Please let him succeed this time! 🤞🤞🤞
But according to Nancy Pelosi, it’s just Chinese propaganda!
With all due respect to her, which is none, Nancy Pelosi needs to go away and never speak to the public about anything again.
Age caps in politics when?
Not age caps, periodic mandatory cognitive function tests.
Bernie is only slightly younger than Pelosi chronologically, but at least a couple decades sharper mentally. Trump is YOUNGER than Bernie but as senile as the day is long at the height of summer.
Though most start to decline at or a few years after 70, some people can stay sharp long after and we need people like Bernie just as much as we don’t need people like Pelosi.
This is just the latest example of why I lol so hard when some con whines about Nancy and claims she is some kind of radical leftist.
After I catch my breath, I ask them exactly which policies make her “radical” and be as specific as possible. Not sure I’ve ever had an answer that involved anything coherent - maybe one of them has complained about her insider trading, but don’t seem to realize it’s not confined to her or even just Democrats.
I find her exhausting for a lot of reasons, but they just have been told to hate her because she’s a women of some prominence who does not have their lips wrapped around the base of tiny d’s mushroom and the right wing haaaaaates that.
The USA should not be sending any forms of “aid” to a country that has enough resources and wealth to build and maintain nuclear weapons.
Israel isn’t going to stop until they free the hostages and capture or (more likely kill) Yahya Sinwar.
Civilian casualties are a by product of war. This war won’t end until the objectives have been accomplished.
Would you prefer Israel use the most accurate munitions possible when fighting in an urban combat scenario or less accurate weapons. Less accurate weapons means more civilian casualties.
Of course it would all be over if Hamas surrendered, odd how no one is calling for a group that committed actual genocide (rather than the internet meme version of “genocide” Israel is accused of) to surrender and face justice. If that happened the war would be over and there would be no more civilian casualties. But internet memes is more important than reality to a lot of people I guess.
israel won’t stop until they’ve ethnically cleansed all of Gaza and the West Bank. Whether they do it through genocide or forced emigration or a combination of the two, that is the real objective. Hamas is israel’s #1 asset in this mission since it gives them the excuse and idiots actually believe this excuse.
Forced emigration is a valid part of genocide. I mean don’t get me wrong the killing is far worse but it’s in the definition.
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Israel can stop the famine right now, just by letting aid in or civilians out. It’s not even about the 2,000 pound bombs anymore. That was abhorrent. This is systemic murder.
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That’s not how reality works. And we all agreed that starving entire populations to death as a collective form of punishment is illegal a long long time ago now. We even hung some people for it in a place called Nuremberg.
Look at a map. Egypt controls a border with Gaza. Egypt could allow refugees into Egypt, so why don’t they? Egypt is controlling the flow of aid into Gaza. Why isn’t Egypt allowing more aid in?
But the goal isn’t to create hatred against Egypt is it? The goal isn’t to criticize the UN for incompetence either. The goal is to create hatred toward Israel, and all facts that don’t further this goal are ignored. Because it’s a propaganda campaign.
Israel is literally committing genocide and ethnic cleansing on the daily. Even before October 7th, they have been illegally settling for decades. There are numerous government ministers and Knesset members that have called publicly for said genocide and ethnic cleansing. Some have said there is no such thing as a Palestinian civilian. Some were giving speeches at a rally with an org that was planning how to re-establish settlements in Gaza.
The onus should not be on Egypt to take in refugees. The onus should be on Israel to stop its genocidal actions and ethnic cleansing campaign. You know… The thing that’s causing the Palestinians to be in a position where they would need to flee to Egypt in the first place.
The onus should be on Hamas to surrender and face justice for what they did on October 7. But since everyone gives them a free pass on violence towards Jews this necessitated a war which Hamas set up to maximize civilian casualties. Because it’s been an effective propaganda tool for them.
