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AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel
(www.theguardian.com)
A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.
The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles.
Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.
Would you support funding an iron dome for Russia against Ukraine?
A gun doesn't stop being a weapon because you used it in self defence, idiot.
By funding arms to Israel to protect it from consequences of committing a genocide and invading and bombing multiple neighbours, which then allows it to act with further impunity to keep doing what it's doing.
She straight up declared anyone who voted for it effectively a nazi. She called Tlaib and Omar nazis.
I wouldn't personally support funding anything in Russia or Israel.
A gun is an offensive weapon. It's not useful for self defense. You can't shoot bullets out of the air easily. There's no need for useless name-calling.
Except she voted against said funding by voting against the bill.
The iron dome existed before the current genocide. But you're literally saying that civilians in Israel should die because the people in control of the government and military are committing genocide. That's not justice. That's advocating for murder as a form of revenge on a group when everyone in the group is not responsible for the preceding injustice. You're applying the same logic as conservatives who pretend every Palestinian is a terrorist.
I'd be interested in defending Israel entirely. The conservatives in the majority in Congress will not allow that to happen. However AOC voted or even if she abstained, the results would not be any different.
She literally didn't say that. If she did, you could quote her saying "Tlaib and Omar are Nazis." You're assigning that meaning to her words and then getting upset at your own interpretation.
Yet here you are defending funding the iron dome. Weird that.
A missile is an offensive weapon. What do you think the iron dome is? Idiot.
Yet she defended funding the iron dome, which is giving arms to Israel.
Irrelevant to the point.
Irrelevant to the point. You're saying Russian civilians should die by saying you wouldn't fund anything in Russia. You also said the same about Israel, so you also support killing Israeli civilians according to you.
You're saying German civilians should die because you refuse to provide Hitler with AA guns.
???? nonsensical.
"If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!" She said about people voting in favour of the amendment. She called Ilhan and Tlaib nazis.
And Israel could leave Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria, and stop attacking Iran). You're just a rank hypocrite who supports arming genocide
You are an absurdly obtuse and disingenuous person.
Iron Dome funding is sending arms to Israel. Iron Dome protects Israel as it invades its neighbours and commits a genocide. It's that simple.
You are defending a vote against stripping iron dome funding, accusing others of being in favour of killing civilians whilst trying to claim you also don't support funding Israel. You can't have it both ways. You support killing of civilians with your own stupid fucking rhetoric.
You are genuinely a fucking moron. I said nothing about Dresden or dropping nukes. You are literally advocating for sending AA guns to Hitler by equating and reducing all forms of military response as being one and the same as mass murder of civilians to suggest it's legitimate to support funding for the Iron Dome as "defensive".
No, it protects Israel regardless of whether Israel is committing genocide. But all of that is beside the point.
I'm not defending the vote so much as pointing out that it was a meaningless vote. There's nothing to defend or attack because the amendment is a non-issue. It was a meaningless political stunt by a racist conspiracy theorist.
Favour? As in British or Australian English? You're not an American voter? This seems like a pointless discussion then.
I don't support funding for Israel. It's an apartheid state and has committed genocidal war crimes.
You can if you see the nuance and not just look at everything like it's just so simple based on your first gut reaction.
No, I don't. Quote me where I said I want civilians killed.
You're getting caught up in side issues. The issue is AOC voted against funding genocide in Israel. People are claiming she funded genocide by Israel. That is a provably false claim. It is a lie. Arguing over the amendment vote that didn't matter is a distraction.
You were discussing the deaths of civilians. Those are historical events relevant to that discussion. Also, there's no need for the ad hominems and name-calling.
I'm literally not. I was responding to your meaningless points that don't matter because you brought them up, but you haven't thought through all the implications. AA guns shoot down planes that have human beings in them. They aren't the same as missiles that only shoot down other missiles.
All of these discussions about AA guns and Russian civilians are just bad analogies that ignore the context and the nuance. We can continue to discuss them if you like, but they have no bearing on whether the amendment vote was ever possibly going to have any functional or practical effect whatsoever.
If MTG brought up an amendment that said everyone gets to live forever and AOC voted against it, would you claim AOC is pro-death or would you recognize that MTG's proposal was a useless measure that shouldn't be taken seriously?
But honestly, I don't care. If you're not an American voter, as I suspect you aren't, there's no value in convincing you of anything.
Just ignore the part where you kept suggesting the Iron Dome was "defensive" therefore it's OK and "not a weapon" (lmao) therefore voting in favour of it would be legitimate.
Again, you're just an obtuse moron twisting yourself into a pretzel pretending its nuance.
You're just not a serious person. Learn to shut the fuck up.
You know what you could've done with the time it took you to write this shit? Find a job.
Fuckin loser 🌝
Oh no, a conservative boomer-grade insult! Should I get off your lawn too? Pull myself up by my own bootstraps? Invest in plastics?
You know what you can do?
spoiler
Put that energy into a mf job 🌚And if I have a job already? And if putting effort into a job isn't mutually exclusive with commenting in an online forum, what then? I'm really interested in getting life advice from randos on the internet. Please help me. You're my only hope.
Glad to see 4chan levels of maturity have spread to Lemmy.