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[-] P1r4nha@feddit.de 38 points 9 months ago

Biden really doesn't want these Muslim votes it seems.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago
[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

Politicians don't run the US. Corporations do. The reason US funding continues is because the military industrial complex is making bank — stealing billions of dollars from the people to genocide brown people is win-win for the sociopath oligarchs that own these corporations.

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[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol -1 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately that's only like 1% if not less. Not that voting is an effective vehicle change on its own anyways.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

Muslim votes are what can prevent him from winning states like Michigan. Percentage of the popular vote doesn't matter, the electoral college does.

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[-] filister@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just a hypothetical question but how many Palestinians have to die for the US to vote to support a ceasefire? Or how many more war crimes Israel has to commit to stop them sending weapons.

The US should realise that sending them weapons empowers Israel and gives them the sense of impunity that no matter what they do they will always get a pass.

No one should be higher than basic humanitarian and international laws and with this war we clearly are showing our double standards.

[-] livus@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@filister all of them.

The US showed its double standards way back when it passed a law authorising itself to use military force against the international criminal courts if we ever tried to hold an American accountable for war crimes or crimes against humanity.

But yeah I think what's happening right now is a very powerful reminder of that, and isn't being lost on the rest of the world.

[-] riseuppikmin@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The United States is completely aware of the atrocities being committed and no amount of additional war crimes will change its position.

Its interests in the region that it views as necessary to maintaining its global hegemonic power are viewed as more important than any action by an allied actor even to the extent of what a decently large portion of its populace deems genocide.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

I think our trash leadership care more about the footprint of the land than the feet of the people on that land. They kill our people off when they consider us as in the way as well, unfortunately.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I think your trash leadership cares more about oil than human lives and call me conspiracy theorists, but weren't they discovered a significant natural gas reserves in Gaza, which Israel either doesn't want for Palestine to start working on or either want to take completely over. And making Gaza inhabitable and pushing Palestinians to Sinai might as well be part of their plan to do exactly that, using Hamas' attack as an excuse.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I actually don't know but wouldn't put it past any conclusion. I hate how trapped we all are to these goons.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Why wouldn't the country that sells the most weapons do this? They have everything to gain from more wars.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And somehow Westerners want us to believe that if the world was lead by China we will be worse off?

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

did nazi that coming

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Time to send the US representatives families to Gaza I guess.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

We'd have better luck bringing Gaza to them.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Death to America

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