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arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkFor the First Time Ever There Will be a Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israelscheerpost.com§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareThordros [he/him, comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoI hope you’re prepared for a lot of “abstain” votes.
minus-squarefrauddogg [null/void, undecided]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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, hy/hym]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoYeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoStill tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence
minus-squareRandom123linkfedilink0•1 year agoThats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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.
I hope you’re prepared for a lot of “abstain” votes.
Abstaining is pro genocide imo
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
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.