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[โ€“] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah whining about the exact words she used while ignoring the substance of the memo is exactly the useless purity test that fucks up want attempt at getting real left politics in government.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My main concern is that she does not center the Iranian people as a reason to oppose the war. The war is bad to her because it puts US citizens and troops in danger, because it wasn't approved by Congress and so is unlawful, and because US wars don't ever actually create democracy. It's a very US-centric response, and she's a US politician so that makes sense, but we should demand she goes farther and condemns the killing of Iranians and condemns the violation of Iranian sovereignty.

Now is exactly the time when we should be demanding the strongest condemnations from our electeds and not letting them off the hook. It's our job to push our electeds to be better, and part of that means holding them accountable for their public statements.