Joe Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza
Joe Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza
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Joe Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza
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Great! Now just ban weapons exports to Israel effective immediately, as a demonstration of intent.
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Palestinian children die by the thousands? Not gonna call it
Arab journalists targeted by snipers? Not gonna call it
Palestinians starving to death? Not gonna call it
Hospitals obliterated while occupied? Not gonna call it
White aid workers? CEASEFIRE! One of them was white British and another was a white Australian! Israel you have gone too far!
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Lol and it’s still performative. He hasn’t done a damn thing to stifle support.
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Biden can just force a ceasefire any time he wants by just telling Israel he'll cut off funding and arms and intel.
And if they don't listen and try to do their thing (genocide) anyways while being completely cut off for months and months, well that will be when it might be okay to say "genocide Joe did eventually try to rein it in a little".
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It’s not up to Biden, he’s just the representative.
The bourgeoisie are all behind Israel. Find me a corporation that puts up both Ukraine and Palestinian flags. You can’t.
The bourgeoisie want a war and Biden will give it to them. If not, they will find someone else who does.
I continue to be baffled by people here who think the voters somehow decide the election. No, this is a bourgeois democracy. The bourgeoisie decide who gets to run the country. Voters have no say in it whatsoever.
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Find me a corporation that puts up both Ukraine and Palestinian flags. You can’t.
Not a corporation, but I did see an apartment above a corner store that had flags in every window. Palestinian, Ukrainian, that red and white Belorussian flag, Western Saharah.
Least confused flag haver.
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While the bourgeoisie are of course the ruling class, and this includes power over the state, the mechanisms they use allow for someone like Biden to easily do what I mentioned. His rabid Zionism is a major factor in how this is playing out. Biden the rabid Zionist is in office because of the bourgeoisie, as an example for how they exert power. But he could withhold much from the Israeli project and only a minority of the ruling class would whine about it - those with major investments in Israel.
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The bourgeoisie want a war and Biden will give it to them. If not, they will find someone else who does.
If you're president and the bourgeoisie ask you to support a genocide, the bare minimum response is to refuse and dare them to JFK you. Even if Biden was personally opposed to this (and he isn't), he'd get no credit for spinelessly caving.
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You leave me no choice but to ask you nicely again!
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"You do that about 6 or 7 more times and you're gonna have a problem with me, fat!"
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But my guy you just send them weapons the other fucking day
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People who spent the last week passionately arguing that Joe doesn't have to listen to do anything, because everything is fine, will now flip to saying that we should be happy because Joe finally did something.
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And that we should just accept this one win, go home, and stop fighting everything else til Nov 12th
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Gonna do em one better and stay home until the 13th
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Wow I love when presidents call for the people in charge to take action...oh wait
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the AOC maneuver
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The thousandth warning to Israel to protect civilians or risk losing US support. And surely, like every other time, the US will continue send weapons.
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I’ll believe it when Palestine is free (or when the weapons’ shipments stop, at the very least).
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I've been trying to imagine why Tired Old Joe suddenly is calling for a ceasefire. My wild guess is that he's worried that an invasion of Rafah would be butchery and a bloodbath so bad that the aftermath could continue to election day and he might have totally fucked himself out of any chance for a second term.
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and he might have totally fucked himself out of any chance for a second term
He's already done that. There's no undoing it short of actually punishing Israel in a major way.
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"And another thing, I'm not genociding, please don't put it in the newspaper that I'm genociding"
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My guess was the hoothi were about to do something cool. They did just get hypersonics and the us is now trying diplomatic solutions. They should still sink an aircraft carrier tho
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You just fucking sent them f-35s and bombs you sack of shit.
Love to call for an end to drunk driving while I crack my 5th beer doing 90 in a 65.
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Would have been really nice to do this before sending them a bunch of F16s
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Guess they harvested enough adrenochrome from Palestinian bodies to keep Joe alive through November, so he can call for a ceasefire now
- Checking to make sure this isn't Melina (RIP) posting to FakeNews
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Prediction - within the next ~24 hours before the Friday night news dump obscures interest - Hillary is going to go out of her way to "incidentally" make a comment she knows it will be recorded and disseminated. She's going to say something like "First, more must be done to pressure Hamas. A ceasefire is premature."
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That's a little rude for an April fool's joke
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The official whitehouse briefing said that he 'underscored' that a ceasefire would improve things and urged them to negotiate, and it wasn't conditional. I can't wait for someone to tell me to vote for biden because he called for a ceasefire.
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For four years the people who voted for Joe Biden have seen him "call for" universal healthcare, a (conditional) ceasefire, etc. You're the fucking president, do something about it! He is going to lose.
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He would be going to lose in a free and fair election
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cool, still hope he dies though
Death to America
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This reminds me of the scene in spinal tap where it's like 1972 and they are dressed up in full hippie attire singing 'where have all the flower children gone'
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The US is normally the staunchest supporter of Israel’s right to defend itself, but for some unknown reason the Biden Administration is suddenly signaling that its support is now uncommitted and uninstructed.
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only 6 months late you fucking prick
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Over 3 years late. Actually more like 16 years late. Or really 52 years late.
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Ok, then act on it.
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He probably is substituting a ‘pause’ by calling it ceasefire + I don’t believe him+ will probably send more arms + another 20 billion to Israel when this cools down. There is literally no reason to believe his words besides copium at this point, hes done zilch so far. he’s worried about how this looks to the world, and his election chances.
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I sincerely do hope this changes things in a material way for Palestinian people, even though I'm fully expecting to be disappointed.
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Please elect me haha
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US president also warns Netanyahu that Israel must protect civilians and aid workers or risk losing US support
Israel will pull a JFK before this happens lol. Or hell, his fellow American citizens will do it for Israel
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I wonder what the current status is this bullshit is...