Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterates call for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza

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Where is the “I won’t support Genocide Joe” crowd now?

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Right here :)

I voted for Kamala tho

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Eating popcorn. Where are the dems who will fight for their constituents now? Looks like they just nearly unanimously passed a law that will let the administration take down any web content the want, not just revenge porn or deepfakes like they claimed.

So thats the end of free speech. Trump said outright he’d use it to censor his oponents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws Did the dems just not have time for ammendments?

So was all this trumpery worth it all so the DNC could continue to take AIPAC money?

Or the Laken Riley act passed with dem support.
https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/ We’re deporting anyone now, with democratic party support. They are even trying to use it on citizens. Heck of a job, DNC.

Or when the dems voted to advance trumps budget-- about the only card they had in their hand right now, and they just didnt use it. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209

And now you want to what, fingerwag like you have a leg to stand on here? I mean come on man. Show me proof beyond Booker sitting on the steps in theatrical protest that the dems are working some angle thats not just secret support of anything the republicans want?

I guess at least Schumer, who says his whole job is to keep the dems supporting Israel, sent a “very strong letter” to trump. So we have that going for us. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pathetic-critics-cringe-leading-dem-191116497.html

Yay Schumer, way to go.

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This is it. Why the fuck is the blame on the people who didn’t vote for a terrible candidate supporting a genocide and not the fucking people supporting the genocide?! Why did the dems all support that censorship bill, when they were initially speaking up about it? Why does it seem like the more exhausted he populace got with trump and his shit, he more democrats seemed to use that as an excuse to start supporting the republicans? Where is all the “stop trump” and “stop fascism” dems now? Why does it seem like they’re done grandstanding about standing up to trump and seem to have rolled over to keep their jobs or whatever it is? Why does this seem all okay, and why is the blame for all of that on people who couldn’t stomach supporting a candidate that was not standing up to a genocide and was parading around the fucking worst of the neocons? Why is it always on the people who didn’t sacrifice their values to once again stomach a candidate that goes against their basic human morals, and not on the politicians continually moving to the right? Why blame the people who see the rightward march of the Democratic Party as a death knell for the country, and not on the people who are fucking marching right as fast as the fascists continue to radicalize? Why the fuck can these assholes not see that we don’t give a shit that you think you’re morally superior to us because you “voted against fascism,” when the party you voted for seems to be actively ushering fascism in through the door?

Where is the fucking class solidarity? These people are selling you out, and you turn to your neighbor to say, “well, you should’ve just voted differently.” We are well beyond this being on us. This is on the people driving the ship, not the ones stuck in the cargo hold screaming that we’re fucking sinking.

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Eating popcorn the shit sandwich they helped create. Fixed that for you.

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Good to see “helped” instead of assigned blame. I’ll take it.

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I voted for Harris, and voted for Biden before that, and Clinton before that. With shame as I should. Harm reduction, methadone instead of heroin.

It’s nothing to brag about. You guys try to make them sound like a good choice, when neoliberals are for the same status quo, only minus the scapegoating. They’re just a lesser degree of bad. They’re for mass homelessness, they’re for entire murder for profit economic sectors including American “Healthcare,” they’re for ever worsening income inequity, because on economic policy (that informs and often dictates social Ills) they’re on the same take as Republicans. Just because they don’t cheer and pour the blood they’re drenched in over their heads in celebration like Gatorade, doesn’t mean their hands are any cleaner.

That scapegoating makes Republicans worth voting against, but you’re praising Jack the Ripper in the face of Adolf Hitler. No American should feel anything but shame about only having a extreme right wing party and a fascist party as our only two options. No one should have left an American polling place with a smile or pride for the last half century, it’s been a rocketship to avarice diseased oblivion, that Trumpism is just a newer symptom of, not the cause.

Reagan toppled this empire, it just takes an empire a while to hit the ground. We have arrived at a while. Trump is more of a vulture come to feast on the corpse.

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I voted for Harris.

But can you explain exactly how things would have gone differently in Gaza other than the rhetoric if Harris had won? She was all in on the genocide just like Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, etc.

Just because Harris was clearly the better choice overall doesn’t mean she (and Biden) wasn’t and isn’t dead wrong about their fealty to Netanyahu.

