“Bro there is nothing Biden can do more to stop the genocide of Palestinians. You want to risk the Orange man winning again in order to put pressure on Biden to save a paltry handful of Palestinians (what 60,000 people at most we can save?) if we lose it is your fault for Biden refusing to stop a genocide in a country that is entirely under the leverage of US military and political power because you wouldn’t do anything to stop the genocide. Thanks for letting Biden and the rest of us down you selfish prick. You are the reason Trump will win” —-centrist democrats trying to convince me to join into a coalition with them and vote for their candidate.
It really feels like this group of people learned precisely the wrong lesson from Hillary getting demolished in her presidential campaign, i.e. shame voters into voting for you.
Also it’s hilarious these people think Biden gives a fuck about the lives of innocent Palestinians and just can’t do anything to save them because of cold hard geopolitics. Like, those are US fighter jets dropping US bombs by pilots who have likely trained very closely with US fighter pilots, and the sorties being flown to slaughter Palestinians are likely according to training and direction of US military personnel. Not to mention the immense amount of money and political cover Israel gets as a blank check from the US.
It’s like, I’m sorry I hate to break it to you Biden voters but Biden isn’t against Israel’s genocide in any meaningful sense beyond empty rhetoric (remember how he said he couldn’t fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 because of the… parliamentarian…???) and he would rather risk losing the election than listen to the majority of US citizens who disapprove of supporting Israel in it’s heinous actions.
That is the sticking point for me, fuck the big orange guy, but if Biden thinks he can ignore progressives and other voices in the US clamoring to stop this awful genocide and still will this presidential election, I cannot support that kind of cynicism and structural betrayal of the progressive coalition with centrist democrats.
It is shocking how this tragedy exposes how the ideology of centrist democrats is founded on nothing other than an averaging function of people around them, there is no actual substance or beliefs, purely a cynical middle of the road calculation. Most of the time these people slip by fitting into the general conversation around ethics and politics almost invisibly, but the Palestinian genocide truly shows how little these people will ever listen to reason rather than just obsessively tracking what they perceive as the middle ground viewpoint no matter how insane or hurtful it is, even when it is leading to a horrendous mass killing that almost the entire rest of the world utterly condemns (who aren’t Allie’s of the US and afraid to piss us off).
If it was serious they didn’t mean it, and if they did it was a parody, and if it was we didn’t understand it, and if we did it wasn’t funny, but thank fuck mean orange man gone.
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