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[–] Letsdothis 2 points 1 hour ago

Anti-arab hate... let's see... Arab hate is bad, so anti-arab hate is good... but they are trying to "counter" anti-arab hate, so that's bad?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is Peak Liberalism. Saying this while genociding them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

And what about the U.S. casualties, should we not care about them?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

"we SEE you, we HEAR you, but Israel needs money . . ."

[–] diffusive 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

No more Islamophobia if there aren’t Islamic people any more 🤷‍♂️ /s

[–] [email protected] 63 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If you aren't anti-arab a nice gesture might be to stop murdering them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

But there is a lot of water in Lebanon. Israel wants that.

[–] machinin 105 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Stop enabling the genocide? Please?

[–] givesomefucks 57 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All they have to do is pledge to follow the Leahy Law....

Israel won't comply, which means we legally can't provide arms. Kamala doesn't even have to be "the bad guy", she can just say she's choosing to follow American law and if Israel wants arms then they can comply like every other recipient has to.

It's really as easy as saying:

If elected I will not break American law to send arms to foreign countries.

Boom, election locked up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (6 children)

How many voters would she lose if she declared intent to stop assisting Isreal?

She might possibly gain a few, but would she lose any?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It's a valid question and I'm sure the Harris campaign has spent considerable resources trying to get a good estimate of that number.

It's pretty insane that the Democratic party officials have to say, "We'd love to stop funding a genocide but our members won't vote for us if we do that."

[–] Grimy 12 points 13 hours ago

Is not about voters, it's about money. Both parties are bribed to keep it going.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

She would likely gain voters because she would be distinguishing herself from Biden who remains deeply unpopular.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

She'd gain more than she'd lose, even before counting in the electoral college. Conditioning Israeli aid is supported by the majority of people of Democrats, Republicans and independents, and the people who don't want it don't care too much either way. Definitely not more than left wingers who want the genocide to stop. In terms of votes it's a no brainer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is THE potential problem with this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I would hope there are more anti-genocide voters but i doubt it, honestly.

[–] Lennny 7 points 15 hours ago

Not those islams!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Best they can do is thoughts and prayers. Oh wait, that was school shootings. Never mind then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

School bombings don't qualify.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Israelis don't have the guts to even look the children in their eyes as they slaughter them. Cowards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

When they actually face real soldiers like in Southern Lebanon they get their arses handed to them.

All they know is blow up pager, burn refugee camp, bomb hospitals, shoot pregnant women in belly, rape men to death, and sniper bullets in kid’s heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm also offended by Israeli war crimes but I don't think that's an accurate assessment.

As far as I can tell, the Israeli military is very good at violence. They're extremely well equipped, they have superb training, and their military personnel tend to be dedicated to their cause.

The main problem isn't their ability to kill and destroy, it's their indiscriminate use of that ability.

[–] RedditWanderer 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

machinin was thrown out of a window

Anybody? Any solution will do, cmon people

[–] TokenBoomer 9 points 15 hours ago

Peak liberalism

[–] FlyingSquid 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, good luck with that. Islamophobia is one of Trump's tentpoles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

It also happens to be one of Harris' tent poles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Setting aside the hypocrisy, is it just me or is it infuriating how the whole article is a whole lot of nothing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Did you even read it? It states literally 20 bullets on how the Executive Branch will combat racism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I just read that list. As near as I can tell they put a lot of words in that don't actually promise anything helpful. Maybe I'm wrong.

Let's make it as easy as possible to show this plan in a good light. Instead of finding one bad bullet point in that list and tearing it up, let's see if we can find one good one.

Out of that entire list, which bullet point do you think has the best chance to actually "counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate?"

edit: grammar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

This is pure Liberal brainrot, sometimes reality feels like a parody of itself. I dont even have much to say tbh, im too tired for this bs.

[–] Doorbook 4 points 14 hours ago

wtf is wrong with these people!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Fucking pathetic.