cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28323213
Judith Levine Tue 8 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT
"Seven and three-quarters hours into his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker uttered the word “Gaza”. He was not talking about the war. He stepped nowhere near the 50,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli armed forces since 8 October 2023, or the US’s military and political support of the genocide.
Rather, Booker was searching for a particularly ludicrous lie from a presidential administration that has told thousands. “There are lies about USAID, like, I don’t know, 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous,” he said. Considering the other outrageous things Trump has said about Gaza – such as his plan to “clean out” the strip to make room for luxury resorts – the remark felt trivializing."
Geez, this man stands up for 25 hours and now that’s not good enough?
I don’t see this journalist standing for even an hour.
The person wants to just let it all go because not every single cause was touched?
They voted for Trump for the same dumb reasons probably
Speaking for 25 hours and not even mentioning the war crimes in Gaza is a ridiculous.
The US is going very far out of the way to assist in the war crimes.
Filling 25 hours of air is tough. Even more so if you choose to ignore an active genocide.
You’ve been on here 2 years, made 2.1k comments, and 715 posts. I so far do not see anything defending the Uyghurs. So “obviously” you are a China apologist and you enjoy the suffering of the Uyghurs.
If you check again, you will definitely find me mentioning the Uyghurs. Fuck China’s Auth genociding ass too.
Your whataboutism is gross