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Trump Backs Israel Bombarding Gaza: 'Gotta Finish the Problem'
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You're speaking in certainties when you cannot. The genocide has been perpetuated, on and off, for 75 years. This is the most killing we've seen in the region in a short span of time, but we have seen figures close to this in the past 75 years.
Of course there's a world where Trump is elected, and successfully aids Israel in the extermination of the Palestinians. But you have to admit that that world isn't a certainty, even if Trump is elected.
There's also a world where Biden is reelected, his campaign keeps greenlighting the genocide with periodic rhetorical criticism, and then some other fascist Republican or moderate fiscal conservative Democrat comes in in 2028 and finishes the job (the Democrats now emboldened to further ignore the genocide because it costs them nothing).
It's easier online to speak in certainty about the future, I understand that, but please if you're going to bother engaging please don't do it in bad-faith and actually admit where your knowledge ends. You're not clairvoyant.
You just need to read the headline to this post, not even the article, to see where this argument is a non starter.
I don't believe Trump's campaign promises are unwavering truisms that come to fruition 100% of the time. I'm glad you have so much faith in the promises he makes though, so much so that you'd literally call them a certainty and disregard any other possible reality just simply on the basis that Trump said it.
I've met a good number of Trump supporters that don't even have this kind of faith, only his most devout followers take his promises as premonitions of the future.
Don't you think Egypt will let in refugees when Trump greenlights a Supergenocide?