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I'm under the impression that it would be a lot easier to improve things if the billions spent supporting Israel were instead spent on climate change mitigation. That's not black-and-white, but it's a clear conflict between the administration's words and their actions.
Yes, again, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Very few people here want the money spent on Israel.
That doesn't mean acting like everything else that the Biden administration does is worthless because of it. It is possible to have massive criticisms of a political administration and acknowledge when they do something good.
Domestic clean energy manufacturing is a good thing. Bringing jobs to former coal communities that are depressed communities due to the coal no longer being mined is a good thing. Climate mitigation is a good thing. This helps with all of those things.
Pretending everything is awful because one thing is awful achieves nothing. Neither does making every Biden or Harris thread into a complaint about the U.S. aiding Israel. Who exactly do you think you're going to convince here? How does this constant complaining help Palestinians?
My only point was to highlight how the Biden administration has it's priorities backwards i.e. millions for climate, billions for Israel.
I'm venting frustration. That's all the internet is good for anyway. Complaining doesn't matter, your arguing doesn't matter, nothing we post matters.
You'll be happy to hear that Biden had invested billions into climate change.
https://www.wri.org/insights/biden-administration-tracking-climate-action-progress
Also
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
You:
You misinterpreted what I said.
If we stopped supporting Israel, we'd stop burning the fuel we use to support them. Our support for Israel requires burning fossil fuel. We should stop doing that.
I understand the fallacy, thanks.
Did I say "Ignore A" though? I just meant to highlight the contradiction.
Also, your link clearly says:
Looks like we're not getting A. But! If we stopped wasting money burning fuel for Israel, we could meet those goals!
That's one part of the article, yes. And your last claim requires a citation.
Again, I understand the fallacy. I trust you will amend your previous statements? "Billions for climate change"?
Again.
I. Didn't. Say. This.
I haven't said that. I am not saying that. I don't know why you keep fucking accusing me of saying it.
Sure sounds like there's only one billion per year. Billion.
So, sure. Let's say 1 billion per year for climate change. Compare that to 17.9 billion in the past year for Israel.
The priorities are fucked. That doesn't mean I'm using the “not as bad as” fallacy, that means I'm highlighting how we could be spending a whole hell of a lot more on climate change. I just want the money spent on Israel to be spent on climate instead.
I understand the fallacy and what you said. The article seems to report more than 17.9 billion in total. Now it sounds like the goal posts are shifting.
Thanks for the discussion.
You asked me to amend what I said.
I did, and because I did, you accuse me of moving goal posts. What??
I hate this website.
Comment removed, thereby proving my point.
Or it could be based on the way you act just because someone is disagreeing with you.
Your original complaint (spending more on Israel than climate change) was at least an order of magnitude or two off from what is actually going on, and the "millions" part was easily disproven. Confronted with that, your new complaint (to the same ends) is now the time span under which these sums are dedicated, no longer the actual amount, despite that being satisfied now. I know what that sounds like.
Did you find a source that proves we could meet our climate goals if we didn't fund Israel?
That's still an order of magnitude more support for Israel than climate, which still supports my point about the administration's priorities.
I doubt we could meet our goals if we simply transferred Israel's funding to climate, but I never claimed that.
No it isn't (math) and yes you did (quoted).
17.9 billion is an order of magnitude higher than 1 billion. Do you know how orders of magnitude work?
Also... you didn't quote anything? Here's what I said:
Easier. We do have to stop supporting Israel to meet our climate goals, but that alone will not be enough. We need to do way more than that. If I miscommunicated that I apologize.
Mmk
Edit: I'm not sticking around to discover how these arguments evolve again and again.