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Biden walks back sanctions on Israeli settlers following Smotrich's threat (archive.ph)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If people took half of the energy they spend shaming people for not adhering to the two-party system and turned it to pressuring Biden to be a better candidate he'd have switched positions by now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Fucking genocide loving liberal

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago

biden has been a zionist for probably longer than you've been alive

you're not going to push him left. ever.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But how do you pressure him into being a better candidate when the only threat you have against him, i.e. voting him out, is held hostage by the fact that if you do vote him out an even more extreme radical will get in power?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Almost like we need ranked choice voting and eliminate the electoral college so we can have more than 2 choices.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Democrats consistently support & pass RCV, while Republicans repeal & ban it. If you want RCV, you need to support Dems in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not even remotely true:

On March 28, a District of Columbia Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party to stop an initiative from qualifying. The initiative hasn’t even gathered the signatures yet, yet the Democratic Party had been hoping to block it. The judge said the lawsuit isn’t ripe, and could be filed again if the initiative qualifies and passes. The initiative also would change the law to let independent voters vote in partisan primaries, but it is not an initiative that abolishes the ability of parties to have nominees.

So tired of this myth

It wasn't just Republicans who opposed the system. Democrats were in power in some cases and also opposed it. That's why we got ranked-choice, it was done through a ballot initiative because neither party wanted to implement it or to pass a law that would implement it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it. Biden doesn't give a hoot about what his voting base thinks or wants because they're going to mindlessly vote for him no matter how many genocides he does

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Disagree, if the centrists, liberals, and Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd worked him over half as hard at they work over us there'd be no reason not to give in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except for the main reason of "all of Biden's donors would leave him." Neoliberal democracy has nothing to do with voters, it has everything to do with fundraisers. If Biden loses his fundraisers to someone else, the voters will follow, because that money will buy the propaganda to move them. This is how neoliberal democracy works. To think otherwise is idealist; it has never worked that way and it never will work that way under the current system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

A chunk of the funders hedge their bets though, right?

And what organization that has spent potentially MILLIONS of dollars at this point is just going to walk away from their investment instead of allowing their pet capital critter a bit of slack on the leash to give some crumbs to the unwashed masses to quiet us down?