Authorities were seeking \

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.”

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    548·
    4 months ago

    That’s a lot of words to say you tolerate genocide abroad to avoid it at home.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      143·
      4 months ago

      Maybe all those words are saying something about naive single-issue voters who can’t comprehend the world is not perfect and it’s not that simple.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        421·
        4 months ago

        Genocide is non-negotiable. Shame some people don’t agree with that sentiment.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          72·
          4 months ago

          Theres plenty of room to argue that

          1. No US presidential candidates are involved in genocide
          2. While there’s a huge atrocity/humanitarian crisis in Gaza, genocide implies an intent that’s not there
          3. Hamas started it and are the legally elected and internationally recognized government - they invaded a foreign country, killed over 1,000 civilians, kidnapped hundreds as hostages, and assumed they could just leave safely.

          No one can argue the horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians, nor the scale of that horror, but it’s not as black and white as you make it seem by throwing around loaded terms like “genocide”, nor is US directly involved, nor can we necessarily intervene in another country’s affairs

          • Count042
            12·
            4 months ago

            Any country that intentionally restricts access to food, medicine, and portable water to a population it finds inconvenient is a government intentionally committing genocide.

          • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
            57·
            4 months ago

            Biden literally fast tracked arms and funding to Israel. As well as all the warships and other direct military support being offered.

            America is literally the sole reason Israel continues to act with impunity.

            And this genocide has been going on long before Hamas, they didn’t start shit.

            To pretend America is not deeply involved in this affair is the most ignorant brain dead take possible.

            • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
              21·
              4 months ago

              There’s been a deal with Israel since 2016. Israel is fighting after a terrorist attack. They’re doing your genocide, blame them. Weird how nobody blames Israel, instead they want to blame the Democrats??? Laughable.

              This isn’t working, you’re not helping your cause, in fact you’re just pissing people off that do care and would do something. Hmmm, maybe you know and understand that and you want the genocide so this is your way of making sure it happens? Is that true?

    • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
      103·
      4 months ago

      Trump called Bibi in an attempt to sink a ceasefire deal because it would help the Democrats. But I’m sure since you’re so concerned with genocide that you’ve already heard this and called him out on it.

      • Count042
        23·
        4 months ago

        Biden could end this with a single phone call like Reagan.

        Furthermore, every genocide apologist like yourself, or that like to use the disgusting phrase ‘single issue voter’ needs to reread this poem:

        First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

        There is no “slightly less” form of genocide. It is binary, and anyone willing to commit genocide against one people will be willing to commit it against another.