Gaza Is Set To Torpedo Joe Biden's Claim To A Human Rights Legacy
Gaza Is Set To Torpedo Joe Biden's Claim To A Human Rights Legacy
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Gaza Is Set To Torpedo Joe Biden's Claim To A Human Rights Legacy
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The war on drugs and the crime bill had significant support in the black community and were endorsed by both political and religious leaders.
Getting into the uselessness of the “tough on crime” position politicians take would be a very involved discussion, but at the time it was not seen the way we now see it in hindsight, and it had pretty widespread support.
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Biden is one of the biggest proponents of the murderous drug war. Based solely on his own fear and trauma towards drugs, his work has helped to destroy the lives of countless people who did nothing more than consume drugs. And like you said, police militarization, which goes hand in hand with the drug war.
Read the book "chasing the scream" regarding the drug war, Biden gets a good amount of blame because of his personal crusade to punish anyone who has ever touched so much as marijuana. He's pretty much as bad and right wing as you get from a democrat, sadly he's easily the lesser of two evils at the moment.
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I agree with everything you said, but I wouldn't recommend any book by Johann Hari. Chasing the Scream is a powerful read, but Hari is a chronic plagiarist and liar, and everything he writes should be looked at with heavy skepticism.
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If you ain’t voting for Biden, you ain’t black.
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And since the Israel-Hamas war began, the administration’s refusal to challenge Israeli actions widely seen as war crimes — from collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population to attacks on civilians — has made it impossible for most observers to take Biden seriously on human rights.
Annie Shiel, the U.S. advocacy director for the rights group CIVIC, reflected on the contrast in a Dec. 21 statement reacting to the Defense Department’s announcement of a policy to shield civilians.
“For this policy to be meaningful, it must be applied consistently. The department’s response to catastrophic civilian harm and destruction in Gaza, caused by Israeli operations directly supported by U.S. assistance, has failed to live up to and actively undermined U.S. civilian protection efforts like this policy,” Shiel said. “A true commitment to protecting civilians must go beyond rhetoric and be backed by action and leverage — including the political will to suspend military aid that is directly contributing to the deaths of thousands of civilians.”
The governments of US and Israel are full of useless words and no actions when it comes to aiding suffering Palestinian innocents and minimizing unrelated casualties.
Yes it's Biden's problem, but it's the fault of the entire US state department. This behaviour on the world stage makes the US appear like Russia when they were part of G8.
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Imagine being so willfully tone-deaf.
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Americans are going to vote for Trump who is clearly a human rights icon of our times.
LoL. I'm investing in orville redenbacher stocks, there's not enough popcorn in the world for when they do this. LMFAO.
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Be nice if people would actually knew what was going on behind the scene before they rush to conclusions
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Can we say he's a bad president yet? Between blaming the media for people's perception of the economy and Gaza, I'm gonna have to hold my nose to vote for him.
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He's exactly what I expected from a centrist
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blaming the media for the people’s perceptions of the economy
The media has absolutely been mischaracterizing the state of the economy, just like they do Trump himself.
Why? Because it makes them more money:
“Most of the ads are not about issues. They’re sort of like the debates,” he said.
“Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? … The money’s rolling in and this is fun,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going,” said Moonves.
“Donald’s place in this election is a good thing,” he said Monday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco.
“There’s a lot of money in the marketplace,” the exec said of political advertising so far this presidential season.
Division, fear, chaos bring more attention to the news as it impacts more and more.
Furthermore, the “people’s perceptions of the economy” are based on their actual lives. You know why their lives are so expensive? Corporate greed. The core of the economy itself is doing quite well all things considered given Donald printed the most money ever in the history of the goddamn country, but that doesn’t change much when the few monopolies in this country that own everything get to pump up prices and reduce sizes simply to make more money.
With Gaza he has been a voice of caution but he can’t control bibi. Yes we should have only provided arms under conditional terms but he was instrumental in bringing together cease fires that Hamas didn’t honor and he continues to work with Qatari and other regional leaders to work out a better solution for this mess.
You say you have to hold your nose to vote for him yet you clearly have a very reduced view into why you think he’s so bad.
He’s also the first president to join the picket lines in solidarity with unions, he focuses on the workers, fighting for student loan forgiveness and proper pricing for Medicare, threatening to snatch tax payer funded patents from pharmaceutical companies that price gouge, etc.
After Trump, you should know what an actual bad president looks like yet here you are with your milquetoast “c-can we say Biden bad yet? 🥺👉👈”
Get a fucking grip on reality
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No. You have to vote blue, no matter who!
