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[–] FlashMobOfOne 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What makes all of this worse to me is that, as someone who voted Democrat, I did my part to make the ethnic cleansing possible. I am tacitly responsible in part for putting my own tiny stamp of approval on it.

Republicans would have done exactly the same, because regardless of what they say, both of the ruling parties and our international representatives historically have voted in whatever way Israel wants them to, but it takes a special kind of asshole to continue doing so when the ethnic cleansing is being shamelessly broadcast 24 hours a day.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

No, Republicans would have done worse. They would have likely encouraged Bibi to go hard instead of pushing the brakes on him to slow him down.

I heard a recent argument by Chris Hedges that Biden should be punished for his aiding of the killing of civilians, by voting for Trump. While that has logical basis in that you should be punished for doing this, the punishment is very likely going result in even more dead people. And for me it means that, somewhat paradoxically, voting Democrat is still "the right thing" to do.

[–] t3rmit3 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's sad when both the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates today are both worse than Ronald Reagan.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

That's not the only way they can be compared to Ronald Reagan. I think at this point we're pretty much guaranteed to have some dementia in office.

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago

Yep Americans have a choice between the party that aggressively cheerleads and gloats while doing everything in their power to enable Israeli war crimes, and the party that "expresses concerns" and "calls for moderation" while doing everything in their power to enable Israeli war crimes.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago

well one way to look at it is: massive fraud...
a con job...
the reason they're buying youtube ads and playing it for americans is to scam us... to get more weapons and money...

but we should all write letters to Biden...

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