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[–] 117 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

Declare AIPAC a foreign agent just like their predecessor, then arrest and imprison all of their employees for aiding and abetting a terrorist organization.

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  • [–] 64 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    they did not have the right to violate international law and wage an all-out war of enormous destruction against the entire Palestinian people – in what experts have correctly concluded is a genocide.

    This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn't have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel's crimes.

    After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's to get people like you to be genocide apologists. "Well, Hamas burned down the Reichstag building. What was Israel supposed to do?" To make people sympathetic. Unless Bernie comes out and condemns the IDF for the Hannibal Directive(which will at the very least cause his wife, and love of his life, to be imprisoned), nothing will come of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Can you explain that look last bit to someone who isn’t aware of it?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    I'd have to get back to you on that one when I feel like looking up the specifics. But it is in relation to a real example, or at least why people assume he changed his mind on something. Think the IRS threatened his wife over something, unless Bernie changed his mind(votes or words). Maybe someone can chima in to what it was that remembers the specifics :/

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They don't and won't listen to him.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I know, but it's still notable a US Senator has come out and clearly articulated the argument, so credit where it's due.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Jimmy Carter and Bernie Sanders are the best politicians the us has produced in the last century

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I mean best people who are also politicians. Arguably Trump is the best politician, because despite openly being an absolute trainwreck of a human being he somehow has had power twice.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, “best politician” isn’t really a compliment. The best ones are good liars who commit egregious acts while retaining a base that still worships them. Trump is formidable in that respect, though I think Obama is better. Obama did a lot of shitty things and is still widely adored, whereas most of the population will readily admit Trump is a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    that man was the president we needed

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Good to start with no aid, then we need to bomb the shit out of them until they agree to stop murdering and oppressing innocents. The world doesnt like nazis.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I'm pretty sure the guy in the photo is Netanyahu, not Sanders. /s

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That will never happen. Never ever. It seams that people forget that there was "before Trump" time. It didn't matter whether a Democrat or Republican was in power, Americans came together when needed to bomb everyone they like, arm Israel to commit genocide, interfered in the elections of many countries.

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    Like the no war? USA lies like always.

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  • [+] -14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ok sure old man ...let's get you back in bed

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