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I’ll be super impressed if they die of hunger. Not because I want them to die of hunger, like an ml, but because that’s some fucking commitment we don’t see from the US very often.
Ultimately their deaths will be in vain and forgotten by the end of that week, but I would love to be wrong
I doubt it, simply because first responders aren’t obliged to leave you passed out on the floor waiting to die.
Beyond that, they are taking proper steps to ensure their health at least in the short term. Water with electrolytes, and vitamins.
That’s kinda crap then. It’s just Dieting for Gaza. If they aren’t willing to go all the way to force the hand of the US government, then it’s all lip service and sino bullshit.
Lol that's way beyond dieting
It’s a diet if you don’t die!! 😬
Yeah, and history casts such a golden light on all those jews in concentration and death camps back in the 1930's and 40's. Like yeah, I get it. They were being brutally raped, tortured, murdered, and forced to toil and die in their own filth and disease, but I mean come on....they had potato soup to sustain them for quite a while. If they weren't willing to refuse the food that Nazis brought them, then they may as well been supporting the Holocaust. 🥴
In case it's not clear. Israel is doing exactly what Nazi Germany did during the Holocaust. They're committing open genocide against Palestinians and daring the world to intervene for fear of being called antisemetic.
I can’t tell if your comment is supposed to be complaining about mine or agreeing with mine. But I do agree that Israel is certainly seeing how much it can get away with. That seems to be how politics has been working for the past 10 years or so depending on the country. Politicians love to see how many buttons they can push before they get removed from office
They're drinking water with electrolytes and having their vitals checked twice a day. If their vitals start to become weak or erratic, I'm sure they'll a taken to a hospital.
But if they actually intend to see it through, they can go for quite a while. If they also take vitamins and a potassium supplement for heart function, they could survive without food for over a year. (The actual length depends on many factors, of course, particularly starting weight.)
Without supplements or electrolytes, a person can survive for around two months. (Again, depending on starting weight and other factors.)
Never having done a hunger strike myself, I thought the following was interesting. It sounds like there’s kind of a medical protocol to it and I wonder what measures are taken when it’s deemed “dangerous.” Under these conditions I’m guessing some folks could last physically (no judgement on the mental toughness it takes!) for quite some time:
“The students have been drinking water with electrolytes and having their vitals tested twice a day.”