• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    He’ll not be remembered kindly by history for this. Even if he was objectively decent president.

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      He will be remembered like silent Cal, except instead of doing to little to combat the oncoming great depression, it will be doing to little to prevent fascism.

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      12 hours ago

      Sad but true. I really don’t understand why he is so adamant in his support for Netanyahu.

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        11 hours ago

        Because he’s a true believer who’s drunk the Zionism kool-aid.

        Plus it probably helps that he’s received more money from AIPAC throughout his political career than his current net worth.

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        10 hours ago

        Because it’s self serving.

        If Bibi is a war criminal for leveraging an admittedly horrible terrorist attack to commit horrendous atrocities, so is Joe Biden.

        What the US did in the 2 decades post 9/11 is no better or worse than what Israel is doing now. Accountability for one means accountability for the other, and Biden doesn’t want to be held accountable.

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          5 hours ago

          What the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan was wrong, no doubt. There’s a lot of reasons for that, ranging from who was actually responsible for 9/11 to all the actual violence between the civilians and soldiers. But systematic extermination is NOT one of those reasons. What Israel is doing in Gaza is 1000x worse. Equating it to how the US conducted its affairs minimizes what’s actually happening, muddying the water and keeping people from feeling like they should actually be doing anything about it.