The Holocaust was mitigated by the allied forces and their victory in WW2.

The Holocaust was not a territorial dispute. Completely different situation. Also I would not call it an unmitigated genocide. It was mitigated by the efforts of the allied forces.

You may have missed the modifier ‘unmitigated’

They’re going to think they can get away with it much faster under Trump.

Since it’s open source is there a way for companies to adjust so it doesn’t intentionally avoid saying anything bad about China?

As Trump has shown he will do. Above and beyond anything Biden has said or done.

This is an incredibly apathetic approach to genocide.

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if it were an unmitigated genocide because every Palestinian would already be dead.

Israel, courtesy of the US, has enough firepower to wipe out the West Bank and Gaza several times over. Yet it never happens. Why?

Perhaps, Netanyahu and his ilk have something to gain by keeping the conflict active.

But ultimately they want to take the territory. They dream of making Gaza, specifically its beach, a tourist destination.

Trump is going to help make all of this happen sooner than it would have. He wants peace in the Middle East to be one of his legacies and the quickest means to that end is to give Israel what it wants.

Trump is about to delete Gaza and the West Bank off of the world map. Biden was far from perfect but verbally was never in support of that.

The more I engage with “protest voters” the more I wonder if, for whatever reason, they are actually accelerationists at heart. Which is ethically dubious as their action (or lack thereof) has accelerated a genocide.

If Palestinians felt that being displaced from their homes was acceptable, they would have left a long time ago.

This is not an improvement. This is Israel’s ‘final solution’ coming to fruition. Those that allowed Trump to be elected are complicit.

To be fair most political analysts are giving Trump much of the credit. Biden didn’t bring anything new to the table except for allowing Trump and his envoy to participate.

The envoy set the tone early with Netanyahu, making him break Sabbath to attend their meeting. Netanyahu was not in Trump’s good graces to begin with so some feel that he went forward with the cease-fire as a ‘down payment’

A down payment for what you ask? Well I guess we just found out.

Biden and the democrats supported a two state solution. Trump is going give the West Bank and Gaza to Israel.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order nullifying sanctions targeting dozens of far-right Israeli settlers and organizations accused of violence against Palestinians. The Treasury Department officially terminated these sanctions on Friday, unblocking their US assets and financial access. This action reverses Biden’s February 2024 executive order that had sanctioned Israeli settlers for violent actions in the West Bank, signaling a significant shift in US policy towards Israeli settlements.

In his interview with Time magazine:

Do you still support a two-state solution?

I support whatever solution we can do to get peace. There are other ideas other than two state, but I support whatever, whatever is necessary to get not just peace, a lasting peace. It can’t go on where every five years you end up in tragedy. There are other alternatives.

Today’s headline: Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza and move Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt

All in one week. No difference, right?

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Kind of, the main issue is that COVID led into boomers getting old and sick in one fell swoop. No healthcare system in the world is adequately to handle a pandemic and then aging boomer surge.

Nurses and doctors were asked to do more than they ever have before and many just retired early or quit so there are shortages everywhere.

The for profit aspect in the US just magnifies the issue locally.

It’s America we’re talking about. This is a nation that traverses oceans and continents to shed blood for oil. An export tax on it from one of its major suppliers would be enough. The US would no doubt be able to weather any import tarriffs imposed by Canada but it will be bad for business for them. Canadian officials have already made a list of items they’re going to target which would impact $35+ billion in American goods.

Doubt that Trump sticks with this, and if he does, Canada is going to bring the US along for the ride kicking and screaming until it stops hitting itself.

Honestly just sounds like a white guy who grew up around a lot of black people and just wanted to fit in.

There is no winning for Canada here. Most Canadians are well aware of that. The goal is to make it hurt enough for Americans for the mutual hurt be as short-lived as possible.

As an elected official, Trump has to answer to the American people. If his policies worsen the affordability crisis (and retaliatory tariffs from Canada will achieve that for a notable subset of Americans) then he may be compelled to reverse course.

It’s a good thought but much less practical than retaliatory tariffs. I don’t think there is precedent (in recent times) of Western nations overtly violating each other’s intellectual property rights.