Everyone. THE REPUBLICANS sent the weapons.
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The Republicans voted to pass a bill in the House to send the weapons. It will almost certainly fail in the Senate but, even if it doesn't, Biden would have to sign it into law. I don't see Biden signing a bill to override himself, and there is no way that Congress would get the required 2/3 in each chamber to override. This bill was just a performative stunt.
Sure but the point is, after months of pithy quips about how the Democrats will support genocide of the Palestinians and the Republicans will support genocide of everyone including the Palestinians;
here we see that even on this specific issue, the parties have differences. So make the right choice.
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It says exactly that in the 3rd paragraph of the summary.
The act is not expected to become law ...
Um, OK, but I was responding to a comment that said something different.
A stunt to show the Republicans are sending weapons to Israel.
Why would he have to sign it into law? He could veto it. Might even be just the excuse he needs to stop supporting a genocide. As if just supporting the genocide wasn't enough, now he can say he's not supporting the Republicans too.
That's what I meant. For it to take effect he would have to sign it into law. There is no reason for him to do that.
Watch as all the totally-not-parroting-russian-propaganda crowd remain eerily silent.
They must wait until they are fed the proper response.
It was just locker room talk
Right, all the anti-genocide protestors will disperse because a U.S bill that hamstrings any attempt to stop the genocide MAY fail.. and hence critics will remain eerily silent.
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Feels like they should be adding critical contextual information like this to the titles. I know the headline writers hate the idea of people just reading the headline to get informed (because clicks are needed for ads), but people do get informed that way. It's a very different story if "Congress rebukes Biden on Israel" than "Republicans rebuke Biden on Israel", and I expect "US House" translates into an average reader's mind much more as "Congress" than "Republicans".
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Better say that louder. I can't hear you over the general white noise all the blindly and mindlessly pointing fingers make.
And that's exactly why we can't vote for genocide Joe. Don't forget to sit out this election or vote third party - that's the only way to have a meaningful impact and improve the lives of Palestinians! /s
I almost at that onion ☺️
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America and bombing brown people, name a more iconic duo.
name a more iconic duo.
oh! I know! America and school shootings!
America and crushing medical debt
The American Dream and other unattainable goals?
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So we can definitely say Republicans support genocide harder than Democrats, right? Like this whole debate is over, right? Right?
Was that ever a serious debate?
Yes. Republicans are worse.
Doesn’t make Biden “good”. This isn’t a hallmark whodunnit.
I was told once on here that Trump would be better for the Palestinians because if Trump was in office the Democrats would fight it harder. Which is the dumbest logic I've ever heard in my life.
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The serious debate is defeating trump. I think that’s the only, actual, debate.
Constantly shitting on Biden and discouraging participation is not helpful. And it is constant.
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Maybe not here, but on other bigger social media sites it was definitely the narrative.
It's the narrative here too. "both sides just as bad"
There was an article a day or two ago about Biden approving a $1 billion arm package to Israel. He also condemned the university protests. He's also been defending Israel at the UN. This is barely anything.
Criticizing Biden doesn't mean Trump doesn't suck. It just means people expect better of Biden. If Mussolini and Hitler were on the ballot you couldn't expect people to be excited for Mussolini.
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So then there is no excuse for Biden to take a harder stance against Israel since it's a partisan issue right?
That doesn't even make any sense. You think Democrats oppose things solely because the Republicans support them? That's childish and stupid. Republicans do that, because they're childish and stupid. Democrats do not.
Why only 2 choices? We need a proper left party and not corporate fake Democrat
I feel like we've had this particular conversation several times lately in the public sphere. There can only be two parties in the presidential race. You'll have to co-opt one of them from within to effect change.
40 is definitely higher than 10 but if its a failing score then you still deserve criticism. the debate was never about republicans. It's asinine to claim that criticism of Biden and democrats is automatically "Both sides are the same" material
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I'm not even entirely sure the Republicans would be terribly bothered by that characterization.
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I'm sure all IG posts will now totally have comments about how Republicans want to force support of genocide. /s
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I am confused I thought Biden sent an arms package to Israel two days ago
https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-arms-gaza-ebe971ca8878ff430ce6458c04151585
Biden administration is moving ahead on new $1 billion arms sale to Israel, congressional aides say
Nothing happens immediately. The news presents these deals as if they're getting shipped tomorrow, when in actuality they take years to fulfill. The media loves to click-bait about Biden and Israel.
Now I am even more confused. Does this mean that weapons shipments to Israel are currently still blocked by Biden?
Here you go Biden. You're big chance to show that you don't use the Republicans to pass stuff you don't want to take credit for. Do your best to block it... If you want to.
[The bill] would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel.
The act is not expected to become law.
Now why would it not become the law? The house passed it so does it maybe have to go through the Senate first and then ... I think there's another step. Something like the target of the bill would have to sign it into law himself thereby compelling himself to resume sending weapons (which he never stopped doing, btw). Yeah, I can see no reason why this performative bull shit won't become law.
Incidentally, Greene was one of the 3 who voted no.
The enemy of my enemy is funny, not my friend.
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this is a performance. It's easy to vote in favor of stuff that has no chance of advancing in the senate.
The dems are not unified against Israel. Not by a long shot.
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