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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

thank god trump one and so now the genocide is all over.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No one forced the democrats to do this:

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

yeah its not like republicans tied ukraine aid to aid for israel or anything. /s

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this gets into a completely seperate thing. He could not give them it without congress but the US only very reluctantly restricts commerce. Its a very different thing to say im not going to fund your war and im not going to sell you stuff when dealing with a long time ally. And no you don't just throw away diplomatic relationships easily. If countries did they would have stopped having dealing with us in trumps first term.

[–] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh so you're telling me Biden had no choice. Ithe most powerful man in the world couldn't do anything but enable Israel and its genocide?

Oh that makes sense and doesn't fly in the face of reality at all. /s

Bonus for you

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would not have been impossible but it would have been problematic. I mean he could send troops with the war powers act. Its possible but not really something he could realistically do.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Problematic to stop genocide? Reflect on what you just said, that's monstrous.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe we shouldn't have supported Ukraine if it meant supporting genocide

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You seem very picky as to which genocide is ok.

The Russian land grab and physical and cultural genocide of Ukraine.

The Israeli land grab and physical and cultural genocide of Gaza/Palestine.

You can’t be absolutist about one and hand wave the other.

No purity for you.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The US is not currently causing the genocide in Ukraine.

The US has not spent 80 years covering for genocide in Ukraine.

The US has not spent 80 years being the attack dog of another nation commiting genocide in Ukraine.

I'm not in Russia. I was not born in Russia. I do not pay taxes to Russia.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And in a mirror universe where that decision got made someone's arguing "maybe we shouldn't have cut funding to Israel if it meant allowing the genocide in Ukraine."

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what gets me is would the hamas attack and thus the isreali response happen without putin. Im very suspicious that he was not pushing on making more chaos globally to get our of the cluster fuck he started.

[–] Tiltinyall 2 points 2 days ago

Russia did it many times in the middle east. This isn't new really.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thank goodness the Democrats perpetuated the genocide in Gaza so they wouldn't lose to Trump! 🤦

[–] Alice 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup. I don't understand why people are talking like Harris isn't also pro-genocide. Obviously more Americans are going to die under Trump and that's a tragedy too, but why are people pretending the election was about Palestine?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The election was never about Palestine, ultimately the Dems lost of their own volition by running rightward with Liz Cheney. Rather than going with a safe win like ending support for genocide and running on a progressive platform, or even a Leftist platform (which the DNC would never do, for the record, even if it would win), they deliberately chose to lose to the reps. Their donors would rather have Trump than progressive Dems win.

More Americans would die under Harris as well. The US Empire is crumbling, even if Harris won that wouldn't stop that process, what's necessary is for the working class to get organized.

Meanwhile, Palestine burns and the Dems got away with it.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Rather than going with a safe win like ending support for genocide

Irrelevant

Trump ran on “the Dems aren’t doing enough for Israel” and won the Arabic vote

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump didn't win the Arab-American vote, Harris lost it. Arab-Americans pivoted towards the Green Party and PSL.

[–] Tiltinyall 1 points 2 days ago

Which was the plan. The Dems had the moderate stance and were actually working towards peace. You refuse to acknowledge progressivism and allowed a genocidal narcissist to win.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It’s the same thing

How many elections has the messaging been “a vote for Stein is a vote for Republicans”

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is not the same thing, lol. If Arab-Americans wanted Trump to win, they would have voted for Trump.

[–] Tiltinyall 1 points 2 days ago

And Arab Americans now have Trump thanks to this, but you just dropped them as a whole under the bus with that statement of causality, like they can't be deceived by those that never cared about them in the first place. You only cared about getting Trump elected.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He didn't though, Jill stein got like 40 percent, Harris and Trump got 20 each.

Honestly this simplification comes off as disingenuous and attempting to play Arab voters are more conservative and backwards.

[–] Tiltinyall 1 points 2 days ago

Which was the plan, y'all even used the terminology "spoiler vote". Your intent was well seen.

[–] Tiltinyall 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Good thing never once has a common citizen ever voted on issues of diplomacy and international relations, otherwise some idiot who can't handle anything but a white ethnostate would be left in charge because of hand-wringing simpletons. Fuck off with the high and mighty act. Democrats aren't responsible for this, it's been happening for nearly a hundred years and you tools just found out about it and made it your whole personality. Fuck you for giving us Trump again.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (35 children)
  1. The Democrats share responsibility with the Republicans and Imperialists that have supported Israel's settler-colonial genocide for nearly a hundred years

  2. I have been pro-Palestine since far before October 7th, 2023

  3. Even if I wanted to get Trump elected, I couldn't. The Democrats lost because they ran an awful campaign and shifted even further right despite polling telling them that at that point swing voters would rather vote for Republicans.

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