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      It doesn’t matter, these dumbasses aren’t interested in a realistic examination of Biden’s policies. They’re just salivating at the thought of another Trump presidency under the delusion that another four years of far-right rule will definitely make the proletariat realize that overthrowing the government is the only way forward, unlike the last four years of far-right rule.

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        Our realistic examination is Biden committing full on indiscriminate genocide of men women children and little babies.

        Biden bombing hospitals that are now confirmed to have no Hamas bases underneath them. Biden bombing schools full of little girls and murdering more than two full classrooms of people at once last night.

        Maybe it’s time you step into reality already.

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          Biden didn’t bomb shit and you talking like that shows how little you understand of the situation.

          Blame him for continuing 70 years of US foreign policy, blame Israel for what they do with it. Disagree with the current situation and constructively advocate for something better.

          Or… submit to Godwin’s law and show everyone how little you understand the world around you.

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            Genocide Joe has been a self proclaimed Zionist for at least 50 years.

            Biden is the guy removing all weapons restrictions so the IDF can bomb hospitals.

            Biden is the one lying about 40 beheaded babies and Hamas bases underneath hospitals.

            Biden is directly responsible for this Genocide. Just like Netanyahu isn’t shooting the gun himself but only gives the command, is responsible for Genocide.

            You cannot claim Genocide Joe was just following orders when he is the one making the orders.

            He has fulfilled every definition of Nazism if you replace the word Jews with Arabs. Godwins law becomes inevitable.

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                Conservatives really think they’re clever with that one. Like I’m not a fan of the current policy whatsoever, but placing the blame for the situation in Gaza on Joe Biden is insane. These morons have to be trying to get trump reelected, which we both know means the atrocities in Gaza will only get worse.

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                Liberals denying genocide the same way that Trumpists deny the Holocaust. Really sad to see the amount of brainwashing Americans have accepted.

                You are as much of a cultist as a Republican.

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                  No one denied the tragedy of the situation. I simply pointed out repeating a stupid nickname demonstrates an ignorance of 70 years of foreign policy that has stretched across administrations of both parties.

                  Now you’re calling me names like cultist. Are you implying republicans don’t support Israel and haven’t waged wars to remake the region Pax Americana?

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                    It’s so sad that all you have is whataboutism isn’t it? And the worst part is that Genocide Joe isn’t even the lesser of evils anymore. He is now the worse evil.

                    Genocide Joe is the person able to stop this. Instead he removes all war crime restrictions on the weapons and protects israel with all his power. He is actively committing mass genocide.

                    A reminder that Genocide Joe has killed more than twice as many civilians than Putin in Ukraine already.

                    Not to mention the amount of children murdered by this barbaric Zio Nazi

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                  You are as much of a cultist as a Republican.

                  Do your benefactors know you’re talking shit about them?

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          Here I thought Israel was its own country, turns out it was just Biden all along.

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                If none of the neighbours recognize a country it’s not a country. Palestine is a country. Israel is an Apartheids occupation force.

                You’d be up there in Russia calling Crimea Russian owned territory because they colonized it with military force for a few years.

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                    Only the fully American controlled Jordan and Egypt recognize israel and that’s not because of the population.

                    You do realize that Hamas’s attack reason was because of the Abraham Accords right?

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        Could? Yes. Would? Realistically, no, not even Bernie. We would have to all but strangle Israel to stop Bibi’s government from achieving the goal of the Israeli far-right since the foundation of Israel.

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          A non-starter in US politics. Support for Israel is too widespread amongst voters still. Even Bernie, who is at the left fringe of US politics, has only suggested attaching strings to the new multi-billion aid package.

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            Women voting was a non starter.

            So was civil rights for black people.

            Everything is a non starter if you don’t try

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              My point isn’t “We shouldn’t try anything”, my point is “Expecting results or making ultimatums at this juncture is divorced from reality.”

              We need to work on swaying public opinion before threats to strategically vote against pro-Israel candidates and the like becomes even vaguely viable.

