Jordan Lund is NOT a good human being.

Right, the Gaza Genocide isn’t US Politics… Those aren’t US made bombs being dropped with US politicians cheering them on and US diplomatic support and denial allowing the Genocide to continue. Nothing could be more salient to US politics than the ways in which the Palestinian Genocide drove us to war.

What a joke.

I feel that this situation unfortunately requires escalation and I will be directly contacting Lemmy World mods, I will update with their response.

For the record the first article about corporate complicity in the Palestinian Genocide includes references to many major US corporations, thus making it drirectly relevant to US politics at an immediate level.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42581206

https://www.alai.info/en/corporate-participation-and-complicity-in-the-genocide-against-the-palestinian/

The second article about US media’s complicity in coverage over the Palestinian Genocide… do I need to actually explain how that is related to US politics? Of course it is?

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42579919

https://dawnmena.org/destroying-al-shifa-hospital-robin-andersens-the-complicity-lens-us-media-coverage-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza/

The third article is relevant because the US and Israel have been intimately interwoven in their escalation of Genocide and breaking of international norms, if a Genocide begins in Lebanon it will be a DIRECT continuation of US politics applied first in Israel and next in Lebanon. I mean what the hell we are fighting a war RIGHT NOW and this is the biggest escalation possible IN THAT WAR. How is that NOT related to US politics???

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42579757

https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon

The fourth article about there being no ceasefire in Gaza, I don’t even know how to go about this one, om, it is politics involving primarily the US here? The US is the single most relevant political actor capable of changing this situation? How is this not US politics? Where can you cleanly draw a line here?

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42630002

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-no-ceasefire-gaza

The US is directly and intimately complicit in the Palestinian Genocide, you cannot in good conscience nor with logical consistency separate US politics cleanly from this issue, if you wanted that to be possible you should have spoken up louder against the Genocide before, now it is too late to fumble with broken stilted arguments like this. The Palestinian Genocide is US Politics, period, end of story.

Can we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a “war,” a “conflict,” or even a “humanitarian crisis”? Many of the world’s leading human rights and humanitarian groups – including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders – agreed months ago that what is being livestreamed to our phones on a daily basis is indeed a genocide.

Trump’s Republican allies in the House and Senate are even more gung-ho. Forget complicity; Congress is filled with GOP cheerleaders for genocide, from Senators Tom “bounce the rubble in Gaza” Cotton to Lindsey “level the place” Graham. The newest member of the House, Randy Fine, a Republican representative of Florida, has called for the nuking of Gaza and said just days ago that Palestinians in Gaza should “starve away” until the Israeli hostages are all released. (A reminder that incitement to genocide is also a crime under Article III of the Genocide convention.)

But we cannot let Democrats off the hook either. The first 16 months of this mass slaughter unfolded on a Democratic president’s watch. From the get-go, Joe Biden gave Netanyahu and his cabinet of génocidaires everything they needed – 2,000-lb bombs to drop on refugee camps filled with Palestinian children? Check. UN security council vetoes to prevent the passage of resolutions calling for a permanent ceasefire? Check. The burial of internal US government reports warning of war crimes and famine in Gaza? Check.

It wasn’t just Biden. The vast majority of Democrats in Congress spent much of 2024 casting vote after vote to keep arming, funding and whitewashing the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Even now, in the summer of 2025, seven high-profile Democratic senators were happy to take a smiling photo with Netanyahu, including the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who claims talk of genocide is antisemitic and says his job “is to keep the left pro-Israel”.

  • Mehdi Hasan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/the-us-complicit-genocide-israel-gaza

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    The Fourth Estate specifically refers to the press as being independent of government operations. It’s pretty much what the first amendment is about.

    So no, an article talking about what the press is doing or failing to do is not necessarily political.

    Now, an article talking about, say, Bari Weiss being in the tank for Trump, that would be appropriate for !politics@lemmy.world as there’s a direct connection between the news reporting and US Politics.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cbs-bari-weiss-iran-war-trump-b2933098.html

    Go back to the article Squirrel had removed and find the political angle in it.

    Same thing on the corporate article. Yes, we get it, corporations are bad. What makes it political? Where’s the policy or politician directing them? Oh, right, not there. Just corporations being evil. Not politics.

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      The Fourth Estate specifically refers to the press as being independent of government operations.

      So no, an article talking about what the press is doing or failing to do is not necessarily political.

      I give you half credit. It refers to being independent, but still wielding political influence: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fourth-estate

      So yes, while not necessarily political, I’m glad you can admit there are cases. We’re making progress!

      Go back to the article Squirrel had removed and find the political angle in it.

      Found it. Didn’t have to read further than the headline. Sorry, I misunderstood your comment and thought you were referring to the one you just linked. (See how easy it is to admit you were wrong?) If you mean this one: https://www.alai.info/en/corporate-participation-and-complicity-in-the-genocide-against-the-palestinian/

      Then I would have let it slide as it mostly talks about American companies affecting politics, if being US-related is your requirement.

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        Has to be related to US Politics.

        Again, US Media is not Politics. US Corporations are not politics.

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                I’ll try to make it easy for you. The stated purpose is US Politics, right?

                Here’s an article that was removed:

                https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon

                I know you won’t bother reading a 3 minute article, so let me mamma bird it for you… here are aaaaaaaaaalllll the place names listed in that article.

                If you look REEEEEEALY CLOSELY you’ll see what’s missing!

                Israel, Gaza, Lebanon

                Israel Lebanon, Gaza

                Israel Lebanon Gaza

                Israeli Lebanon

                Israel Gaza

                Lebanon Gaza

                Israel

                Israel Lebanon Beirut

                Lebanon Bekaa Valley

                Beirut Israel Jnah Nabaa Bourj Hammoud

                Lebanon

                Israel Lebanon Beirut Bekaa Valley.

                Israel Gaza Israel

                Israel Lebanon.

                Beirut Israeli

                Lebanon

                Israel Tayr Felsay

                Israel Gaza

                Lebanon

                Israeli Faculty of Sciences campus of Lebanese University in Beirut

                Israel Zrarieh bridge Litani River

                Lebanon

                Israel Gaza

                Israel Gaza Lebanon

                Now… Remedial reading exercise time!

                Who is taking illegal action? (Israel)

                Where are they acting? (Lebanon)

                This would be a STELLAR article for !world@lemmy.world which is where I specifically told OP to put it.

                THIS IS NOT US POLITICS!

                Let me make it more clear: