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Direct action is super based.

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They know that Trump is Bibi’s best friend, right? And electing him will triple-down on the genocide?

They know that, right?

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Right, so Biden should get no criticism for supporting genocide because the other guy does it more? Seems democrats can get away with anything by simply not being trump.

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That is unironically what every pro-genocide centrist wants.

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pro-genocide centrist

How fucked is your country when this is a thing

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Op never said Biden should get a pass. The question is why protestors aren’t ALSO disrupting Republican events at the same magnitude and frequency.

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Because Republicans aren’t in charge of diplomacy right now, that’s a responsibility of the president.

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they’re not saying they would vote for trump, either

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that sounds like a good reason to continue petitioning biden. what’s the problem

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I keep wondering the same thing.

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Then start telling Biden to stop sending weapons to israel instead of victim blaming.

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Well stop wondering and ask yourself if you’d rather Biden stop sending weapons to Israel or lose to Donald Trump.

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false equivalency. Biden demanding a ceasefire in Gaza will not lose him the election. In fact, it may win it for him.

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When the left and right extremes agree, what does it mean?

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The left does not agree with the genocide that centrists and their republican buddies have always wanted.

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Actions speak louder than words, and their actions show that they are more than okay with genocide. They are actively and enthusiastically supplying Israel with the ammunition to conduct this genocide. Even going so far as to side step Congressional barriers to fucking send that shit.

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They know that, right?

They’re mostly the tiktok generation who can barely read. Critical and logical thinking are pipe dreams.

Gonna be a hard life for them.

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Democrats should not be supporting genocide, nor dismissing and alienating those that oppose it.

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Democrats should not be supporting genocide

Good thing they don’t then isn’t it?

Saying there is one doesn’t make it true.

There is a war, it’s brutal and will get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.

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Did you look at the picture of the protesters? You think those people are GenZ?

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Centrist Democrats can’t justify their support for genocide because there is no justification for supporting genocide. But since they don’t want to stop, we get the Greatest Hits of Centrist Dismissals.

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Small sample size. I look at the polling data. Those claiming there’s a genocide skew young in every poll.

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I guess harm reduction is a foreign concept here.

If you want more children to die vote for Trump. If you want less children to die vote for Biden.

There will never be a canidate where 0 children die.

It really is that simple.

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All these mental idiots in this thread equating criticism of Biden to supporting Trump are the reason why nothing ever changes.

Bet you its the same people who voted for Biden in the primaries instead of a real leftist/progressive like Bernie Sanders.

If Imran Khan sitting in jail sending messages to his voters via a fake AI version of himself can garner enough votes to defeat the militarily backed opposition in Pakistan, there is no excuse for why democrats can’t be at least forced to listen to their constituency instead of running yet another corporate shill and then crying when they lose elections again because said corporate shill actively funded a genocide

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Wow get a load of these Trumpist chuds.

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He’s been trying since the start.

Biden also emphasized his view that “a military operation in Rafah just really cannot proceed without a credible and implementable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than 1 million people that are now sheltering there,” the official said, adding that they simply had “nowhere to go.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-will-speak-with-netanyahu-sunday-white-house-officials-say-2024-02-11/

Biden and his team have also been irritated by Netanyahu’s public rejections of a two-state solution, long a lynchpin of American policy in the region.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/politics/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza/index.html

The Biden administration has placed a particular premium on Israel reducing the number of civilian casualties in its military operations. The U.S. urging seemed to have some effect in recent days, as Israel began to withdraw some troops from northern Gaza and moved to a less-intensive campaign of airstrikes.

Israel has been not just uncooperative, but also openly hostile toward some smaller American requests, such as when Blinken pressed Israel to turn over the tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, which Israel has refused to do.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-netanyahu-israel-palestinians-gaza-fe150c19cdcc4737f4a9e22a695490ed

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He circumvented congress to sell Netanyahu weapons to be used for genocide, but trust us, he’s slightly miffed.

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“Please stop using the bombs I’m selling you” -Genocide Joe

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Biden knows he has the power to stop this. He stopped Netanyahu’a bombing in 2021 with one phone call.

If he isn’t getting it stopped it’s because he doesn’t want it stopped. And that’s without even getting into the fact that he’s still sending them bombs. You’d think that would be the first thing to stop.

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Netty is an authoritarian so he knows squeezing bidens balls on this is a “victory” for himself regardless if Gaza is decimated

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