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from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
By Hiba Yazbek, Abu Bakr Bashir, and Lara Jakes
Jan. 8, 2025 Updated 1:19 p.m. ET
So tell us, what was the realistic option that would have halted the genocide?
If we cannot count on democrats to stand against genocide, which should be the easiest thing to be against, then what makes you think democrats would stand for the people in other ways that conflict with what those in power want?
The only realistic option halting the genocide was putting pressure on the democrats and the only way to apply pressure to a politician for the non-rich is by threatening to withhold a vote for them.
If politicians refuse to listen to voters during an election, which is a most critical time, then clearly they will refuse to listen to voters outside of an election where you can’t even threaten to vote them out.
Has a lesson been demonstrably taught and learnt?
Let’s find out. Should Democrats have sold weapons that they knew were going to be used for genocide?
You can’t teach those who don’t want to learn.
Leading by example, I see.
Biden should have abided by the Leahy law. No democrat has any business supplying a genocide.
Whether or not it would have stopped the genocide, who knows? We didn’t need to be complicit.
So handing the presidency to Trump is an improvement?
Of course trump isn’t. That’s why I voted for Harris.
So you can excuse genocide because the other guy also supports it?
So you just can’t help putting words on other people’s mouths?
You, same thread:
Like where you wrote as if people were claiming trump would be an improvement?
Actions speak louder than words.
Like when Biden said he wanted a ceasefire but kept sending Israel weapons anyway?
Like when Trump said he’d “end it” immediately?
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