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            “It is hard to achieve change, therefore we shouldn’t even talk about it as a possibility”

            And you’re the one calling others right wing trolls? AIPAC runs a strong lobbying game, and while there are sizable segments who are unflinchingly 100% pro-Israel, a growing section of the electorate is horrified to know that US bombs are dropped from US built aircraft, against a dramatically weaker force, by an army that is repeatedly callous in its treatment of Palestinian life. And the American taxpayer funds it, rules are bent or broken to deliver those weapons, all while dissent is silenced.

            Hamas doesn’t have an air force or tanks, it barely runs mortar artillery - air power is massive overkill. And the IDF has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to knowingly kill 10, 40, 100+ civilians if they can get at mid level officer or two. I’m disgusted with their actions towards civilians, and disgusted at US leadership and diplomats providing repeated political cover at the UN to neuter any resolution to help.

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        Well there isn’t a ‘Palestine’ now so it’s unlikely they’ll form a unifying government this week, most offices are closed.

        Gaza and Samaria will be there next week, Gaza will be in rough shape though. They could benefit from an election themselves.

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      Biden isn’t saving Palestine now. there is no reason to believe he would if he wins again.

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          this is some what about ism. I’m not going to vote for either of them because neither of them is acceptable.

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            So if the national truly is between one of them and your duty as a citizen is to vote to reduce the impact damage from a bad president, you are just not going to vote?

            Shame on you, people like you are why Trump was able to obtain power in the first place. Your apathy is dooming this already fragile democracy. Don’t give me that third candidate shit, not when a dictatorship is looming.

            Fuck you, fuck you so much, enabler of horrors.

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              people like you are why Trump was able to obtain power in the first place.

              no, trump voters are the reason trump was able to gain power. also, the fact that we live in a liberal democracy helped. given the option i would abolish our liberal democracy.

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              in all likelihood, i’m going to be voting for cornel west. jill stein can still win me back.

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      I get what you’re saying but Biden sure as hell isn’t saving Palestine anytime soon. He’s a self-proclaimed Zionist.

      There’s a reason he’s called genocide Joe.

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        There’s a reason he’s called genocide Joe.

        Is it because the rightwing machine has decided that’s the name they’re going with because their dumbfuck base loves alliteration?

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          No, it’s because he’s currently funding and supporting genocide. Also why would the right wing even support Palestine?

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            How dumb can you be? You think the right gives a FUCK about consistency? It makes Joe look bad that’s all they need.

            Furthermore, Biden has been instrumental in cease fires and the like but what is he supposed to do when Hamas continues to break agreements? Yes giving Israel arms without conditions is fucked up but Biden has been very vocal about what the IDF is doing is unacceptable and pleads for them to hold back and avoid the same mistakes we made post 9/11.

            It’s an extremely complex political issue, you dress it up like Biden is waving a goddamn Bibi flag and cheering him on.

            By painting such a complicated issue black and white you do yourself and your perspective a disservice. You have good points but you just shit on them because of how reductive you choose to be.

            Shame.

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              Anyone calling this situation a genocide is ignorant.

              West Bank is arguably a slow moving Genocide. Gaza was left alone for the most part until militants / terrorists attacked from Gaza.

              This here is just your standard military operation. Yeah, it’s bloody and deadly. That’s not what a genocide is. Even a massive bombing campaign (ex: Tokyo firebombs or Hiroshima) are not genocides.

              A genocide is an attack on the people in an attempt to make a culture extinct. Trail of Tears, Holocaust, etc. Etc. Are genocides. Intent matters, meaning matters.

              Ie: Death to Israel is a literal genocidal chant. No one is calling for death to Palestine. This entire situation is so backwards is laughable.

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                Then why is Israel saying they intend to keep Gaza?

                What else do you call cutting off people’s power, food, and water?

                What else do you call telling people that an area is a safe zone and then bombing it anyway?

                What do you call mass indiscriminate bombings?

                But don’t worry, they will slow walk it enough that people like you can deny it until they are already gone and then people like you will tell us “Well, that’s all in the past, we should just forgive them now and move on.”

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                  1. Conquest is not genocide. Conquest is conquest.

                  2. Israel controls food, water and electricity because Gaza is so poor they don’t have their own food, water or electricity. When a poor pseudo-State attacks literally the country providing them food / water and electricity, we call that ‘Gaza/Hamas being a dumbass’. Israel is under no circumstance should be forced into giving aid to the people who declared war upon them.