So what have they learned from October 7? People like you will look the other way and give them support. Oh you’ll say you don’t support Hamas, but only when pressed. But the default behaviour is to look the other way on their violent actions, even when they go into villages and massacre everyone they can find.
The success of Hamas in committing a genocidal act and converting it into sympathy for them while created hatred towards the people they massacred means there is no reason for them to not try to do it again. This is why Hamas needs to be destroyed. The propaganda success they’ve had from October 7 incentivizes them to do it again. A propaganda campaign you’re a part, whether you know it or not.
Egypt isn’t taking in refugees because they understand what Hamas is. They don’t want these psychopaths to be within their borders and Hamas hides within the civilian population. So there’s no way for Egypt to allow in refugees without also allowing in Hamas, which they don’t want. You’re ignoring this like you’re ignoring the genocidal acts of Hamas because it’s inconvenient to your narrative. You need to be hyper-focussed on hating Israel or the whole thing falls apart, doesn’t it?
If you were capable of really considering what Hamas is, what they’ve done you wouldn’t be thinking the way you do. But hatred is the kind of thing that doesn’t allow you to think about anything other than your enemy. Right?
Not supporting Terrorism is the default position dude. Nobody needs to be pressed, they just don’t think they need to explain it. And no Hamas is not every refugee. No matter what your bigoted sources want everyone to believe.
Also this attempt to water down Genocide with a border raid is fucking ridiculous. It makes you look ridiculous and invalidates any concept of Genocide you want to share.
if it’s just a propaganda campaign, Israel can win by ending the blockade and shipping in supplies instead of shooting people.
And Israel controls the other 9/10ths of that border. You don’t get to offload your responsibility to protect civilians in the combat area to a third party.
Hamas is fucking terrible. What they did was terrible. What Israel is currently doing in retaliation is terrible.
I would love it if Hamas surrendered if that immediately stopped all the killing. They won’t though.
1700+ dead. 250 hostages, in a country of 9+ million people.
27000+ dead, in a small strip of land that had 2+ million people.
It’s beyond fucking retribution at this point.
I would like to know what you think Israel would do if they accomplish their objectives?
If Israel, as stated by the pm himself and members of the war cabinet , gets the hostages and dismantles hammas then it would allow to form a better governing body for Gaza which more humane and more Palestinian focused than killing jews and digging tunnels.
Israel, contrary to popular belief isnt going to erase gaza out of the earth even when hammas is eradicated. Israel could erase gaza if they wanted. They choose not to in order to save Palestinian civilian lives.
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Israel isn’t going to stop
Could have just finished your sentence there. They only care about the hostages for political optics and they know as well as anyone that you don’t stop terrorism just by killing the leaders. Their goal is to kill or displace as many Gazans as possible and then take over the area and the fossil gas on the coast. Everything else is just pretense.
Civilian casualties are a by product of war.
Israel are killing TWICE as many civilians as Hamas, though, by their own admission. They refuse to prove it though, so it’s probably much worse in reality. That’s not a by-product. That’s genocide.
This war won’t end until the objectives have been accomplished.
Unless the West stops them, you’re right about that, even as you’re completely wrong about what the actual objectives are.
Of course it would all be over if Hamas surrendered,
First of all it wouldn’t. Second of all, their radical ideology makes surrender impossible.
the internet meme version of “genocide” Israel is accused of
These are the actual criteria as per the genocide convention, for it to qualify as a genocide:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group; ✅️
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; ✅️
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; ✅️
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; ✅️
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. ❓️
So as you see, it’s not a meme. By the official and only pertinent definition of genocide, the Israeli government IS committing genocide.
They only care about the hostages for political optics and they know as well as anyone that you don’t stop terrorism just by killing the leaders.
You could stop right there. You consider getting people out of a situation where they’re being raped and tortured to be about optics. That’s a real psychopath way of thinking about things.
Only a psychopath would be so incapable of empathy that you could only consider this situation by considering from a mindset of only thinking about optics.
