House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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    5 days ago

    Harris could have won by breaking from Biden

    By taking a tougher line on Israel than Biden? Possibly yes.

    and calling Bidens actions genocide,

    No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because “genocide” is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that “genocide” is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word “genocide” is obvious hyperbole.

    (1) Biden didn’t have any “actions” in Gaza. That was Hamas and Israel

    (2) War crimes are not the same thing as “genocide”. Genocide means trying to exterminate an entire population.

    (3) A war is not the same as war crimes. There has to be intentional killings of civilians.

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      No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because “genocide” is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that “genocide” is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word “genocide” is obvious hyperbole.

      The Palestinian Genocide is a genocide.

      This is not up for debate.

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        Hyperbole is hyperbole. It is precisely because 99% of people know that it is hyperbole, and they know that 99% of people know it is hyperbole, that nobody bothers to point out the obvious to you.

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        Yep. I always avoid bullshit. If it wasn’t bullshit you would have tried to refute my 3 points. But we both know you can’t. Did you really think that 99% of people didn’t know this was hyperbole just because nobody thought this hypobole was important enough to issue a reality check before?