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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I guess all the “Genocide Joe” commenters aren’t getting paid to skew the election anymore, so they won’t be here to comment.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I haven't seen "Genocide Don" yet. Funny that.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're still around unfortunately, but they are fewer in number.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Just check the downvote total to see how many accounts are still here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

The bots left, we're left with the dumbasses who believed them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm here. Biden is a genocidal monster, and nothing Trump can do will change that fact.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

.ml user with a braindead take? yeah, that checks out.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you don't think Biden was complicit in the genocide? The one he funded?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The fact that you place the entire weight of 80 years of US Israeli policy on its most reluctant participant demonstrates your agenda. If Trump was in office on Oct. 7, there would be no palestinian territories anymore. They'd be under the Israeli flag and stained with the blood of American soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

The fact that you place the entire weight of 80 years of US Israeli policy on its most reluctant participant

Biden was not reluctant in the slightest and neither are you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

So much for the rational bit of your username.

Though, I guess you can be rational and wrong if you start from false premises.

Biden, and any other American president, can end Israeli wars with a single phone call.

Reagan did it.

Bush did it.

Clinton did it.

In fact, the Israeli military systematically doesn't know how to end wars because they've never had to do it. America has always ended their wars.

It's literally an aspect of their political ideology:

'Oh our party can't be blamed for the war goals not being accomplished. We had to stop because America'

You're either so horrifically ignorant of recent history (my still living father is older than the state of Israel) that any opinion you spout can be tossed out (no matter how rational), or you know this and are trying to actively provide cover for a president who was happy with the slaughter of mostly children.

Which is it?

Edit: and to be exact, it's 77 years. And the US wasn't exactly friendly at the start due to the perceived communist sympathies of the young state. You know, the whole cold war thing? You may have heard of it?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The fact that you place the entire weight of 80 years of US Israeli policy

No, I just place the weight of the Commander in Chief refusing to abide by US law, and ending arms shipments to a genocidal rouge nuclear state, and preventing the UN from holding the genocidal rogue nuclear state to account.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, you can't get away with critising Dear Leader Biden on .world

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Still not hearing any trump criticism from ya...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still not hearing any trump criticism from ya…

Criticize him for supporting a genocide in Israel? Last I heard from the neoliberals, that's just a practical necessity, and we cannot blame Trump for 77 years of US-Israeli policy...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (10 children)

And yet, here you are doing just that.

Now, let’s all take a moment and quietly imagine what would happen if someone should go to .ml and call out Putin for being a sad little coward that can’t take criticism without windowing someone to death…

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Its braindead to not support a genocider?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Good, keep making yourself known so we know who to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You will ignore someone for calling a genocider a genocider?

Ok.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I only started using the term after the election, I wish I was paid. It's crazy how I'm expected to shut up about it for the next 4 years. Apparently, asking the dems to change their stance on genocide of everything is too much and everyone would rather stick their head in the sand. The moment someone enables it just a bit more then them, they get none of the blame and we get to wait through 4 years of shit just for them to give us literally the same stance.

Both parties enable it and are complicit. Defending either on the subject is clear bootlicking imo.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No one is defending either on the subject. We are simply stating that one is WORSE than the other by an order of magnitude. Honestly, how can you not see that?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not just that he's much worse it's that some people somehow expected him to be better?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't think anyone realistically thought he'd be "better", unless you count the scum who consider "More dying" to be "better".

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not only that, but if you took them at their word, that donvict and Kamala would have been the eXaCtSaMe on Gaza, then that issue is cancelled out and you have to weigh all the other policy positions, and even then, it is clear that donvict is a TERRIBLE choice compared to Kamala.

They have no excuse. None.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Not only that, but if you took them at their word, that donvict and Kamala would have been the eXaCtSaMe on Gaza, then that issue is cancelled out

Not true.

You can refuse to support both of them because they are both evil, and you morally should not support evil. Even if one evil person will put more money in your pocket, or if one person will smile at you while your rights are being eroded while telling you nothing is wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

His comment implies anyone speaking disfavorably about the dems stance on genocide is somehow a paid shill.

Read the rest of the comments. It's always the same thing. The dems lost because the voters got manipulated into thinking genocide was something to draw a line over. Well it fucking was. I still think not voting and voting for Trump of all people is massively stupid but I hate the message we are sending.

Trump isn't worse, he's the same on it. We shouldn't be calling them anything other then Genocide Joe and Genocide Trump. Biden did a lot of good but his whole legacy is not breaking with genocide.

We have 4 years to exert pressure and make sure the next candidate isn't a mossad and wallstreet plant. Instead we are infighting like peasants and trying are hardest to not hold the politicians who are suppose to represent us accountable.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden did a lot of good but his whole legacy is not breaking with genocide.

Now Trump has already undone most of that good, has 4 more years to cause damage, and the genocide that you "drew a line over" hasn't stopped. Nice job.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I voted strategically but I shouldnt have to do it while gritting my teeth. They offered nothing because they thought they had an easy win. If we keep pointing at scapegoats and refuse to lay the blame with the ones actually in charge, we get the same exact choice in 4 years and we will lose again.

