You're advocating for respectability politics. We have to be nice to the people who hate us to try to convince them to be nice to us. If that's the game you want to play, you can. But it certainly hasn't achieved victory for anyone yet. You know what has achieved change? Protesting. Being loud. Telling people when they're wrong. Not putting up with the bullshit.
You're advocating for assimilation, while what we want is liberation.
Please tell me, as a trans nonbinary person, what the respectable version of "trans women are women" is?
"Why would you ignore this?"
Because defeating Hamas is not an achievable goal. At best, they just create another group that wants to resist them as long as Israeli oppression of Palestinians continues. Hamas, whether or not you agree with them or the actions they've taken, believe themselves to be resisting Israel oppression. Why would you ignore this? Because you don't think Israel is oppressing Palestinians? No, you just think the oppression is justified as long as Hamas exists. But if its not Hamas, there will be another group. Hamas is not present in the West Bank, but that doesn't seem to be stopping Israel.
Don't forget that President Herzog has said "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved." So what does that mean for "defeating Hamas"? How many Gazans does Israel get to kill in pursuit of this goal? Is there a limit for you?
One last point, because you're racist and I'm done talking to you. Reverse your bullshit about Arabs and Jews and see if it makes any actual sense to you. Because a) you are painting an entire race of people with an exceptionally broad brush b) you're conflating all Jews with Israel. Hamas has attacked Israel. Hamas not attacked "all jews" by doing so.
Because they want to save the hostages. Supposedly, right? That's why they would "concede defeat" (that's not what a ceasefire is). Regardless of what happens to Hamas, if Israel continues to oppress Gazans, more uprisings will occur. Hamas does not own the idea of resistance.
I mean... Israel isn't exactly accepting the offers made by the other side to stop the fighting and get their people back. They seem more intent on committing a couple of war crimes.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1229823811/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-rejects-hamas-ceasefire
Diplomacy has resulted in the release of more hostages than military action has. Just saying.
That is not at all what they said and you should be fucking embarrassed. They were saying that electing gore in 2000 wouldn't have (necessarily) prevented Putin from invading Ukraine. But I think you probably understand that. You're just being a piece of shit.
People who balk at genocide aren't known to go around approval from Congress to sell weapons to Israel (twice) so that they could continue dropping more bombs on Gaza than in any similar period during any recorded war.
The ICJ ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. Do you think you understand genocide and international law better than the 15 judges who sit on that court? These judges set aside the political considerations of their home countries to do so.
Consider, for a moment, that you aren't an expert on this situation and that people who are were convinced of the risk. Then ask yourself what information you were using to base your conclusion on, who gave you that information, why they pushed that information, etc. Then stop defending genocide.
So if Dems wanted to avoid that future, don't you think it would be smart of them to run someone that people actually want to vote for? Like if they cared about actually preventing that, wouldn't they choose someone who isn't this controversial. They have had since October to bring someone else up. They have 9 more months to run someone right now with Biden's endorsement. They won't, because they don't care about representing what the people want (to avoid dictatorship) they just want to keep power in the hands of the people they've chosen for you.
Biden has shown himself to be either unwilling or unable to reign in or stop Israel. They don't believe the US will do anything to stop them, and so far, they have been proven correct. The rhetoric under Biden will be different than under Trump. But the outcome will be the same. Sorry that I'm not appeased by a milquetoast centrist urging Israel to take it easy.
Also, if you can't regard me as a reasonable person for not wanting to vote against my own beliefs and interests, then you absolutely do give a whole lot of shits about what I do with my vote. You give so many shits, that some people might even call it unreasonable that you can't let a grown person make up their own mind.
And dems will never give that to you. If they wanted to, they would have done so by now. But you're entitled to you're belief that I have simply thrown my hands up instead of wrestling with this question for months. Voting for Biden will just make life hell for different people. Not fewer, in my view.
So if you're cool with me telling you that you're acting like an asshole, then go ahead and tell me what to do But don't act surprised when people get pissed at you.
The ICJ disagrees. They believe it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide right now and they have issued preliminary orders to prevent further deaths. Do you think you know more about Israel's responsibilities under international law to prevent genocide than 17 judges sitting on the the ICJ? Do you believe that you know more than them? Or do you just take Israel at they're word.
Not if Biden steps down and endorses a replacement that doesn't endorse a genocide.
But the dems make it so easy for them when they all endorse a genocide. "That guy's the devil! He'd let his friends eat babies! What? No don't worry about my friend eating babies. They didn't do that, but if it was it was justified. And if it wasn't, it was an accident. And if it wasn't then it was justified."
Demand better. From the outside. I'm not a Democrat. I can't do anything from the inside. I vote for them because they are the closest, usually, to my beliefs. This time both parties feel equally, very far away from me. You're not required to agree with me. You just can't bully me into voting for someone who I find morally reprehensible.
Okay. Gaza isn't my only issue with Biden. And no Trump doesn't align with me on those issues either, but if Trump doesn't get my vote by default just because I dislike Biden, then the same should follow for Biden. I'm sorry that you don't like how I, one person that you do not know, am planning to vote. However, I will not change my plans because you say I have to. You have not given me a reason to vote for Biden. Just reasons not to vote for Trump. And that's not only not a winning strategy forever, but its getting fucking annoying at this point. Not a single person here has said been able to point to any actual thing that makes Trump better on this issue. Biden didn't do anything to fix the issues with the court with the first two years that he had. He dropped the ball on student loan debt relief. I could give you other examples of my frustrations with Biden. But I'm not going to waste my time. Because you'll just say "Trump will be worse, if you want change, vote for Dems." But dems don't make changes because they want to hold onto power. That is how they always operate in my opinion. You are free to feel differently, but I have based that opinion on 36 years of life and watching them operate. You won't get the change you want out of democrats. You'll get more of the same.
So please, stop telling people what they have to do with their votes. We don't all agree that things are going so super, duper well right now. Dems don't listen to progressives, there aren't any parties on the actual left who can win, i have no one to vote for. And yes, I'm mad at democrats about it because they lie about being progressives. And I mean literally. Jon Fetterman ran a progressive campaign and now openly states that he's not progressive and drapes himself in the Israeli flag so that he can get those sweet, sweet AIPAC dollars. But by all means, keep voting blue no matter who and tell yourself that your not like MAGA Republicans, because at least you have the illusion of choice.
Because its against two people have no name recognition. Its not hard to figure out why no one went out to vote for Williamson or Phillips when most people don't even know who they are.