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If there is truly no difference, then only disallowing some munitions is a completely useless gesture.
What? This is about giving Israel 500 million dollars for free to purchase weapons with, by the way,
Your assertion is that there is no distinction between offensive and defensive weapons. If that is true then any allowance of any weapons is a continued support of genocide. Another way: any bill that still allows some weapon types is functionally useless at preventing genocide.
Yes which is why AOC should have voted for the amendment to not send weapons to Israel. That is kind of the point here.
Except that's not what the amendment did, it only stopped some money for a portion of particular types of weapons.
Yes and AOC voted against that and said she did it because she supports sending weapons to Israel. Which is what she says in the tweet
I must have read a different tweet.
You read a tweet full of lies and deception the likes only MAGA normally publishes
This is some trickle down economics level of "being anti war".
So, to be clear, you would support Trump sending billions of dollars worth of 'defensive weapons' to Russia?
Username checks out.
"We should keep sending 9 digit amounts of money to Nazi Germany because not doing so would be a useless gesture."
Reducing the 11 figure amount by less than a tenth is a useless gesture, yes.
Apparently it's useful enough to vote against.
And lol, can you imagine if Trump was sending hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Russia? I'm betting you suddenly wouldn't oppose stopping it because it's "a useless gesture"
If you can't understand why voting against things that only pretend to help without actually changing anything might be a good idea, there is no point in continuing to talk about it.
At least you admit that you can't actually defend you position from anyone who actually questions it.
Oh, you meant there's no point continuing to talk because you're going to immediately descend into angry trolling.