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On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose those voters – and may indeed lose the election – if he does not cease his support of these atrocities.

Biden has that rare opportunity in politics: to help the country, and himself, by doing the right thing. But he must do so now. Both the Palestinian people and his own election prospects are running out of time.

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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, your take is that we need to shame people for ...standing against a genocide? for deciding that supporting the deaths of an entire culture of people is the line too far for their conscience to support? You think that deserves to be attacked and shamed?

The U.S. has no obligation to participate in genocide, and can start withholding aid at any time. If Democrat leadership has decided it's more important to exterminate Palestine than prevent a Trump election, that's going to remain on the Democrats.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Allowing Trump to win by not voting is not "standing against genocide". It's virtue signaling which will harm the very people you aim to protect.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Holding democracy ransom because one feels the need to virtue signal about something they more than likely didn’t care about a year ago?

Yeah. Shame.

[–] juicy@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

What genocide was occurring one year ago?