• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    supports Israel too much for political reasons

    Now c’mon, does this statement really embrace reality? Aside from it’s toxic passivity, it’s not even true. Biden’s brand of support for Israel has been absolutely toxic politically. He supports Israel because it is the hub of US power projection in the Middle East.

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      7 months ago

      He supports Israel because it is the hub of US power projection in the Middle East.

      How is that not a political reason?

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        what does that even mean? ‘ok he supports a genocidal ethnostate, but its only cause of power projection in the middleeast’

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          Exactly, it’s not that he, personally, wants to slaughter millions of Arabs, it’s just that that’s the price we have to pay to preserve the American ability to slaughter millions of other Arabs in the future.

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        It’s politics in the sense that war is politics by another means, but that’s not really what people associate with the word. If you want to take it that far, there isn’t much that couldn’t be called politics.

        “Biden supports Israel because it gets the first lady horny”. Well, that’s just marriage politics!