CCTV footage will likely show the perps to be off duty cops, lol
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Off duty? Nah. Those motherfuckers probably got paid overtime for it.
The footage will be lost before it can show any duty cop.
Off duty cops are rarely pro-Palestine supporters
Um, they rarely support Palestine but they’d love to vandalize the office of someone who does…. The premise of my comment was that this vandalism was made to look like leftists had done it when it was actually an off-duty cop or some other right wing agitator
Nah, this is perfectly on brand for anti Israel activists. They are the only ones who care and pay attention to AOC in this matter. The red paints fits as well. Attacking their allies because they aren’t radical enough is daily practice for anti Israel activists as well.
That was literally their point.
Please add the qualifier:
If found...
Perhaps I'm not up to speed, but she was one of the first reps to call Israel's actions a genocide. What gives?
TL;DR is at MTG put forth a bill to remove funding for Israel's missile defense system from the US budget. 429/435 House reps voted against it, including AOC, but then she made a very tone-deaf tweet basically saying "The bill was trying to remove funding for Israel's ability to defend themselves from the people they're genociding, of course I voted against it!" and it's causing massive backlash against her.
Yeah, it’s amazing nobody in this pedantic thread mentioned that awful tweet. That tweet reframes the whole argument, if you ask me.
If I had to guess, some kind of right wing nonsense, probably done by a Trump supporter. Any truly progressive person wouldn’t resort to vandalism in the first place
Any truly progressive person wouldn’t resort to vandalism in the first place
Do you at all think we're in a civilized and rational world? The best way to prevent your ideology from being harmed by the actions of a few is to not fucking lie or live in delusion. Call it out, reject it. Don't stick your fingers in your ears and say "OUR SIDE WOULD NEVER" or you look the fool.
What kind of perpetrator takes a photo of their activity... Do they want to get caught?
It’s probably some right winger trying to attack her from the left in an effort to split her support. Attacks from the right make her stronger, so they’ll attack from the left to make leftists abandon her.
And reading the comments on Lemmy, it's working.
This is what the left does best. Eat itself.
As if the US had a “left”
AOC supports what’s going on in Gaza? lol. Wut.
She literally just voted against throwing more money at the Iron Dome.
The other way round, she voted against blocking military aid for the iron dome
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-861796
https://www.newarab.com/news/aoc-defends-decision-back-fresh-us-military-aid-israel
I see a potential backdrop for a photo shoot.
She should just paint the place red. And when they do it in another color… paint it in that color.
According to the UK, splashing something with paint to express a political opinion means that you are a terrorist.
"If you're saying I voted for military funding, you are lying," she wrote. "Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn't make you part of the 'left.' If you believe neo-Nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them."
She did though, right?
Like, the most devils advocate I can be for her vote is that she's arguing that we shouldn't take away their shield, we should take away their spear.
To which... I still don't see the logic. Because if you can block with one hand you're free to stab with the other. If all you have is stabby implements, you got no way to deal with when they stab back.
They'd be forced to be less aggressive, which they seem intent to be.
The best explanation I heard was that any funding at all, even if it's for a "defensive" weapon, is still funding that makes doing their genocide easier.
Another good take I heard is something along the lines of "they have healthcare and we don't, they can fund their fucking iron dome themselves".
They're not entitled to billions of dollars of our money every year. Especially when they continually treat Palestinians the way they do.
I agree entirely. I'm not against foreign aid as a concept at all, but I feel like it should be extremely conditional and the shit Israel is pulling in Palestine very much justifies pulling any and all aid we're providing them. Children shouldn't be dying, full stop.
I'm tired of giving them fucking ANYTHING. They routinely brutalize a people they keep stateless. It would be bad enough not putting diplomatic pressure on them to try to stop let alone give them billions of our tax dollars every year.
It's not military when it's a defensive rocket battery staffed by military dumb dumb
If it's purely defensive weapon then why don't they sell them to Russia, Iran or North Korea?
Or better yet, and more to the point, if they're just defensive, why aren't we giving the Gazans and iron dome system to shoot down any Israeli aircraft that cross into their skies? The Gazans have just as much right to armed self defense as the Israelis do.
Sure hoping that's sarcasm, for you sake.
She also throws Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Al Green under the bus to make this stupid rant.