• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      22 days 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.

      • archomrade [he/him]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        22 days ago

        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.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          22 days 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.

          • archomrade [he/him]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            22 days ago

            Lol, whoa, are Austria and Germany providing lethal aid to American pigs?!

            I had no idea they were giving american police $12.5 Billion in bombs and missiles since the start of their active bombing campaign against POC.

            Huge if true!

            • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              22 days ago

              are Austria and Germany providing lethal aid

              Yes, they provide guns to American police officers.

                • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  22 days ago

                  You think guns aren’t lethal? Or you think Austria doesn’t make Glocks?

                  • archomrade [he/him]
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    22 days ago

                    I think providing a nationstate bombs and missiles (as aid) is so distinct from a police department purchasing guns from a foreign company that the comparison can’t even be taken seriously

                    Not to mention at all the obsurdity of comparing targeted police brutality against POC and an apartheid state systematically killing and forcibly relocating 5.04 million Palestinians from their home.