• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The options are “genocide” and “more genocide.”

    Biden shouldn’t be supporting genocide at all.

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      10 months ago

      That would be nice. His admin should obviously be way more firm against Israel. Americans are obviously not being properly represented by either party. The proper thing to do would to pressure Democrats in Congress and the Biden admin without giving up and tossing the election to the fascists, which seems to be where it’s headed.

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        10 months ago

        The proper thing to do would to pressure Democrats in Congress and the Biden admin without giving up and tossing the election to the fascists, which seems to be where it’s headed.

        I find it interesting that of all the issues that centrist Democrats could have finally chosen to actually stand firm on, it would be support for genocide. And they don’t care if it costs them the election. Centrist Democrats would rather have genocide and lose than no genocide and win.

        If Biden wants the votes of people for whom genocide is a dealbreaker, he can’t continue supporting genocide. It’s as simple as that.

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          10 months ago

          It’s basically that our electoral system is about fully decayed, as far as the influence of money, and the Israel lobby has been very strong for quite some time. I don’t think they’re picking to support Israel because they truly care one way or the other, rather that they do believe it’s politically expedient.

          Centrist Democrats are basically the Republicans of the 80s. We don’t really have much representation on the left at all.