Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a human rights activist, was protesting an illegal West Bank settlement when she was reportedly shot in the head by Israeli soldiers.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240907232759/https://theintercept.com/2024/09/06/american-shot-israel-military-eygi-west-bank/

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2024%2F09%2F06%2Famerican-shot-israel-military-eygi-west-bank%2F

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No.

This country doesn’t value human life beyond its usefulness during an election year.

Like children. Oh they love the children don’t they? They go on and on about “the children”. But you see how they respond to massacres in schools almost weekly. With thoughts and prayers.

Or the unborn babies. Gotta put an end to abortion cuz “every life is precious” or some bullshit. But where is the money for early childhood education, govt subsidized daycare, food programs like WIC, etc? Those get cut to pay for billionaire tax cuts or imperialism spending.

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Don’t forget support the troops… Until they return home that is.

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And a lot of people misinterpret “Born in the USA” as a patriotic song.

EDIT: If you don’t know and didn’t want to spend a few seconds using Google, it is about American veterans who served in Vietnam, returning home, and not having a very prosperous livelihood.

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Thanks.

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10 points

George Carlin nailed it as always.

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This country doesn’t value human life beyond its usefulness during an election year.

Don’t worry, they’re working on that, too

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They probably will respond. With billions of dollars in weapon contracts.

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They actually like it. Top brass gets off to the idea of American lives being jammed down the drain. Specifically the drain with a garbage disposal above it.

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You really want to stop this. Promote advertisements promoting killing Americans with IDF Investors.

This assassination is brought to you by the University of Columbia New York.

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Will the US military or commander in chief worry about an anti-war activist dying? Pull the other one.

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