Firass Abiad says many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks targeting Hezbollah were civilians.

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.

  • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    18 hours ago

    I wish anybody would pay me!

    If enough people stop voting it would force the government to legitimize itself. It would show how many people are actually dissatisfied and empower all of us. It could lead to more people refusing to vote in future, further eroding the appearance of legitimacy of the current arrangement

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      it would force the government to legitimize itself

      LOL, no. It wouldn’t force the government to do anything.

      Since you’ve never seen a ballot, try googling one. You’ll see a bunch of downballot races in which very few people vote. Those races all have winners, and those winners always have and always will give zero fucks about legitimizing themselves to nonvoters.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          It’s not the same result. Politicians have to appeal to voters, they are free to ignore nonvoters.

          If you’re not voting, then you’re not voting for Trump as well as not voting for Harris. Are you surprised that Trump isn’t courting your vote? You shouldn’t be.

          But Harris has no more reason to court your vote than Trump does. You’re a nonvoter, so they are both ignoring you.

          • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 minutes ago

            OK I don’t understand your logic. They spend billions of dollars to get people to vote. Door knockers are there to get people like me to vote. Do you not understand how elections work?