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I've seen estimates running anywhere from 60k to 450k, and that's just people who have been murdered. No accounting for the number of people who have been maimed or orphaned. No idea how many people are fully homeless and destitute. No way to know how prolonged starvation will impact the survivors.
Every day, I feel like I'm getting a status report on the population of Auschwitz and half the time it's by the fucking Nazis. Just incredibly bleak.
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It is really depressing. I have been a human rights activist all my adult life, spent years covering the stories about atrocities all over the world, from Iran (where I was born and started my activities) to Rwanda, Bosnian, Myanmar, Yemen and Palestine.
I have NEVER seen this level of atrocities shared so publicly by those committing them without strong reaction from the public and politicians.
This is just an amazing fall of humanity into a whole new level!
Don't sell humanity short. This is the textbook definition of Manufactured Consent. We've got a handful of fascists at the helm, dictating the world to the public at-large. And the more they lose control of the narrative, the worse the backlash at home becomes.
The US is tearing itself apart to perpetuate this genocide. Hell, we're doing our own brand of genocide from Columbia University to the streets of LA. One that's become nearly impossible to mask or to justify.
The tragedy is that it took this level of horror to galvanize a functional opposition. But there's nothing resembling a consensus on what has been done. The struggle among our people is What Is To Be Done?