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No it's fucking not. This isn't on Biden in any way.
Edit: I see we've got plenty of know-nothing 14 year olds that just learned about their first war on TikTok and think they know everything about world affairs because they watched a seven second video.
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The selling and sending of thousands of tons of material support isn’t on Biden?
The guy who bypassed congressional oversight to sell more weapons to israel quicker?
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You sound like John Fetterman lol
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It doesn't matter, these dumbasses aren't interested in a realistic examination of Biden's policies. They're just salivating at the thought of another Trump presidency under the delusion that another four years of far-right rule will definitely make the proletariat realize that overthrowing the government is the only way forward, unlike the last four years of far-right rule.
You will have biden and you will like it
Our realistic examination is Biden committing full on indiscriminate genocide of men women children and little babies.
Biden bombing hospitals that are now confirmed to have no Hamas bases underneath them. Biden bombing schools full of little girls and murdering more than two full classrooms of people at once last night.
Maybe it's time you step into reality already.
If you haven't noticed he is not saving Palestine, he's funding and providing the weapons for their slaughter
Is there any other option that won't make the war worse?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-iaf-was-airbone-for-preemptive-hezbollah-hit-when-biden-talked-pm-out-of-it/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-says-palestinian-authority-should-ultimately-govern-gaza-west-bank-2023-11-18/
That is reductive as fuck, you have a good point so why lie by omission and ruin it?
Saving Palestinians means getting rid of Hamas. Even the Egyptians understand this, which is why their attempt to negotiate peace had Hamas getting gone too.
Gazans deserve better, sadly many of them will die before they get better.
Will there be a Palestine by Jan 2024 and could any American President stop what's going on?
Could? Yes. Would? Realistically, no, not even Bernie. We would have to all but strangle Israel to stop Bibi's government from achieving the goal of the Israeli far-right since the foundation of Israel.
Well we could at least stop helping them
Well there isn't a 'Palestine' now so it's unlikely they'll form a unifying government this week, most offices are closed.
Gaza and Samaria will be there next week, Gaza will be in rough shape though. They could benefit from an election themselves.
Hes already failed. Theyre dead.
Biden isn't saving Palestine now. there is no reason to believe he would if he wins again.
And Trump has said we should nuke Palestine. Which is worse?
I get what you're saying but Biden sure as hell isn't saving Palestine anytime soon. He's a self-proclaimed Zionist.
There's a reason he's called genocide Joe.
Is it because the rightwing machine has decided that's the name they're going with because their dumbfuck base loves alliteration?
He's not, and it's not going to stick no matter how hard you try.
I know it's a tall order for conservatives, but you guys really gotta start getting more creative with the names. Putting an adjective in front of a person's first name is like bottom tier effort.
What do you expect him to do? Biden has already called for Netanyahu to resign. Do you want him to send the U.S. military in to fight the Israeli military in defense of people that want the United States to burn?
Also notice there were no attacks from Gaza during Trump's presidency. Guy is so unhinged they didn't want to fuck around.
Trump has literally called for the eradication of Palestine. He implemented Muslim travel bans, he drone striked Iranian generals just cuz, I could go on and on.
How fucking brain dead can you be?
You clearly paid zero attention to reality, or are a shill for Trump.
His disaster of a ‘peace plan’ and recognition of the annexation of Jerusalem ratcheted tensions needlessly, and ending rapprochement with Iran and the nuclear deal has arguably led to Oct7 and jeopardized deeper Israeli-Saudi relations.
Voting for Hitler is the only way to save the Jews!
As a practically pragmatic question, countries die all the time, why is this one so important? It's clear that even the Arab world hates Palestinians, so it's not like anyone in the region actually cares about them. Seems like having Gaza, stomped under Israel's foot but alive, is more beneficial for the anti Israel nations, than a free and happy Palestinian people.
Even Europe refuses to take any Palestinian refugees cause they don't want them in their country, but they all pretend to care.
Anyways, so many countries died out in the last 150 years, it doesn't seem like that rare of a thing.
"It's not that rare" /=/ "We shouldn't care"
ffs I didn't think "Genocide is bad" was such a fucking controversial point of view anymore.
It's because we're currently witnessing genocide. Usually even if the country goes away the people stay. When that's not the case we usually call it genocide or ethnic cleansing, and these are not things we should just watch.
Also to be clear, Arab leaders don't care about Palestinians. The people very much do care.
This shit is wild, like how can people really not see how the policies of Netanyahu's administration makes Jewish people around the world (including inside Israel proper) less safe?