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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    It's a PR move. It's a worse than nothing PR move.

    Air drops are inefficient, expensive, dangerous, and only helpful when there are no other delivery options. Air drops are primarily for the Biden administration's benefit - to paper over a massive policy failure.

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  • RedWizard [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I can hear the posts now:

    maybe-later-kiddo: First you say he needs to do more. Then you say airdropping food isn't a solution. I don't see you doing anything! He's literally doing the most.

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    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Today's r/politics thread and its top comment.

      Mysterious-Wasabi103 comments on US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation

      Would Trump do something like this or even demand a ceasefire like Biden did yesterday? He would not. He would give Netanyahu the green light and not think twice about it.

      This is just another reason why I'm voting for Joe Biden this November and I hope everyone else does too.

      I. Must. Not. Fedpost.

      Holy mother of fuck it's hard not to.

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    • 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?

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      • @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.

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      • 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."

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        • 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..."

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          • RedWizard [he/him]
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            4 months ago

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

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            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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              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.

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  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Going straight to airdrops tacitly confirms that the flour massacre was intentional

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  • D61 [any]
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    4 months ago

    The amount of stuff that you can supply by air drop versus semi truck convoy is garbage.

    Nothing large, nothing liquid, nothing that can't handle pressure changes, nothing that breaks easily.

    You'll get MRE's and gauze bandages and thats about it.

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    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      You'll get MRE's and gauze bandages and thats about it.

      That sounds exactly on brand for the democrats.

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    • @charlie
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      4 months ago

      Bet they just took all the expired and near expiring MRE’s out of storage and then issued massive cost plus contracts to replenish the supply.

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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    The C-130 planes “dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza allowing for civilian access to the critical aid”

    They need several hundred times that much every day. This is a cruel joke. A sick gesture that's more likely to force people to kill each other for a tiny morsel than to actually help.

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  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    I'm predicting by next weekend we'll have the IOF airdropping aid packages that explode when you open them.

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    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      The packages will "coincidentally" be nearly identical to the US aid packages. Israel will publicly make non-apology apologies. In private they'll snicker and laugh. And some of that will leak out. But Israel won't even bother to make non-apology apologies to those unofficial private comments.

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      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        "The Biden Administration is in stern talks with the IDF over plan to disguise IEDs as air-dropped aid packages, urges Netanyahu to reconsider"

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