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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 1 year ago

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trying to talk about What's Happening and hearing "b-but israel is one of the only other DEMOCRACIES!!!!!" and having to restrain yourself because you're thinking. Who The Fuck Cares

#the democracy and 'FREEDOM!!!' of a government towards it's own people within it's nation doesn't mean jack shit #when they are actively oppressing another people and stripping them of freedom and keeping them in an apartheid state #like. cool. citizens there can vote. that's awesome #can their neighbors in gaza leave a strip the size of london. can they control their own food. or water. or electricity.#a nation having a state of democracy and freedom of choice within it's own borders is irrelevant #when they're depriving innocent people outside those borders of their fucking humanity. let alone anything akin to freedom and 'democracy'#mine #free palestine #but of course. in a country that itself flaunts being the democratic 'land of the free' despite building that 'democracy' on stolen land #that was taken from the people they also colonized and carried out a genocide on. that rhetoric shouldn't surprise me here. and yet.

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