- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.
The staffers didn’t deserve to die.
Well you better bone up on your necromancy while the rest of us get the crabs out
You’re right they didn’t. Israel need to be seriously looking at the security they provide to their staff members.
When you become a genocidal terror state you have to accept that people around the world may try to reciprocate your violence against government officials.
They dont actually care that these people were killed. It gives them more credibility when they cry about antisemitism
People getting killed is obviously bad. But just to put this into perspective, how many people were killed in Gaza today? How many children? And yesterday, and the day before? Oh wait, we don’t even have a full count because the monsters also murder journalists.
One of them was found on twitter rabidly defending this genocide. They work at the embassy. They’re defending this genocide as part of their job. They’re directly part of trying to erase this genocide.
So you think that only the people pulling the trigger deserve death but the people trying to cover it up don’t? That’s a remarkable viewpoint
Yes? They deserve to be held accountable but even in a fair legal system they would not face the death penalty while those actually directly participating in or ordering war crimes would.
The legal systems of both the US and Israel consider all government employees to be legitimate targets for summary execution, as they have demonstrated in Gaza.
Fair
Their family members and neighbors world also be considered legitimate targets for summary execution by Israel and the US, incidentally.
The brilliant legal systems of both countries involved here are currently trying to imprison everyone who doesn’t gleefully support the total annihilation of Palestine. This is the extremely predictable result of stomping out every single alternative way of opposing an ongoing genocide.
And like what do you think the appropriate consequence for aiding a genocide should be? Simple murderers and their accomplices often get life, so how does the math work out when it’s a few hundred thousand and the total destruction of an entire nation?
Clearly everyone here is illiterate lol
Great. So how long do we wait for said fair legal system to do this? Do we wait until after every single Palestinian has been brutally murdered or is that too soon for you. I’d also be curious if you can clearly define where said legal system exists and how it will go about prosecuting people like this.
Yeah they did lol. Thus always to Zionists
https://xcancel.com/yaron_li
Yes they did, and they were legitimate targets according to the standards they themselves espoused (as were their children and anyone living near to them.)
god plainly disagrees
These people did though!
The people that made the decision to kill them deserve to die.
You mean the Israeli government?
Or the ones who literally pulled the trigger
himmler never killed anyone. guess one of the most famously depraved evil nazis was actually innocent!
There is no evidence that Adolf Hitler ever personally executed anyone. Yet I do hold him accountable for the triggers getting pulled.
The inverse Nuremberg defence: “I was only giving orders”
Clean Reichstag theory dropped
I meant both lol if someone ordered to kill them and someone pulled the trigger then they both deserve to be held responsible.
Y’all are rabid in this post though.
Keep defending nazis weirdo
Lmao yeah okay, what part of the person who made the order and the person who pulled the trigger deserve to be held responsible makes it a defense for them?
Not all Israeli people are fucking bad. Just as not all American’s are Trump or support him. Now provide objective evidence that they personally committed atrocities, hold them responsible.
Saying they support said atrocities? That’s bad and I don’t support that shit but people don’t deserve to die because they’re misguided or say the wrong thing.
Now did saying a thing result in an atrocity or further one? Yeah hold them accountable and bring their asses to justice.
I’m not saying that I support or defend Nazi’s because I fucking hate nazi’s like Musk, Trump, & Netanyahu, I’m just saying that I believe in the rule of law and believe that everyone should have their day in court to be judged and held accountable.
I guess that makes me a Nazi defender, I’d say that it just makes anyone who thinks I’m wrong in believing people should be held accountable for their crimes and not just killed a radical extremist.
This just guarantees dropping nuclear bombs so long as it’s just the one guy who pressed the button who will go to court.
fuck off, you are sympathizing with fucking hitler’s staffers. shut your dumb ass up
Counterpoint
They were cogs in the machine and no one forced them into that position. They got exactly what they deserved.
They are part and parcel of the genocidal apparatus. I have no sympathy at all for them.
You pay taxes? Then you too are part of the apparatus and deserve death by some even more radical’s reasoning.
There is a massive difference between your taxes going to support Israel’s genocide unwillingly, and voluntarily joining the genocide apparatus.
Do you work for the gov and served the IGF like the guy that got whacked? These werent random ass civilians.
If this single person stopped paying taxes, the US would still be funding the genocide.
Besides, their taxes don’t fund shit. The US government literally prints money at will and funds whatever it wants.
Taxes are the state taking back their money. The money vanishes. If you’re getting oppressed by your state, its not your fault.
I agree, some people have little choice. Fortunately, I personally left America and no longer pay taxes so I don’t have to be part of that. Not everyone can do that.
People who actively join the government and support Israeli efforts should be held accountable. I also have no sympathy for ICE agents in the US either.
The government is not one entity.
The government doesn’t take your taxes and use them to do X. That’s a misunderstanding of how taxes work.
one served the IDF and continued to serve the goverment.