• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    22 years ago

    Apparently condemning Israeli settlements that has been happening for years is more important than condemning the killing of the innocent Palestinians that’s happening right now

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    382 years ago

    The settlements have always been recognized as illegal, but I guess its good to reaffirm it.

    Its a war crime to move a civilian population into a military occupied region. This crime has been ongoing for decades.

  • btbt [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    362 years ago

    Jesus fucking Christ even a majority of the anglosphere is opposing Isntrael

  • IninewCrow
    link
    fedilink
    English
    282 years ago

    Woohoo … Yeah … Canada vo … ???.. What the hell!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      link
      fedilink
      272 years ago

      Apartheid regimes stick together. Canada did to First Nations what Israel aims to do to Palestinians.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1112 years ago

    As a Canadian, I’m incredibly disappointed in my government for supporting this genocide and settling of stolen land. We’re on the wrong side of history with this.

    • trashcan
      link
      fedilink
      502 years ago

      this genocide and settling of stolen land.

      Guess they’re concerned they’d have to look inward a little?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      162 years ago

      Generally speaking if Germany votes in favour of this kind of resolution and you against, you done fucked up.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      172 years ago

      Disappointed, sure, but I don’t think you should be surprised.

      Canada was founded as a country specifically for the purpose of genocide. Virtually the entire country is on settled and stolen land. It would be hypocritical to be against someone else doing the same.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        22 years ago

        Canada was founded more than 150 years ago. I’m surprised that in that intervening period, nothing has changed.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        122 years ago

        You could say the same about Australia and various Latin America countries, yet they still condemn Israel action.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          72 years ago

          You’re right, but there’s a reason why Canadians don’t talk about their “founding fathers” the way Americans do.

          I don’t know how many other countries are the same way.

          The first PM was explicitly racist against indigenous people, and IIRC, the country was explicitly founded on the basis of white supremacy over indigenous peoples.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      32
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      They can shut the fuck up about “truth and reconciliation” while simultaneously supporting a modern day indigenous genocide on top of continuing on their own indigenous genocide in secret. I knew they were full of shit after they made the Queen’s day of death a holiday.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        232 years ago

        It’s so absolutely insane how Canada is happy to tout reconciliation with First Nations people and simultaneously support the genocide of an indigenous people.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          12
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          That’s just a resistance-numbing effort. In the courts and on the streets they very much continue their genocide at full speed, and judging by how shocked as shit people were at discovering the mass graves and how quickly everyone forgot about it after the initial shock, it’s working.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          12 years ago

          First Nations

          I think they’re third-nations with all the discoveries of civilisations long buried.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      3
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      The U.S spends more on military than the next 7 countries combined. It’d put up a good fight. Probably conquer Canada/Mexico in hours (I’d assume they would just concede the same way Paris/France conceded to the Nazis in WW2), and then we’d also have the advantage in Eurasia. We could nuke most of western Europe, and the only country that could really stop us is Russia because they also have a comparable number of nukes. If we successfully disarm them and are the sole nuclear super power in the world, I could see the U.S winning ww3 and becoming a global government.

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        172 years ago

        The pentagon pays $5000 on a simple trash can. Paying more money is not a good thing. A f35 costs like $75 million dollars to build and they spend almost half their existence unable to fly.

        USA’s military budget is 90% graft.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        312 years ago

        We

        USians stop identifying with those who rule over you Challenge Rating: um ackshully

        If we successfully disarm them and are the sole nuclear super power in the world,

        Sounds super easy

        We need a smuglord but with like a helmet on for people like this

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          8
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          I don’t support the U.S, and yeah I’ve been actively trying to move away from identifying as part of the U.S. Notice the first time I referred to it in my comment I called it “it”. Just a habit, sorry if I offended you though, that wasn’t my intention.

          The main issue is if I say “they” instead of “we”, the vast majority of the internet assumes you’re from Europe. I want to convey I live in the United States without identifying as part of it.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        2
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        The next seven countries combined (the next eleven, in fact) are all in green in the above map. #12 is Canada, and every other country is either supporting this resolution or abstaining. The US could well win a third world war but it wouldn’t happen the way you say. Nukes won’t be used in conflicts by nation-states, only (and hopefully not) by rogue groups that get their hands on one. Nukes are a deterrent nowadays rather than a weapon.

        • Fogle
          link
          fedilink
          22 years ago

          Canada is also still under the monarchy so it’s not like we could side with America against the world

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          32 years ago

          I don’t trust that the U.S will always do the right thing with nukes. Maybe you have unwavering faith in the good heart of the imperialist core to never use nukes in conflicts, I’m not as trusting.

  • Echo Dot
    link
    fedilink
    15
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Wait the UK voted in favour? Literally just yesterday they were whining about Pro Palestinian marches in London. Then a bunch of right wing fuck nuggets turned up to fight to the pro Palestinian marches, except they turned up in the wrong place and ended up fighting the police instead.

    I guess they realise their position is untenable on that point. The general public hate them and they know it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      link
      fedilink
      152 years ago

      It’s becoming impossible to spin this as anything other than a genocide that the west is facilitating at this point.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      212 years ago

      They are not condemning Israel for the current assault on Gaza. They are condemning Israel for the settlements (which is a blatant war crime that has long been criticized by every country except Israel and the US iirc.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        They are condemning Israel for the settlements

        The illegal settlements that are one of the contributing factors that led to Hamas growing in support.