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Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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We better elect Biden so we can have incremental death? Both are Zionist pieces of shit not worthy of holding office.
BoTh SiDeS amirite? GTFO
Yikes! They’re not wrong.
There are not 2 sides, there are 2 right wing factions each skinning a cat and telling everyone their method is best
Don’t cut yourself on that edge
Yikes...
This nuance will surely change how America handles elections.
/S
Yeah! Why go for incremental death when we can just kill every other person as fast as possible! Thanos 2024!
Thanos did nothing wrong, and I can prove it.
Got a better idea?
Nope. Just bitch and complain and spread voter apathy while not using any energy to push for actual change. Dude most likely isn't even from the states and can't vote.
Well, they probably prefer this job than pushing up sunflowers on the battlefields of Ukraine.
I truly wish as part of sanctions Russia was completely cut off from the Internet. Watch again as a large chunk of the bots and Facebook accounts dry up.
It continues to amaze me how many organizations accept connections from Russian IP addresses.
Withholding votes unless Biden changes is pushing for actual change. So is protesting on campuses but Biden and Blinken hates that, too. Votes and money are the only two things politicians listen to. The huge women protests that got us nothing and the BLM protests that mostly led to changes that got rolled back proved that.
I know, let's vote for Trump so the genocide will be over sooner. Just think about how much less suffering there'll be when all the kids are in mass graves instead of going hungry.
Agreed, but the next President is going to be either the guy who is supporting Israel because he wants the money or the guy who is supporting Israel because he loves their authoritarianism and wants to bring it here.
You're telling on yourself here bud, I think you need to go back to history class. You can't just throw away all nuance by framing a strawman. It is absolutely not black and white like that and there is absolutely a lot more at play then just money or authoritarianism, namely history.
That doesn't change the fact that the next President will be either:
Self proclaimed zionist, Joe Biden:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/
The literal pro-Genocide candidate, Donald Trump:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-hardline-position-us-policy-gaza-matters-rcna150391
“We have to let Israel complete their war on terror. It’s a horrible thing, but they have to do it.” Trump added that Israel must “clean out the cancer.”
There are no other viable candidates. The only thing stopping one of these men from becoming President is a massive health event.
Should it be Trump, things will not only be devastating for Gaza, they will become a nightmare here:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-compares-political-opponents-vermin-root-alarming-historians/story?id=104847748
"Trump compares political opponents to 'vermin' who he will 'root out,' alarming historians"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mexico-kill-teams-drug-cartels-1235016514/
"Trump Is Planning to Send Kill Teams to Mexico to Take Out Cartel Leaders"
This is why it's contingent on everyone who cares to hold their nose and vote for Biden. The alternative is a disaster.
And in either case, unless voters stop the bleeding, Democrats will always have an authoritarian figure dangling over their head as a threat to their rights so they can remain in power. So 50, 60, 70 100 years from now we can keep having the same conversations where nobody is making enough money. Nobody can afford housing. Nobody has health care. Nobody has access to education, while they continue blaming the other side as to why nobody has any rights.
In this case, the Republicans are to blame as they block everything in the Senate and have loaded the Supreme Court to rule against things like fair and honest congressional districts and student loan relief.
Instead of punching left every chance they got, democrats should have been holding their politicians accountable. They are just as much to blame for current political problems as those Republicans you mentioned.