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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.”

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        67·
        2 months ago

        Do you pay taxes? Congratulations you are also complicit in genocide

        And that’s exactly why I want my fucking tax dollars to stop funding genocide holy shit

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
          113·
          2 months ago

          Nope, doesn’t matter, you’re obviously genocidal scum. I mean, that’s your thought process for everyone else

              • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                11·
                2 months ago
                1. The entire sentence, with different emphasis, is:

                It’s not literally everyone, it’s people with power and influence who use their energy to prop up the Democratic machine.

                So clearly I’m not irritated at literally all people with power of any form.

                Keep in mind, in this thread I am charitably replying to the dishonest suggestion that the average taxpayer has just as much culpability in the genocide in Gaza as someone who goes deep into the halls of power and participates in their process as a delegate.

                The power and influence to which my previous comment alluded is that which these delegates fought hard to get, and are now using to prop up the war machine. Again, there is a huge difference in culpability between DNC delegates and the average liberal that’s just trying to get back.

                Clearly that kind of nuance cannot be indicated by the meme that started this whole thread, as memes intentionally trade substance for brevity, but my other comments throughout the thread have sufficiently explained that my position is a lot more nuanced than “haha all Democrats all bad”.

                1. The power and influence I have is basically entirely privilege that I didn’t choose to get and can’t fully reject even though I try my damnedest. I literally don’t even have a job, can’t find one if I tried, no influence on social media other than what you’re reading now, and look what good that’s doing.

                Basically the only real power I took for myself in my entire adult life is my education, on which I defer to Bakunin:

                Does it follow that I drive back every authority? The thought would never occur to me. When it is a question of boots, I refer the matter to the authority of the cobbler; when it is a question of houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For each special area of knowledge I speak to the appropriate expert. But I allow neither the cobbler nor the architect nor the scientist to impose upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and verification.

                I.e. I don’t think that all the power afforded to me by my education is unjust. I am most certainly not using the little power I have to prop up the war machine. (Much to my personal detriment! My line of work is extremely useful to the war machine.) That power which is unjust I take very seriously to reject as best as I can.

                Again, it is a ludicrous suggestion that a poor grad student posting memes dunking on the misfortunes of people in power has a comparable power and influence to a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.

        • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
          77·
          2 months ago

          This is hilarious, so you support genocide and brutality against innocent people if they’re related to or friends with someone who posts opinions you don’t like on social media?

          You moral highlanders are the funniest things you really are.

          • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            45·
            2 months ago

            Yeah i hope people who belittle genocide like you have to suffer it. The fact you think genocide is hilarious is why.

              • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                34·
                2 months ago

                The guy I just responded to literally opened with “this is hilarious”…

                Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about trains.

                • Freefall@lemmy.world
                  21·
                  2 months ago

                  He didn’t say genocide was hilarious. More misattributions…keep shooting your cause in the foot. You are fighting for a good cause, but you are doing a bad job AND hitting potential allies as you also burn down the building we are all in.

                  Do better, be better, your cause deserves better.

                  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    12·
                    2 months ago

                    Stop pretending like your criticism is anything but a defense of the indefensible. You’re a privileged asshole that wants to tone police while people are dying. I don’t care that I hurt your feelings

          • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            43·
            2 months ago

            You havent derailed my hate at all. I continue to hate genocide and those that defend it. I hope they meet their end with karmic justice 🤷

            • Freefall@lemmy.world
              43·
              2 months ago

              Blind hate, ignorant misattributions, unproductive messaging…you are the leftist version of MAGA, lol.

              Hey wait…is THAT what .ml stands for? MAGA Left?

              • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                22·
                2 months ago

                My loyalty is to the innocent people being massacred in Palestine not your hurt privileged feelings.