I'm sure this won't end up just like the GOP immigrant caravans of ms-13 and disappear right after the election.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
-16 points (39.7% liked)
Political Memes
5347 readers
2408 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
While I don't disagree that the issue is used hypocritically, Israel's genocide has been going on a long damn time at this point.
I agree on that.
I'm not speaking to the underlying principles, but how this is being used as this election's migrant caravan emergency that's the only thing we can think about this close to the election, but will vanish again in mid-november.
I've had many .mls explain why Gaza is innocent and letting America support genocide is intolerable, but Ukraine should have surrendered to Russia to preserve the peace.
There's princjple, then there's obvious astroturfing.
Yeah, it would be much more accurate to flip the two as centrists and right wing people have ignored Israel's countless crimes against humanity for 75 years!
So have many pounding it now. It's not any more genocide than it was for the last 20 to 40 years. It's definitely kicked up a notch. But always been genocide. Seeing so many on the "left" pop up as single issue voters around it in the last year. Is good but specious. Seeing how many of them claim to want to pull Democrats to their side, but not Republicans. Is suspicious. And those aiming to enable the worst actors because Democrats aren't dropping everything to give them everything they desire. Downright sinister. And not to be enabled or normalized.
I don't disagree that compromising on genocide etc should ever be an acceptable situation. But it is the situation were sadly in. That so many would claim to want to stop the genocide, while glibly hand waving away any improvement to the conditions. That aren't perfect, complete, or pure in their eyes. It's unconscionable. Childishly screeching at any that disagree with or point out flaws in their claims or views. As blue maga or genocide enablers. Make no mistake that they are nearly as much a roadblock to solutions as those actually championing the genocide.
Lots of people talk big. Claiming that they have the solution. That it's easy. That they only need to do this one trick. That's how you know they're full of shit.