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[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 202 points 2 days ago

There is a lot about this that is nuts, but one thing that really jumps out at me.

It seems like Netanyahu is planning an October surprise to shank Harris. And it seems like he is doing it in broad daylight. It certainly seems like a massive offensive strike on Iran one or two weeks before the election is a straightforward way to throw a close election to Trump.

But with this I have to ask: are Biden and Harris assisting with a plan that is clearly intended to cost Harris the election?

I want to say that they surely must've told Israel not to launch anything before election day. But based in their actions so far, it doesn't seem like they're imposing a "no election interference against us personally" requirement as a condition of their assistance.

I guess we'll see.

[-] Fox@pawb.social 142 points 2 days ago

Their messaging so far to Israel has been "do whatever the fuck you want, 💰💰"

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"You give me money, I give you weapons of war. You give me money, I ignore the screams of children."

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

[the sound of children screaming has been removed]

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Oof. Horrific.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 73 points 2 days ago

I would much rather see a Harris administration handle this than chaos Trump.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 75 points 2 days ago

This is a weird thing to say, but I actually don't think that there's any indication that Harris or Trump would do anything substantially different with regard to Israel, but the biggest change is that if Trump wins, I suspect that coverage of this will disappear behind all the coverage of his domestic chaos. At least if Harris is president I think there is a chance we see the press maintain a modicrum of interest in covering this.

Either way, words can't describe my anger that Harris appears to be prepared to throw the election over her support for genocide. It is an unreal situation to watch.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

Fuckface 45 literally said that Israel should "finish the job":

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240628-trump-let-israel-finish-the-job-in-gaza/

I'm not voting for that Fuckface. Neither should any intelligent person.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 29 points 2 days ago

So the one says it out loud, the other just keeps the intention quiet.

Both are equally sending weapons.

However with Trump we saw that he pulled American soldiers out of the region and he is much more unstable. So when American soldiers die, he could just decide to fold the whole thing again.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

So when American soldiers die, he could just decide to fold the whole thing again.

That would require him to give a shit about the soldiers dying to make a change. His history says the exact opposite of that. Soldiers dying would do absolutely nothing towards whether he changes anything.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

Trump pulled most troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Sure he doesnt care about the soldiers life, but he isnt committed to being a war hawk. He just does random stuff.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

The troop withdrawal was already being worked before Trump even started campaigning. He just decided to speed it up dramatically so he could say he achieved something, and promised a deadline that was unattainable while doing it well. It's not random, it's narcissism at the expense of everything else, including the country.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

The troop withdrawal was already being worked before Trump even started campaigning.

Yeah it was in the works for like 20 years lol.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

No intelligent person should vote for a party supporting a genocide either. Israel government is finishing the job already.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Ok. But either Harris or Trump WILL be our next president with how fucked up our election system is.

Who would you rather fight on this? A run of the mill democrat, or a literal nazi? We’re choosing our opponent, it’s the only choice we get.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Don't support any of them and use your energies somewhere else, you said yourself that the system is fucked up

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Sure. And then trump wins and i completely lose my reproductive rights and my trans wife loses her healthcare.

There’s more at stake here.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

There’s more at stake here.

There's indeed more at stake, there's an ongoing genocide in gaza where kids are being murdered daily. If you care about human rights that's even more reason for you to stop supporting the parties that for decades have fuck over these rights.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Okay black pill bro. When you grow up and understand how things actually work, let us know.

Maybe those of us who are actively trying (while also understanding how our choices work) will acquire Ranked Choice voting before you become mature enough to join in on this non-black-or-white conversation.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe those of us who are actively trying

Advocating for the government and ruling parties is actively trying to empower them even more.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

You some champion of missing the point?

Trump in charge tends to highlight problems not burry them. Like how immigration and the border camps were a huge story, then Biden got elected, kept all the same staff and same facilities and suddenly the border camps weren't a problem and we went further rightward on immigration. People stop paying attention when Democrats win, that's how they burry stories, and that's why the media loves Trump, because hes the one who generates the clicks and engagement they track.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Its also weird that Trump rallies are full of Nazi flags but Israel still sends them similar bribes anyway.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Zionism is an anti-semitic ideology. It was concocted by atheist colonizers, not religious leaders. The goals are colonial, not religious. Most importantly zios commit these crimes while claiming to be the only true jews. This is extremely anti-semitic.

So it's no surprise that they've collaborated with literal nazis before WW2. And it's no surprise that they continue to collaborate with racists and fascists all over the planet. In the usa the vast majority of zionists are christians that are generally very anti-semitic. They want jews to take over palestine so doomsday will come and kill the jews! These are the allies of zionism smh.

