SHOCK: Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People.
stevendonziger.substack.com
The corporate media ignores the scale of the horror. It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA. Official data grossly underestimates the death toll.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5669661

updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Flipping red to blue won’t accomplish much as long as the Democratic party remains a right-wing oligarchic cesspool. The US has two right wing parties and the ratchet effect is very, very real. Look at slightly-left-of-center candidates like Mamdani and Bernie. There is nowhere more left for them to go than the DNC, but the DNC will pull out all the stops to prevent even one slightly leftist candidate from making progress because the party is firmly and militantly right wing.

      Short of breaking up the two-party system, which both parties are fighting through the suppression of basic reforms like RCV, we need to find and run strong, leftist candidates that can replace rightists across the board, especially those that make up the majority of the US Democratic party.

      • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
        32·
        22 hours ago

        I honestly can’t say I disagree with you on this. Voting blue is more a stay of execution than a solution. I voted 3rd party for decades. But I’m at the point now where the Republicans just need another sound defeat.

        I left the USA 25 years ago because I saw this coming with Bush Jr. I have been talking about fascism coming to the USA since then. I dont really see anything stopping this short of a full uprising. But at least we can have a rest in the march to fascist autocracy, right?

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          Voting blue is more a stay of execution than a solution.

          Nope, the Democrats are also in full support of this genocide.

          • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            Yeah sorry I forgot what thread we were on. You will get no help from the US on the genocide unless you get someone amazing like Sanders elected as president. Even then, no one will likely work with him on it.