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minus-squareThordros [he/him, comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish40•10 hours agoI hope you’re prepared for a lot of “abstain” votes.
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish15•8 hours agoThat is a perfectly clear message for me actually. It’s about opposing genocide or not. “Do nothing knowing that will cause the genocide to continue” is close enough to “continue the genocide” for me.
minus-squarefrauddogg [they/them, null/void]linkfedilinkEnglish29•9 hours agoI’d say fence-sitting this vote is even more an indictment than just a “No” vote personally; it doesn’t take a MENSA candidate to tell whether or not funding a genocidal morass of settlers is morally correct
minus-squareLussy [any]linkfedilinkEnglish14•8 hours agoYeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]linkfedilinkEnglish26•10 hours agoStill tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence
minus-squareRandom123linkfedilink1•7 hours agoThats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress
I hope you’re prepared for a lot of “abstain” votes.
Abstaining is pro genocide imo
That is a perfectly clear message for me actually.
It’s about opposing genocide or not. “Do nothing knowing that will cause the genocide to continue” is close enough to “continue the genocide” for me.
I’d say fence-sitting this vote is even more an indictment than just a “No” vote personally; it doesn’t take a MENSA candidate to tell whether or not funding a genocidal morass of settlers is morally correct
Yeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’
Still tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence
Thats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress