• Flying Squid
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    1223 days ago

    Lobby their colleagues in the Senate and the White House for the aforementioned boycott and sanctions, rally their constituency behind the cause,

    What makes you think they aren’t doing that?

    generally do a better jobof forcefully repudiating the criminal leader of a fascist apartheid regime currently committing genocide than saying lukewarm stuff like “it’s not a good time right now” and “too divisive”

    They’re literally doing more than that. RTFA. Hell, read the one sentence quote from the article at the top.

    So they’re doing what you want and it’s still not good enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      -223 days ago

      Pelosi, Himes, and Peters were among the 173 House Democrats who last month voted to approve $26 billion in new U.S. military aid to Israel, in addition to the nearly $4 billion it already gets from Washington each year.

      It’s all talk. When it comes to actual actions, they support Israel 100% of the time.

      • Flying Squid
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        323 days ago

        They did that to get funding for Ukraine and you know it.