Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

“Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building…and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food,” the convention’s information center said in a statement. “The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation.”

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    What an atrocious waste of food. And what exactly was this supposed to accomplish? What did their best case scenario look like?

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      It’s simpler than what you’re even asking.

      These people are just childish and petty. I speculate their only goal was as-is, put bugs in democrats food. Something immature adolescents might do. Yet these are adults.

      That’s my guess.

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      Probably cause some slight discomfort to genociders?

      Childish sure, but it’s a noble goal to harass and disrupt these scum anyway possible.

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        Yes, this certainly will help the Palestinian cause. No question. All the deaths will stop tomorrow.

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          Last month, maggots and other insects were reportedly released at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Chicago has seen nightly protests during the convention by organizations seeking an end to the Gaza war and an end to U.S. military support for Israel.

          Doesn’t sound like it to me.

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        “Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.”

        They are DNC delegates, according to the article. You think they are scum and you call them genociders?

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            So what you’re saying is that we should let trump win and let israel completely wipe gaza and the west bank off the map? We don’t vote for harris because we love her or something. We vote to keep fascists from winning and destroying everything.

            What is it with you people? Im pro-palestine but do you want lgbt people murdered, people of color even more oppressed, set back society 80 years, possibly never get to vote again because trump WILL make sure of that. And dont forget destroying educations, food health and safety and other laws and institutions that makes society better and safer?

            I get that democrats are not doing nearly enough to stop israel. But trump will do so so so much worse. And not only the palestinian people, but also america itself.

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              What in your brain makes you think they’re saying that? Demanding more from Democratic leadership isn’t the same thing as saying you’re going to vote for trump, or not vote at all.

              Will I vote for Kamala? Sure its better than Trump, and even a little better than Biden. She’s still a fucking cop who supports genocide though. Low fucking bar, and we absolutely have every right to removed, moan, and complain about it.

              Stop making excuses for establishment neoliberalism

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                “I will demand more from them by poisoning their food! That will surely make them love me! And listen to me! There no way this can backfire at all!1!”

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              That’s a lot of words to say you tolerate genocide abroad to avoid murder at home.

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                Maybe all those words are saying something about naive single-issue voters who can’t comprehend the world is not perfect and it’s not that simple.

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                  Genocide is non-negotiable. Shame some people don’t agree with that sentiment.

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                    Theres plenty of room to argue that

                    1. No US presidential candidates are involved in genocide
                    2. While there’s a huge atrocity/humanitarian crisis in Gaza, genocide implies an intent that’s not there
                    3. Hamas started it and are the legally elected and internationally recognized government - they invaded a foreign country, killed over 1,000 civilians, kidnapped hundreds as hostages, and assumed they could just leave safely.

                    No one can argue the horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians, nor the scale of that horror, but it’s not as black and white as you make it seem by throwing around loaded terms like “genocide”, nor is US directly involved, nor can we necessarily intervene in another country’s affairs

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                Trump called Bibi in an attempt to sink a ceasefire deal because it would help the Democrats. But I’m sure since you’re so concerned with genocide that you’ve already heard this and called him out on it.

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                  Biden could end this with a single phone call like Reagan.

                  Furthermore, every genocide apologist like yourself, or that like to use the disgusting phrase ‘single issue voter’ needs to reread this poem:

                  First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a socialist.
                  
                  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a trade unionist.
                  
                  Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a Jew.
                  
                  Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
                  

                  There is no “slightly less” form of genocide. It is binary, and anyone willing to commit genocide against one people will be willing to commit it against another.

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            Huh, I suppose if you do support Palestine, you can’t be a DNC delegate?

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              Huh, I suppose if you do support Palestine, you can’t be a DNC delegate?

              Of course not, you simply shouldn’t be a DNC delegate if you support Palestine. Because they’ll point at these delegates and use them as props to say “see, we’re listening to Palestinians” while not changing course.

              These are not ordinary voters, these are sometimes local politicians but competing to run the same machine as their more successful national counterparts. These individuals have some degree of power and influence, and they’re choosing to use it for the American Empire.

              Zero pity for these turbo-losers getting bugs in their food. Admittedly, making “putting bugs in food” a popular protest tactic doesn’t set a great precedent considering the food safety implications for everyone else, but food safety concerns are NOTHING compared to what Palestinians are suffering at the delegates’ party’s hands.

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                You are making this the ONLY issue in the world. I fucking hate the israeli government for what they are doing. Fuck israel. But you are willing to let everyone around you burn for this. Willing to let lgbt, people of color, students, poor people and the working class be oppressed and possibly murdered. Because trump WILL make sure of that.

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                  You apparently don’t understand the word intersectional.

                  You also need to reread this:

                  First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a socialist.
                  
                  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a trade unionist.
                  
                  Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
                       Because I was not a Jew.
                  
                  Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
                  

                  Genocide is something that is binary, and you are either against it or a fascist. There is no middle ground with genocide.

                  The DNC has already started to indicate they will throw trans people under the bus next.

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                  Willing to let lgbt, people of color, students, poor people and the working class be oppressed and possibly murdered.

                  Sounds like what’s happening right fucking now under a Democrat presidency!

                  Comic of Lucy and Charlie Brown where Charlie Brown is falling on his ass because Lucy tricked him into kicking a football and then pulling it away at the last second

                  How many times do you have to try to kick Lucy’s football before you realize that she’s punking you?!?

                  Voting for President merely ratifies decisions already made by capital. I’m not voting for your candidate, and I refuse to be guilted for decisions already made by capital.

                  Because trump WILL make sure of that.

                  Trump winning would be an indicator of the trajectory you have no control over as far as the ballot box is concerned.

                  But you are willing to let everyone around you burn for this.

                  No I am not. I want people to organize themselves against the system, not within it. The system itself is the problem. Having “”“good people”“” is insufficient to get even mediocre change. See self-described socialist AOC speedrunning ghoulification.

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                    your rhetoric only serves to further de legitimize your position. you’re basically a caricature of a useless tankie.

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                    Most of us are not organizing within the system to fix it. We are voting as a way of putting our foot on the breaks while we organize outside of it. The train is going fast. Trump accelerates it and Harris makes it go slower.

                    Voting does not mean we are organizing inside the system. Its a half baked measure we use to our advantage.

                    Nobody is saying Harris will stop or reverse the train. But we are not going accelerate the train and hurt even more people than it already is. We are privileged to be hanging off the sides instead of laying on the tracks like many many others.

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        yeah I somehow doubt that the people attending the DNC are the same people murdering innocent civilians in Palestine. There is quite a gap between “people not prioritizing pressuring the current administration as to their support of isreal” vs “people actively engaging in genocide.”