Summary
Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.
Summary
Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.
“We did it Patrick, we saved Palestine!” - Tankies right now
Where is this take simultaneously coming from for everyone?
Guys. NOBODY. THOUGHT. TRUMP. WAS. BETTER. Now we can finally acknowledge that the American so-called “left” political party is so obscenely fucked that they’re complicit in genocide? Literally the hallmark of Nazi Germany? Perhaps we as a people do not really have a lot of choice going on, and impotently choosing between two fascist parties election after election is not going to gradually bring us to democratic reform?
Trump is so much worse than Harris and Biden though. He lifted this ban, recognizes the settlements and will prevent any other free election that could better things in the future. So if you didnt vote for Harris you didnt just completely doom palestinians but also your country.
I’ll say it again. Biden sent FOURTEEN THOUSAND of these bombs already - and that was as of 7 months ago. Enough to literally wipe out half of the population of Gaza.
The fact that you’d say this without specifying which ones really speaks to how little you know about this. The Golan Heights, which the Biden admin already calls as “Israel”? East Jerusalem & the West Bank, which the Clinton admin bantustan-ized in the Oslo Accords and which every subsequent admin recognizes the Palestine side of even less? The Biden administration does not recognize the international consensus on “Israel” having the pre-1967 borders. They don’t recognize Palestine, at odds with the international consensus. The entire country was literally formed by ethnic cleansing in the first place. The Biden administration did like three token sanctions on random West Bank settlers, with no recognition that state officials were behind the policy of annexation and the complicity of the military in it.
And what “free election”? 8 years of Biden & Obama admins came and went. The last election in Palestine was under BUSH, and the official U.S. policy, after Hamas (which is a political party, mind you) won a majority of seats in the parliamentary runoff election, was to support the Palestinian Authority in overthrowing the results of the election in an illegal coup, resulting in the civil war that left Hamas in power in Gaza. The U.S. rejection of the election results has been the norm across Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, and Biden. Not to mention that the entire premise of an election - democracy - is at odds with the fundamentally Jewish supremacist nature of “Israel”, a state founded on ethnic “purism”, exclusion, apartheid and genocide of an indigenous population, and endless regional expansionist warfare. The U.S. policy is “we accept a complete racial divide and military occupation based on the supremacy of that race in the region, but oh yeah, we’d love if the underclass might eventually have elections or something…I mean, as long as they vote for who we want”.
You think because, out of all the non-Trump voters, your group was in the majority, that everyone who didn’t side with you must have been wrong. But you voted for an absolute monster and psychopath, as willfully complicit in genocide as Biden (who you would have voted for also) was. You people split the vote from candidates who aren’t complicit in mass murder, and you still have the gall to accuse everyone else of being the problem. The person you voted for was so far beneath the standards of a free and decent society that some of us couldn’t even stomach it (and not even enough to swing the election, mind you).
It’s always the refrain of people doing something horribly immoral, that anybody taking the higher road is just doing “virtue signalling” or “preaching their moral purity”. This is just rationalization. You cannot confront your own faults, the deep, horrific faults of your society, so you blame the few lone dissenters who realize that absolute fundamental change is the only path out of this. The 1% of people who voted De la Cruz or Stein did not decide the outcome of this election. 98% of you voted for an absolute monster.
Now what is the point of a representative democracy? We pick the candidate that will do the best by us. Right? You have all completely abandoned that premise. Every election, a D and an R run, one of them wins, they do absolutely whatever they want, and as long as you think the Republicans are even 0.0001% worse, you’ll vote for the D. You never abandon that group. This completely sacrifices any power the people have, because we don’t have federal referendums, we don’t have non-FPTP elections, we don’t have recalls, we don’t have no confidence votes, we don’t have null votes, we ONLY get to vote in these elections, and our single power to control this system is completely neutered. All they have to do is find a single issue where they even SOUND better than the Republicans on, and they can be as absolutely corrupt as they want.
Why do you not blame the ~48% Democrat voters for not gathering behind a candidate who isn’t a war criminal? Or the ~49% Trump voters? Does it not cause any self-reflection that the crime of all crimes, genocide, is no longer a red line for you in a politician? What is your long-term strategy to bring this genocidal system back under the control of the people - voting for the people who are operating it, without question, forever? Cause I don’t think that’s gonna work.
Because EVERY discussion had like fifteen tankies going “BuT YoU NeEd A REasON fOr Us tO voTe thAt IsN’T TrUMp!11”
And the disproof of that argument is Trump sending the 2,000 pound “bunker buster” bombs?
You know how many Biden sent? FOURTEEN. THOUSAND: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/ That’s as of last June.
Those bombs can wipe out a hundred people (and did, over and over). You know how many fighting members Hamas (Al Qassam) was supposed to have had as of Oct 7? Forty thousand. Do the math. And then go take a look at the pictures coming out of Gaza this week.
I don’t know how you guys don’t get this. Biden’s policy on Palestine was “no holds barred genocide with lip service otherwise”. Trump is the same thing minus the lip service. I think you all need to take a break from talking about this until you’ve figured out what the hell is going on. Because seriously, if you don’t even know what’s happening, you’re just reacting in fight or flight mode, it’s like you’re pouring water on an electric fire.
And honestly - your whole depiction of what the “tankies” are saying - are we supposed to rely on your mocking portrayal of them? What did they actually say? Who are we talking about specifically? What was their full argument?