Comrade GitGud

We’re White Liberals!

Just vote Blue, no matter who. Come on, this’ll be the last time, then Trump will be gone and we’ll all dance under a rainbow. 🌹

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Cake day: February 7th, 2024

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  • Hard to say, I suspect people decide on a case by case basis, though I myself often hear the term genocide used after the group targeted or the location. The genocide in Germany and its occupied territories during World War II was uniquely historically bad to warrant its own terminology (hence “Holocaust” in many instances).

    Most genocides actually don’t have as high a percentage of people killed as the Holocaust did, the Armenian and Greek genocides by Turkey during WW1 are actually more historically representative in that significantly more of the population are displaced, assaulted, and/or culturally destroyed than outright killed. The Holocaust combined the typical traits of genocide with a truly monstrous murder-industrial complex.

    This is also why the Gaza genocide is particularly worrying, because unlike many other historical genocides (and none are acceptable), the people of Gaza are boxed in to a very small space, told to migrate to different parts of it, and then attacked in the places they move to. There is no escape for them, and this situation was entirely manufactured by Israel. Whatever the official death toll is at this moment, the real death toll might never be known and is likely significantly higher.


  • I’ve considered making a comm, possibly something that would be ideal for these kinds of posts (maybe where I could normalize the titles), just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I am noticing that text articles do definitely get more positive engagement, possibly because people can scroll through them at work here and there and quickly pick up where they left off, whereas videos can only be viewed at work in the background at office jobs while other things are getting done, and people have to be extra careful about video links they click at the office. Youtube doesn’t make that easier, for sure.