“I think what you’re reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn’t necessarily compare the two.”

Credit to @JoshuaHolland

  • So in summary because 70,000 Palestinians died… you think the lives of the million people sheltering in Rafah are forfeit? …Because once they started the genocide they might as all be dead anyways? What the fuck mate. Do you need someone to tell you that’s fucked up? That is fucked up.

    And when did I say appeal to conservatives? Read mine again. You suggested plunging the worst off of America into suffering would magically cure them of their centrist tendencies. Reality is, where there is instability and inequality people grasp on to shitty xenophobic rhetoric to justify holding on to anything. I’m begging you. Read some history. Show me an example where dismantling the existing power structure in a time of instability worked. Not in the past 40 years. In the past 1,000.

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      So in summary because 70,000 Palestinians died… you think the lives of the million people sheltering in Rafah are forfeit?

      Yeah that jumped out at me too

      Like fast forward two years, Trump is giving on-the-ground military assistance to Israel instead of whatever milquetoast diplomatic resistance Biden is doing so far which is still better than the American average. The second war has started, and there’s carpet bombing of Palestinian cities with American intel assistance, all the food aid has stopped, and we don’t even attend UN meetings anymore.

      And then go to Palestine and say “Sorry about all this. You could have had the status quo, but I could never vote for someone who supports a genocide, period. So don’t blame me for it. Fuck gradual change.”