Unless the West stops them, you’re right about that, even as you’re completely wrong about what the actual objectives are.
And there’s the goal of this whole thing isn’t it? Hamas went into villages, brutally murdered men, women and children, to create a conflict. They took hostages to force a ground campaign which would cause a lot of civilian casualties. The goal? To turn the west against Israel.
But it didn’t seem to work did it? You might want to crack open a history book, the Hamas strategy is a fascist strategy. A fascist strategy that involves killing Jews. People in the west have seen this before.
Sure you got some young people to jump onboard. It’s sad how bad history education is now.
But many people see Gaza and remember what German cities looked like after their country was run by psychopaths that killed Jews. Western countries aren’t going to intervene when Israel is doing the same things to destroy Hamas that we did to destroy the Nazis. It’s only young people that are ignorant of history that Hamas can influence.
But young people tend not to vote and attention spans are very short. Civilian casualties are dropping in Gaza as Hamas is being diminished. How is it possible that civilian casualties are decreasing when there’s fewer Hamas strongmen to protect the Palestinian people from a genocidal army? Because Hamas lied to you about Israel committing genocide. Accuse the other side of the things you’re guilty of.
If Taylor Swift tells her fans to vote for Biden it will be a bigger factor in the voting decisions of young people (who generally don’t vote) than all the propaganda that Hamas with the support of Iranian troll farms can put out. Older generations generally think the guys that are murdering Jews are the bad guys. Also those Iranian troll farms really don’t want Trump to win.
All that Hamas has accomplished in terms of influencing the west is increasing the number of antisemitic attacks on synagogues and jewish businesses. Which doesn’t increase support for their cause in the west.
You could stop right there
I wish I’d taken your advice and stopped reading. The rest is just a garbage pile of strawmen, ad hominems and other bad faith arguments. Not a word of it was anything but spin, distortion and pure fabrication.
They have killed more civilians than Hamas has members.
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No, peoole don’t simply pick one side as correct. Hamas was wrong. Israel is also wrong.
They see them as freedom fighters or militants.
I think people relate the Palestinian movement as being something like BLM or various indigenous rights movements. “Apartheid state!” and all that. They’re not thinking about the distinction that BLM is a non-violent movement. The indigenous rights movements they’re familiar with are non-violent movements. The Palestinian movement is most certainly not a non-violent movement. But they’re non-violent and want so much for the rest of that movement to be non-violent they ignore the violence that others in the movement commit.
I mean I’d support the Palestinian cause if it were a non-violent resistance campaign. But it’s not. When people choose violence the only thing that matters is which side has a greater capability to exercise violence on the other. I’m no military expert, but it seems to me Israel has a greater capability in that regard. So what’s the point? Palestinians would achieve a lot more with non-violent resistance and negotiating. They just keep losing when they use violence. The only reason to continue to be violent towards Israel is to maintain a perpetual cycle of violence that keeps psychopaths like Hamas in power.
I really don’t understand why the line of “conquered land” is drawn at Israel, but that’s just the way it is.
Most people live in conquered land. There’s very little land on Earth that hasn’t been conquered at some point in history. Basically just a few isolated islands in the middle of the ocean.
No one wants to be accused of being a criminal for living where they were born. But they feel upset about the wrongdoings of the past. To reconcile these to conflicting emotions people decide to be most angry over the land that was most recently conquered. That somehow makes it more acceptable to be angry at other people for being born on conquered land while they’re living on conquered land themselves. Since they’re angry other at people for being born on conquered land, they’ve proven they care about the bad things in history enough they can live guilt free on conquered land themselves. Maybe also rename a sports team so it no longer references an indigenous group or something. Whatever it takes to not feel guilt.
It’s all emotion so it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense.
