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Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”

Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 months ago (45 children)

But let’s protest Biden by abstaining in the general! That’ll teach the Dems a lesson! And get a shit ton more Palestinians murdered but I’ll teach the Dems a lesson that they will definitely forget by 2028!

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We really need to drive this point home.

Oh, you're not voting for Biden because of his support for Israel? Tell me more about how you care more about teaching dems a lesson than you care about minimizing the Palestinian death toll.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Even if they had the same stance on Israel, which they clearly don’t, let’s not forget the Ukrainians that would lose support on day one of a Trump presidency. Also, China would likely begin to move on Taiwan without US support. He’d set the stage for WWIII and justify it as isolationism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump wants to go 3 for 3.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago (37 children)

Where are my “genocide Joe” boys? You, the ones that have nothing to say but Biden/democrats bad?

You always leave this part out. Troll farm tankies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

BOtHsiDeSsAmE1

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The fact that no matter who I vote for it's gonna end up with kids being killed on my dime is the problem. At least Biden will pretend to feel bad about it, which is all I've come to expect from my government.

I've long given up on the notion that I get to vote for someone I like in this system.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (8 children)

If Trump wins and has his SS start shooting Pro-Palestinian protestors, it’ll be really hard to hold back from saying “told you so”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

They'll have put their red hats back on by then.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (21 children)

He's getting ready to speed up the genocide

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

FYI: Most of those braindead "am I not allowed to criticize Biden????" comments and posts on social media are a concerted effort by right-wingers from /pol and other such sewers, trying to get people to not vote against Trump. Don't fall for it. These aren't "lefties" or "tankies". Just downvote, report, and ignore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They’re insane if the think I wouldn’t crawl over 5 miles of glass covered in diarrhea to vote against christofascism, and the only way to vote against christofascism is by voting for the side with the best chance to claim its victory, and much to my chagrin that’s Biden, it’s a really simple calculus

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Quite often when someone loudly whines about "not being able to criticize [X]" it's because they have an opinion that is either repugnant, hateful or ridiculous and nobody wants to hear them. Nobody is saying they can't or aren't allowed to have criticism or opinions, but everyone else has a right to ignore or ridicule them for it.

In the end, it's usually just trolls. Giving them attention is what they want so it's best to ignore them entirely and not give them the reaction they're desperate for.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Getting deported during his second term might be a good thing

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Bbbbbut Biden more bad!! Because Jeenoside

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (12 children)

So where are all the "concerned Democrats" that always show up en masse to talk about how horrible Biden's Gaza policy is?
Aren't you guy's concerned about this policy too? Or is it fine because it's not Biden's policy?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I always said President Biden is the lesser of the two evils. Mango Mussolini should shove off to fucking Moscow.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

thanks again republicans for reminding us that expression of grievances is basically communism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago
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