• Riccosuave@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is beyond frustrating. It’s like Joe is actively trying to lose his bid for re-election. It is so fucking insulting that the American people are being forced to choose between accepting this neo-liberal chicanery or effectively ending democracy.

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      10 months ago

      I hate that every argument I have against what he’s doing makes me come off as an antisemitic douche but it REALLY seems like our government isn’t in control of what they’re doing.

      edit: to clarify, I’m not talking about the anti-genocide arguments, I don’t need to make those because they’re clear. What hold does Israel have over us that we have to get in the middle of this when they should easily be able to handle it, and how in the hell does it have bi-partisan support when few people in the US on either side seem to support it.

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        10 months ago

        “I don’t want the response to horrific things to be more horrific things inflicted on those who have no control of these events.”

        That seems pretty cut and dry…

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        10 months ago

        “They have a world class military. They can handle it without more ways to kill Palestinians” is antisemitic?

        Or, “we shouldn’t support genocide”?

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            10 months ago

            So, being called out as antisemetic inherently makes one antisemetic?

            they have a world class military. we’ve given them a some of the best equipment in the world- the entire west has. They can handle some terrorists that barely rate the term ‘paramilitary’. In fact, they can handle Hamas without killing nearly as many civilian deaths, if they really wanted to.

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      10 months ago

      Read the article. It’s like journalists are actively trying to lose his bid for re-election through misleading headlines…

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      10 months ago

      It’s because we voted “anti-establishment”. We tried going for Bernie but then the DNC took care of that. Then Donnie boy was “obviously never gonna win.” And America said screw you we don’t want the SAME elitist bullshit. Donnie won threw the world for a loop and you know what they decided?

      To punish us. To encourage Trump, to outrage us at everything he did wrong and incite him to do worse. Ever wonder why he’s not in jail? Because he’s the clown they keep punishing us with.

      See vote for Clinton, or Biden, or Bush because LOOK at the alternative!

      That’s not real democracy. Real democracy would’ve been Bernie getting the DNC nomination like he deserved. Real democracy would’ve been ranked choice voting where we don’t have to pick the shortest steaming pile of shit!

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        10 months ago

        You took the words right out of my mouth. It isn’t real democracy, you’re exactly right. I’m tired of feeling the shame and disgust of having to vote for the lesser of two evils candidate. I’m tired of the violence. I’m tired of all of it.