And there’s the thing where a reporter have a conversation with an elderly Palestinian person where that person pulls out a deed or a key to a house that they claim proves they used to live in Ashkelon. But someone else has lived on that same land their whole life. So that’s a problem. But what people fail to recognize is that after October 7, right of return isn’t going to happen this generation. Sure anything is possible with enough time, but with enough time there will be no more Palestinians with deeds and keys claiming to have lived in Ashkelon.
So Hamas destroyed the possibility of a right of return. The dream of a Palestinian state is on life support now. But the Palestinian movement seems incapable of separating itself from Hamas.
So it’s devolved into screaming on the internet and raw emotion. And nothing creates emotions like the feeling that you’re is complicit in something horrible. If you accuse Israel of genocide loudly enough, then maybe no one is going to talk about how you supported a cause that actually committed genocide.
This argument that Palestinians should be peaceful when confronted with literal genocide and ethnic cleansing is so fucking dumb. Would you say this to the people involved in the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
When you’re facing a superior military force, non-violent resistance is the only rational course of action.
Would you say this to the people involved in the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
I might say to those people that victory is impossible and their survival is unlikely. But I wouldn’t have to because they already knew that. Their goal was to not to allow the Nazis choose the time and place of their deaths. Because there was actual genocide happening.
Nobody called for a ceasefire with Germany to stop the genocide from happening. Because when it’s actual genocide, it can happen when there isn’t an active conflict between armed combatants.
People calling for a ceasefire now are people that don’t actually believe that a genocide is happening. The holocaust didn’t end with a ceasefire. It ended when the Nazis were destroyed.
Hamas committed genocide on October 7. They set the stage for this conflict and put Palestinian civilians in between them and the IDF. To them life has no value other than as a propaganda tool. Future genocide is possible if Hamas continues to exist. Future Palestinian casualties are likely as long as Hamas continues to exist. They need to be destroyed like the Nazis were to prevent genocide from happening in the future.
Look at the photos of German cities at the end of WWII. Now look at photos of Gaza now. Do you see the similarity?
Your comparison to events of WWII don’t exactly make the case you think it does. But that’s how it is with people that only understand history from the context of it being used for propaganda.
this is all double speak and apartheid apologia.
I’m guessing it’s because he’s anti-Semitic.
That might have been too subtle, I feel like a number of people are going to miss the joke there.
Though it makes me sad, you are probably right. Wayyyyy too many people levy this kind of thing at Sanders (and Chomsky, lol) as a supposedly serious charge.
I’m completely with you, but I have to point out there are plenty antisemitic people of Jewish ancestry (Steve Pieczenick), and many other people who self hate their backgrounds (my father has said very derogatory things about American black people. He grew up in the islands, but still).
I’ll be honest, almost downvoted them.
The man who should have elected in 2016 AT THE LATEST.
I’m going to go cry in a corner as Biden gets another country wrapped up in endless war so he can save democracy using… Zionism, guns, and drones.
The man who should have elected in 2016 AT THE LATEST.
…and finishing his second term at roughly the same age as Biden starting his.
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Bernie’s looking wierdly more normal and sane these days. Less of a crazy Doc Brown vibe.
His messaging is, as always, spot on; that hasn’t changed.
Let’s organize a write in for Bernie this election
Bernie might not run for reelection at the end of his senate term later this year. I can’t blame him for wanting to get away from it all; he will be 83.
I love Bernie, but that’s how you hand Trump a win. If you live in a swing state you’re unfortunately stuck voting for the lesser of two evils.
I understand where you are coming from, and if you decide to do the ‘lesser of two evils approach’, I’m not mad at you. It’s a much better response than voting for the Dems because you believe they aren’t evil.
I’m torn, because I quite obviously do not want any fascist-leaning-anyone to win, but I’m also horrified at the long term impact of a two-evil-party system. I’ve been paying closer and closer attention every four year cycle and the Manchin-Sinema block was the start of the end for me. The final nail was somewhere between finding out about Pelosi and her finances and the “we have power now, but vote for us next time and we will really do something about women’s bodily autonomy”.
