Ofc. Blinken is a genocidal trash bag.
Blinken is only there because Biden needed someone willing to throw every last shred of integrity they have out the window.
It’s maddening that the party keeps demanding random republicans endorse Harris because Trump is so bad, but Harris won’t even admit that best case scenario Bidens brain is just as cooked.
Worst case scenario he’s mind isn’t gone and he’s still supporting a genocide.
But either way, grandpa shouldnt get to drive home from country Kitchen Buffet “one more time” when we all know he can’t drive. Either he should have stopped down, or gotten the 25th by now.
One of my hopes is that the reason Harris isn’t supporting Palestine/Gaza more is because of resistance from Biden behind the scenes. So once she’s President, that would cease to be a factor.
TBF i see why they aren’t going for article 25 yet. With only a couple of months to go before the election, and having started her campaign late, it might just be too much to try to push through the inertia just now. Also, she still likely needs Biden’s support for her campaign - if they go article 25 that would probably vanish.
Biden is bad in this subject. Trump would be massively worse not only here but virtually everywhere else too
One supports Fascism at home, the other supports ethno-Fascist Genocide abroad.
The distance between one posture and the other is small and far more easy to transverse than people want to believe, whilst the distance between supporting Fascism at home and not supporting Fascism at all (much less the same type of Fascism as the Nazis, whilst actively commiting Genocide) is pretty much an impassable chasm.
Just because their Theater Of Morality is different doesn’t mean Biden and the DNC are significantly less pro-Authoritarianism than Trump and his cronies.
Then why the fuck do we not revolutionize and impose a 3rd party? I swear, I have to go down to DC myself to make people realize WE NEED TO GO OUT AND ACT!!! If NO ONE is happy with either party, we should be able to decline either candidate until we can all agree we found a compitent one. God, does anyone know of any revolutionary groups? I know the founding fathers didn’t just declare independency and establish governmemt. They actually met up and planned how to knock these rich assholes off their thrones.
No one is disagreeing with that.
But using trump to defend supporting a genocide and cutting off aid to its victims will only depress turnout and help trump win.
What would help stop trump is the rest of the party (especially Harris) calling out Biden despite having the same letter by their name
With the added benefit of you know…
Not supporting a genocide and cutting off aid to its victims…
If you use trump to excuse this then how is that different than people excusing Trump’s extremely dangerous faults because they think Dems would potentially be worse?
Standards only matter if you hold your own “team” to them, if you don’t they’re not standards.
God damnit all. I mean we knew Blinken was lying, deliberately not seeing the truth. But they couldn’t even get the actual state department to go along with it. They literally just fucking lied about their own investigation. And the most infuriating thing about it is these guys aren’t dumb. They knew something like this would come and from a respected source.
If we want to keep Israel as an ally there has to be accountability. The American people didn’t stand for South African apartheid and they won’t stand for this. It’s political suicide here at home and we’re going to end up with our most sensitive military technology in the hands of a rogue state.
Really hoping Harris pivots on this once the elections are over.
How do you explain things like her refusal to let a Palestinian speak at the DNC? Or how she re-commits herself to Israel’s “defense” whenever asked?
I want some of that hope, but it seems like facts are pointing in the other direction.
Election campaigning. She’s trying to win over voters, and while we like to think she could do that by just going full-on progressive, it’s just not backed up by the numbers. Suburban moderates are necessary to achieve victory, so she’s courting them, along with any conveniently available gop defectors. They lean more pro-Israel than we do, so, so does her election strategy.
Not everyone in the electorate cares much about the plight of Palestinians, a significant number of people remember the Intifadas not as some sort of just campaign for liberation, but as a widespread rash of suicide bombings on civilians just trying to live their day-to-day. They don’t want to see the US cave to that by turning our backs on an established ally.
This is why it remains important to continue grassroots efforts to bring light to the difference between innocent Palestinians and Jihadists, incidentally. Mainstream America isn’t going to jump on any sort of reclaim-Palestine-from-the-colonial-oppressors rhetoric any time soon. Peaceful co-existence by pressuring the Israeli government, supporting Israeli peace protestors and reminding people not all Palestinians are hostile militants is a different story though, that’s potentially achievable. If the electorate continues to swing, more of the politicians will get room to follow. Especially since we don’t actually need Israel’s geostrategic position any more, as of the past decade or two. We have more leverage than we used to.
Me not understand. Me single issue Lemmy voter. Why Kamama not shit on own constituency for paltry gesture that change nothing? Why Kamama?! Why?!
ANTIZIONISTS IN CONTROL
HARRIS IS JUST PRETENDING TO SUPPORT ISRAEL TO TRICK THE DEEP STATE
TRUST THE PLAN
Hopium
Better than despairium. lol We’ll see though. Election rhetoric is one thing, policy is another. Biden is from a whole different generation, so there’s an opportunity there.
The kids are using wishcasting now, but it’s still the same thing.
When it comes to war America is not a Democracy and it never has been. You are going to get war every time, and when we can’t fight, we will sell weapons to criminals who can.
Well, nowadays its become far less common, but we actually used to require Congress to declare any wars.
Funny how once theres a serious slate of the electorate that wants to stop war, things magically change like the Supreme Court handing Bush 2 an underserved victory, and congress somehow no long required to vote before wars. You we’re never supposed to have a real choice on this.
That’s cute and all, but history just doesn’t agree. Vietnam is a good example of a war being stopped by public backlash. Regarding the takeover by the neocons and now attempted takeovers by fascists, yeah, that’s sort of what authoritarians do. That does not reflect the system that continues to resist them though.
Depending on how things fall out in the coming decades, you may see what America under a real dictator is truly capable of, and how markedly different it will look from today.
Vietnam was stopped because the US was getting it’s ass kicked and found themselves unable to unravel the ho chi minh trail. The protests against Bushes war in the middle east were the largest protests in the world at the time they happened and we stayed for another two decades because we were still making money. So if public backlash worked, we would have been out of Afghanistan by 2004. But it doesn’t. Profit works.
See how the largest antiwar protest in US history lines up with Wars being started without congressional approval now? Modern antiwar sentiment started during vietnam, they weren’t a majority until much later.
Getting its ass kicked after halting the Tet Offensive in its tracks, eh?
And comparing that to the tiny protests against the ME wars? You’ve got some funny ideas. Desert Storm was a UN coalition move at the invitation of Kuwait. Iraqi “Freedom” had around 90% support in the immediate post-9/11 era.
I don’t know where you get your information, but I’d be curious to see your sources.
So they will cut off weapons to Israel now that this has leaked… Right?..
