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Step 1: Stop killing civilians!

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's RIGHT! HOW can the People of Israel even BEGIN to Live normal lives KNOWING that just a border away are STARVING AND MALNOURISHED CHILDREN READY TO ATTACK?

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 9 points 5 days ago

How is Israel ever going to reconcile being the very evil they swore "never again" to?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Considering their negotiation has been:

"We want you to stop existing."

Yeah, that's not a negotiating tactic.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

In other words, if they don't finish the genocide they'll just look like quitters. /s

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Did his ladybugs tell him that?

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Step 2: stop killing anything.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Except your productive daily goals. How's the tomato harvest going? Killing it!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Well yeah thats what happens when you commit genocide

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Heaven called and said:

Nah! You can keep that guy!

Hell said the same.

Both are total assholes I guess.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

~~And the DNC thought campaigning with this guy was a good way to shore up support for Harris.~~

Edit: Brainfart, was thinking of Cheney.

Edit2: Second brainfart.

Edit3: Apparently not quite a brainfart.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

It's an easy mistake to make when these transparent ghouls all look the same.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What? Graham was bitching about any GOP members supporting Harris till the end. What are you referencing ?

https://nypost.com/2024/09/29/us-news/lindsey-graham-says-kamala-harris-policies-are-bats-t-crazy/

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I must've been thinking of Dick Cheney then. Nevermind.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Dick Cheney never campaigned with Harris either. When someone asked Cheney who he was voting for he said Harris, and Harris said thank you. He never went on any kind of tour, or held rallies or anything to get support for the Democrats, he was just a person responding with his opinion. The fact that people know he's done shit things just made people jump on Harris because she said thank you rather than ignoring it. To her it probably seemed reasonable to say hey, even staunch Republicans are seeing this next regime as a threat. But of course that backfired

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Liz Cheney did.

And Dick Cheney endorsed.

Liz Cheney whose entirety of their political reason for being was Dick Cheney.

Harris went on to center Liz in their campaign. It was the dumbest thing on the fucking planet for Harris to do. It was obvious at the time it was the dumbest thing in the world to have accepted/done. In retrospect it's still one of the dumbest things the campaign did.

These apologetics look even worse now, when they looked like like the dumbest thing ever at the time Harris was touring with Cheney.

Stop making excuses for these bad fucking decisions. Stop being an apologist for bad Democrats who do stupid fucking shit like accepting a Cheney endorsement. Shit like this is why Harris lost. Don't be an apologist for it.