I would say helping perpetrate a genocide slightly outweighs making filing taxes a little easier. It's a very, "He makes the trains run on time" sentiment.
Although I do like it. We've been due this for a long time. I wonder if Turbo Tax is freaking out.
Seriously, we already left Saudi Arabia get away with chopping up a journalist for a US publication for that reason. And have a base in Iraq. And ostensibly Pakistan is our ally. And Turkey is in NATO. How many allies do we need in that area? And why do they all have to be terrible?
They may not have done the biggest atrocities that were rumored, but they still purposefully kidnapped civilians, which I'm pretty sure is a war crime.
They have to maintain some veneer of legitimacy for international audience as well. They're not going to nuke Gaza lol. Other than that, they're going at a pretty damn good click, though. They got down to only one major city left and Northern Gaza is completely uninhabitable.
That part is true. It is usually extremely difficult to prove. It's why the case on whether it's genocide can take years. And why people saying the ICC hasn't said its 100% genocide yet aren't arguing in good faith. They said it's plausible, which is already huge. Anything more wasn't realistic, as it will take them most likely literal years to finish the case out, but we can call it as we see it before then.
In this case, it's still okay for everyone else to say it because we don't have to prove it legally, and it's pretty obvious to the eye and ear with the mountain of evidence given by South Africa. Luckily, Israeli government officials and soldiers have said openly many statements basically proving that they want to do a genocide. They've called Palestinians animals, compared Gaza to Amalek, said they need to erase the Gaza strip from the earth, said there are no involved civilians, been encouraging another ethnic cleansing through emigration as well ("If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different."), etc. Those quotes and statements have always helped me feel more comfortable calling it what it is.
That's the thing about all these articles on how well the job market is doing, while simultaneously there are tons of articles on layoffs and bankruptcies that they never acknowledge that all - the new jobs always feel like they are in gig and crap work.
I would say helping perpetrate a genocide slightly outweighs making filing taxes a little easier. It's a very, "He makes the trains run on time" sentiment.
Although I do like it. We've been due this for a long time. I wonder if Turbo Tax is freaking out.