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

She most likely was in the room when Biden authorized the troops you know. She is very much on the same page as Biden on this.

Sucks you guys don’t have any other option.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You have no way of knowing that.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

She did say she supports Bidens stance on Israel and that israel has the right to ~~murder innocent children~~ protect itself.

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[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Didn't she just say the other week there's nothing she wouldn't do differently from Biden?

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

You should check out her speeches and interviews sometime.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago

The insanity is not that it is Republicans or Democrats

The insane part is that America is just sleep walking straight into a war that will probably escalate into something much bigger and no one wants to do anything about it.

God help us all

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

"Never underestimate Joe Bidens ability to fuck everything up". --Barrack Obama

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

I know this is a dumb question, but is that based on anything? Like a paraphrase of something? Or just headcanon?

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

As every other time the billions the government spend in propaganda are paying off.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 17 points 2 days ago

Nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like a Democrat.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

It seems like Netanyahu is planning an October surprise to shank Harris. And it seems like he is doing it in broad daylight. It certainly seems like a massive offensive strike on Iran one or two weeks before the election is a straightforward way to throw a close election to Trump.

Do you realize that israel government is waging war only because they are backed by USA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure what your point is.

I understand that this is in a real sense the US's war, and that Biden is not being dragged into it, he's fully committed to it. I'm not sure what that changes about my observation that it's weird that Harris appears to be facilitating an electoral hit job on herself.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It feels like they are totally beholden to Israel.

If they push back hard, they alienate swing voters who like Israel from the old days, aka apocalypse.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 days ago

This is actually a persistent myth: there is no evidence that they are beholden to a constituency that would punish them for any actions that curtail Israel.

Israel's actions are wildly unpopular across the electorate. They are unpopular with nearly all Democrats as well as most independents and a very large plurally of Republicans. I have seen numerous polls that show that there is a very significant number of voters that Harris is losing over this, and I have seen absolutely nothing to indicate that there is any measurable cost to her speaking out against Israel at all. Which is really sad. Because it means that this is absolutely a moral choice on her part. This is not an electoral choice at all.

https://truthout.org/articles/poll-endorsing-israel-arms-embargo-would-boost-harriss-support-to-49-percent/

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

if they money you get from AIPAC is more than the money you get as US presidency and without the headache of being president, I wounder if Kamala care enough to be a president.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

If Harris is in on a plan to strike Iran it wouldn't cost her the election in the US. All they have to do is say, "We received credible intelligence that Iran had decided to sprint for a nuclear warhead. We had to act in a timely manner."

What would cost her the election is if an American soldier dies to an Iranian missile and Biden/Harris doesn't immediately go hard on Iran. Which makes this a ridiculously irresponsible move by Biden.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This is one of those times we should remind ourselves that if we as Redditors can plainly see something so out in the open and obvious, then almost certainly the executive branch can see it too. The odds of them knowing something we don’t know are overwhelmingly greater than the reverse.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see this often, and it's frequently, consistently not the case.

I understand the sense in this belief, but if you review history over just the last five years you can consistently see this not being true over and over. Going all the way back to the Iraq War: it was obvious at the time that the Bush administration was lying about their claimed evidence that there was an active program creating weapons of mass destruction. And at the time, there was a deafening movement of regular voters who loudly protested that we were absolutely convinced that it was complete and obvious bullshit.

And people like JOE BIDEN loudly expressed exactly what you're saying: they know things we don't know. They know what they're doing.

And they didn't! They did not have any meaningful information we didn't have!

Sadly, it's debatable whether they knew what they were doing. Did they expect it would be such a historic clusterfuck? That it would create decades of worsening outcomes for us? Probably not. But did they know they were making up a fake case for war because they wanted to let off some anger over 9/11 by killing hundreds and hundreds of THOUSANDS uninvolved Muslims, and build some new military bases near oil in the process? Yes. Obviously yes.

And after the fact, the people who claimed that they knew things that we didn't became president and Secretary of State.

They do not know something we don't know. They are doing exactly what this looks like. Biden would absolutely go to war with Iran just to serve the cause of Zionism even though he knows that Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascist. That is exactly what this is. There's not chess logic behind this, you can absolutely know everything you need to if you read newspapers regularly.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The WMD were always a false pretext.

And anyway, you can’t cherry pick any one episode or even several from history where the heads of state were wrong or stupid and say that they don’t know more than we do. They literally have everything we have in the public media and enormous intelligence operations working for them. This doesn’t make them honest or infallible, but anyone who sits in their armchair tut tutting about how “gee I hope this president can see it’s an obvious trap” is, in a word, a fool.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It wouldnt even need to be much of a shanking for her to lose. A simple paper cut might be enough.

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