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Ocasio-Cortez won't call Gaza war a genocide, another lying politician

Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently followed and filmed by a group of protesters while out with her fiance. These protesters were demanding that she call Israel's intervention in Gaza a "genocide", to which she said she has, when she has not.

In January, Cortez avoided calling it a genocide by saying the empty, meaningless words: "I am appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life", and on the question of genocide:
"they’re still determining it. But in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there’s a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing."

What about the fact that she can't, or won't, say it? The fact that she is only alluding to what other people think? The fact that she is still determining what would be wise to say. The fact, the fact...

This woman isn't an activist, she is a politician. She is thinking about her future, and to do that she must be a moderate, and she must have the support of democratic elites, and any Jews who donate money or help with future campaigns.

If she isn't pretending to care about a cause through misguided and insincere attempts at "speaking out" or "advocating", she is playing the politician and putting her career before anything else. Why would anyone care for her, or any other politician? All they do is think about what they say, who their audience is, and what will happen to them as they reach for power.
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@sree251 says
[quote] Covid is a flu virus. It's kill rate among the healthy is zero;[/quote]
@badlands says
[quote]Covid is a respiratory virus, which we always knew only hospitalized the sick, the obese, and the elderly[/quote]

You people seem unable to understand statistics; maybe anecdotes are what you need!

"I have an immune system"

"99 probs vax ain't 1"

"Officer Jack Nyce was a 17-year veteran of the force, the police department said in a statement on its Facebook page announcing his death. Sadly, he refused to be vaxxed and died of Covid."

A former Yakima area-based Washington State Patrol trooper whose resignation over mandated COVID vaccination for state employees went viral has died. The State Patrol announced Robert LaMay’s death Friday Jan 28 2022. He was 50.

Republican official H. Scott Apley who mocked COVID in final Facebook post dies of virus in Texas
badlands · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Another cute baby!

I wonder how the babies in Gaza are doing? I'm sure they care about the vaccine.

Will you dream of this vaccine forever? Why don't you leave your wife and marry it?
@badlands You are so DESPERATE to change the subject, aren't you? As long as you keep trying to pretend that the vaccine was more dangerous than Covid, I'm going to keep proving you wrong.
badlands · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Where did I say it was more dangerous than covid?

Our own bodies are what matters to us. The vaccine could save the life of one person and end the life of another. When it ends the life of another, you say: "oh, it's that person's body!" and you pretend it didn't happen. Yet, when a person becomes sick with covid, it is [i]all[/i] covid and has nothing to do with their body or their response. This is what it means to be a liar.

Who are you?
@badlands I never said "oh, it's that person's body!" or anything close to it.

I quoted the data showing that the unvaccinated were far more likely to die from Covid than the vaccinated from vaccine. I quoted 59 deaths in the UK from AstraZeneca vaccine. During that period there were over 60,000 deaths per year in the UK from Covid
[b]https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsduetocovid19covid19vaccineinjuryandexcessdeathsbyvaccinationstatus[/b]

The data clearly shows the vaccine is FAR FAR safer than facing Covid unprotected.

You attribute to me this: [quote]Yet, when a person becomes sick with covid, it is all covid and has nothing to do with their body or their response. This is what it means to be a liar.[/quote]

I NEVER said that. I pointed out that the US had 500,000 excess deaths in 2020, of which 345,000 were attributed to Covid, and that, in 2021, ALL causes of death but 1 increased. Thus only 345,000 excess deaths out of 500,000 are attributed to Covid.

Here's the post again. Maybe you should actually READ it this time instead of LYING about what I said!!

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Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.

Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.

badlands · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues Why were any deaths misclassified as covid?

Why do you include images and articles of people who did not get vaccinated and got sick or died? This is propaganda.
@badlands Nobody has died from the vaccine. However, people have died from COVID. Dismissing this with "they must have been unhealthy for some other reason" is ludicrous. If a mugger attacks your grandmother and she dies from a beating that a younger person would have survived, do you excuse the mugger with "well, grandma was old and frail, the beating was just incidental."
badlands · 22-25, F
@LeopoldBloom People have died from the vaccine, in the same way they have died from or with covid. Why do you think AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines were discontinued? The vaccine is tricking the body, or what they call "teaching" the body, that there is a threat. Both were linked to blood clots in patients who received them, among other issues. Some patients who had ill effects have legal cases against AstraZeneca.
@badlands AstraZeneca was never authorized for use in the US, so it's irrelevant to us. Can you show us published reports of deaths caused by the J&J vaccine? No? I didn't think so, [b]LOL!!![/b]
badlands · 22-25, F
@ElwoodBlues US isn't the only country in the world. This post is about AOC and her comments on Gaza. Gaza is in Palestine. Why is the US sending money and arms to Israel if what happens outside the country is "irrelevant"?

At least 60 deaths have been attributed to the J&J vaccine. Why do you think it isn't being used anymore?
@badlands Published reports?? Of course not!!

[quote]have been attributed[/quote] What does that mean? What is the passive voice hiding? Attributed by whom?? If some people "attribute" a death to witchcraft, how useful is that attribution??