Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel

he's going to lose states we didn't even know existed

he's losing East Dakota

yeah but trump would have sent a $1 billion weapons package but with a little bow on top

there's a berniecrat house dem in my district who is coming up for re-election. Reading their website it's like support for everything Bernie was going for in 2020 and more. Then I see they voted to give 20 billion dollars to israel and I'm like nah ain't voting for this dickhead

A candidate has to be a vocal anti-Zionist for me to even consider voting for them now. Zionists are feral and I don't trust such genocidal freaks with any amount of power.
- Honestly, the bare minimum I’ll accept is “Stop giving money and weapons,” and I’ll only phone bank if they’re calling for bombing Tel Aviv
It's incredibly hard to avoid flailing into conspiracy theories (conspiracy theory 1: this is all by design to induce conspiratorial thinking...), but I have been struggling for months now to understand why the fuck people like you described, classic "progressive except for Palestine" types haven't just dumped Israel. This is the golden opportunity. Israel has permanently lost US public support, dwindling by the day as boomers die.
You can be the "cool guy, who understands the kids!" and press on straight Nazis like robo-legs, no-dick-McGee or even... I was gonna keep making references but I'll leave it at the movie "The Goonies" and a character in it that resembles a US senator.
Yes AIPAC would fuck your ass, but they're gonna do that anyway. AIPAC goes after all the progressives and not for Israel shit all the time. They're just pro-fascism. Which makes sense considering it's a fucking lobby for a fascist state. If you're a liberal and lean at all to the left, you should be running directly against everything AIPAC backs. Obviously that means against Israel, but also all the other right wing shit AIPAC has backed.
It's just purely illogical and the only non-conspiracy conclusion is that DC is in such a bubble that they... don't see, somehow?... the polling, they can't see the obvious direction things are headed and most importantly I suppose, these are dipshit liberals, like Bernie (sorry, I will always like Bernie but he's a dipshit liberal- just our best liberal), who lack any integrity, fortitude, or even ideology.
"I just want cushcush jobby until I'm also 80."
That's all it is. Which is simultaneously obvious to everyone but also easily forgotten, even by myself, because we assume people in these jobs are there for literally any of the reasons they claim... but they aren't. They want the cushy powerful job, nepo hookups for their family, and they don't give a single shit about anything else. Unfortunately for the entire rest of the world it blinds them all to the reality that they are shitting in their own lunchbox right now with Palestine. And they've already shat the lunchbox on many other issues in the last few years/decades that could've kept the ship they suck from floating... too stupid to grift basically.
- The basic answer is because it's easy. You can either vote the same way everybody else does on a bill that will pass with overwhelming margins or you can lodge your insignificant protest vote and face weeks of media outrage that you're an antisemite, recall petitions if those exist, steamed hams showing up to your town hall events to yell at you, death threats, other congresspeople not wanting to sign on to your bills, whatever. The blowback from standing against the MIC is so high that you are turned into a pariah overnight.
  Maybe the dam will break at some point and a bunch of these progressive types will break from israel all at once. Impossible to predict when that will be though.
- DC is in such a bubble that they... don't see, somehow?
  I don't know how much this is the answer relative to other factors.
  But I will say that DC is the only place I've ever been with an even bigger reality distortion field around it than the SF Bay area.
  Exactly the same weird conversations between people trying to convince each other they're visionary tech luminaries who know what the next big thing is, yet can't immediately tell NFTs are a scam. But in DC they're trying to convince each other they know what the trends of world politics are.
- Fetterman is my prime example of this. Like, dude, what the fuck is going on? You ran as a progressive and are now so loudly supporting this genocide that your constituents are almost universally appalled by. Supporting Israel is not a winning strategy for you dude! What’re we doing??
- There's no grand conspiracy like you said. But there is also no confusion, no bubble. They see things clearly, clearer than anyone outside DC, clearer than you and me.
  No politician would survive attacking AIPAC because the other lobbies, who together control our politicians as surely as they control the rest of our lives will pull together to crush them.
  A new D politician has a choice one they're in their seat. They can go against the DNC and the lobbyists whose money and support hey need to continue to keep it, facing attack ads, death threats, and a primary against their own party.
  OR!
  They just have to do what they're told by the lobbyists who got them power and they get a chance at the grift trough.
  There is no third option. This is the state of our democracy
- For those people it's a lot of the Lobby and being primaried and having a million dollars in PAC money spent advertising their Zionist opponent.
  At the top level, ultimately Israel probably has the "family jewels" of US state criminality. A lot of shit got outsourced to Mossad.

The Democratic Party would rather support a genocide than to defeat Trump in the next election.

But you don't understand, if we don't support genocide America might BECOME fascist.
Genocide to the left of me, genocide to the right, here I am
stuck in the middle with you~
- The real horseshoe theory
I've seen them saying that trump would Gaza the US and the whole world will collapse blah blah blah. Basically, if it's happening to someone else, it's totally good and fine.

Hm. Do I vote for genocide guy or other genocide guy? What a democracy!

As an outsider it’s gotta be this genocide guy right? The other might give em nukes.
- Israel already has nukes, thanks to both Republican and Democratic presidents.
- I don't see how it's in Israel's best interest to nuke the land they are trying to take over. Also, it's right in their back yard. Nukes aren't something that only kill the "right" people. They leave entire populations, including people not even born yet with birth defects, and so on.

My polling numbers are down, what should I do?

Mr. President have you tried doing even more genocide?

Brilliant yes, surely that's the solution.

But his aides leaked a press report saying he’s deeply concerned about it and might do something about Netanyahu any minute now

Biden is going to give Israel a billion dollars in weapons, but he's not happy about it!

He wrote 'To Asshole' on the card so he'll be pulling support any day now
- :Pelosi-Clap:

The wrong head of state was shot. Why do we never get assassination attempts on the decrepit fucks who actually deserve it?

the assassination of william mckinley lead to the creation of the FBI, and liberals are liberals, otherwise bush and cheney would've eaten it.
Because the american left is conquered by idealism, violent resistance is a no-no.

Hey look we were allbright when we said the ceasefire bullshit was exactly that.

I'm sure that'll make liberals acknowledge we actually have a better grip on the situation than them.

Naw, they skipped right over the argument phase and are right back into "kill every last Palestinian"
- "MSNBC ran a news segment about some Israeli family that got killed and that's why I am for turning Gaza into a crater"
Where's the Atlas holding up the world tankie meme!?

Biden and the Dems could probably do a cynical if they wanted better optics, like just sending money (for aid ostensibly) to israel and letting them "misappropriate" the funds to buy weapons. Then he could even have free market types on his side, or at least a soupçon of non-culpability. Maybe that's a literally a dumb idea but you get what I'm saying? They're not even trying to lie to us anymore.

it's easier to just not i guess. They feel quite comfortable in their position apparently, and openly send weapons, openly crush dissent. I kinda miss the mask now that they aren't wearing it no more. It makes me scared, cuz it makes me think things are really gonna speed up now, no more ratcheting, we're free falling into fascisms empty maw