• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    First off, this isn’t a secret, and it’s not new.

    This is just more of the same, the press going the extra mile to give reach-around cover and misdirection for the failed policies of the current administration, or rather, their actual policies, which have lead us to where we are.

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      You are incredibly misinformed if you believe the conflict in the Middle East is caused by the Biden administration. No matter who is the president, the US will always support Israel. Trump is loves to pretend he will fix something to get votes because his pocket book depends on being president.

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        I’m not informed…?

        No US president in history, from either party, has been this hands-off with Israel. Period.

        And I didn’t say war, I said situation, as in the nonstop spiraling of events, without as much as a waiver in US support: diplomatically, militarily, or financially.

        The fact that you don’t know that, shows it’s not me who is misinformed.

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          Maybe you are under informed. The Abraham Accords and the moving of the US embassy were escalations in this conflict.

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    Damn, full support for a genocide that is unpopular with their own electorate, and this is the thanks they get? If you’re willing to lose due to principles, at least make them good principles.

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      It’s not genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing/stealing land. If all the Palestinians left for some place else, Israel would not pursue them to exterminate them, they’d just steal their land. It’s Palestinian land that Israel is stealing. The Palestinians are just in the way.

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        You just described a genocide, like one of the plain text definitions of a genocide. Mass murdering a group of people to steal their land.

        Doesn’t matter that you’ve made up a hypothetical fantasy scenario where they aren’t caged in cornered, but have free movement, it’s still a genocide.

        Oh, and they aren’t free to leave, they are caged and cornered.

        So you’re wrong, and you’re wrong again.

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        With all the good will in the world, my friend, you need to look up the definitions of genocide. Pursuing a population to exterminate then is NOT a prerequisite for genocide.

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      Out in the real world, Hamas committed genocide on October 7. Israel is in Gaza in an attempt to destroy Hamas and free the hostages that were taken on that day.

      “Genocide Joe” is just a meme spread by internet cranks that’s a very tiny minority of voters, insignificant compared to the number of voters that know the difference between a war and a genocide.

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        This is emphatically false. Like… Literally just a lie straight from the “both parties” crowd.

        The democrats are currently pressuring Israel and pushing back politically (weakly, since they seem afraid of piss off voters and hand everything to Trump).

        The Republicans fully support everything taking place right now. 100% support for Israel and this Hitler-esque leader of Isreal.

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          The democrats are currently pressuring Israel and pushing back politically

          How is Israel being pressured? Do you mean phone calls where Biden asks bibi to chill then sends him everything he wants anyway? That’s not pressure. Pressure would be putting conditions on arms transfers and Biden won’t do that so the only thing separating Ds and Rs on this issue is a very thin veil of rhetoric that no one believes anyway

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          “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none,"

          Joe Biden like yesterday

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          Pressuring Israel? How do you imagine that?

          Brandon: stop killing people in Gaza, Jack

          Yahoo: I think I’ll invade Lebanon. Btw thanks for the fresh shipment of billions in weapons, the military support, the surveillance on our behalf, and continuous stream of propaganda to the west. Also, I had a date night with Trump at his house and think he’s a hotter zionist than you

          Brandon: look… anyway… we beat medicare

          Joke aside, despite what they say in front of cameras working “tirelessly for a ceasefire deal”, they are actively enabling Israel every step of the way. If the US wanted, this could have been over before it even started.

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          Tom Cotton has all but said Netanyahu should kill every Palestinian, which is further than even Netanyahu’s own far-right partners will go in public.

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    Fucking everyone wants Trump because he’s so fucking easy to manipulate.

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      Iran and China are hesitant on him. Iran because he might be stupid enough to actually start a pointless war that’s in no one’s strategic interests, not even the US; China because he can be bribed, but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him, which makes him unpredictable (and thus makes it difficult to establish any policy that deals with the US as long as he’s in power).

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        And obviously all the US’s traditional allies, although it might have been implied they weren’t in the question.

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        but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him

        Oh so he’s my husband /s

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        What can you say? He’s a Salesman, sure he ‘might’ of destabilised the world for a bunch of consecutive paydays, but he made profit!

        What a champ! /s

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      Still kind of surprised there hasn’t been a poisoning attempt on him yet because of how much his ego thrives on being buttered up

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        Wasn’t that why he loves fast food? It’s easier to target the White House supply chain for a precision poisoning than to try to hit every McDonald’s in a 50km radius and hope to get lucky.

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    Surprising absolutely no one except for the staunchest and blindest American Zionists.

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    “He meddled several times during the Clinton administration…

    …supported fundraisers in Israel for then-GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election

    …in 2020 he was all-out for Trump.”

    all that meddling and he has fuck all to show for it lol. hopefully that is a good omen for 2024.

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      Fuck all to show for it? Democrats literally can’t tell him “no, stop doing genocide” or they’ll get primaried against “centrists” with twice their cash.

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          I’m sure the fascist who refuses to leave power has nothing to do with the official bribery arm of the state of Israel.

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            I think it’s meant more as “Bibi, specifically, has failed to get the ideological allies of Bibi into power” rather than “Israel has failed to ensure that both parties are ideological allies of Israel”

            The distinction is important insofar as Netanyahu’s alliance with the GOP is concerned, as opposed to the general bootlicking attitude of American politicians towards Israel.

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      The Democrats are only sucking Israel’s dick by proxy. They’re actually just sucking the dick of the military industrial complex, because America is a corporate plutocracy masquerading as a democracy.

      Israel’s just a long time benefactor of, and contributor to, the MIC. Their existence = weapons contracts.

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      It’s the sweet ketchup scent in the diaper that keeps them coming back time and time again.

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          What the fuck is this and where do I buy one? How do I set it on people? Does it need their scent or does it have a little slot where I can insert someone’s picture and it’ll automatically home in on them?

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            I see you’re already familiar with our portfolio. The previous model required an item of clothing, preferably a shoe, in order for the target to be “serviced” correctly. This version simply requires a photograph of the intended victim’s unadorned foot. Right or left, the BawlSac™️ cares not.