The who published what?!?

Holy shit those knives came out quick. I need to get some popcorn for this internecine fighting.

It taught me everything. We rigged their side of town with radioactive bombs. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan!

The boomers were actually better than Gen X. The only reason we think people get more conservative is because we had a generation with reliable news. Then as they got older they kept Fox News on whenever they weren’t watching something else, just all the time. They didn’t realize Fox was propaganda and Gen X hasn’t realized CNN was bought out years ago with the specific idea of turning it into Fox News 2.

What we need in this country is some media literacy.

See my other comment for the answer to this utterly bad faith line.

Of course that would be a bad thing. Are we really at the point where we have to declare that bad things are bad things? But the Biden administration would have greenlit it too as long as Bibi said there was Hamas there.

The Arab people that have lived there for thousands of years? You sir, are ridiculous.

Setting aside the exact issue we’re talking about?

No.

And no, having left an area 2,000 years ago does not give you the right to genocide the people who stayed.

There is no problem, they have their part of town and we have ours.

Shocked. Shocked I am that it was just a political performance. Again.

Are we going to get another USAID report directly contradicting the decision again too?

Immediate ceasefire was also Biden’s publicly stated position. While he was sending 2,000 pound bombs. Which are not a defensive weapon in any military’s playbook.

And US law doesn’t distinguish. All military aid should have stopped the minute USAID made the determination that Israel was withholding food from Gaza. Both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Leahy Law make this clear. And this is after the mountains of evidence that Israel was systematically bombing concentrations of IDPs and aid workers, and using Palestinians as human shields. Any one of which would have shut off military aid to any other country.

So you have the Vice President saying the same thing as her President while he’s violating the law to fund a genocide. This isn’t shocking. The Arab Americans in Michigan are human. Expecting them to vote for the person who won’t make herself meaningfully different on the issue is a fools errand. It doesn’t get worse from their point of view, there is no super genocide.

That’s a roundabout way to say you consider them selfish for not voting for a candidate they believe will keep the genocide of their relatives going.

First of all I’m not omniscient. I don’t see everything that’s posted. But please go read what I said again. I did not say I believed her stance to be the same as Biden’s. I said she failed to meaningfully separate herself from Biden’s policies.

She said the exact same thing Biden was saying while he was sending 2,000 pound bombs to Israel.

And Jordanlund is wrong about the “defensive” weapons. The only defensive thing we send is the iron dome missiles. We also send everything from bullets to tank shells to plane bombs. None of which are purely defensive.

She could have used messaging along the lines of, “I believe our military aid requires more stringent investigations into units receiving it.” But for whatever reason she didn’t. The pro Palestinian lobby was very clear about what they wanted to hear from her in order to vote for her and she did not meet that bar.

The only better information would be if a state released anonymized voting data by party.

The war crimes that Biden decided weren’t bad enough to stop weapon shipments were committed in the West Bank. Go learn something before you embarrass yourself.

You think they weren’t fucking up the West Bank already? You haven’t been paying attention.

Yeah I’m going to stay on the side of not having military palace coups being a good thing.

Ah yes, I must be naive. It can’t be that you’re wrong about the already existing levels of death.

Sorry, a “directive”. Same difference, same problem.

Abraham Lincoln

Yup it absolutely served a purpose. It proved Trump is immune to any legal consequences.