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I saw this article posted a few days ago that I hope will answer it for you. It doesn’t really matter who wrote the headline, imo.

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Oh it’s not stupid, it’s an intentional effort to manufacture consent.

Even that is far too mild. The Syrian “buffer zone” is there to “protect” the Golan Heights, which was also originally pitched as a “buffer zone”. Wonder what the long term plans are for this new “buffer zone”, and which zone will buffer it next?

This is really not helping with the “no personal accomplishments” observation I made earlier. How typical. How boring.

51% in an election with very low turnout is hardly a “landslide”. When you brag about something like this, it just shows people that you have to glom onto something other people did because you have no accomplishments of your own.

Ok. What has he done in his lame duck period, or expressed intention to do, that helps Americans? So far I’ve seen him double down on helping Israel commit genocide and I’ve seen him pardon his son. I’m happy to be convinced otherwise but I’m sure not seeing it now.

I agree with you that the sentencing was incredibly unjust and clearly politically motivated. I’m just incredibly frustrated that Biden is not doing anything that’s useful to Americans during his last few months in office.

I voted for Harris against my moral principles precisely because i understand the damage that Trump will cause. I live in a state that trends blue, but I wasn’t confident enough that it would do so this time around. So you can quit with your moralizing about all the things that are now my fault because I’m angry that the party I’ve supported my entire adult life abandoned their principles and abandoned the country in favor of their own wealth and their own egos. Since I voted for her, hell yeah I have every right to blame them for their own willful errors.

Even if I had not voted for Harris, I actually do get a pass on that. The Biden, and then Harris campaigns dropped the ball and they deserve the blame. They knowingly gambled the election, and the future of the country, in favor of AIPAC and other big donor money. That’s disgusting and the blame lies on them.

Die hard, vote blue no matter who libs were warned for a year straight that their strategy of catering to the right and abandoning nearly all of the progressive policies from their platform would result in defeat. They were warned by leftists, they were warned by polling, and the Harris campaign was warned by their own internal advisors. Instead of listening to any of that, they ignored their advisors, said that polls were false, and told leftists to fuck themselves. They tried to gaslight people about their own material conditions, provided unflinching support for genocide, and paraded around with Liz Cheney. Then they lost, and now the country is going to get even worse because they lost.

The hubris it takes to ignore all of these warnings is unfathomable, and the willingness to risk the good of the country all for more donor money is despicable. And yet here you are, like so many others, continuing to blame people who had miniscule power to change anything and repeatedly warned you about a very predictable outcome.

But hey, you feel superior.

And the fault for that lies squarely with Democrat politicians.

What? Yes, lots of people are protesting and have been for over a year. I don’t know precisely how many of them personally call their reps, I know I have been, but I think the massive, widespread protests combined with polling Democrat voters about their views on the matter makes the message pretty clear. Politicians have had plenty of time to respond.

The counter-argument to your point is that now is the best time, as voters have the leverage to elect democrats or not. In theory, Dem leadership wants to be elected and requires votes to achieve that goal. Biden met with progressive activists shortly after taking office and promptly told them to fuck off as, since he was already president, they no longer had anything to offer him.

That said, I hear your point and am torn about how I will ultimately vote. I don’t live in one of the nine (arguably three) magic states where my vote will actually count, though, so it’s a bit of a moot point.

Obviously less, to the extent that anyone can predict geopolitical events that far in the future. I think the only counter-argument is the idea that an Israel that isn’t receiving massive amounts of US aid will be invaded, but I don’t find that argument convincing. It’s an open secret that Israel has nuclear weapons, and even if the US stops arming Israel tomorrow I don’t think Iran or their proxies are dumb enough to think that the US won’t come rushing right back in if Israel is invaded.

The protestors want an end to the US facilitating genocide. Most Democrats want fewer, if any, aid to Israel, yet Democrat leadership refuses to budge.

You blame voters for “being willing to let Trump win”. Why not blame leadership for hurting their own chances at election by going against their own base?

All of them, frankly. It’s against US law to provide weapons to a nation that is using said weapons to commit human rights violations. My expectation is that the US follows its own laws.

Oh you mean that one weapons shipment that Biden very publicly refused to send, before he sent many more weapons?

Because everyone knows that Trump is not going to move on this issue, or really do anything good at all. Dems are supposed to be better than Trump, or at least they certainly insist that they are. People holding Kamala to a higher standard are taking the Dems at their word.

Leftists are some of the only people who paid attention or cared about Palestine before last year.