• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The fact things are this close is amazingly disappointing in humanity as a whole.

    On the one side, you have Trump who wants to be a dictator, actively hates anyone who isn’t white and conervative, said he wants to kill his political opponents, tried to overthrow the government, had a 4 year presidency that was basically an episode of Jersey Shore everyday, and idolizes Putin/Hitler/etc.

    And then there is Biden, who isn’t super “exciting”, old AF, and supports Israel too much for political reasons, but otherwise has done an alright job as president for 4 years.

    How are the polls and the race even remotely this close? It’s no wonder we can’t do something like fix climate change as a society when people are this fracking stupid.

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      8 months ago

      supports Israel too much for political reasons

      Now c’mon, does this statement really embrace reality? Aside from it’s toxic passivity, it’s not even true. Biden’s brand of support for Israel has been absolutely toxic politically. He supports Israel because it is the hub of US power projection in the Middle East.

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        8 months ago

        He supports Israel because it is the hub of US power projection in the Middle East.

        How is that not a political reason?

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            Meh israel does not provide any security anymore. If anything they make the region less secure and unified against America.

            Saudi is bending over backwards to keep supporting israel for America.

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              Meh israel does not provide any security anymore.

              No disrespect meant, but that is a factually ignorant statement to make. We regular people don’t see allot of whats going on in the background.

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                  We regular people don’t see allot of whats going on in the background.

                  No we just see israel committing Genocide after Genocide and destabilizing the entire middle east.

                  Exactly. We don’t see all the behind the scenes stuff for security reasons.

                  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any military/country is allowed to kill civilians to get to their enemies, ever. A country doesn’t get to use an ‘our enemies are in that population zone so we can destroy the population zone to get to them’ excuse.

                  But there’s a lot of history, security wise, going on between America and Israel, that is not so easily dismissed.

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                    8 months ago

                    There’s plenty of videos of the AIPAC lobby bribing American politicians. As for the rest, even folks like Kissinger said that israel just exists to protect israel. Not American interests in the middle east.