Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire
  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    682·
    14 hours ago

    He was “appalled by the conflict”, he wrote, adding that the “suffering and pain caused on both sides” was “a human tragedy”

    This little shit literally “both sides” this genocide?!? Wow.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      9 hours ago

      I could see that argument being used in the weeks after the October attacks, but after nearly three years of intensive systematic genocide?

      Fuck off with that shit.

        • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
          17·
          8 hours ago

          Just to recap what we may have forgotten:

          1. Netanyahu knew the attack was coming.
          2. IDF forces (that Hamas had planned to attack) were unaccountably withdrawn from the area when it started.
          3. A lot of the deaths and destruction at the kibbutzes were the result of IDF fire.
          4. In the Hamas videos, a lot of the attackers seemed confused and put off by finding civilians rather than soldiers as their targets.

          Now, not to get all conspiracy-brained, but I have to wonder whom to condemn for the Oct. 7th civilian death toll.

        • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
          16·
          9 hours ago

          At some point the October attacks stopped being anything but an excuse.

          I remember reading about them and thinking; “damn, the response will be BAD”, and as the days turned into weeks turned into months turned into years of constant brutal systematic violence, Israel quickly lost all my sympathy they got from the attacks.

          I have held no special love for the Palestinians, nor Israel for that matter, but Israel is doing it’s best to make sure to show everyone just how little sympathy they deserve.