Princess Irulan, Dune Part Two

Awesome, thank you!

Yep. Good luck to the Trump administration trying to enforce anything between this an Chevron.

That presumes the law means anything to them.

As this ruling shows, law means nothing to the Republican party.

No, it’s still illegal for Biden, it’s only legal when a Republican does it.

But he should also step down because he’s old.

No. He should step down because he’s lost the confidence of his party.

You have one set of standards for things Biden can change and another for things he can’t.

He SHOULD stop supporting the genocide, but that doesn’t look likely. He SHOULD step down, and that looks like it might plausibly happen.

Any genocide is a bad thing. Democrats should not be supporting it at all. Yet here we are.

Yeah. Here we are. And we have to deal with the situation at hand, not as we wish it to be.

lmao. So you don’t actually have anything and you’re talking out of your ass, because you hate it when it’s pointed out that more genocide is actually a bad thing. Cool. Good talk.

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lmao, and here I thought I was criticizing your view on how punishing Biden is more important than Palestinian lives, because punishing Biden makes you feel good, while fewer dead Palestinians don’t matter to you.

And the assumption that anyone who is critical at all of Biden’s support for the genocide must be a trumpist.

Oh, of course, you don’t SUPPORT a Trump presidency, you’re just interested in passively allowing it, and all the genocide that it entails. When we go in the camps, you’ll sit happy at home and muse on just how moral you’ve managed to be by fighting the Dem candidate at every turn.

You’re almost indistinguishable from the fascists that support him. Certainly indistinguishable in your disregard for Palestinian and American minority lives.

Since you can’t defend your advocacy for genocide any other way,

Me: “Israeli is a genocidal apartheid state, we should remove all aid.”

Clearly this is the position of a genocidal maniac.

But tell me more about how purity testing AOC, one of the leftmost and pro-Palestinian politicians in our legislature, is a GOOD thing for Palestine, Actually.

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Source? I’d love to read more and be prepared for future discussions.

I think both are true. We are more interested in inclusivity today, and that is a good thing! But it’s also true that certain currents in our society have reacted to that like an immune system to a foreign body. Things that were benign previously become objects of irritation and anger as one of the ‘outsiders’ even if it’s no different than the long-established and beloved things.

The desire for the media to have a horse race for attention may spell the end of the republic.

What a shitty way to go.

You sound like the Popular Front of Iudea, now!

Leave NATO and take the funding with us and undo Sanctions, is all I’m aware of.

That alone would be enough to ensure a Ukrainian genocide - Zelenskyy having openly said that they cannot win the war without American materiel - but Trump has also praised Putin as a ‘genius’ for invading Ukraine and proposed giving up Ukrainian land to Russia as part of a peace deal forced on Ukraine. How many more Buchas do we want, here? Man, I’m fucking tired of seeing videos of Ukrainian civilians maimed, shot, tortured, I’m tired of reading UN reports of widespread human rights abuses in the occupied territories and colonization by ethnic Russians, I’m tired of Russia outright bragging about how many children it has kidnapped from the occupied territories.

“Let’s keep that going, without resistance, until Russia is satisfied” is a resolution even more ridiculous than the US position on Palestine, and the US position on Palestine is already pretty fucking ridiculous.

The types of genocide aren’t even the same, Russias kidnapping and Russifying, Israel is killing and clearing land. Seems tough to compare to me.

If you think Israel’s ethnic cleansing goals and Russia’s are fundamentally different, you haven’t been paying attention, man. Whether they’re hawking beachfront property in Mariupol or Gaza, whether they’re selling that property to Russian oligarchs or Israeli oligarchs, whether their plan is to deport hundreds of thousands, at minimum, to satisfy their territorial desires in Gaza or the Donbass? It’s the fucking same. Palestinian conventional resistance is just further collapsed than Ukraine’s.

Do you understand what Trump has proposed for Ukraine? I ask that unironically, I know I’m pissy and short on this topic, but I’m genuinely asking here.

They also have Tanks, Planes, and working Hospitals. Does Palestine?

How many tanks and planes do you think will help the Palestinian cause at this junction?

Don’t worry about the hospitals, Russia is working on that too

I want them to know that if they get my vote it will be just barely and something they need to earn. It’s literally the least I can do while I’m partially funding a genocide.

Oh, okay, and the Ukrainians that are going to be subjected to genocide when Trump gets into office? Do they get the ‘literal least you can do’, or is it only Palestinians which get that, and Ukrainians need to ‘earn’ your vote for Biden too?

What we’re doing is horrible. Regardless of guilt, however, there is no realistic situation in which a Dem ticket in November losing is anything but catastrophic for everyone, Palestinians included. There’s not a question of ‘earning’ anything. It’s not a game, Biden is not a player or a stripper. It’s a question of what will happen after one of the two options get into office - supplying Israel while wagging our finger impotently; or giving Israel everything they ask for, Ukraine being genocided, and American minorities being subjected to horrific conditions, very likely including our very own genocide?

If you’re undecided at all between those two outcomes… I have nothing I can say to you, except that you had better fucking not ever claim you ‘support’ democracy, the rights of minorities in the US, or the right of a people to resist genocide again. All you oppose is feeling bad about your government’s budget, and want to absolve yourself of the responsibility that comes with being a citizen in a somewhat democratic polity.