• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    He called out elements of the student protest movement, not the movement as a whole.

    Maybe if we policed the most unhelpful and destructive elements of the movement for ourselves, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

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      6 months ago

      He talked about these elements as if they were the entirety of the movement. It doesn’t matter how much you police the movement, any jackass can make the movement look bad with the help of biden and the media pretending like they represent the movement.

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        6 months ago

        The Columbia divestment spokesperson said they had no involvement with the group which took over Hamlin Hall, but stood in solidarity with them.

        When the movement as a whole stands in solidarity with those who are weakening the movement, maybe Biden has a point.

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          Biden is arming and funding a genocide

          He has no moral credibility and neither does the Democratic Party

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            Sure I get that, but I would also point out that you aren’t personally getting food into Gaza. Trump is going to tear down the humanitarian aid for Palestinians that Biden and the Democrats are working through the diplomatic process.

            When Trump is elected and this genocide becomes a success, make no mistake, you will have had a hand in that, and I think you would lose that ability to criticize Biden.

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              the humanitarian aid for Palestinians that Biden and the Democrats are working through the diplomatic process.

              This is not happening. It’s a fairy tale

              this genocide becomes a success

              Already is.

              I think you would lose that ability to criticize Biden.

              I think everyone who voted for Biden in 2020, which includes me, is culpable for this genocide.

              Unfortunately, the United States is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship of the oligarchs. Which means there is no way to influence policy on which the oligarchs agree. This Zionist genocide is one such example. Another is single payer healthcare. And workplace democracy.

              This country is a hellhole whose living conditions will continue to deteriorate for the rest of our lives, much like they have since 1968. Voting for Biden or for trump will not change that.

              Moving to somewhere like Denmark is the best possible option. No American should have any hope for this country. It is naive to think that Biden and The Democrats will do anything to meaningfully improve the country or the world. They are owned by the oligarchs - they just don’t actively hate guys or women.

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                You are privileged enough to go to Denmark, that’s great.

                They aren’t accepting over 300 million migrants. Just because you won’t be paying the repurcussions for your helping the Trump campaign doesn’t make you the moral beacon you pretend to be.

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                  No, I can’t go to Denmark, actually. Everyone who can go, should go.

                  This country is fucked regardless of who wins. Neoliberals like the Democrats have destroyed the United States and killed the New Deal. Which is inevitably going to cause this country to elect a fascist. If not Trump in 2024, then someone else in 2028 or 2032. There is no way out of this except for socialism, or, at the least, social democracy. Which is impossible, because our oligarchs will never allow such a thing.

                  You and I are on the Titanic. Neither of us are getting a lifeboat. Accept that.

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                    I gotta say this message has a pretty big red flag for me. The American movement is referred to as Democratic Socialism.

                    I don’t think an American leftist would make that mistake, nor be unaware that our movement is actively infiltrating the democratic party, nor that our relevance within the Democratic Party has never been greater.

                    I’m sorry, but I think you are almost certainly astroturfing.

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            We all know of his support. What you don’t seem to recognize is that Trump will be worse. Protest Biden’s support of Israel. Just don’t pretend that things will be get better by supporting Trump. We all know that’s a lie.

            Also, the Republicans tried to pass Israel aid independent of Ukraine and Taiwan aid. Don’t pretend for a second that the Democrats in Congress are morally inferior to the Republicans.

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              The Democrats are arming and funding a genocide. Even George W Bush and Trump never did that.

              Only one president in my lifetime ever armed and funded a genocide. That president is a Democrat and his name is Joe Biden

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                  What are the elements of the crime of genocide, and how were they all present in Iraq?

                  Gaza is worse than that abomination because of Israels clear intent to exterminate a people. Which is what makes it genocide. This isn’t a war with an unacceptably large amount of deaths - its a targeted extermination campaign that is also engaging in ethnic cleansing and collective punishment

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                    If you can’t see the vilification and indiscriminate killing of Arabs as genocidal, and you’d rather argue semantics, then technically speaking Netanyahu’s horrific actions in Gaza are not genocide until determined by the ICC. Saying “Bush wouldn’t even do this” is absurd.