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Cake day: November 9th, 2021

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  • Then you’re ignorant of both history and geopolitics.

    Israel is a client state, full stop, of the US. Reagan made one phone call and ended the war in Lebanon.

    In fact, Israel institutionally, does not know how to end wars, because they’ve never done it. The US has always ended their wars for them.

    Israel has received a full third of all foreign aid the US has ever given out. It isn’t a state on it’s own. It ceases to exist and will go bankrupt almost immediately without the US.

    Your whole ‘Biden couldn’t force them to stop’ schtick is either bad faith or ignorance of every aspect of the history of that region.

    There is a reason that Trump didn’t stop foreign aid to Israel and Egypt when he froze it everywhere else. Neither state would continue to exist if he hadn’t.



  • They didn’t.

    You just didn’t like the translation of your words into their consequences.

    Most Nazi civilians weren’t evil in any special unique way. They just didn’t care about any moral framework more than they cared about not having the status quo broken.

    It’s an aspect of the banality of evil.

    Your attitude, sadly the most common attitude, is the main driving force for the most heinous of outcomes.

    Here it is being used to justify the literal end of the fucking human race and turning our planet into Venus.



  • I’m not saying he’s better in general.

    But, on this specific one thing he is better, and that is only because Biden is a blood soaked monster that didn’t care about the genocide enough to make a single phone call.

    Israel is a client state that is wholly dependant on free US weapons and money. Israel has received a third of ALL the cumulativw foreign aid that the US has given out over its lifetime.

    Threatening to turn the free weapons and money spigot off is enough to compel Israel to do what the US wants. This is why Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush Jr. were able to that exact thing.

    Biden chose not to end the genocide. Hamas has accepted this deal since February.

    At any point in time Biden could have picked up the phone and ended this. He made the choice not to and is responsible for every dead refugee and dead IDF soldier since then.

    There is nothing difficult about any of this moral calculus at all.

    EDIT: and to be clear, I didn’t think Trump would be better. I thought he would be as bad. But we have a temporary peace deal that we didn’t before. Israel, the country that raped multiple Gazan hospital administrators to death, stopped bombing civilian refugees.