Why does CNN put genocide in quotes in the article after the international court has already ruled that the actions in Gaza meet the definition?
“Journalistic integrity”
Technically, they only ruled that genocide is plausible enough to hear the case (and that South Africa has a right to bring the case).
Imagine thinking you’ll even be able to legally protest if Trump is president.
Pelosi is already directing the FBI to investigate pro-Palestine protestors https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pelosi-fbi-pro-palestine-protesters-russia-1234955648/
Is this what we can expect for every criticism of the Biden administration for the next year? All you are really telling swing voters is that their opinion is irrelevant. What do you think that will do for turnout? Why do you think the administration itself isn’t making use of this brilliant electoral strategy? When Trump wins, you can thank the guy in the mirror.
Did I say their opinion is irrelevant? I said, like last time, Trump will attack them and try to outlaw protests while working for the highest bidder. It’s not an attempt at swaying, it’s stating fact. You don’t get change by replacing the status quo guy with a straight up fascist.
If ever criticism is met with “But Trump…”, then you are making their opinion irrelevant. There will always be a worse Republican.
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Pelosi is currently calling for protests to be suppressed. I care more about what politicians are actually doing than what you imagine they are going to do in your CNN addled brain
I don’t watch CNN, but I did watch Trump call for the National guard to deal with protesters and tear gas them for a photo op.
It literally is not, you’re just speculating.
It’s fact, based on his track record.
Fascism is the status quo.
Maybe, but I’ll take “maybe fascism” over full on Christofascism.
At least Biden’s not tear gassing protesters to take a picture holding a Bible for masturbating Christofascists.
Btw, I’m in no way a Biden supporter, but I’ll be fucked if I support Trump.
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It was also reported by the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-fbi-russia-gaza-protesters.html
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And when he was president they regularly tried to outlaw protests, tear gasses them, etc. Not to mention a Trump presidency costed Roe v Wade and stacked the supreme Court with bought and sold Christofascists. I didn’t say he never was president, I said he’ll straight up outlaw protests the next time he is, which he was well on his way to doing the last time.
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Pure vibes. The Trump administration was no worse for protests than any other administration in my life time.
Are you a small child? He literally tear gassed protesters to take a photo op.
Yeah, great job there, Biden.
Nope. Trump’s admin.
The Democrats literally let the Republicans have two of those seats.
They didn’t have the house, plus they’re not great, but they’re better than Trump.
Want to make a bet on it?
It’s not a game and I’m not a child. He will.
Lol no.
Lol yeah, he literally wanted to call in the National guard, you can look it up.
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I am very upset about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Netanyahu is an authoritarian, just like Putin, Un, Xi and others. They all want their peasants to live under their dictatorial rule. Just as capitalism begets monopolies, authoritarians beget dictators. I cannot vote for Trump and I think that it would be a terrible for not only for us in the US, but for the whole world.
I wish more people understood that the very last policy that changes in a government is its foreign policy. If you want to change the way the US interacts with the world, we have to change our internal government first. We have a system that only functionally allows a two party solution. Our choices this time around are an openly enthusiastic dictator or someone who has their foreign policy set in the last 75 years. Trump - hell, any Republican is bad - their whole party is all in on dictatorship because they see a threat to white people rule. Biden is, unfortunately, the only threat minimizing choice. What he needs though, is more and more progressive representation in Congress. Importantly, second term presidents tend to be when the big changes are implemented (since they don’t have to run for reelection) as prior to then they are centrist to appeal to a larger voter base (traditionally).
The machinations of government are slow to change - it’s big, things don’t change on a dime. There is no doubt the world is different now and we’re still operating on a playbook that was designed in the 1950’s.
In realistic terms - we vote for Biden and get an opportunity to change policy in a peaceful way. Or we elect Trump wherein the odds of a violent revolution against totalitarian dictators takes foot on our own soil. And us leftists won’t be the ones with the Army’s guns at that point. This is serious, this game of chess is far more complex than I believe most people realize.
I don’t like these choices, but I cannot in good conscience cast a vote for an authoritarian and I believe it wise for everyone to consider the ramifications of that.
Trump would probably bomb the shit out of Palestine.
Then the result is the same. Thanks, Biden.
Biden isn’t sending drones to bomb Palestine, to my knowledge. I’m saying that Trump would do that. If Trump were in power, it would probably be worse.
Not to excuse Biden, and his complete apathy for this ongoing genocide. It is unexcusable, and no one who tolerates genocide should be allowed anywhere near politics.
Biden isn’t sending drones to bomb Palestine, to my knowledge.
He bypassed Congress to send weapons to Israel. I think similar shit happened on several occasions, and it’s not nearing an end. What’s the difference? American tax money all the same.
I don’t think you will find anyone on this thread who supports Trump or thinks Trump will not be “worse”.
I guess he litterally sending both drones and bombs, but I meant that Trump would order a direct strike. But you’re right, that’s not much different in the end, is it? The main difference is that Biden maintains some plausible deniability. “WE didn’t kill anyone! We didn’t know they would use these tools for genocide!”. Maybe in some sense that IS worse.
Deep in my heart, I just hope both Trump and Biden get heart attacks before the elections kick off. Voters would get a fresh choice then.
I’m afraid that in our current political system, voters would get a fresh choice of candidates who would probably still send weapons to Israel. Somehow we need deeper political change.
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When Trump was president suddenly all the atrocities of the Obama presidency weren’t acceptable. Now that Biden is president it’s all fine again. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather a public that is paying attention and thus limiting the president from being able to facilitate genocide.
Things are changing, if slowly. People are paying attention, and they are pissed at Biden.
