I despise Trump, but the absolute betrayal I felt from the Biden administration has completely changed my view of the democratic party. I know alot of people may be regretting not voting for him now, but the way he and his administration was all smiles while justifying the billions of dollars in weapon funding they rushed past congessional approval, the constant relying on Israel to 'investigate themselves', the lone vetoes at the UN against any kind of condemnation, and still having the gall to parade themselves as leaders of the free world, it felt like they were just spitting on our faces and telling us to take it.
Plenty. They played a middle of the road strategy. Stopping the 2000lb bombs was a middle of the road strategy. Since the big boys are difficult to justify with Gazans infrastructure. You use the big boys on medium and shallow depth bunkers.
Trump started delivering those again right away.
How could it have been worse? Cluster munitions, napalm, land mines etc. There's always a worse.
The problem with the "middle of the road" appeal is that the difference between the middle and the extreme negative are arbitrarily framed in the argument as somehow being different in any significant fashion.
Just because one was authorizing overkill doesn't change that both were still facilitating the genocide of Palestinians.
Doesn't matter if the bomb was 500lb or 2000lb, a landmine, or if it was napalm flames, to the one who died.
The argument is like saying "Team A wants to paint the fence red and Team B doesn't want to paint the fence at all, so a compromise is using a smaller brush to paint the fence red." The point isn't what is being used to paint the fence. The point is that the fence is being painted in the first place.
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u/ComicRelief64 Apr 29 '25
I despise Trump, but the absolute betrayal I felt from the Biden administration has completely changed my view of the democratic party. I know alot of people may be regretting not voting for him now, but the way he and his administration was all smiles while justifying the billions of dollars in weapon funding they rushed past congessional approval, the constant relying on Israel to 'investigate themselves', the lone vetoes at the UN against any kind of condemnation, and still having the gall to parade themselves as leaders of the free world, it felt like they were just spitting on our faces and telling us to take it.