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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 106 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Liberals care more about words than actual reality

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

it's just idealism, magic powerful man has the right ideas because we believed in the power of democracy hard enough so israel will have no choice but to do good vibes now

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

But he said the good words! Not like the bad orange man who says the bad words

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Curiously, conservatives do too.

Really makes for a fucked up country when its all style and no substance.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

No but he waved his finger this time its serious

[–] flan@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

We’ve had decades of basically nothing changing in western countries. Politics is just an abstract thing that we commentate on because it doesnt materially impact us. Politics happens out there in the hinterlands. People have their entire lives ruined and their families destroyed in the blink of an eye and without warning in the hinterlands. I’m not actually sure any of those people are actually real, anyway. So I will vote for the red team or the blue team depending on my aesthetic preference.

That will change of course. We are on a collision course with the laws of physics. Liberals of all stripes will ignore that though and continue to play empire.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Liberal politics is purely about aesthetics desolate

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

"I'm disappointed in you and I wish you'd stop" I sigh out as I hand a mass murderer an AR-15 and a box of ammo.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct, I'm not voting for the guy who has been enabling genocide for six months regardless of whether he stops tomorrow

[–] edge@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd vote for him if he did a complete 360 and entirely dismantled the settler-colonial state of "Israel" and gave the land back to the Palestinians.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

"Ahem, listen to yourself. Be realistic." smuglord

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"Please stop supporting genocide"

"Biden has called for a ceasefire!"

"Okay, but please stop supporting genocide"

"You're moving the goalposts!"

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t want Biden to “call for” a ceasefire. He’s the goddamn commander in chief and Israel is his vassal. I want Biden to enact a ceasefire

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Exactly. When people call for a ceasfire its Biden they're calling too

[–] axont@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The Palestinian goal has always been self-determination. Liberals want to ignore this and think a ceasefire was always the primary goal, when it's a temporary compromise.

No, the goal is decolonization and a single Palestinian state. That's the only solution

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Freudian slip here that Hamas is just another way of saying Palestine to them

Honestly, just getting libs to admit that they're not pro-Palestine is progress. If it's making these genocide fans annoyed, it can't be wrong.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Please don't use these bombs I'm giving you."

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

they're defensive bombs, what do you think the D IN IDF stands for? it's all about using the right words, and that's why Biden Bros are so thrilled he'd called for a temporary pause on the conflict. next up I'm looking forward to the tut tutting

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

It's too bad the President of the United States can't do anything to stop a genocide beyond wagging his finger and politely asking them to knock it off.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

"Pro-Palestinian people"

Good god, that phrasing!

Everyone: We should stop murdering people

Biden: who-did-this That's what I've been saying!

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always wonder who would be gullible and stupid enough to hear the empty pledges without looking deeper into the actions taken before, during, and after making them? Who would see “Russia and China block ceasefire” and just repeat that line to own the tankies without looking further into their reasoning.

That’s when you meet people like the poster of that meme and everyone agreeing. You can argue damn near anything and they’ll find some way to convince themselves they’re in the right. And these are supposedly educated people with degrees.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

The more educated people are, the better they are at bullshitting and rationalizing themselves into very stupid positions

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

This is some distilled cringe.

[–] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Guys it's not like he's in charge of the country keeping "Israel" afloat, it's not like he has blocked Congress to send them bombs so they can continue their genocide; listen, he said he's really mad, what else do you want? He can't do anything else, he's powerless.

And yes, Trump would use his power as President to make the United States a part of Russia.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Love getting blocked by every Zionist who talks about goalposts by saying:

Yeah I can't stand it when people are like, "take the gun out of the kids mouth" and then when I do, they're like "now let the kid go" like come on, pick a lane!

[–] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Ceasefire ain’t gonna do much at this point. He needs to demand that Israel help rebuild Gaza cause that land is nigh unusable at this point. They completely obliterated all of its critical infrastructure. How do they expect people to live in rubble?

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Smol bean US President can't do anything

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

But your honor, did you account for the fact that while I was murdering many innocents I said "Violence should stop!"???? I should be exonerated

[–] gitgud@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

US yelling "Stop hitting Palestine!" while holding Palestine down and handing Israel a baton.

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Was parsing this and for a second landed on the horrible mixed metaphor "picked up their goal and went home." lmao