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They Just Bombed Greta Thunberg's Boat (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

submitted 3 days ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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A drone appears to have struck a boat from the Global Sumud Flotilla while it was docked at a Tunisian port on its way to bring aid into Gaza, temporarily starting a fire.

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (4 children)

From the little we know of the US military:

A Venezuelan boat was bombed by the US military, killing 11 people.

North Koreans were killed on a fishing boat in 2019 by the US military.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Hey, I think something happened to your reply and it seems to have been cut off before you reached the part related to the comment you were responding to.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which of those boats were delivering humanitarian aid?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

You can't just go around poking holes in other peoples' irrelevant comparisons just because they're off-topic, don't you know it's rude?

[–] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's your argument, the genocide is okay because the US has also bombed boats wrongly?

And that's ignoring your username. Too much to unpack there.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

no i think they're just saying that yes it is normal and offered no indication of whether or not it's okay. normal =/= okay

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's someone I blocked, is it Donald j musk? Haha

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jimmydoreisalefty

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Odd I don't recall blocking that name. Oh well

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

OK, while true that's don't really relate to this. Yeah, those are bad, but this is another level of bad. Not everything has to be "but America!"

The Venezuelan boat was almost certainly running drugs. Still wasn't a valid military target and they didn't check to make sure, but it matched a specific type of boat that's used for drug running and the cargo was a bunch of barrels, similar to what you'd see with drugs.

The NK fishing boat was a misidentification. Again, still bad but it wasn't purposefully targeting civilians, let alone those carrying humanitarian aid.

You can construct reasonable arguments. I believe in you. This isn't it.