• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yes, like I said the US is arming people who are responsible for killing as well as people who are not responsible. Which is also what Sweden is doing.

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        5 months ago

        Americans are murdering schoolchildren and Sweden is arming Americans.

        Not just Sweden. Glocks are pretty popular too. So are H&K. We can add Germany and Austria to the list of countries arming murderers.

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          LMAO, you’re trying to abdicate the IDF and Israel from guilt by treating the genocide like it’s a rouge group a soldiers disobeying orders and going on a murder spree, and I’m telling you it’s exactly the nation of Israel that is guilty of committing genocide. In fact, genocide is definitionally systematic, not individualistic.

          Put another way:

          • The columbine shooter committed murder, and is a subset of Americans
          • Israel is committing genocide, and Israel is a superset of all IDF soldiers

          In one case, the object of the crime (the guilty party) is an individual, and in the other case, the object of the crime is the group, and the individuals are subjects of the group. You wouldn’t say “Americans committed a mass shooting”, because mass shootings are something that is done by individuals, just like how genocides are something that is done by a group.

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            5 months ago

            OK. I would say American police systematically kill American Black people. The police are armed by Glock and H&K.

            So if America is responsible for the death of Palestinians, then Germany and Austria are responsible for the death of American Black people.