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President Joe Biden calls on LGBTQ+ community ‘to wave their flags of pride high’ this June
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Oh good, another distraction from Palestine. Why not jump on it?
Look, I want to stop killing innocent civilians in Palestine too, but it doesn't mean we need to forget everything else, especially marginalized people here in the US.
Many of us can think about more than one thing at a time.
Lol fuck yeah let's give him another reason to ignore children being murdered indescriminately from the skies. They can wait a month while Biden hides behind our rainbow flag.
I'm sick of the "we can do multiple things at once" rhetoric when so often we prove no, we fucking can't. We forget the last TikTok we just watched but yeah, don't worry Palestine we just need a month.
Im not exactly excited to watch a man with no red line in sight hide behind the one on our flag.
Eh whatever then. You just gonna be mad then and there's no point discussing it online for you anymore.
Yeah I have hard time feigning indifference to genocide so we can shove rainbow themed capitalism down everyone's throats, sorry man.
No apologies needed. You don't mean it anyways. You're just pretending anyone not actively engaged in your focus is against it. It's a gaslighting tactic.
Lol people still not knowing what the fuck gaslighting means. My original comment was that Biden would use this to distract from the shit everyone is mad at and you proved my point by letting him use the rainbow flag as a convenient distraction to hide from his fuck ups.
I mean, you've only mentioned Palestine. You're being indifferent to Russia's attempted genocide of Ukraine, the genocide in Darfur, and the Uighur Genocide.
Are you truly indifferent to them? Or are they just among the global issues you're worried about?
If you can only focus on one thing at once, how are you deciding on which genocide to focus on?
Yeah it's almost like my original comment was about how Biden was going to use pride month to hide from bad PR and he's not getting bad PR from helping Ukraine is he? I know it's hard to focus on the entire conversation, you keep getting distracted by the most recent post. Hence my point.
Another person who is perfectly willing to throw LGBT people under the bus. We see you for what you are stop pretending moral superiority.
I'm LGBT and I see no bus but thanks bud.
LGBT people can throw other LGBT people under the bus too, you are not exempt
Yeah I'm the kind that doesn't make it my whole personality.
Isn't equality accepting that some LGBTQ people are assholes, just like the rest of us?
The funny thing is this is not a new situation this has been happening continuously over all our lifespans not only in Palestine. And now it's not even done directly by the US military which has been the case the last decades. Activism on all fronts always has to be the way to go.
You need to touch grass before the brain rot becomes terminal
Crazy to watch people more desperate for an empty month of rainbow themed trinkets being sold to them over more important shit but hey, you're definitely the sane one.
Yeah, let's just do away with LGBT pride, we clearly lost the oppression games and therefore have nothing to be proud of!
God, I wish I was so fucking ignorant.
Thing that has been happening every year for decades
This is a distraction.
He told Israel to stop. He’s not the boss of them.
After handing them a couple billion dollars of weapons
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/biden-israel-weapons-policy-00158210
That's even more complicated than I thought it was. I'm not happy about it either, but I'm also not a protest voter, so I'd have voted for Biden either way.
:-/
Also
This is absolutely untrue. As Israel is in violation of international law, they are no longer eligible to receive foreign aid. The US response to the ICJ's findings has been to condemn the court and threaten its members. That's about as legal as Trump threatening the members of the SDNY over his hush money prosecution.
Misinformation or uneducated. Which one is it? I love how you compare Trump, because it gave away that you’re either a boogaloo, a tankie, or just a dumb accelerationist.
There are no universal rules or binding international laws that automatically make a country ineligible for foreign aid if it is found to be in violation of international laws.
Biden tried to stop giving them weapons, but got shut down by congress.
What you’re doing is spreading misinformation in an attempt to prevent Biden from winning the election, allowing Trump to win the election, and sending the United States into the toilet. All because because you are either brainwashed or being paid. You tell me…
He threatened to, but he did not.
Biden continuing to supply weapons to Israel in defiance of the ICJ ruling is indisputable.
“Biden” doesn’t have a choice. If you knew US foreign policy, you’d know that.
He didn’t just threaten, it got shot down in congress.
You—like many Americans—seem to have this idea that the president is all-powerful. There are checks and balances for a reason. Unfortunately, good policies can also get shot down without enough support.
But by all means, continue to spread misinformation. 🤷♂️
He is compelled by law to halt military aid to Israel and he is refusing to abide by the ICJ.
This is the Unitary Executive Theory, and it isn't a problem of me holding it as an idea. The problem is Presidents enacting it unchallenged by either the US legislature or the courts.
Yawn.