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Come mid-terms I'm going to proudly vote democrat everywhere I can so hopefully we can get some control of the country again.
Bingo.
I'll think about Palestine after my country stops being run by actual fascists and Americans stop being executed in the street and our Constitutional rights stop being violated on a daily basis.
And, coincidentally, by voting Democrat, I am doing the most beneficial thing I can for Palestine because THERE ARE NO VIABLE THIRD PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES.
What state was going to flip to Harris if ALL of those green party voters flipped Democrat? You can't name one, because there isn't one.
Reactionary centrists got Trump elected. Period.
Suppose, in 10 years, your choice for president is between a democrat who openly expresses interest in murdering six million Jewish people, and a Republican who openly expresses interest in murdering seven million Jewish people.
Will you still be an unwavering Democrat?
Hey, outside view from those of us in Europe... Just get on with getting the Orange Man out, please.
You'll get far further dealing with the Democrats once that's happened.
But until that point, just concentrate on getting the actual genocidal fascist gone.
We need to demand better of democrats, period. It’s ok to expect more out of them than “not trump.” Many of us Americans are completely fed up with them promising much needed reforms, and then turning around to accept bribes to do nothing of the sort after they’re voted in.
Voting out the establishment ghouls in the primaries this year is a great first step - go vote for a leftist this spring, and then vote for any non-repug this fall!
I'm torn on calling them war criminals. War profiteers, absolutely. Genocide apologists, definitely. It's a bit like being a drug dealer; you didn't make them take the drugs, but you knew what the likely outcome would be. Should that be criminal under international law? Probably, but I don't believe that it currently is.
Biden went around Congress to provide arms we had clear evidence would be used in a genocide.
Just because he's not the biggest war criminal, doesn't mean he shouldn't be held accountable.
Not holding "our own" accountable just depresses turnout and let's maga win
We can't afford to put Joe fucking Biden or any other Dem politician over the entire country. We have to hold them accountable, and if they don't want to be held accountable they can stop committing war crimes, or at least get out of office.
Like, it's not just international law he violated, US law too:
Like, it’s not just international law he violated, US law too:
The GOP are terrified of what the midterms might bring. The propaganda is increasing.
“Are still supporting”
They would have to acknowledge there's was a genocide they contributed to. They denied it and silenced the public correcting them.
Centrists pretty much destroyed the party with their idiocy and lack of ethics.
Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
To me, this seems focused on a goal, that while admirable, doesn't actually help in the current situation. We can actually continue trying to do the right thing even if Biden's team faces no accountability.
I often feel we are becoming so desensitized to this hell world that we accepted "acknowledge that they did a boo boo" as opposed to being "tried for aiding war crimes and atrocities" and it fucking sucks. All those narratives about fighting evil, and toppling cruel empires, in reality they get away with it and award themselves medals.
And continue to take Israeli money and refuse to denounce the war Israel wants us to spend trillions on in Iran and continue to fund Israel who hasn’t stopped the genocide and won’t admit Epstein was Mossad and refuse to stop insider trading and refuse to fight for universal healthcare and refused to prosecute Trump or anyone in the bush administration or any of the bankers I could go on and on
All things the republicans like too. That must be the "centrism" they like to talk about.