• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Is Biden an idiot for blindly supporting Israel? Yes.

    But every fucking President since Truman has done the exact same thing … including Trump.

    So sit down and shut up already.

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      1 year ago

      People are responsible for the things they do. And the fact that your electoral system gives you the choice between Genocide Joe and Diaper Donald doesn’t mean there is a good guy between them. Electoralism has failed if this is the choice, and change should be looked for outside of it, you can still vote for whatever candidate is the least bad but don’t be smug about the fact that you did something good and be done for the next four years. If things keep going the way they’re going, there is going to be another Republican president in the future, either Trump or someone more dangerous and competent.

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        1 year ago

        Not my electoral system. I’m not American. Just sick and tired of shitty people hashtagging stupidity.

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          1 year ago

          I invite you to read the report sent to the ICJ by South Africa and call that stupidity. Now is the time to act while we can still stop an ethnic cleansing or worse.

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            1 year ago

            I replied to someone hashtagging Biden, not SA’s report to the ICJ that I happen to agree with.

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              Biden can stop it today if he wants, either by withholding weapons or by direct intervention (although an embargo would probably suffice). But the fact that the US is STILL sending weapons is nothing less than direct complicity. People have been shot for less during the Nuremberg Trials.

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          1 year ago

          It’s telling that you think it’s shitty to call out genocide enablers.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Uh… No. Biden is uniquely horrible in this. He’s going above and beyond what most other non-Trump presidents would do.