                  Maybe next time, before killing thousands of Israel’s, the leaders of Gaza can try I dunno, establishing a food/fuel/electricity deal with Egypt first?

                  Oh that’s right, Hamas doesn’t give a shit about the people so they’re actually stealing the food and fuel for themselves. Last time Israel was building pipes for water for Gaza, Hamas literally dug up the pipes and turned them into rockets. Israel literally cannot give these people any aid as long as Hamas is in power, because all aid becomes perverted into weapons by Hamas. So what the fuck is Israel supposed to do about that?

                  1. Mass indiscriminate bombings is mass indiscriminate bombings. Ya know, like Tokyo Firebombs or what we did in Vietnam. There’s nothing genocidal about that, it’s ‘just’ war.

                  Israel has genocidal tendencies in the West Bank so yes, we need to keep our eyes out. But what you see here isn’t genocide. It’s just war, the war that Hamas wanted and still wants to happen.

                  Genocide is when you try to kill off a culture or entire group of people. All these bombs won’t do that actually. Tokyo recovered for example and I promise you far more people and civilians died in the Tokyo Firebombing campaign.

                  Is Israel brutal? Yes. But this isn’t new news at all. But calling this a genocide is just counterproductive and only demonstrates your sides ignorance to world matters.

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                    You can hide behind whatever words you want to try to make you feel better.

                    I may not be able to stop it, but to my dying day I will do my best to make sure never to support israel .

                    I will encourage everyone I know to do the same.

                    I will make sure that future generations see that israel is no longer deserving of our help, only our disdain for their killing of innocents.

                    For their mockery of innocent children dying in pain, pouring out water just to taunt people who are without, and calling them animals, and if the “nation” of israel falls, well I guess I’ll have a coke.

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            Because they don’t actually know what Genocide is, and they’re really bad at alliteration / word games.

            In any case, it’s not Democrats who do this, but far left Gen Z tiktokers who are seemingly too young to understand foreign policy.

            We support Israel because they are an ally on the world stage, and are one of Israel’s few allies. It is a bad idea to throw away our friendship to Israel especially after they were attacked.

            But this friendship has costs. Israel always was rather militant. So if they get attacked, they disproportionally attack back. Furthermore, Hamas wants this to happen (Hamas still rejects ceasefires, calls to return hostages, and are raiding the aid packages to Palestinian civilians).

            Welcome to the Middle East. This shit sucks.

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              When your friends are killing babies, maybe it’s time to quit being friends with them?

              Radical idea, I know.

              What do you call it when there are nine people are in table and a Nazi sit down and no one reacts?

              10 Nazi’s

              Never forget was supposed to mean stopping what happens not taking notes for your game plan.

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                    Not even to the technologically superior one who has given us a lot of military support and is key to our foreign policy goals in the Middle East?

                    Let’s say we abandon Israel. Who the fuck do we ally with in the Middle East? The anti-women Saudis who literally created the Wahhabi Islam that empowered Bin Laden? Iraq or Afghanistan? Iran hates us too.

                    Our alliance with Israel is out of larger scale necessity and long term friendship. For all of the faults of them (and yes, this war in Gaza is exceptionally brutal, though not genocidal), Israel has military power, military intelligence, and technology that we are borrowing.

                    Intel / Mobileye / etc.etc. are from Israel. Some of the most important technologies of our society are from Israel.


                    When both suck, but one is a good friend and has tech that we want, being friends with the powerful and technologically advanced is just a winning strategy.

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                  One of those two parties has the power to end this conflict over night, and yet for decades they’ve done nothing but create more illegal settlements, and murder more Palestinian civilians.

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                    One of those two parties has the power to end this conflict over night

                    Indeed. Egypt has proposed a peace plan and… Oh right. Hamas rejected it. Okay, well, if Hamas can’t even accept a peace plan crafted by a majority-Muslim country like Egypt what the hell do you expect Israel to do?

                    Now how about this, you start talking about which countries should try to step in and negotiate the peace deal between Hamas and Israel, and how this peace can actually be crafted. We just tried the Egyptian approach (with help from Qatar) and that’s floundering.