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My brother in Christ. Israeli officials were literally waiting for Trump to get elected. They KNEW people like you were going to hand them the Gaza Strip. Acknowledge that you fucked up and move on with the rest of us.

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Blinken tried to organize for other countries to allow Israel to ethnically cleanse Gaza and those countries to take in the Palestinians in Nov 2023. Then the other countries said “No”. The Trump plans of this year arent fundamentally different. They are the same plans as the Democrats under Biden had. Just that Trump is louder about it.

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I will remind any Democratic supporters of Israel that Israel is in league with Trump. I will not allow them to forget it.

I am most decidedly anti-Israel but voted for Harris due to the dozens of other issues that were different between the 2 candidates.

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What did they do that you consider ‘fucking up’?

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I’m neither a man nor a Christian tho.

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Doing the both sides thing won’t help here. It distracts from the real problem.

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Probably discussing the latest news about how Biden never pressured Israel for ceasefire

It was just another lie to give political cover as he aided and abetted an ongoing genocide.

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Well, at least Joe is out of power, now. Phew! Crisis averted.

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No, Gaza is still being bombed. Children are being intentionally starved. It’s still a crisis.

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Yeah dude, Biden totally got “political cover” about Gaza.

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Yes, the lie that Biden was pushing for a ceasefire gave him tons of political cover. It was one of his administration’s primary Gaza talking points. They used this lie to deflect against valid criticism for months.

Even AOC fell for the lie, saying Harris was working tirelessly for a ceasefire in Gaza

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Surely thrilled that they were able to punish Democrats

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I see — As long as the democrats suffer, it justifies the actual genocide that will take place on account of their decision.

It’s good to see the left punishing people who agree with them on 50% of things over people who agree with them on 0% of things. That is a recipe for success. Go team.

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I consider it insult to say I agree with either of our 2 parties on 50% of the issues. Almost all of both of their policy positions are derivations on “how will this metastasize the capital markets faster” and not “how will this improve the wellbeing of the citizens of society, preferably at the expense/taxation of the capital markets that we kindly permit to profit off of society at all so long as they don’t undermine said society to increase their profits”

Both parties would be lighting themselves on fire to prevent the latter. The tail has been wagging the dog for a long time, the fucking profoundly perverse servitude of a society to an economy. It obviously needs to be the other way around or… Well this.

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You just had a full back and forth with sarcasm and came away despondent.

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I think the hope is that Democrats will see Israel as being in league with Trump and stop supporting them. Of course given how costly losing this election was, such a strategy would be a Pyrrhic victory even if it were successful. Which is doubtful, given that I view the Democrats as “controlled opposition”.

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Not supporting Genocide Donald.

You say this like Biden was bringing an end to the Genocide.

Trump partaking in Genocide doesn’t mean Biden didn’t. It was just publicly revealed that Biden never demanded a ceasefire (as if we didn’t know that already), Biden sent weapons to Israel to use in their genocidal campaign, Biden sent warships to ward off and defend against any attacks against Israel for their genocidal campaign. Trump doing the same doesn’t mean Biden didn’t do those things.

You so smugly using Trump’s continuation of the genocide as a form of “gotcha” (again, as if we didn’t know he would do that) is truly just absolutely morally gross and despicabe.

You deserve Trump.

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The Israelis are the one’s actually murdering people

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Nobody said otherwise.

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With weapons from multiple other countries who keep resupplying them or giving other political cover to prevent consequences to Israel committing genocide and other preemptive attacks

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The U.S. gov is making sure that no one intervenes and stops them. They are a very direct accomplice.

Without U.S. cover, Israel would get their shit pushed in.

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There they are!

You say I deserve Trump… like I’m the one suffering here. Question: do you honestly think Joe Biden would have permitted the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza? Would that even be a conversation right now? How about turning Gaza into a real estate opportunity for the sitting president?

I’m not the one suffering the brunt of consequences for your decision to elect Trump over Biden, it’s the Palestinian people who are. All of you made a choice based on principles that you don’t have the political power to support, and the result is one that is far worse for the actual people affected. That makes the choice morally inferior. And, it’s a shame to see what is happening to the people impacted by it.

