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Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And continue to take Israeli money and refuse to denounce the war Israel wants us to spend trillions on in Iran and continue to fund Israel who hasn’t stopped the genocide and won’t admit Epstein was Mossad and refuse to stop insider trading and refuse to fight for universal healthcare and refused to prosecute Trump or anyone in the bush administration or any of the bankers I could go on and on

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[–] Socar@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dumb question maybe, but is the stance on the genocide in gaza the only important one, or do you also care about their stance on other genocides, i.e. sudan, etc.?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The reason people don't like that question, is it's a "divide and conquer" approach. However most people repeating it, don't understand.

For social change, it needs a large movement. To get a large movement, everyone has to handle one task at a time, then move to the next.

Like, if you were in a hotdog eating contest, would you eat one hotdog at a time so your score goes up?

Or would you take a bite out of every hotdog in front of you?

One way you keep steadily increasing score and making progress, the other you might eat 50 half hotdogs and lose to a guy who ate 5.

So why would anyone argue against the strategy where even if everything isn't finished by the buzzer, we still made some progress?

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As far as I know we arent causing those other genocides with an endless supply of american money and weapons? We arent exactly the world's policeman. What makes the gaza holocaust unique is that we played a role in it, and both sides of the US governments party system are corrupted by a foriegn theofascist powers interests. Sudan doesnt openly bribe our congress and brag about it.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A leftist news source I read suggested a progressive foreign policy of dismantling overseas military bases instead of just trying to pretend your way back to the Obama era, and that's probably the best idea I've heard of.

Imagine how many fewer war toys would be lying around for Republicans to play with if we started winding down their forward positions overseas.

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