For the second time in the less than four months, the US Senate has resoundingly voted in support of continuing the genocide in Gaza by rejecting two resolutions aimed at blocking some $9 billion in weapons to the Israeli government.

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    2 months ago

    Do you think Jeffrey Epstein was the first or the only guy blackmailing politicians and officials for Mossad?

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      It is a coldly political calculation. The Dems are afraid that if they refuse to facililitate Israeli genocide, then American Jews won’t vote for them. At the same time, MAGA Nazis will step right up and pledge to kill every Muslim in the Middle East, and sweep up every vote.

      The Dems can’t afford to lose a fairly monolithic voting block.

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    In his speech, Sanders, an agent of US imperialism, observed that the US ruling class’ open support for war crimes in Gaza undercuts attempts by Washington to advance “human rights” arguments to justify US interventions and military actions around the world.

    Does anyone know why this site refers to Senator Sanders as an “agent of US imperialism”?

    This is very strange and makes it difficult to take this article seriously - which is a shame given the ongoing genocide.

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      Because Sanders says Israel has the right to defend itself, refuses to call it a genocide, wants to send interceptors to Israel and blames the entire genocide on Hamas and Netanyahu insread of Israel.

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    Isn’t it lovely that, in these times of polarization, division and conflict, all of Congress can come together and join hands in the common cause of genocidal slaughter of innocents.

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    If I have to vote for mid term, likely third party. Then Democrats have that Pikachu face. They have been compromised

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    Our government is full of geriatric fucks who are on the wrong side of history. Plus some younger ones on the wrong side. Basically none of them represent the will of the majority of young people. But it’s fine, whatever, fuck it.

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      But alienating our base so that we can lose elections to MAGA republicans is perfectly OK.

      Obviously, the problem is with the voters, not us, say the Democrats.

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    A correct headline: most of the Democrats and all of the Republicans supported the genocide.

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      Even more correct: most of the US government supports genocide, and don’t care that their constituents don’t.

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    So we either get Republican leaders who want everyone to suffer, or democratic leaders who only want others to suffer.

    I quit earth.

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      Democratic leaders might not want everyone to suffer, but frankly it doesn’t matter because their policies make everyone suffer anyway (among a host of other things, by giving legitimacy to fascists). The difference between Democrats and Republicans is one of degree, not kind.

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        Can you further explain how Democrat policies make everyone suffer and give legitimacy to fascists? I assume you’re talking about old style corpo dems?

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    WHY is it so fucking hard for them to take a hard line against genocide?? What the fuck. I feel like I’m going crazy watching this.