Tiktok playing nonstop gore videos to lefty college kids was right out in the open. That they subsequently trashed liberal-coded campuses in reaction was also out in the open for all to see. The coverage was not kind, and certainly helped no one in Gaza.
Wearing keffiyehs and vandalizing college quads was an in-kind donation to the Trump campaign. You may not like it, but lionizing Hamas in a country that fought Muslims for 20 years in Afghanistan for the sheer sport of it was stupid and counterproductive.
How well did rooting for Hamas work out? Do they rule from the River to the Sea now? Or did the Israelis beat them to the dirt with brute force, with three extra years now to go back on whatever promises they made to secure the “ceasefire?”
I’m not a politician, thank God, so I can say what I mean to the people I dislike, you stupid, arrogant, hubristic fuck-ups! Christ what a goddamned mess you’ve made of things, you miserable poser bullshit artists! There, now I’ve gotten more catharsis than you people ever will out of politics.
Traumatizing yourself with gore videos doesn’t make you a better person, it just ruins your sense of proportion and focuses you on an issue you can do little or nothing to change.
We’ve got the kids of the whole right-wing former upper classes of Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Iran causing enough trouble in our country’s foreign policy as it is. Should we invade Venezuela on their behalf, as Trump seems to be trying to do?
No one is confused as to why you didn’t vote for us, just that your reasons for doing so were stupid if you want to accomplish anything in this lifetime. The point of this thread is SNAP and the shutdown, which wouldn’t be happening if you hadnt been so goddamned full of yourselves.
Your constant hailstorm of abusive “critique” ensures that in the brief intervals where we actually are in power, all the choices will be awful and we’ll have to play in conditions set by the Right.
Well, congratulations on a successful murder/suicide. We got a hell of a lot closer to winning and possibly alleviating the situation than you ever will, and the bad guys won anyway.
So you’re saying Americans deserve to lose their benefits because of their governemnt’s foreign policy; isn’t that the same as saying the Palestinians deserve to suffer for the actions of Hamas on Oct. 7th?
Welcome to America. if it makes you feel better to yell at me, knock yourself out, but importing Middle Eastern political feuds to this country has not made the US a happier place OR improved the situation on the ground in Palestine, and you know it.
No, I reject your analogy. The Jews of Warsaw could die in a camp or die in the ghetto and take a few German soldiers with them. Hamas chose to break the peace to invade Israel and murder civilians.
I’m sure wearing keffiyehs and vandalizing college quads felt great, but it got you Trump and this shutdown, and the bad guys won in Gaza. So who the fuck are you and what have you accomplished to call me the problem?
So you believe we should just resign ourselves to being ruled by arbitrary tyrants, subjects to their whims instead of citizens with rights? Fuck you, bootlicker!
There’s more people in this democracy than just you. There are a hundred million evangelicals who support Israel unthinkingly because Jesus. They vote, and they got what they wanted: the Gaza problem solved with brute force alone. Democracy works for them because they know how to be team players.
Pretending that the US government was going to cut off Israel, with whom we have a longstanding diplomatic and military relationship, is what was disingenuous. Plenty of Americans sympathized with Israel-making that your do-or-die issue wasn’t a recipe for anything besides breaking your own heart.
You allowed yourself to get negatively polarized into dropping the ball, because nothing on earth is more important than yet another Middle Eastern ethno-religious conflict, which are famously easy to resolve (even by your own lights, the bad guys won, so I don’t know what you’re so happy about.)
It WAS suicidal. However, the Israelis had no immediate plans to ship the Gazans to an extermination camp. There had been a modus vivendi since 2006, which Hamas broke By invading Israel and murdering civilians. No government on earth would not have retaliated to such a provocation.
That may have been true up to about 1980 or so, but Israel is a nuclear-armed state these days, and I suspect they’re big enough and old enough to take care of themselves now, and the Gulf Arabs and the Saudis are their allies in all but name.