If I find an independent I agree with I’ll vote for them. If not I’ll write in Bernie. You may end up on the correct side of history as I stand weeping into a burning creator that was once a hopeful country.
Added context: I’m blue County red state.
I’m torn, because I quite obviously do not want any fascist-leaning-anyone to win, but I’m also horrified at the long term impact of a two-evil-party system.
Reminds me of this famous Eugene V. Debs quote.
This makes too much sense. Thank you for the share!
You’re welcome, and of course it does – Debs was more or less the Bernie Sanders of his generation.
And if you don’t live in a swing state then your vote doesn’t really matter.
Yeah, because it worked such wonders the last time…
There are socialist third party candidates already running. Claudia/Karina from PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) and Cornell West. I think it would make more sense to throw support behind one of them.
I agree. If you are in a decidedly red state that will already vote for a Republican. A socialist runner up would be hilarious.
Heck even in a decidedly blue state. I would be willing to do that in California, but just not the swing states.
There was an app for the 2016 election called #NeverTrump that tried to do exactly this by means of “vote trading”. Voters in swing states that wanted to vote 3rd party would get matched up with Californians willing to put in their “protest vote” in CA in exchange for voting Hillary in the swing state. Obviously it didn’t work, but this isn’t a new concept. The stakes are too high a third year in a row to fuck around.
Conservatives love a good genocide. They are falling over themselves in delight at the innocent families being slaughtered wholesale and are demanding even more weapons be sent.
Conservatives will aggressively fight any bill that seeks to impede genocide. For that reason, I do not think this ammendment can pass.
Yes and meanwhile most of the so called “liberal” democrats are also actively supporting genocide.
I think last time Sanders tried this, which was only a month ago, he only got like 8 senators to sign on.
Yes. Neoliberals are conservatives.
10, but your point very much stands. Especially since that was just about commissioning an audit of sorts!
Fuck the conservatives, but there isn’t exactly much liberal action on this front either.
True.
Fuck yeah!
Unfortunately Israel doesn’t need our funding or weapons.
Why have they been stepping up weapons transfers then?
Yeah, we could cut off every possible kind of funding to Israel and they’d still have sufficient military resources to level Gaza a hundred times over
So, we should just keep supplying more?
I agree that we should take it further. Support, and demand, a cease fire now. There is a lot of inertia and this is a step in the right direction where a lot of other people are running in the wrong direction.
Personally I don’t think we should’ve been supplying them in the first place for the simple fact that they’re more than suitably equipped already
I just think that if the goal is a ceasefire, neither continuing nor halting supplies would really move the needle. Want us to stop supplying them? Fine by me.
Agreed, but I do feel it’s important to do both. And this is a way to push against all that inertia of Israel being …. Well, Israel
Send em over to israel… In the same way israel is sending em to gaza
In before we cut supplies and suddenly rockets start landing in Israeli civilian neighborhoods
The Iron Dome doesn’t stop working the moment the US stops sending weapons to commit genocide with, dumbass.
The iron dome requires missiles to fire with, dumbass. Wouldn’t stop working right away sure, but one saturation attack and they’d be out.
You DO know that Israel is one of the richest countries in the world, richer than most European countries? And that they have enough missiles already to last them decades if not a fucking century?
Of course you do. You’re just pretending you don’t to enforce the false narrative that Israel is the plucky underdog beset on all sides by enemies more powerful than them when in fact THEIRS is the most advanced and powerful military in the entire region by far. Most of which they use to murder Palestinian civilians.
Pretend the iron dome was gone. Terrorist indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel would be like throwing a rock at a tank.
Tell that to all the innocent civilians who would be dead in that situation
Palestinians don’t have a dome, do their civilians matter less?
Maybe that will stop them from genociding Palestinians, because protecting them from the consequences of their actions clearly isn’t working.
