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[–] [email protected] 228 points 9 months ago (23 children)

Biden: We’ve been reluctantly supporting a very close ally, but it’s gone too far, and now we’re publicly condemning while admittedly still funding them. It’s a complicated situation, and I’m a cautious centrist.

Trump: Why are there still buildings standing in Gaza? That won’t happen on my watch. May as well wipe out the West Bank while we’re at it.

For the life of me, I can’t tell the difference. I have no idea who to vote for to help the Palestinians.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Now plaster this shit everywhere. K, thnx.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

The uncommitted were always derpy for ignoring the obvious. Now what will they do with their time?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

GeNoCiDe JoE!!!1!1

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Man who some have called a fascist, backs a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (6 children)

In all honesty I think if Trump was president right now, not only would I have been shot about 2 years ago (lots of Trump assholes around me and I was pretty vocal on the town page when I was on FB back in 2020), we absolutely would have boots on the ground in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Captain! Captain they're shooting at us!"

"Well, shoot back!"

Yeah, plenty of likely Brownshirts around me, and they may get the drop, but I'm not harmless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Thankfully we’ve had four more years to get more people armed. A lot of us are no longer unable to defend ourselves and our communities.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 9 months ago (13 children)

This is what I've been pointing out all along... Say what you want about Biden funding Israel, Trump is actively worse.

And no, Jill Stein or Cornell West are not viable alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

But what about naz-yay? (Yeay? Yeah?)

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[–] [email protected] 286 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Yeah but deciding not to vote for Biden just feels like a good trendy way to express my sympathies with Palestineans... /s

[–] [email protected] 197 points 9 months ago (65 children)

I hope this gets posted in all the leftist boards. People need to understand Biden is a continuation of the United States' wishy-washy policies on Palestinians whereas Trump is pedal to the floor full acceleration towards genocide. Biden has shown he can at least be pressured into taking minor steps in the right direction. Being able to claim moral purity at the expense of a genocided Palestine will ring pretty hollow.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Donald Trump is hoping to win big on Super Tuesday, and he kicked off the primary’s most vote-rich day with one of his favorite traditions from his time as president: calling in to Fox News to deliver an unhinged rant.

The former president called Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning, where he celebrated Monday’s Supreme Court decision barring states from removing him from the ballot, doubled down on his claims that migrants are “poisoning our country,” and declared that Israel has to “finish the problem” in Gaza.

“People are coming from jails and prisons, and mental institutions and insane asylums, and there are terrorists,” he said of undocumented migrants crossing the southern border into the United States.

As previously reported by Rolling Stone, Trump has basked in criticism of his rhetoric on immigration and privately vowed to take things even further.

Behind the scenes, Trump and his closest allies have been hard at work identifying legal loopholes that would allow them to carry out a hardline crackdown on undocumented immigration without needing to consult Congress.

As Rolling Stone reported in January, one such proposal includes the revival of the Alien Enemies Act, a zombie law that allows presidents to unilaterally authorize the deportation of foreign individuals.


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