Trump's latest idea has renewed Democratic criticism of pro-Palestinian activists who encouraged voters not to back Biden or Harris in the presidential election.
I think it’s interesting but maybe not surprising that you totally ignored my pretty detailed arguments about income and climate policy
the topic of this thread is the genocide in Gaza, Biden’s complicity in it, and the response to that from Democratic voters.
as is typical of Biden apologists, you’ve tried to minimize it, and deflect from it, by bringing up non-sequiturs.
I haven’t taken the bait, and tried to avoid letting the thread about genocide get derailed into a thread about section 403b1 of the Inflation Reduction Act or whatever.
and yeah, I’m sure that’s very disappointing. my thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time.
maybe you’ll get the response you’re looking for if you started a thread for “let’s talk about all the amazing things in Biden’s four years that didn’t involve children having limbs amputated without anesthesia”
But also, in terms of Biden specifically, he actually does seem to have a lot of principles in terms of what he did in office. With Gaza as one glaring and war-criminal exception.
yeah, Biden was an amazing president, if you ignore the genocide that he supported.
Mussolini made the trains run on time. Hitler boosted the German economy by acquiring more farmland. Slobodan Milošević probably had some ideas about progressive tax policy or something.
genocide denial isn’t just “I deny that genocide is happening”. it’s more pernicious than that. it can also take the form of aggressively changing the subject. mention that 6 million Jewish people died in the Holocaust, and some Holocaust deniers will dispute that directly, but others of them will jangle “lots of other people died too” keys in front of your face as an attempted distraction.
I have a pro-Israel friend, when I talked to him about how Palestinians in the West Bank are forbidden from collecting rain water he didn’t deny it, he just changed the subject to talk about the incredible advances that Israeli scientists have made in water-efficient irrigation techniques.
I’d urge you to consider that your comments have the effect of this sort of “soft” genocide denial, most likely without you intending it at all.
Not really. Or, I mean, I know you brought those things into it, but the main topic of the thread was the “uncommitted” voters and whether or not they made a mistake.
Then, you brought other arguments into it, including “Democrats have no principles”, abortion, immigration, Lina Khan, and Black Mirror. I responded to the new arguments you brought up and you became unhappy, suddenly, that we weren’t talking about Gaza anymore, and refused to respond to my response to what you said.
genocide denial isn’t just “I deny that genocide is happening”. it’s more pernicious than that. it can also take the form of aggressively changing the subject.
I responded directly about Biden and Trump vis-a-vis genocide, when we were talking about genocide. Trump is infinitely worse, vis-a-vis genocide. Someone who cares about genocide and doesn’t want to change the subject should be panicked about the prospect of Trump winning, even if the alternative is a Democrat. That is precisely the topic of this comments thread, before you changed the subject, aggressively, to “Democrats.”
I do generally agree with your “perniciousness” argument. In particular, something like saying “Trump’s illegal calls for ethnic cleansing are horrific, but” should be a screaming red flag that the sentence needs to stop before the “but” comes in. Or maybe be finished up with “so it would obviously be a crisis if he gained power, so we should stop that.”
the topic of this thread is the genocide in Gaza, Biden’s complicity in it, and the response to that from Democratic voters.
as is typical of Biden apologists, you’ve tried to minimize it, and deflect from it, by bringing up non-sequiturs.
I haven’t taken the bait, and tried to avoid letting the thread about genocide get derailed into a thread about section 403b1 of the Inflation Reduction Act or whatever.
and yeah, I’m sure that’s very disappointing. my thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult time.
maybe you’ll get the response you’re looking for if you started a thread for “let’s talk about all the amazing things in Biden’s four years that didn’t involve children having limbs amputated without anesthesia”
yeah, Biden was an amazing president, if you ignore the genocide that he supported.
Mussolini made the trains run on time. Hitler boosted the German economy by acquiring more farmland. Slobodan Milošević probably had some ideas about progressive tax policy or something.
genocide denial isn’t just “I deny that genocide is happening”. it’s more pernicious than that. it can also take the form of aggressively changing the subject. mention that 6 million Jewish people died in the Holocaust, and some Holocaust deniers will dispute that directly, but others of them will jangle “lots of other people died too” keys in front of your face as an attempted distraction.
I have a pro-Israel friend, when I talked to him about how Palestinians in the West Bank are forbidden from collecting rain water he didn’t deny it, he just changed the subject to talk about the incredible advances that Israeli scientists have made in water-efficient irrigation techniques.
I’d urge you to consider that your comments have the effect of this sort of “soft” genocide denial, most likely without you intending it at all.
Correct.
Not really. Or, I mean, I know you brought those things into it, but the main topic of the thread was the “uncommitted” voters and whether or not they made a mistake.
Then, you brought other arguments into it, including “Democrats have no principles”, abortion, immigration, Lina Khan, and Black Mirror. I responded to the new arguments you brought up and you became unhappy, suddenly, that we weren’t talking about Gaza anymore, and refused to respond to my response to what you said.
I responded directly about Biden and Trump vis-a-vis genocide, when we were talking about genocide. Trump is infinitely worse, vis-a-vis genocide. Someone who cares about genocide and doesn’t want to change the subject should be panicked about the prospect of Trump winning, even if the alternative is a Democrat. That is precisely the topic of this comments thread, before you changed the subject, aggressively, to “Democrats.”
I do generally agree with your “perniciousness” argument. In particular, something like saying “Trump’s illegal calls for ethnic cleansing are horrific, but” should be a screaming red flag that the sentence needs to stop before the “but” comes in. Or maybe be finished up with “so it would obviously be a crisis if he gained power, so we should stop that.”