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Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

“Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building…and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food,” the convention’s information center said in a statement. “The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation.”

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That’s a lot of words to say you tolerate genocide abroad to avoid it at home.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Maybe all those words are saying something about naive single-issue voters who can’t comprehend the world is not perfect and it’s not that simple.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Theres plenty of room to argue that

          1. No US presidential candidates are involved in genocide
          2. While there’s a huge atrocity/humanitarian crisis in Gaza, genocide implies an intent that’s not there
          3. Hamas started it and are the legally elected and internationally recognized government - they invaded a foreign country, killed over 1,000 civilians, kidnapped hundreds as hostages, and assumed they could just leave safely.

          No one can argue the horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians, nor the scale of that horror, but it’s not as black and white as you make it seem by throwing around loaded terms like “genocide”, nor is US directly involved, nor can we necessarily intervene in another country’s affairs

          • Count042@lemmy.ml
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            3 months ago

            Any country that intentionally restricts access to food, medicine, and portable water to a population it finds inconvenient is a government intentionally committing genocide.

    • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Trump called Bibi in an attempt to sink a ceasefire deal because it would help the Democrats. But I’m sure since you’re so concerned with genocide that you’ve already heard this and called him out on it.

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Biden could end this with a single phone call like Reagan.

        Furthermore, every genocide apologist like yourself, or that like to use the disgusting phrase ‘single issue voter’ needs to reread this poem:

        First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

        There is no “slightly less” form of genocide. It is binary, and anyone willing to commit genocide against one people will be willing to commit it against another.