which are deeply unpopular inside Netanyahu’s far-right coalition government.

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