“Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again,” DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy—that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in—can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”
It isn’t though.
Look at our humanitarian support that often gets hijacked by corrupt governments.
People are starving.
We send support.
Support gets hijacked.
People keep starving.
“WhY Do yOu sUpPoRt sTaRvAtIoN??!?!?!”
We aren’t going to stop sending support just because bad actors are misusing it.
The bad actors in this case are the people we keep selling weapons to. No hijacking is taking place like in your example about food aid. We sell them weapons, they get immediately used for genocide.
Pretending that Netanyahu totally meant to use the weapons for defense but accidentally goofed into using them for genocide is flimsy apologia indeed.
Oh, there’s no goof, they’re intentionally mis-directing the aid. That’s absolutely plain, but we won’t stop providing it just because they’re misusing it.
Well, we should. Because it’s making us complicit in an ongoing genocide.
I agree we should, but we won’t because of the larger political implications.
Politicians are SCARED of AIPAC and they have a right to be:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-lose-oregon-primaries
https://apnews.com/article/cori-bush-aipac-house-race-missouri-568c1a84974b8ba176a8d27a8375de42
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/26/the-aipac-funded-candidate-defeated-jamaal-bowman-but-at-what-cost
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-08-07/ty-article/another-victory-for-aipac-wesley-bell-and-8-5-million-defeat-squad-member-cori-bush/00000191-2adb-d2a9-a5dd-3edb30180001
From where I’m sitting, it looks like centrists continue to support genocide because AIPAC funds challengers to progressive incumbents for them.
Yup. Because if you go against AIPAC they will spend loads to remove you.
There is no pro-Palestine PAC with the same cashflow, maybe there should be?
Hey Crab! Let’s get on that? Think we can get, I dunno, a billion from the Saudis and flood AIPAC out?
And centrists will gladly support genocide if it means locking out progressives.
Please don’t mock me. The only reason that AIPAC can interfere in US elections as brazenly as it does is that politicians they’ve bought look the other way. You think they’re gonna let another group horn in on what they’ve got? You know better than that.