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Supporting Biden isn't supporting genocide, that's a false argument.
Biden is supporting Israel because that's where the PAC money is and poor college students can't make up that difference.
Biden is supporting Netanyahu's genocide. Should he continue because gaslighting the poor hasn't worked?
He isn't supporting genocide, he's supporting Israel, just like every other President since the start, and Bibi is misaporopriating that support.
You wouldn't say Reagan or Clinton supported war crimes when Israel illegally attacked Lebanon during their administrations. Same deal here.
He's selling them weapons that he knows will be used for genocide, with no strings attached. He's running interference for Netanyahu at the UN.
That looks like support from where I'm sitting.
"That's the way we've always done it" is a lousy justification, since the way we've always done it got us here, with the US selling weapons for genocide.
Didn't Reagan threaten to withhold weapons when Israel illegally attacked Lebanon?
In any event, the article's about protests from a generation that weren't even alive for Reagan and were children during Clinton's administration.
Ah. It’s okay if it’s blood money. Cause only Biden and his Israel money can be our option. So. Fucking. Stupid.
They really don't care where the money comes from so long as they get it. That's kind of the whole point.
I love linking to this clip from Bulworth, it never gets old, more people should watch that flick:
https://youtu.be/-Cg7Z2eZmcM
That is not the society I would prefer to live in. That being said. That looks like a movie worth watching lol
Man, the absolutist crowd is out in force today.
As always, context kinda fucking matters a lot.
Edit: all that said: I’m pretty sure the downvotes are due to how dismissive you are being of “poor college students”
Let me ask you a hypothetical, given the choice between continuing to ship weapons to Israel or Biden winning the 2024 election which would you choose?
I’m sorry, no, that’s an absolutely idiotically framed question, to the extent that I’m quite confident you’re just trying to push agitprop.
To be clear:
You’re presenting a dichotomy where there is none.
Edit:
Ok, let’s try this another way: which of the two presidential candidates that are advancing to the general election do you believe will actually stop shipping weapons to Israel, or at least has the possibility of being convinced of stopping the shipments?
I’ll give you a hint: it’s not Trump.
I'm presenting a purely hypothetical choice. In a purely hypothetical situation where that choice is put in front of you what would you choose?
Yup, as I said in another comment:
There are two viable candidates, Biden and Trump. Taking votes away from Biden only helps Trump. So not voting, voting Stein, Kennedy, West, all of that only helps Trump.
Helping Trump is supporting:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-mexico-military-cartels-war-on-drugs-1234705804/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/30/trump-interview-jail-political-opponents-glenn-beck
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-pr-hugh-hewitt-21faee332d95fec99652c112fbdcd35d
https://visitukraine.today/blog/3712/trumps-peace-plan-is-to-surrender-crimea-and-donbas-to-russia-wp-reveals-details
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-presidential-election-congress-republicans-20e902788e8701999ce0424f73d478cc
So, yeah, when the alternative is maximizing negative impact, the only voting solution is to vote for the one person who can defeat that agenda... and that's Biden.
I try to let up and down votes do their job.
Bad opinions aren't necessarily misinformation.
What nuance is to be found regarding genocide? There is no justification that makes support for genocide acceptable.
This is true. He's supporting genocide, not committing it. That's still morally reprehensible.
He's selling them weapons that he knows will be used for genocide. That's support for genocide.
I mean, you can at least admit that Netanyahu is committing genocide, right?
So that's a "no" on admitting that Netanyahu is committing genocide.
Bruh.