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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  • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Just don’t blame the voters with spines when he loses the election.

    Edit: To all the geniuses saying Trump is worse, you are no different than MAGA. Saying you’ll vote for Biden regardless of a fucking genocide means that he’ll get away with anything. If you morons actually cared you would have protested instead of trying to make people vote for a genocidal zionist cuck. Yet here we are.

    Joe Biden isn’t catering to me and my friends

    Apparently not wanting to fund a genocide with my tax dollars is the same as me bitching about gas prices. The funniest part is that these people think that they are so much better than MAGA.

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      9 months ago

      Lol I love this take.

      Normal people:

      Donald Trump getting elected will be bad for labor rights, abortion rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, among a ton of other freedoms. I should do the simple thing and vote for Joe Biden even though I disagree with some of his policies and he hasn’t taken a strong enough stance on others that I support. I understand he has to compromise and can’t tailor his policies exactly to my niche beliefs. Even if I don’t vote, Biden or Trump will be president; I should vote for the one that will at least do some of the things I support.

      The brave freedom fighters on Lemmy with a spine:

      Joe Biden isn’t catering to me and my friends, I’m not voting for that capitalist neo liberal pig Joe Biden. Surely the Democrats will call me next time they nominate a candidate, after all we should be catered too even though we’re an extremely small community.

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          I’m sure your little club is just big enough to get Donald Trump elected, that’s how margins work.

          Unfortunately for you there a magnitudes more voters that would be alienated by your fringe politics, so most elected officials aren’t going to give your ideas priority. To think otherwise is the attitude of a petulant child that wants a happy meal when the rest of the family wants to go to sushi.

          Despite all that I think you’ve convinced me. The best way to stop the genocide in Gaza now, in March of 2024, is to make sure that the Zionist, single state solution, ban on Palestinian immigration candidate gets elected to be our president in from 2025 through 2029. That will definitely teach those damn establishment Democrats to listen to us, and will 100% improve the lives of the people in Gaza and the west bank. I’m sure that Trump is just joking about immigrants tainting the blood of America. He’s surely not serious about project 2025, or enacting a nation wide abortion ban after 6 weeks. We have to get this guy elected in November to stop the genocide today.

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      9 months ago

      As long as they didn’t vote for the fascist who intends to start a dictatorship and also supports Israel just as strongly.

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      You already did that with Hillary, really worked out great for everyone, huh? I do not understand how anyone can consider a second Trump presidency preferable to Biden just not doing as much as they would like.

      What exactly do you think Trump would be doing in any way better in this situation?

      Being bitter about your choices so letting others make the choice for you is way more spineless.

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        9 months ago

        Nope.

        Progressives held their noses and voted for Clinton, and again for Biden, and some are finally realizing as long as they vote “blue no matter who” the people running the DNC will never give a shit about them.

        And while “vote in the primary” used to be common advice, NH lost their delegates for something Dems in NH have zero control over after voting progressive over party favorite against Clinton and Biden.

        And lots of us live in states that don’t have primary votes before the party names their leader.

        If your mad things changed, be mad at the DNC for taking away primaries.

        Not voters who decided acting like Republicans the last 30 years hasn’t helped anyone

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          Very much disagree. It seems you’re suggesting that the fallout from another Trump presidency will lead to better long term results than a second Biden presidency?

          What happens to Ukraine after you stick it to the man and support Trump? Nobody is learning the lesson you want them to. You’re supporting a dictatorship through cynicism. You can be mad at more than one group. DNC could be doing more. Biden could be doing more. Normal voters acting like helping a literal traitor back into office is the better alternative could be doing better.

          Like it or not (I don’t), we are stuck with the two choices. Helping the guy who literally says he wants to be a dictator is illogical in every context. If you actually care, volunteer in local elections and donate to candidates that support your views, help create a strong next generation of progressive democrat candidates.

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            It seems you’re suggesting that the fallout from another Trump presidency will lead to better long term results than a second Biden presidency?

            I’m saying:

            1. as long as progressives vote “blue no matter who” party leaders won’t stop moving right.

            2. Primaries have continued to be less open ever since Obama beat Clinton in 08.

            Obama flipped lots of red states that general.

            We all saw how effective that was. But party leaders don’t want that type of candidate. So they pulled him to the right, gave him a conservate friendly Dem as VP, and as of 2024, started cancelling Dem primaries if it’s an earlier state that votes progressive.

            I don’t think they’ll ever cancel my states primary tho, in fact even when Bernie refuses to drop early the DNC always says the primary is over before my state gets to vote.

            The DNC doesn’t give a single fuck about me. If they were legit trying to win and help when they get in office it would be different.

            But they’re just not doing enough.

            So tell me.

            What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?

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              What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?

              Split ticket voting. Local elections, local primaries, down ballot votes. We need a generational shift in party leadership. Party leaders generally start as smaller/more local candidates. If you have a strong roster of “up and coming” progressives winning primaries and elections those progressives get more power and sway in the party as they win bigger offices.

              I think it would send largely the same message you want without the global harm to have Biden stuck with a Republican legislature. They are still bad, but Trump is the cult leader and the actual danger.

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                But the party acts against them in primaries and AIPAC will put ridiculous money against them that their constituents will never be able to match, and they don’t take shady PAC money to make up for it.

                And in the House, there’s so many seats in rural areas where even 20k to a PAC can but the election.

                We’ve been trying that, and it’s still not working fast enough.

                The water is still rising and our lifeboat is still sinking.