That terrorist state doesn't need any more arms.
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Surprising nobody:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-senate-rejects-effort-block-arms-sales-israel-2025-04-03/
"The Senate voted 82-15 and 83-15 to reject two resolutions of disapproval over sales of massive bombs and other offensive military equipment."
You don't vote against AIPAC. Not if you want to stay in office.
Tell that to Harris.
Who?
Exactly.
If you’re buying the democratic system of a country as big as the US, of course, you’ll allow the illusion of choice. Otherwise, you lose your soft power and your ability to shape the division among the people.
Democrats were never trying to get reelected. They were in on it with the Republicans.
Harris may not have been the mastermind behind such a political strategy, but she was certainly in the know. Biden was senile from the start, anyone with a functioning brain would have expected that running for a second term was doomed from the beginning. They offered no solutions, rushed Harris's campaign without due process, had no meaningful platform, and their endorsements were sickening and outright stupid.
Believing it was a fair election is naive, it’s like believing trump’s words and actions are his own.
There are powerful players in this political game whose names we will never know. They manipulate both sides, using politicians as mere faces to craft an alternative reality that serves their agenda.
We must stop falling into their cheap traps.
Beautifully said
Unfortunately, there are lots of ostriches in this thread who are going to think I'm promoting accelerationism, trump dictatorship, or putin.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's referred to as Escalation of Commitment (at least in business school).
Some people have a really hard time admitting when they've been wrong. Especially if they feel tricked/bamboozled. So instead, they double down with their original premise. In other words, there's just no convincing someone who doesn't have an open mind.
Harris lost because she offered no real economic change. Most voters didn't care about the genocide, or voted for even more genocide. For all we know, Harris might have lost by even more without AIPAC campaign contributions.
While her economic plan wasn't strong, it did exist. The more telling thing, though, is that a lot of leftists decided that Trump would somehow be better for Gazans than Harris, and decided to "stick it to the dems" by either not voting or going for Trump.
And now those people are silent lol
Sales. What sales? So we give these nutbags our tax payer money to them buy arms from us. Let me repeat that again, we gave them 19 billion dollar so that they can buy weapon for us.
Has your government given u any money to spend money in US.
Israel is just getting allowance from US and our hard earned tax money.
Israel is just getting allowance from US and our hard earned tax money.
To conduct a genocide against anyone of Arab appearance or Muslim faith, though. Which is what many people in America genuinely support.
Democrats are never there when it comes to protect their own country, but always there to protect israel.
This resolution is an israeli advertising displaying how efficient AIPAC is and how they own the senate.
Kind of crazy how much noise people make on baseless claims of Trump being a Russian asset, but AIPAC is bragging in broad daylight about their control on US government.
that Will never pass, Americans love when brown people die on mass, especially Christians
How did Mr Booker vote? I'm just kidding.
17 hours later "And that's why I'm voting to keep sending arms to our valued partners in the IDF"
Anyone else who considers themselves pretty progressive feel like they're purposely being pushed away from this site by ml users and other barely literate trolls? Usually users who barely speak English, but spend 8-10 hours per day shitting on the US left, and (they think stealthily) promoting Donald Trump?
Just me?
Do you have any examples?
I haven't seen anyone here shit on Sanders, and he represents the US left.
But regardless, ml users shouldn't push you away from this site because you can just block whole instances.
I think you might be mistaking criticism coming from the left with criticism by the right. ML people are likely to the left of you. The general criticism from the left is that the current Democratic party is so-not-left that it's enabling Republican power and often collaborates with it. A recent example was passing the CR bill. I think the intent is to shift people who believe the current Democratic party is doing all it can to understand that it isn't, and that it's far from enough, and that supporting the mainstream Democratic party wing is going to produce more of the same insufficiency, ultimately leading more Republican power, perpetuating the poor-to-rich wealth transfer till it comes to a violent end of some sort. To be clear, the violence has already started but it will get worse as more people get poorer.
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