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Question: do you honestly think Joe Biden would have permitted the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza?

We dont have to wonder. Biden proposed moving the Palestinians to Egypt, at Netenyahus suggestion. Egypt rejected the idea and warned it would shut down relations with Israel if they tried, and then Israel backtracked saying they would never have allowed it anyway because it might permit “terrorists” to return and attack someday.

https://reason.com/2025/01/27/trump-revives-bidens-failed-proposal-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza/

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“You say I deserve Trump… like I’m the one suffering here.”

If you’re American and not ultra-wealthy you are/will be, just like I will.

“Question: do you honestly think Joe Biden would have permitted the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza?”

Yes. Just as he was perfectly fine with them bombing everything from hospitals to schools usimg the weapons he continues to send and using genocidal rhetoric. You would have to be insane to think otherwise.

“Would that even be a conversation right now?”

No. It would just be another day of Joe Biden and the Democrats enabling the genocide while “liberals” sit by and let it happen and calling anyone who opposed it a crazy radical. Just like it was during the year long genocidal campaign he DID engage in.

“I’m not the one suffering the brunt of consequences for your the decision to elect Trump over Biden, it’s the Palestinian people who are.”

This is the same blatant denialism of Genocide because Joe Biden was the one doing it I just critiqued.

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not being pushed by russian and israeli propaganda through SOCIAL media perhaps.

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If you can’t stand up against actively supporting an open genocide, you aren’t going to stand up for democracy.

America has been cooked. And yes, Biden is/was complacent

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I hope when you’re in the prison camp you’ll understand that there may have been a slight chance to get Kamala to end the genocide, but there was zero chance to get trump to end it.

Has the united states been fascist for decades? Yes. But even the fascists knew there were limits. But maga fascists don’t have limits, don’t care about laws, don’t care about what you think. Maga fascists only care about their own self interest, and if it hurts the citizens, or requires aiding a full genocide to build a resort, then so be it.

So please, enjoy your high horse, I’m sure the dead children of Gaza who might have had a chance of being saved under a Harris administration will understand and forgive you.

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Kamala whose husband is a promiment zionist, campaign manager was a zionist, and who could never formulate and articulate a single policy position on her own in any of her campaign runs? That Kamala? You’re just huffing hopium. Yes, and maybe aliens would land and help us out too. I mean come on.

While we are proposing far fetched nonsense possibilities that go against what the candidates said they’d do: Did you consider that Trumps well documented anti semitism would give an even better result than Kamala?

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This is some copium. Genocide apologizing copium. Not exactly something I’d want to be carrying around. Do better

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You mean Schrodinger’s Leftists?

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They all realize they were part of a targeted disinformation campaign and regret their life choices.

Tbf though, Kamala could have gotten 4% of inactive voters in 3 key states she could have won. Instead those voters stayed home and now we’ve got front row seats to the end of an empire

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It’s not disinformation that Joe Biden enabled and aided the Genocide of Palestinians. Trump doing the same doesn’t rewrite history.

Kamala could have gotten all those voters if she just took a stand against genocide.

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I think the thinking was that turning against Israel more publicly would have mostly garnered more entirely worthless votes in states that are already blue and risked losing at risk rust belt states.

If those voters would have been a bit smarter they could have threatened to stay home but actually voted against fascism then continued to petition the incoming regime which unlike Trump isn’t actually for genocide. Now there is a good chance for most of those folks you want to save being dead when its possible to reverse course IF its possible to reverse course and we don’t have a canceled election and a civil war thereafter.

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in the grand scheme of voting issues, foreign policy isnt on voters top priority(maybe for michiganers, and whitmers wierdly hanging out with trump awful lot lately), is domestic issues unfortunately. every president had support israel and never once was it the forefront as election issue, until trump wanted to be in power again the MSM started to post pro-israeli propaganda through the airwaves, plus russia early on was fueling the “i am not voting dems for the first ime over this” protests.

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Do you think they have the self awareness to even reply to a thread like this?

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I hope your terrorist leaders harris, biden and trump all die lioe fucking pigs.

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Gone.

Their man, Trump, got elected, so they don’t need to exist anymore.

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