alt-text: thereā€™s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. Iā€™ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isnā€™t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock revolutionary, but theyā€™re not wearing a face mask, and thatā€™s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmerā€™s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen itā€™s warm today, too warm for March. But I donā€™t have time to think through the implications because thereā€™s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

  • icydefiance@lemm.ee
    37Ā·
    8 months ago

    The 23-page report said the team also found ā€œclear and convincing informationā€ that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to ā€œrape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.ā€ There were ā€œreasonable grounds to believe,ā€ it said, ā€œthat this violence may be ongoing.ā€

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/hamas-rape-un-report-hostages/

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63Ā·
      8 months ago

      it just means they tortured, raped and killed all of the hostages

      Back that up.

      What you posted does not prove the propaganda youā€™ve said above.

      Oh andā€¦

      UN experts say they have seen ā€œcredible allegationsā€ that Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assaults, including rape, while in Israeli detention, and are calling for a full investigation.

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/claims-of-israeli-sexual-assault-of-palestinian-women-are-credible-un-panel-says

      it just means they tortured, raped and killed all of the hostages

      • icydefiance@lemm.ee
        43Ā·
        8 months ago

        Back that up.

        I just did.

        Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assaults

        I havenā€™t said a single word to defend Israelā€™s actions, and Iā€™m not going to. Thatā€™s also fucked up.

        Thatā€™s why itā€™s a good thing that Biden has started to change US policy toward Israel.

        • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          44Ā·
          8 months ago

          Thatā€™s why itā€™s a good thing that Biden has started to change US policy toward Israel.

          But he hasnā€™t.

          Heā€™s done the equivalent of the slap on the wrist of a completely different person (i.e. not the genocidal government).

          Meanwhile he has given that very same genocidal government guns, money, and diplomatic immunity.

          • icydefiance@lemm.ee
            43Ā·
            8 months ago

            Pressuring Israel for a ceasefire, starting on new policies for sanctions, airdropping aid into Gaza, meeting with Netanyahuā€™s political rival Benny Gantz, and the few critical statements the white house has made about Israel are all things that the US would not have done in the past, and absolutely would not be doing now if we had a Republican president.

            And thereā€™s more coming. No way it ends here.

            The goal is to change Israel, not to destroy our relationship with them, and thereā€™s a myriad of reasons for that.

            That doesnā€™t mean that nothing is changing.