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    10 months ago

    It must feel amazing to be held hostage by a ineffective political party that knows that if you don’t vote for them then the alternative will be much worse.

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      10 months ago

      The salient point is that Trump is endorsing a pogrom.

      Your takeaway from a story about a former President of the United States of America endorsing ethnic cleansing, is that a backhanded shot should be taken at the other party?

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        10 months ago

        I mean… It kinda sounded like gallows humor

        This is a particularly great comparison.

        Biden isn’t doing enough to stop Palestinians from getting mowed down in food lines. He’s so focused on appealing to the right that he’s making the left lose hope

        Trump is cheering it on, you know how he gets around authoritarians who commit human rights violations

        One of these is clearly much worse than the other. No question. But the end result doesn’t feel different

        Every step forward is too little so late… Even the article this last week “Biden speaks out against Netanyahu” was him very carefully calling for a cease fire.

        It’s so little, so late… We’re all waiting for him to go Darth Brandon and do something big. Something that’ll give the left hope, and involve him making some deserving enemies

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      10 months ago

      Holding us hostage by… progressive voters choosing not to show up in the primaries.

      Admittedly, bitching online is much easier and doesn’t involve leaving the house but still…

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        10 months ago

        FYI, voting doesn’t require leaving the house either. Register to vote by mail!

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      10 months ago

      Must be amazing to think that there’s a giant majority of Socialists in America and the only thing holding them back is the DNC.

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        How did Dems do so well in the 2022 and 2020 and 2018 elections?

        And why are a record number of congressional Democrats currently members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus?

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      10 months ago

      It is amazing that some people think that Biden can snap his fingers and Israel jumps to attention. Israel is a country that attacked the USS Liberty! Biden didn’t start the conflict. People on both sides have died. You can’t stop trains, super tankers of countries on a dime. It would be nice, however if folks would actually try to understand what is being done and why. Hint: you won’t find in in the MSM or from Putin’s trolls. Then again, mindless online bitching is so much easier.

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        Yeah, you can’t just call up Israel, threaten US aid, and tell them to end hostilities: that only worked when Reagan and did it! And when HW Bush did it! /s

        I dont understand this idea that the US has no leverage when we are sending Israel billions of dollars. Without US resupply, several crucial Israeli military systems would be forced to shut down.

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            “If you dont stop the genocide then we will stop arming your soldiers” sounds reasonable to me.

            If Israel is left vulnerable in a hostile region, it will be because of their own actions.

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                And not all Gazans are Hamas, but the death toll is over 30k and people are starting to starve to death.

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                    I dont know what you mean by “what’s coming to them”. Right now it seems like there are no consequences for their actions, so nothing is coming to them.

                    I believe Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, and other military leaders have committed grave war crimes. They should be tried in international court and given a life sentence.

                    I also believe the Israeli state owes a gigantic financial debt for the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel has systemically destroyed water treatment, electricity production, schools, hospitals, residential buildings, etc. and they should rebuild it all.

                    But I do not believe violence is part of the answer. We need permanent ceasefire, we need truth and reconciliation, we need justice. Any post-ceasefire violence is unacceptable, whether it be against Israelis or Palestinians.

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                    Did German citizens in the 1940s deserve what was coming to them?

                    Perhaps not, or at least certainly not all of them. And yet Hitler was lawfully elected, which means many of them voted for him. Netanyahu and Likud were also lawfully elected.

                    The question is, what responsibility do voters in a democracy hold for the actions of their democratically elected government? If fair and lawful elections are held, and the voters elect a government that enacts genocide, are those voters liable? Historically the answer to that question has been no. But is that the correct answer? If so, then should American Trump voters also be held liable for his national crimes? What about voters for George W. Bush?

                    Perhaps greater responsibility would cause the world’s voters to be more selective in whom they support.

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        Well uh when you have the US Navy under your command, and already in the area dealing with Houthis, you know, by shooting down their missiles and bombing them and such, you actually /can/ stop trains and tankers.

        You could airlift aid! You could, hilariously, stop ships heading to Israel with a Naval Blockade!

        Obviously that last one isnt going to happen, but theres a whole lot more than basically nothing that you could do.

        For starters: Cut off a bunch of joint projects between US and Israeli firms, stop sending them large amounts of money for other things, stop fucking shit canning every attempt by the UN to sanction Israel, or maybe even use these aforementioned things as threats and leverage to force a fucking ceasefire.

        And now because this is the internet: Am I saying that Trump is somehow not bad, not far, far, far fucking worse by pointing out the rest?

        Nooooo!

        No, fucking obviously Trump would be a thousand times worse!

        But pretending that there’s nothing Biden could do is a joke.

        He doesn’t because he is a long time Zionist, and the American public, and particularly political and media figures, have been bathed in Zionist propaganda for so long that it takes an overt genocide for us to figure out that maybe Israel actually isn’t a perfect unconditional ally.