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These are just two souls. What about all the death they caused? Good riddance.
The way I heard someone put it is "these are two more of the thousands of tragic deaths caused by Israel's genocide in Palestine"
The man who got shot had an active Twitter account. Very stand-up guy. Such a shame he got killed.
And thank you president Trump for speaking out for the man who has always had your back. 🫡
Well he seems like a total piece of soulless shit, lets give him that.
While any loss of life should be saddening, this dude REEEEALLY makes it hard to be empathetic.
Bro, you're not going to stop a genocide by busting a cap in two nobodies half a world away.
What I found pretty unsettling when I watched some excerpts from the news was the stark contrast in how the events are portrayed depending on who's getting murdered. Let me explain:
The media and officials insisted on humanizing the victim; notably mentioning the crushed family life he was building for himself ("He bought the ring and was engaged").
The problem is that the Palestinian children and families getting crushed in a genocide don't have the privilege to be treated as human, to be cared about or their dreams and aspiration considered. They are at best unfortunate victims and most of the time walking flesh that needs to be exterminated.
I find that so frustrating how the right or even the mainstream always portray themselves as the superior moral culture while enabling the worse mass extermination to happen, documented before them.
EDIT: they even talked about a "heinous" crime which felt so tone-deaf and laughable.
Philosophy Tube has a great video about this topic https://youtu.be/rLfzO7Sbdc4. At 27:20 she starts talking about who's life is worth grieving and who's is not, and how this is a government level topic. It hits the nail on the head about the differences in reporting two different people's deaths can have. At 33:45 they specifically talk about the 2008 Gaza war.
The reason the Palestinian victims haven't been humanized is that so many of them are children who haven't even had a chance to grow into their lives yet.
Wonder how many American "pro-lifers" are ok with this genocide
Every. Single. One. Those kids are kids, not fetuses; alive, with hopes and dreams. In other words, completely fucking useless to the "pro life" people.
Heartbreaking to see, but sadly it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. This war on Gaza is growing increasingly unpopular and people feel powerless to stop the ongoing genocide being conducted by Israel. I don't support attacks against random civilians but I'm not surprised somebody saw an opportunity to make a statement. These deaths are on Netanyahu along with the tens-of-thousands of Palestinians killed since the war started.
not really random, this guy seems on par with the Israelis watching Gaza bombings from a cliff while eating popcorn. He also seems to have a full hard on for Trump, so for him all kinds of humanitarian crimes are probably ok as long as the president supports Israeli genocide. So not really random, perhaps more on the same level as Luigi.
It doesn't look like this was an "attack on random civilians." Out of all the people they could have killed, they killed people who work for the Israeli Embassy. They worked for the government doing the genocide.
Now did they support it? Who knows, but this shooter was not shooting up a movie theater. It was no more random than the United Healthcare CEO.
So, there's a lot of things happening in Gaza other than what's on the nose. Like starvation can cause neurological issues in the brain, in the body. It can even make your hair turn gray. All the stress. During World War I, soldiers came back with a thing called shell shock, and they would just constantly shake all the time. The kids in Gaza are showing symptoms of shell shock. So I could care less about two people getting killed.
"Any attack against a Zionist is antisemitic"
So that means Isreal is a ethnostate?
A genocidal apartheid ethno state.
You forgot colonial
I left out a lot of choice words because the powers that be on most sites take offense when you call a spade a spade, or when you compare said spade to spades that plagued the world during the 1930's and 40's.