Post AuaRCvuf0jwZnrN1Rw by quixote@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AuZWTAZT7UoiWUsE6a by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2025-05-29T02:19:08Z
       
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       [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/military-invervention-israel-gaza-warArguing for military intervention to stop the genocide in Gaza. Since Netanyahu's latest plan encompasses killing a large fraction of Palestinians in Gaza, and expelling the rest. I am now convinced that the term "genocide" correctly applies. I have noticed a tendency to think that accusing people of a campaign of killing is not a very grave accusation unless one calls it "genocide". I
       
 (DIR) Post #AuZWTUrZftBRSRUy6S by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2025-05-29T02:19:09Z
       
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       [2/2] disagree. I think that any campaign to kill large numbers of people is an enormous crime.
       
 (DIR) Post #AuaRCvuf0jwZnrN1Rw by quixote@mastodon.nz
       2025-05-29T12:54:48Z
       
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       @rms I think, sadly, that ship has sailed and the language has been terminally taken over by marketing-speak. Always use the punchiest term. Who cares what it means.Netanyahu is trying for ethnic cleansing. He doesn't care if Palestinians continue living somewhere in Arab countries. He just wants them scrubbed out of the right wing definition of Greater Israel.I sometimes wonder what word people will use when some even bigger monster appears who actually does want to exterminate a whole group? Since they've used up 'genocide.'
       
 (DIR) Post #AuaRHPlNyBhvXbAXaa by eris
       2025-05-29T12:55:44.042237Z
       
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       @quixote @rms jews actualy do want to exterminate an entire group already
       
 (DIR) Post #AuaRInEOCcPgcAOP68 by eris
       2025-05-29T12:55:58.992503Z
       
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       @quixote @rms thery have admitted this