• @Ensign_Crab
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    13 months ago

    And then Harris doesn’t get elected because AIPAC dumps a metric fuckload of cash into Trumps campaign.

    So the Democratic Party is AIPAC’s party and we no longer have a representative democracy in this country.

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      3 months ago

      To be fair, the Republican Party is also AIPAC’s party. They throw a LOT of money around, in all directions.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        13 months ago

        Didn’t say they weren’t. Thing is, that means that our only two options serve the interests of a man who is committing genocide to keep himself in power, and prioritize those interests over ours.

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          33 months ago

          They serve his interests for now.

          I’m low key cautiously optimistic that Harris is going to start shifting away from just giving Israel shitloads of bombs. She knows it’s a bad look, and she knows a lot of her supporters are pretty fucking pissed at Biden over his handling of the situation. She has a chance, once she takes office, to make a meaningful change to policy in that area, and I hope she does.

          I think that may be why AIPAC is being so bold in this election cycle: they can see the writing on the wall, and they know they’ve pissed off a significant portion of one entire side of our political establishment… and the other side - the one that doesn’t mind that they’re carpet-bombing brown people - has neo-Nazis in it. So that’s a bit of a quandary they’ve put themselves in. It’s really incredible, in a geopolitical sense (because it’s not just America in which this shift is happening), because they’ve basically just thrown the vast majority of international sympathy and goodwill they previously had onto a bonfire and lit the fucker up.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            -13 months ago

            They serve his interests for now.

            I see no evidence at all of any interest whatsoever in stopping.

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              23 months ago

              By all means, ignore everything besides the first sentence I wrote. Feeling pithy today, aren’t we?

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                The first paragraph I ignored is rank speculation about what might happen once no pressure to stop selling weapons can be exerted.

                The second paragraph is predicated on the guy who is already committing genocide suddenly caring about what the international community thinks instead of just trying to maintain his hold on power with the unconditional assistance of a servile US government.

                Neither is evidence of any interest in ceasing support for Netanyahu’s genocide.