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[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Not to excuse the fault the democrats and especially Biden has on the situation in Gaza, but “don’t both sides” this shit.

Not only is “but Trump” an actual valid argument for about a million issues, Trump would absolutely steamroll the genocide in Gaza to even worse metrics. So not even in that 1 metric are the republicans a better option

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Erm akshurally its not called Fascism, its called Fascism Lite™ and it's totally different. Also its not called genocide its called protecting our allies and upholding international law 🤓

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Now with even less life satisfaction?

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 11 points 2 months ago

You act like the US political system hasn't been a choice between the lesser of two evils for many decades.

Sure, Harris's stance on the issue isn't ideal, but Trump's solution is to nuke Gaza.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Y'know... If I were just a liiittle bit more paranoid, this would start looking like it's all planned out. Make the other guy so bad that people will basically have to choose between 'mild' genocide and a complete lunatic who wants to create a Theo-Fascistic Middle Ages kingdom.

I'm honestly not chipping into the debate, firstly because this particular moral quandary is a Kobayashi Maru type deal, secondly because I'm not American so it's not my place. Just random thoughts...

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You think it's all a ruse to do more genocide? Why would they need a smoke screen for that? Why assume it has anything to do with Israel when we have no shortage of problems within the country that both sides would like us to ignore?

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I honestly have no idea what the ultimate machinations behind such a plan would be, I don't even believe that's necessarily the case, just something which strikes me as almost so ridiculously bad, that it has to be fake. Maybe I'm just an optimist, hell if I know...

But to give into flights of fancy, one of the reasons why I could see someone wanting to prolong a massive conflict (maybe even two!) would be to sell weapons and generally implements of war. Would track with past behaviour. I'm sure there are plenty of other imaginable economic and political reasons, but that's beyond speculation.

They did start selling weapons to any citizen who can enter a store, ask, and pay for one while there were no conflicts quite on this scale going on, which may or may not be just a coincidence. Again, haven't the foggiest and this is all in good... uuh... fun, I guess.

[-] rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Didn't the cheeto say we should nuke Gaza?

[-] LifeGivesYouLemmys@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Doesn't matter what trump says, OP prefers them to others.

[-] asqapro@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

I can’t find anything backing that claim, but a Republican congressman did suggest it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1v3gM8yG91Q

[-] cccrontab@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

These reductive posts are so old and tired.

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