• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    A reddit thread from yesterday - Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza : politics

    The thread is filled with total shit. I didn't think reddit would yawn at genocide. I was wrong. Here's the top comment and a reply chain. It was weird to see it because the last two comments are pretty much something I would write as a bitter parody. Yet all the fuckers are serious.

    Everyone saying this isn't enough, and it's a meaningless gesture - yes to the first, no to the second.

    This is a pretty strong political gesture that Biden is getting very sick of Israel's shit. It's a public distancing of the US from one of its closest allies, in a direct but deniable contradiction of Israel's stance that they're only killing Hamas. It's a not-so-subtle message that he's done expending political capital for them.

    Biden is doing the right thing.

    Any honest look at the man's life shows us this is his default. He is flawed but he is objectively a good PERSON. Can anyone say that honestly about the other guy?

    • @sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      He is flawed but he is objectively a good PERSON.

      He's the type of president you feel you can have an ice cream with.

    • RedWizard [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Lol Jesus Christ. Joe "Super Predator" Biden, "a good person". "My grandpa is a nice guy but just don't talk about black people when hes around. Just a fair warning."

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        I'm terrible at mental arithmetic but if (god forbid) the Gaza war goes all the way to election day - I guess that means ~250,000 dead/injured/missing in Gaza. Libs will be forced to get more and more ghoulish...

        "Yeah, 250k sounds bad. I hate to say it but shit happens. People die. For context one million Americans died from covid in the US. And you have to admit that it's good that Trump isn't president. He would have told Israel to glass Gaza and then laugh about it..."

        • RedWizard [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          To real. That comment might as well have come from a premonition.

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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            4 months ago

            The comments in r/politics are far worse than what the average liberal says in public. But god only knows what libs say in private. I can imagine I'm standing in line somewhere and a lib is talking on their phone as if they where in private.

            They say something like "Of course I'm voting for Biden this November. What's wrong with some people? What do they want him to do? He keeps pressuring Israel. He's doing the right thing!" I'd be in danger of going postal.