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  • People jump to conclusions real fuckin fast on here, so let me put a disclaimer:

    The Palestinian people, and the Israeli people, are ultimately the victims of everything that is happening and has happened in recent months. The Israeli government, and Hamas, are both terrorist organizations that need to be stopped.

    That out of the way, I agree with you. There are people on here that express legitimate grievances with Israel, and a lot of folks will immediately counter that they must be supporting Hamas.

  • IIRC, the common argument is that modern Black Americans have great opportunities by virtue of being in America. Without slavery, they would have been born in Africa.

    This is ludicrous for a variety of reasons. It's the same kind of thinking that leads to people saying your relative died "because of God's plan", as if suffering always has a good reason to it.

  • Seriously. It's never helpful to be smug and condescending about spelling and grammar. When I offer correction, I always make sure to be strictly factual and polite wherever possible, because sometimes people just don't know the difference.

  • In case you're legitimately asking:

    OP is saying that "they" don't care that "their" kids are being killed. This reads as OP saying the parents of the murdered children don't care about their own murdered children. OP says that because the same bad politicians from before the shooting were voted back into office, this means the parents don't care. OP therefore says they won't bother caring either.

    I'm saying the bad politicians may not have been voted back in by the parents of the murdered children, and instead have been voted back in by callous people who don't care about other peoples murdered children. This would mean OP's assertion that the parents don't care is wrong, and their decision to not care about murdered children is wrong.

  • Consider that sometimes there are more voters who are unaffected by the people and policies they vote for, than voters who are affected.

    I imagine in the case of Uvalde, there are more grumpy senior citizens who don't give a shit about the lives of children than there are parents of school age children -- or at least more voters in the former category than the latter.

    Don't forget that voter suppression exists, too. Just because the same shit heels got voted back in doesn't mean that the people who were most hurt didn't try to do something about it. Don't give up your sympathy because of what it looks like to you at a distance.