• distantsounds@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So the Biden administration has no power in stopping aid? Because it’s happening rn on his watch. Whatever possible future comes is a result of actions today…

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      6 months ago

      So the Biden administration has no power in stopping aid?

      I really don’t know how you got that from “Don’t vote in the guy who wants to give more aid to Israel and start genocides at home”.

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        6 months ago

        I was trying to stay on subject and not follow you down the “what about this possible future” rabbit hole. I’m not a multiverse guy. Today’s actions bears tomorrow’s fruit. This support of genocide is making for rotten choices

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          I was trying to stay on subject and not follow you down the “what about this possible future” rabbit hole.

          Oh, I’m sorry, you’re right, it’s absolutely ridiculous to consider one of the only two realistic possibilities of the outcome of this coming election. I really must be overworking some poor folk’s brains here.

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            6 months ago

            I know some people only can hold 2 ideas at a time but there are more than more choices that are available at the current point in time.

            Here is one:

            Option 3: Biden and his administration stops supporting Israel, and he gains support for literally doing nothing

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              Option 3: Biden and his administration stops supporting Israel, and he gains support for literally doing nothing

              That would be great. I very much hope that the protests push him into that.

              However, Option 3 is not an option you or I pull the lever on. Option 3 is an option that Biden must choose, and as much as I’d like to slip him some subliminal messaging in his morning coffee to convince him, ultimately, neither of us can make that decision the way we can make the decision who to vote for.

              So if election day comes, and Option 3 hasn’t activated, you are looked at Option 1 or Option 2. And if you think “Well, I don’t MIND fascism” is in any way a moral decision at that point, then I absolutely will respond with the utmost disgust.

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                6 months ago

                That would be great. I very much hope that the protests push him into that.

                Yet, commenting about the support of genocide is too much lol

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      Very little. It’s largely a Congress thing. They decide who gets aid, how much, and where the funding comes from. Biden absolutely could do better with messaging. And his leadership has not done him many favors either. However, short of enacting war powers etc. There’s very little that the executive branch can do directly. Which makes so much of the ire Biden is getting misplaced and suspicious.

      He should do better. So should the people hyperfixating on him.

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          People say a lot of things. People only have the ability to do the things they’re given. He can push for it to change. He can even expedite already approved shipments. But what he can’t do is start or stop them himself. Congress can and the Republicans have shown they would override him.