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[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago

Here’s a take… it would be infinitely worse under the GOP. At least Biden and Blinken have attempted to cool tensions and persuade Bibi to stop. They have, at a minimum, delayed some violence.

[-] onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 months ago

The argument isn't "don't vote for biden" it's "stop deflecting the harm your candidate is actively doing by pointing at someone else". Why is that so hard to understand? The fact the democrats want to die on the hill of commiting genocide and squashing student protests against it is their own fault, no one elses.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 5 points 4 months ago

True.... but I think we would have had more representation, as democrats would try to score political points.

It would have felt like we had some representation fighting against this, rather then 2 parties agreeing on a genocide.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

You’re getting all the representation you can get from Senate and House Democrats. Schumer spoke against this in January. Bernie repeated last month, and so on. Congress is now divided on this as a partisan issue, but ignorance puts it all on the president, whose office has been in support of Israel in this conflict since it began under Reagan. A Republican in office would only escalate this into a war with Iran after Palestine is eradicated.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

They have, at a minimum, delayed some violence.

Also at a maximum.

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