Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds II

Yes. This shouldn’t be a difficult concept.

Hamas doesn’t govern Palestine. It hardly governs Gaza at the moment.

But regardless of de facto control, it is possible to recognise a state without also recognising the controlling power for the time being within that state.

The US government recognises Yemen but doesn’t recognise the Houthis.

 

But we do.

Agreed. But our leadership extends grace to awful xenophobic leaders of other nations. And I think it's really going to come back to bite them in the ass, as hundreds of thousands of Democrats stay home or vote third party.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ote-for-joe-biden-any-more-and-i-am-not-alone

 

Do you care more about stuff that happens in a far off part of the world or things like abortion and the things Biden's achieved since?

Or same question as above but with the general US populace.

 

The last sentence in this tweet is awful. The whole reason Biden is in the position he’s in is because he has given Israel 99% of what they asked for. ******** that guy.

 

If the Dem primary is anything to go by, it has been.

 

It's really, really hard for me to criticize anyone for being a single-issue voter when that single issue is whether or not to lend direct material support to a genocide. I agree with the statement that that's the reddest of possible lines.

Asking Joe Biden to be responsive to his electorate doesn't seem to me to be a very big request. It just seems like standard electoral politics to me.

 

I should add that I'm more worried about the hardcore elements alienating normal people.

 

I care about genocide. I care a lot about my tax dollars being used to blow up babies and aid workers and so on. And I care a huge freaking honking shit-ton about people saying "yes, but if you don't support your tax dollars being used to blow up babies and aid workers and so on, you'll be a bad Democrat." ******** that shit, hard. Obviously YMMV.

 

Are you confident that Biden will win Michigan by more than a couple hundred thousand votes?

 

It's not a genocide though. Far from it. I know that'll make a lot of people squeal on here like stuck pigs (Russia and the Holodomor is a genocide for instance), plenty of concern about laws of war, but again, it's not genocide.

Thing is, most people don't care, are more likely to wish that there's peace. And are probably more concerned with abortion than again a far off part of the world.

 

Did you not see what the primary results for Michigan were?

And the Arab-American demographic is big, but not big enough to have an impact. Last Republican who won that vote lost Michigan pre-9/11.

 

Well, by the definitions used by everyone from the OED to the UN to Yad Vashem to the US Holocaust Museum, it's a genocide. Hmm. Them? Random guy on the internet? Them? Random guy on the internet? I'm gonna go with them.

 

Yep, more confident than I am that there's no truth to Pizzagate.

Yes. In fact, the wording of same is one of the reasons I'm so confident.

 

I did. Did you know that Quisp was far more popular than Quake? Or that my dining room table is brown?

 

Genocide doesn't involve hostage trades, ceasefires, and negotiations. Intention matters.

 

Yes, and so do you, since you mentioned it previously.