                    Or was there something in the Egyptian / Qatar peace plan that looked unfair for the Palestinians to you?

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                  We treat them both the same?

                  But seriously, let’s just treat them both the same. Let’s let Israel’s ass cash. The checks its mouth is writing.

                  I bet we can change their name to Hummingbird real quick

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        He’s not, and it’s not going to stick no matter how hard you try.

        I know it’s a tall order for conservatives, but you guys really gotta start getting more creative with the names. Putting an adjective in front of a person’s first name is like bottom tier effort.

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        What do you expect him to do? Biden has already called for Netanyahu to resign. Do you want him to send the U.S. military in to fight the Israeli military in defense of people that want the United States to burn?

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            We don’t just sell weapons on the fly, there are specific agreements and contracts. It’s not just a simple “no more” situation.

            The bottom line is Israel is a key part of the US defense machine, integration like that makes it extremely non-trivial to adjust in a reactionary manner.

            But go off, tell us how easy the solution truly is

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      Also notice there were no attacks from Gaza during Trump’s presidency. Guy is so unhinged they didn’t want to fuck around.

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      As a practically pragmatic question, countries die all the time, why is this one so important? It’s clear that even the Arab world hates Palestinians, so it’s not like anyone in the region actually cares about them. Seems like having Gaza, stomped under Israel’s foot but alive, is more beneficial for the anti Israel nations, than a free and happy Palestinian people.

      Even Europe refuses to take any Palestinian refugees cause they don’t want them in their country, but they all pretend to care.

      Anyways, so many countries died out in the last 150 years, it doesn’t seem like that rare of a thing.

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        “It’s not that rare” /=/ “We shouldn’t care”

        ffs I didn’t think “Genocide is bad” was such a fucking controversial point of view anymore.

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          Genocide IS bad, calling every war a genocide doesn’t make it so however.

          If you’re American, your country did worse to my people, so maybe we should string up your people.

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            Genocide IS bad, calling every war a genocide doesn’t make it so however.

            If you’re American, your country did worse to my people, so maybe we should string up your people.

            “Maybe we should care about genocide?”

            “Maybe we should commit genocide on YOUR people!”

            Yes, very good rebuttal.

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              I’m just sick of Americans trying to play the moral high ground, while they bathe in the blood of my people and enjoy the wealth they stole. In any case, your country is the one propping up Israel and this war, so get off your high horse

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                “God, I’m so sick of people trying to be better, don’t they understand that they should just pick evil and stick to it?”

                Very mature viewpoint. As expected from someone who suggested lynching Americans as a response to a suggestion that genocide is bad.

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                  Funny how to Americans, only a decade or two is enough time to wash your hands of an atrocity you committed in your own backyard and tell the person you victimized, to essentially move on and forget it, in favor of whatever atrocity is happening on the other side of the planet.

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        It’s because we’re currently witnessing genocide. Usually even if the country goes away the people stay. When that’s not the case we usually call it genocide or ethnic cleansing, and these are not things we should just watch.

        Also to be clear, Arab leaders don’t care about Palestinians. The people very much do care.

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          I’ve never met Arab leadership, but the Arab people I know from work and my building, despise Palestinians. (I live in a heavily Arab neighborhood). There’s definitely an old cultural grudge there, kinda like how Slavic countries all hate each other without really knowing why.

          I think the rest of the world is helping in this genocide if that’s what’s happening, since like I said, the people who want out aren’t being taken by anyone. Refugees from all nations are taken willingly enough by most Western nations, but they don’t want anything to do with Palestinian refugees

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            Maybe it depends on the Arabs? This is very much not the case in Egypt, but it could be the case somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula.

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              ??? Egyptians HATE, Palestinians. They’re not even welcome in the country, they’ve never been granted status despite loads movement over the years. Egypt didn’t even want Gaza when Israel gave it to them, they said no thanks to a free strip of coastline because they don’t want the headache that comes with the people who live there. Jordan… even worse.

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        This shit is wild, like how can people really not see how the policies of Netanyahu’s administration makes Jewish people around the world (including inside Israel proper) less safe?