Ya, drawing the line was dumb but so is blaming the ones that drew it instead of the driver that's sending a train straight into a group of children.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They offered nothing because they thought they had an easy win.

Remember, nothing was...

A woman's bodily autonomy. A Trans person's right to comfort in their body. The separation between church and state. A birthright citizens right to live in their country. An employee's right to a safe job.

And so much more... And it's only been 7 days. Fuck anyone who said the Dems brought nothing to the table. You ignored what they were fighting to keep a hold of in order to parrot some bullshit Russian disinfo false equivalency about a genocide being committed by a different fucking leader in a different fucking country.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are you ignoring all the funds and arms sent to this entire different country? Do you think all that military aid is Russian disinfo?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any president put in power in the US was going to provide aid to Israel one way or another. As abhorrent as Israel's actions are, they are a US ally, and they did suffer major terrorist attack in October, and they are surrounded by other nations that would love to chop them up. Full stop, any aid sent to Israel should have been conditional, but it's foolish to think that they would not have continued without US support. The situation is not black and white and our best chance of changing Israel's actions were to elect Kamala, and put Democrats in Congress that are for conditional aid to Israel.

What was Russian disinfo was pushing the narrative that Kamala was a genocide supporter to Democrats, and not pushing the fact that if trump won, he was going to back Israel completely eradicating Palestinians from the Gaza strip.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Full stop, any aid sent to Israel should have been conditional, but it’s foolish to think that they would not have continued without US support.

Then they could have continued without US support. If anyone in the biden white house or anyone in his wing of the party had wanted to withdraw it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly! So why throw away your own damn country because of a genocide being done by a different leader in a different country that was going to continue no matter what?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You may have loved it, but I resent being manipulated into voting in such a way that made me complicit in every centrist's favorite activity.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A woman’s bodily autonomy. A Trans person’s right to comfort in their body. The separation between church and state. A birthright citizens right to live in their country. An employee’s right to a safe job.

Hate to break it to you, but we were losing ground on all of that, even with Biden as POTUS. Hell, a fair chunk of that happened when Biden was POTUS, and Dems had a majority in the house and senate.

And yes, don't talk to me "But Manchin/Sinema!!!"... Fuck off. Because if they were so bad, why were the dems funding those campaigns? Where was the party leaders, demanding their people get on the line, or else lose committee seats, lose money, etc etc.

And why didn't the Dems drop the filibuster from the senate rules packages? Simple majority vote for everything.

Its almost like they pretended to want to do things to better the working class conditions, without actually doing anything, in order to provide a constant feed of campaign talking points to run on.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trump immediately authorized 2000 lb bombs for Israel. That wasn't a thing before. He's worse and you suck for enabling him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Biden authorized sending 2000lb bombs.

Then it came out that such bombs were being sent and under pressure he paused the sending of those bombs.

Trump resumed it.

You're whitewashing Biden's part in the willful mass murder of civilians (the US Military itself refuses to use 2000lb bombs exactly because of their massive collateral damage and Israel was using them in an urban area thus maximizing the killing from said collateral damage) for political point scoring.

While you're claiming the other poster "sucks" for being critical of Biden's stance on this you might want to look at yourself in a mirror.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you're right about four years because that's a return to normalcy that I can barely imagine right now

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (26 children)

His comment implies anyone speaking disfavorably about the dems stance on genocide is somehow a paid shill.

We're easy to dismiss that way. Then they don't have to think about how monstrous they have been to support genocide all this time.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The paid shills were running a con. If you weren't on payroll, then you're the mark.

Seeing how most of the conmen have cut and run now that the job is done, it really only leaves one option for you.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are a disturbing number of people in this thread who feel that condemning Democrats is more important than worrying about what is about to happen to Palestinians.

As if you folks were using genocide as a tool. And it's pretty hard to read.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When you dismiss people condemning the democrats, you essentially send the message that enabling genocide is okay.

I see attacking the voters as a zionist dog whistle, to desensitize on the subject and low key make genocide something that can be overlooked for the "right" reasons.

Insulting to be said I'm using it as a tool. Every thread about it, there's multiple comments talking about the voters and using them as a scapegoat. I'm just responding to them. If I'm using it as a tool, so are you. And you are a lot more vocal about it then me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (67 children)

I am dismissing people continuing to talk about the election when it's over as if it matters when people are fucking dying.

But you don't care because American politics.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

There are a few stragglers around still. And just as sanctimonious with their tiresome and reckless high-flying rhetoric about how principled they are....

sigh.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bro did you see that articicle about the x whistleblower and how elon influenced the election

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most of the genocide Joe commenters were russian bots. Those left were fooled by them.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Or, and this is crazy, Biden could have earned more votes for the DNC by using the Leahy Law and requiring Israel to stop committing war crimes if they wanted to continue to receive military aid.

Almost like it's the responsibility of parties and politicians to earn votes in a democratic system. Not the duty of voters to vote for the "correct" party, which is what you see codified in Authoritarian governments. The writers of our Constitution specifically said the reason for having elections so often was to make sure politicians were responsible to the people, not the other way around.

So the more you try to blame the voters, the more you make them not want to vote blue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm right here. Trump is gearing up to act as genocidal as Biden was but he's not there yet

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