The White House needs a cover story to obscure its complicity. In desperation, it is once again resurrecting the long-dead two-state solution
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    7 months ago

    I don’t understand why criticizing Biden implies you support Trump.

    If you’re gonna tell me to vote for the arguably lesser evil, you better believe I’m gonna complain about the results anyway lol.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
      921·
      7 months ago

      I always vote for the lesser evil which is why voting D or R isn’t even a consideration for me. It’s hard for some people to grasp, but if you vote for someone who is pro-genocide, it doesn’t really get any “more evil” so you shouldn’t vote for either.

  • Narrrz@kbin.social
    122·
    8 months ago

    Obama was all into war crimes in the middle east too, so I can’t pretend I’m surprised.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      1517·
      8 months ago

      All libs can do is bleat about is Trump while Biden is doing a genocide. The concept of actually taking responsibility for what people you elected are doing must be completely foreign to you.

    • blazera@kbin.social
      185·
      8 months ago

      We’re a massive ocean away, why would we be entitled to occupying their land?

    • appel@whiskers.bim.boats
      93·
      7 months ago

      “kinda scummy” are you serious? Have you seen the videos of mosques, hospitals and refugee campa getting flattened by bombs?

      Why do you want to be an ally with a nation that does this?

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
      77·
      8 months ago

      I’d just add that ‘Zionism’ means many different things to many different people. To some, it’s advocating that all Palestinians be forcefully removed from the region in support of the creation of a kind of Greater Israel. To others, it’s the mere acknowledgement that Israel is a thing that exists and that all Jews should not be forcefully removed from the region in support of the creation of a Greater Palestine.

      Depending on who’s using the term, it’s essentially either “thing I like” or “thing I don’t like”, and I wouldn’t read very much into it over examining actual specific policy.

      • porcupine
        71·
        8 months ago

        The former definition is being openly stated by the Israeli president, prime minister, and senior government officials as explicit justification for years of illegal settlements and apartheid.

        The latter definition is a purely speculative excuse from Euro-American liberals that ignores that Palestinian Jews existed before Zionism in order to pretend that Jews can’t exist as part of a multiethnic society.

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        36·
        8 months ago

        It’s often used as newspeak. Just like in 1984, complex and often nuanced issues are reduced to simple words, soundbites or phrases which limit critical thinking and the ability to articulate more abstract or balanced opinions.

        As you say, you’re then forced to make a choice, because the whole thing’s framed as a false dilemna.

        Because the whole debate’s so emotional and angry, any room for nuance is often dead on arrival, and gets buried in the cacaphony of the loudest and often most stupid voices.