• Maoo [none/use name]
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    641 year ago

    Biden can just force a ceasefire any time he wants by just telling Israel he’ll cut off funding and arms and intel.

    And if they don’t listen and try to do their thing (genocide) anyways while being completely cut off for months and months, well that will be when it might be okay to say “genocide Joe did eventually try to rein it in a little”.

    • Kaplya [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It’s not up to Biden, he’s just the representative.

      The bourgeoisie are all behind Israel. Find me a corporation that puts up both Ukraine and Palestinian flags. You can’t.

      The bourgeoisie want a war and Biden will give it to them. If not, they will find someone else who does.

      I continue to be baffled by people here who think the voters somehow decide the election. No, this is a bourgeois democracy. The bourgeoisie decide who gets to run the country. Voters have no say in it whatsoever.

      • Find me a corporation that puts up both Ukraine and Palestinian flags. You can’t.

        Not a corporation, but I did see an apartment above a corner store that had flags in every window. Palestinian, Ukrainian, that red and white Belorussian flag, Western Saharah.

        Least confused flag haver.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        61 year ago

        The bourgeoisie want a war and Biden will give it to them. If not, they will find someone else who does.

        If you’re president and the bourgeoisie ask you to support a genocide, the bare minimum response is to refuse and dare them to JFK you. Even if Biden was personally opposed to this (and he isn’t), he’d get no credit for spinelessly caving.

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        121 year ago

        While the bourgeoisie are of course the ruling class, and this includes power over the state, the mechanisms they use allow for someone like Biden to easily do what I mentioned. His rabid Zionism is a major factor in how this is playing out. Biden the rabid Zionist is in office because of the bourgeoisie, as an example for how they exert power. But he could withhold much from the Israeli project and only a minority of the ruling class would whine about it - those with major investments in Israel.

  • Harajukum [any]
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    He probably is substituting a ‘pause’ by calling it ceasefire + I don’t believe him+ will probably send more arms + another 20 billion to Israel when this cools down. There is literally no reason to believe his words besides copium at this point, hes done zilch so far. he’s worried about how this looks to the world, and his election chances.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    401 year ago

    You just fucking sent them f-35s and bombs you sack of shit.

    Love to call for an end to drunk driving while I crack my 5th beer doing 90 in a 65.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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    351 year ago

    Prediction - within the next ~24 hours before the Friday night news dump obscures interest - Hillary is going to go out of her way to “incidentally” make a comment she knows it will be recorded and disseminated. She’s going to say something like “First, more must be done to pressure Hamas. A ceasefire is premature.”

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    691 year ago

    Palestinian children die by the thousands? Not gonna call it

    Arab journalists targeted by snipers? Not gonna call it

    Palestinians starving to death? Not gonna call it

    Hospitals obliterated while occupied? Not gonna call it

    White aid workers? CEASEFIRE! One of them was white British and another was a white Australian! Israel you have gone too far!

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    291 year ago

    For four years the people who voted for Joe Biden have seen him “call for” universal healthcare, a (conditional) ceasefire, etc. You’re the fucking president, do something about it! He is going to lose.

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    Western arithmetic: 7 caucasoid lives > tens of thousands of nonwestern lives

    The west being the west

  • moujikman [none/use name]
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    The official whitehouse briefing said that he ‘underscored’ that a ceasefire would improve things and urged them to negotiate, and it wasn’t conditional. I can’t wait for someone to tell me to vote for biden because he called for a ceasefire.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    441 year ago

    I’ll believe it when Palestine is free (or when the weapons’ shipments stop, at the very least).

  • copandballtorture [ey/em]
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    361 year ago

    Guess they harvested enough adrenochrome from Palestinian bodies to keep Joe alive through November, so he can call for a ceasefire now