President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Sorry to beat the same drum in a short amount of time, but this is where thinking Biden wasn’t doing enough has led. Perfect being the enemy of the good and all. Explicit calls for ethnic cleansing were at least not on the table with the last administration.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    1 day ago

    Damn, it’s too bad the average citizen is who participates in elections and not only political masterminds. I guess nobody could have known to account for that.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Who needs to be a political mastermind?

      I remember when it was a foregone conclusion that Nazis were pieces of shit and their ideology deserved no quarter.

      I explicitly learned this in fucking elementary school.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Exactly. That we’re even having a discussion (as a country) about whether Nazi ideology is OK is an alarming development.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
      15·
      1 day ago

      It takes half a brain cell to look at your options and know the one is far worse for anything you support than another. It takes two brain cells to know politicians are held to their financial benefactors.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        18·
        24 hours ago

        If your conclusion is “non voters are just stupid” without examining what in their lives led to them feeling like their vote won’t matter or count (with reason, in some cases) you’re not really doing anything other than venting about losing.

        We don’t only live in a nation that is heavily propagandized and with a suppressed vote when Republicans have the presidency, that’s true all the time. Until we fix that and other issues with our political system, a portion of voters won’t be able to be (or have a reason to be) engaged.

        • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          So the solution to a society that’s propagandized to the point that people legitimately think allowing Trump to have the white house is ‘no different’ from making sure he doesn’t get it is… not trying to convince anyone that they’ve been misled? Not trying to point out how utterly foolish that kind of thinking is?

          Literally just: don’t fight the propaganda machine? Let it happen meekly and quietly? Don’t spend any energy on trying to point out how utterly stupid it is to allow the worse option because you don’t absolutely love the marginally better one that will save lives?

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      8·
      24 hours ago

      I mean, I’ve been homeless for nearly a year and a half and saw this coming. You don’t have to be some political savant.