President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Sorry to beat the same drum in a short amount of time, but this is where thinking Biden wasn’t doing enough has led. Perfect being the enemy of the good and all. Explicit calls for ethnic cleansing were at least not on the table with the last administration.

    • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      No. They’re supposed to be a means for us to make intelligent decisions that keep the world from being as bad as it possibly could be. They’re a means of exerting our influence other than spilling blood.

      Is it better when they represent us? Yes. Is it better when we have access to politicians who actually have a substantial moral compass and aren’t swayed by money? Absolutely.

      But does that mean that if we don’t have that we should throw childish fits and sabotage our own world in response? Absolutely not.

      Want to know a good way to make sure that politicians actually focus on representing the interests of their electorate?

      …Become a politician and do it. Put your money where your mouth is. Instead of having a tantrum and letting the worst possible person literally light the government on fire, go be the change you want to see.

      Or, if you’re not willing to do that, use your intelligence to make the world as good as you can with the limited power that you have instead of lying on the ground kicking and screaming because nobody’s doing it for you.

      • LukeZaz@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        49 minutes ago

        I could tell you about the mistakes and crimes the Democrats have committed, here, but I don’t think that’s worthwhile; you probably already know what I’d say. So instead, I’ll ask this: How many evil, horrible things do the Democrats have to do before you decide that voting for them alone isn’t working?

        I suspect the answer is that there is no such point so long as the Republicans are worse. In that, they hold you and those like you hostage, and can operate with impunity; there’s no reason to change or improve when they know you’ll vote for them regardless. They are not making “intelligent decisions that keep the world from being as bad as it possibly could be,” they are enabling the backslide of society into hell because they benefit from it.

        If the Democrat establishment wanted to make the world better, Trump would be in prison right now, and barred from holding office. They don’t, and he isn’t.

        Maybe you should be upset at them for that.