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I'm not mocking biden for his son dying, I'm calling biden a piece of shit for supporting genocide. He speaks highly of the commander in chief position, as a position that is deserved or not, but I'd say him impotently going along with israel's genocide means he doesn't deserve the position either. I called his son dumb because choosing to join the military to fight in the Iraq invasion was dumb when he obviously didn't come from a poor family and thus didn't even need to do this due to a lack of job opportunities.
You finger wag about cruelty and being a good person while defending a supporter of genocide. I know you can't view the world as anything other than red vs blue, but I never said anything about who to vote for. Full disclosure, I vote for democratic party candidates down the ballot every single election, I've never voted for a republican in my life. However, this doesn't matter to you because as long as anyone doesn't toe the party line 200%, then your reading comprehension goes out the window and you make up a million assumptions, gallantly fighting a strawman.
As you have demonstrated, anyone is susceptible to misunderstanding. It does not discriminate by class or privilege. People join for many reasons. I wanted to get a warm meal, warm bed, and die. But others from my meps felt that they had familial or generational obligations. Some wanted the career and had great options. It's a fantastic and debt free way of getting respectable credentials and high-speed to boot. But I don't know a single person who honestly believed they were supporting genocide or imperialism, what have you. There were a lot of dumb people, but they risked it for their own reasons in a way you never could or likely ever will. And I will always cry for those that gave it all. Some of us are dealing with our guilt and doing what we can to prepare the next generation for the pitfalls they face. So spit at us all you want. There's not thing one you can say that will make me loath myself more than I ever have. And I'm dealing with that too.
I hope you are never in a place that makes you tangibly consider these choices you so virulently despise. You are still someone's compatriot and you deserve that.
I've had my reasons for doing dumb things, but that doesn't mean those weren't dumb things to do. Regardless, it's not an act that should be glorified. The US military's primary role is to protect corporate interests, to the misery of many, including those that serve that machine. Biden is trying to score political points using the death of his son and by glorifying the position of commander in chief, a position that he is currently using to authorize support for genocide.
I'm not refuting this. I'm pointing out that this isn't remotely obvious to let alone the motivation for why people join. You are privileged enough to be aware of this. Not everyone has the luxury of your perspective.
Do you think that Trump would do any differently at all in support of Israel? You've gotta be fucking kidding me! Again, you're just a sycophant...
So because trump exists, that means biden must support genocide? What kind of leap of logic is that?
Biden is supporting genocide by bypassing congress at every opportunity in order to supply israel, who is carrying out a genocide, with weapons to carry out that genocide. He doesn't have to do this. Seems like this is obvious, but you think israel is somehow protecting us so who the hell knows what you're thinking. Funny that you talk about emotional reactions and then you label me a "dumb trumper" out of nowhere (is it because I said I vote for democratic party candidates 100% of the time?) and call me an "angsty teenager" because... again, who the hell knows what you're thinking?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/biden-congress-israel-military-aid/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/politics/biden-administration-f15-fighter-jets-israel/index.html
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/biden-considers-1bn-arms-package-for-israel/ar-AA1njYkf
Read a history book!!!
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20provided%20Israel,most%20advanced%20in%20the%20region.
What point are you trying to make? That the US has been giving aid to israel for decades and thus this is fine? The US had slavery for a long time (arguably still to this day in prisons and abroad), but that doesn't mean it should continue.
What point are you trying to make? An argument that I either support slavery or negate it? It's not the same thing. The mechanism for aid was 60 years ago and has been going there for even longer. With Iran in the middle of it now Russia will try and get involved too. Israel has been and always been a political ally to our own safety. There is no denying that Biden's decisions are to maintain a ally he came into, not created. Every President, even Trump, sent Israel aid.
Israel is clearly committing genocide and we should not support this.
Did I say I support it? I said there is a bigger picture more than "Biden is bad and at fault".