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Good job everyone who sat out or voted 3rd party this election. You saved Palestine!

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I dont think those protest voters were significant, people just think “food didnt get cheaper” and didnt felt like voting anymore. Thats your average voter mindset.

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It’s funny how they consider they had massive impact until there are consequences to their actions. Then, it wasn’t much.

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I don’t think anyone sincerely believed that protest voters were ever going to have a significant impact. I think all of the noise you heard was astroturf designed to knock Harris from both sides of the Israel political position.

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It’s funny how they were too insignificant to listen to but aren’t too insignificant to blame.

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The jump in searches for “who is running for president” the day of the election tells you all you need to know about the average American voter.

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My heart sank when I read about this. How?! Were these people in a coma for the last few months?

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Thanks BIDEN (you know, the current POTUS).

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While ignoring that for most people, their purchasing power also went up.

They want to pay pre-pandemic prices for food while making post-pandemic paychecks, and there’s no way that’s going to happen without guillotines. So instead they voted in the wealthy assholes who directly caused COVID and indirectly caused inflation/greedflation because surely those people won’t do that again, right?

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this article is from 2015

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Do you really think he changed his stance since then?

He’s also the new US ambassador to Israel. That’s from 2 hours ago.

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I do not think he changed his stance, but I’m not sure how it’s relevant to the election.

The number of pro Palestinian people was a statistical blip outside of Michigan and certainly did not change the election.

I really hope the Dems reflect on why AOC was re elected in a district that swung heavily towards Trump instead of doubling down on their clear and tangible resentment of working class people.

Mike Huckabee is detestable, but that doesn’t make the current policies better. When it comes to genocide, splitting hairs misses the point.

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I’m sure he’s a kinder, gentler Huckabee nowadays.

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Joe Biden is still president and over 200 children were slaughtered since the election. Tomorrow is the deadline he gave Israel for letting aid into the north of Gaza, but he will not enforce it because he also believes that there are no such thing as Palestinians and that they should die, leave or live as subjects to Jews so that Israel can annex all territory the Bible grants it.

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I found this video to be very helpful for understanding what happened last week even though it predates the election by some years.

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Because Bidens policies that Kamala guaranteed to continue were going to save them?

Maybe a few more behind the scene tut-tuts and billions of arms to Israel would have helped.

Good job every Dem who supported Israel, good job for taking millions and millions in lobbying bribes. At least your pockets are fat.

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https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?si=Quu3uCr8FEPUlTGr

Time traveler here, someone wrote a song about you in 1966

I vote for the democtratic party

They want the u.n. to be strong

I go to all the pete seeger concerts

He sure gets me singing those songs

I’ll send all the money you ask for

But don’t ask me to come on along

So love me, love me, love me, i’m a liberal

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Go away. This is so bad.

I’m serious… Save yourself and delete this.

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Explain.

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How would kamalacaust have been any different?

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kamalacaust

You definitely sound like someone who’s willing to have a reasonable conversation.

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Watch the efficiency in which they finish the genocide January 21st.

That will demonstrate how much you helped Palestine because you genuinely care. Pfft wow I could barely type that without laughing. You have blood on your hands.

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Explain to me how she, or people in her orbit/administration, have said things even remotely similar to what Huckabee just said.

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If you’re going to name it after someone, maybe try the guy in Israel actually directing the damn thing?

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62 points

Your new Ambassador to Isreal.

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Middle to Low Income Americans: fucked

Palestinians: eradicated

Separation of Church and State: homogenized

1%ers: completely torqued

The NWO is here, the Rubes just forgot to mention it was them and the capitalists enacting it not the illuminati

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25 points

All the ghouls crawling back out from under rocks

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They weren’t hiding, they just stopped screaming long enough to get a good breath of air for the next scream.

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Crawling back out from the February 24, 2015 rock.

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Based on the need for ancient history to claim a people, there’s no Americans either. Does that mean we give everything back to the indigenous people? I hope so. Also even if they’re Arabs as you say, that doesn’t mean you can just murder them indiscriminately like this.

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Yes, an American politician should be wary of making the argument that non-ancient roots in an area make their claim on their land default.

Honestly, I have trouble dealing with the irony that American politicians are pro-zionism becuase Jews used to hold the land a long time ago until they were outcast from their homelands aand forced to move far away, displacing Palestinian people that live tthere now in the process… and then think that Native American sovereignty (let alone their claim to their historical lands that were stolen from them) are ridiculous and unfair to contemporary US citizens that live here now.

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No it’s okay we have nukes.

I’m trying to be satirical but I can’t really think of another argument

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Yes, because Israel definitely doesn’t have nukes. That would be in violation of international non-proliferation agreements, and they have the utmost respect for international law.

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They are in ancient history though. They’re in the Bible that these people treasure so much, the philistines are mentioned a lot as people who live in the southern Levant who aren’t Jewish. After the roman emperor hadrian expelled the jews from Judah he renamed the province Palestine, more to spite the jews then to honor the philistines, which is the name of the region and the people who live in it who are not jews to this day.

Yeah they absorbed a hegemonic imperial Arab culture in the second millennium but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. That’s like saying Canadians don’t exist because them and the u.s. we’re created by the same empire and have a very similar culture and language.

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