It’s almost like sending bombs to kill innocent children might be one of those wedge issues

And I feel a lot of the hate against Biden has galvanized right around the time the primary season started which seems convenient for Trump.

Look, Netanyahu is in the bag for Trump, and temps have been rising about US helping administer a fucking genocide since last October.

Do you think that it’s a coincidence that the Netanyahu administration had warning (even from the US intelligence community!) that this attack would happen, and somehow missed it all, and the attack happened anyway?

Because I fucking don’t. I know Netanyahu has dictatorial desires, much like Trump, and he personally would much prefer Trump in office.

So maybe you can circle back around to understanding that us critiquing Biden about Gaza is because of right-wing-shit-fuckery. Biden didn’t have to hand weapons over to a Netanyahu government, he could have called out Netanyahu by name and said he wouldn’t work with a leader who is a serial liar and a genocidal maniac. Netanyahu in particular was extremely supportive of the War in Iraq in the early 2000s, and was instrumental in helping promote the idea (the LIE) that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. He screamed bloody murder at Obama when it came to the Iran peace deal, claiming we couldn’t trust Iran, because you know, he’s only been claiming Iran is trying to build nukes for… checks notes… like thirty fucking years. Literally going all the way back to 1992.

Why is Biden taking this chucklefuck seriously to begin with? Why are you? Why aren’t you questioning the convenient timing of this and further questioning why the Democrats aren’t pointing that out themselves instead of doing exactly like they did during the Iraq War and falling all over themselves to not be seen as “Soft On Terrorism” so they signed off on all kinds of dumb horrible shit.

Because it certainly screams to me “handshake deal between Trump and Netanyahu to fuck Biden with his base by forcing US to ‘help’ Israel, knowing full well how badly that relationship is viewed by most US citizens now.” It’s absolutely “convenient” for Trump, because it was probably the plan all along. It’s Bidens fucking fault for god damned falling for it.

EDIT: Added a few sources for some claims, but Netanyahu has been around far long enough for people to know his fucking game.

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No, you don’t understand, if you critique the Democrats, that means you must be voting Republican!

There’s literally no other possibility my small fucking mind can understand!

We’re supposed to be compliant and unquestioning of authority, and we’re supposed to recite everything our party says verbatim as though it was Truth Handed Down By God. /s

Oh wait, maybe we’re not supposed to be a glorified cult like the Trump cult… Maybe asking questions and critiquing is a good thing actually…

No, I sure don’t. Talking endless shit about Biden will affect more than the primary.

And most people aren’t saying you need to vote for Biden in the primary. They’re talking about the general.

If you want to vote uncommitted, that’s on you. If you’re trying to delegitimize Biden by arguing that he’s complicit in genocide in open forum, you’re trying to hand the presidential election to fascists.

The comic you posted doesn’t match what your post says.

Genuinely not true. Our electoral system more or less requires two candidates de facto to function - it is not a failure of the commons, it’s a failure of the systems of government. We need ranked choice voting, at which point we can actually begin to meaningfully remove ourselves from this insanity and have more than two de facto political parties.

Voting third party is the same as not voting in the United States under our current system.

You cant vote your way out of a system that isnt designed for you to manipulate. They wont let a third party candidate get even close. We arent here because we voted our way here when the electoral college decides the election.

As further testing: bitching, bitchin’, bitchass, bitchface, biiitch, biiiiitch, binch, bongo.

edit: You’re on lemmy.ml, my guy. Pretty sure they censor a bunch of nonsense.

some where in there is Israel and we might need a fourth spiderman for maybe the US.

There’s no such thing as a good state. All states gradually trend toward fascism, at varying rates. But this quote from “Anarchism and Its Aspirations” by Cindy Milstein really helped me parse situations like this, especially since it cites Palestine as an example:

If we understand this sense of negative and positive freedom, what appears as a contradictory stance within anarchism makes perfect sense. An anarchist might firmly believe that the Palestinian people deserve to be liberated from occupation, even if that means that they set up their own state. That same anarchist might also firmly believe that a Palestinian state, like all states, should be opposed in favor of nonstatist institutions. A complete sense of freedom would always include both the negative and positive senses—in this case, liberation from occupation and simultaneously the freedom to self-determine. Otherwise, as both actually existing Communist and liberal regimes have demonstrated, “freedom from” on its own will serve merely to enslave human potentiality, and at its most extreme, humans themselves; self-governance is denied in favor of a few governing over others. And “freedom to,” on its own, as capitalism has shown, will serve merely to promote egotistic individualism and pit each against each; self-determination trumps notions of collective good. Constantly working to bring both liberation and freedom to the table, within moments of resistance and reconstruction, is part of that same juggling act of approximating an increasingly differentiated yet more harmonious world.

You could take that to mean that Ukraine is committing genocide against the Russians because they are “destroying a national group in part” by “killing members of the group.” Literally any warfare would be defined as genocide under this. It’s utterly meaningless and needs to be better defined.

… Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent …

The intent is probably the most important part of this definition and I don’t believe that Israel fulfills that part. There are extensive measures taken to prevent civilian deaths. However this is still a war, in which civilians die.

There are also rules about human shields which defines using human shields as “… intentional co-location of military objectives and civilians …”. Which Hamas has undeniably been doing.

The burden to keep civilians out of military targets falls to the governing authority, which is Hamas.

It is important to recognize, that all these rules around war are designed to protect some groups (civilians) while still allowing for military operations. The problem is, that if these rules were to prevent nations from pursuing military objectives, because the other party commits war crimes (such as using human shields) nobody would follow these laws.

For that reason civilians kind of loose most protections when used as human shields (§3). As well as proportionally laws taking effect, that permit civilian harm to an extend if it is necessary to pursue proportionally valuable military objectives.

THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT BAD, just probably not illegal under international law. It is reasonable to demand change and to condemn Israel on moral grounds however. Personally I also believe Israel needs to do some big changes in regards to settlements and humanitarian aid. But also the status quo needed to change. I don’t understand Hamas’ goal, they obviously will never win. Idk why they are refusing ceasefire agreements etc. I understand resentment against Israel, but let’s be real, their negotiating power just becomes less and less.

And obviously everything needs to be investigated, but I don’t know if any damming convictions actually come from this.