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My problem with the idiots screaming "Genocide!!!" is that they are overly simplistic in their understanding of the problem. First, if we cut Israel off, lots of very pro-Israeli donors carry out their threats to cut donations to the Left and give more to the Right. That's more ads, more canvassers, more campaign staff, and more polling moving from Team Blue to Team Red. As much as I hate the fact that $$$ rules everything in the fucking USA, it's still a fact, and the LAST thing Team Blue wants to have voters hearing is "America sold out Israel to Hamas after Hamas started the war." Think about how low-information so many voters are in the USA, and think about how EASY it would be for Russian-Amplified Republican Propaganda to convince low-information, and frankly low-IQ voters that Democrats are the antisemites in the discussion.
Speaking of Russian-Amplified propaganda, let me remind everyone of these fact:
What is Russia trying to do? Reduce America's influence in the world so it can step in and take over (it will fail, and learn QUICKLY that it is China's bitch, but it doesn't know this yet...). What's the easiest way to do that? Have America cut off aid to Israel, then step in. Alternatively, if America STAYS supporting Israel, amplify the lie that Biden supports Genocide since he won't cut off aid to Israel, allowing Russia to step in.
We need to call this bullshit out here and now, and point out the fact that either people pushing this nonsense are useful idiots, pushing Putin and Trump's propaganda like the morons they are, or that they're actually in cahoots with Putin and Trump, and need to be called out as the shitheads they are.
I'm done playing nice. It's time to call a spade a spade.
Anybody who thinks the US will abandon Israel is ignorant of history, too. As is anybody who thinks they can vote for a president and not get blood on their hands.
I think this is a bad way to say 'you have to vote for the least bad option out there', because it implies you are responsible for what your President does. The logical next step, argued by shitheads a plenty here, is that if you don't vote for a president, you don't have blood on your hands. My argument is that's not true.
Because Israel sucks and so does Hamas, Palestine is going to get Genocided either way. The difference is that with Biden in office, Muslims, Gays, Minorities, and Transgendered folks aren't going to get genocided here, and MAYBE Netanyahu reads the room and backs off, grudgingly, because he knows Dem voters are good with hanging him out to dry if he keeps this shit up. Elect Trump like the assholes we keep encountering screaming Biden Genocide want us to do, and not only do Palestinians get gleefully genocided by Netanyahu (who is the actual genocidal maniac), then so do all the other people I listed above.
If you're not ashamed to be an American you probably failed history.
There. Fixed it for you. And trust me, if I could trade my American citizenship for something else, I totally would, assuming it wasn't worse.