Lebanon’s health minister has said what is happening in his country is “carnage”, as hospitals struggle to cope with the number of casualties from two days of widespread Israeli air strikes targeting the armed group Hezbollah.
Dr Firass Abiad told the BBC it was “clear” that many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks were civilians, including children and women.
If it didn’t have negative repercussions for others I would encourage you and then laugh in your face when Trump wins.
But since it does have repercussions for others:
Please don’t actually do that. I know that your voting system is unsatisfying and I know that you don’t want to participate in it anymore. I know that the large parties are profitting from it disproportionately and people are forced to vote for people that they don’t really want in power, just to stop someone else.
I understand all that. But please also understand that the stakes of these Elections could be the highest stakes of any election during your lifetime.
I understand that this is unsatisfying and undesirable. But please, like often said, “don’t waste your vote”. I just want to give you a small annectote: Pacifists are always noble. They always deserve to be praised. But that doesn’t mean that they’re always doing the right thing. Hitler was very fond of french, russian and US-American pacifists.
I don’t think that you’re a fascist. But I do know that you’re doing exactly what the fascists want you to do.