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You're not big on reading comprehension, or context, are you? Maybe you should read the comments that preceded it, and then reread that comment, and then reevaluate, well, everything you just said.

Just so we're clear, your position is that Biden is at fault, but if he wasn't supporting this genocide, it would actually be worse?

It's late, and I'm watching the fights, so I don't have my full attention to spare, but I had enough available to read your comment and see that that you're being earnest in your argument, and your analysis is not disingenuous.

That's important to me, because while it's really bad, it also means that you're probably not a bad person.

For starters, it's all counterfactuals, and while that alone means it's a just barrel of formal and informal fallacies, it's also based on deeply flawed, or just grossly uneducated, misunderstandings of a wide range of fields, ranging from international relations, to military procurement and sustainment.

I'm not trying to be mean, and to be fair, I have an academic background in multiple fields related to these subjects, so I'm not pulling my criticism out of my ass.

But another fight is about to start, so my text to speech comment must end.

No... what are you talking about?

You said the escalatory actions were the Abraham accords, and moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

I just pointed those were both actions taken by the Trump administration.

So what requires a historical account? Do you mean you just want to site random historical events with no context, and if anyone points out when they happened, that's somehow a bad faith argument, or an unfair standard to apply...?

Oh my God... Did you really just read those "trigger events" in some article, have no idea what they actually were, or when they happened, but still decided to cite them in support of your argument...?

You realize that I'm responding based content of your comments, right...?

I mean, I guess it's possible you're just the poster boy for badhistory, but typically in these comment sections that's a sign of something else.

So, if you aren't actually a supporter of genocide, and are instead just incredibly confused and uneducated, I apologize.

Do you not understand that you cited only two events, and both of them occurred during the Trump administration....?

I'm actually at a loss for words, because if you don't grasp how your comment is explicitly stating Trump is to blame, I don't know what else to tell you.

No, you just did whataboutism.

Which is why I separated my other commentary, and addressed it in general, and not directly at you.

Because while it's related to your comment, you hadn't crossed that bridge yet, but there's no shortage of that in these comments, read up and down.

Israel knows their client state, including the IDF and political leadership. Do you even read Israeli newspapers regularly?

I'm well aware of AIPAC, and the extent of their lobbying and influence operations.

None of that has anything to do with what I've been talking about.

Again, I'm not the one who lacks understandings of the historical and political context of the region, or conflict.

Just to be clear, your support of genocide is definitely a normal and healthy behavior, and a sign of good moral character.

Do whatever works best for you.

I will say that after years and years of regularly switching workstation and laptop distros for a variety of reasons, after finally giving Fedora a shake, I'm done. I've installed it on both my primary laptop and desktops and can't imagine switching again.

But I am still sticking with Debian as my primary server base.

I'm sorry, I don't understand how that absolves the current US administration of responsibility for their own policies and actions?

You're doing whataboutism to support an ongoing genocide.

Anyone who claims that calling out Biden for his support of Israel in prosecuting this genocide, somehow either means they're Trump voter, or are helping Trump get elected, are truly sick and deranged individuals.

Because the unsaid part of that, the quiet part not being said out loud, is that the right thing to do is to either stay silent, or lie, about a fucking genocide.

What an incredibly sick and perverse way to view politics.

Maybe you are under informed. The Abraham Accords and the moving of the US embassy were escalations in this conflict.

It's like three or four comments up, did you even look?

Or does your extensive knowledge of Middle Eastern history not extend back that far?

In case you're still confused, both of those actions were taken by the Trump administration, and it was the sole content of that comment.

....what? You just said Abraham accords are the reason for this conflict... That's the same as saying Trump is to blame....

And just because I'm rightfully assigning blame to Biden, the current sitting US president and self-proclaimed biggest support of Israel, doesn't mean I support Trump.

Feel free to creep on all of my comment history, my political leanings should be pretty self-evident.

Don't you feel gross telling people that if they say Biden's policies have allowed the situation to get out of control, it means they support Trump?

I mean, you do understand that ultimately Israel is our client state and entirely dependent upon our aid for their survival, right?

They literally could not be prosecuting this war if we stopped shipping them weapons, and they would never have attacked Iran if we didn't have our CSG and accompanying missile destroyers sitting in between them.

Oh, just FYI I don't game, so if there are some HDR features for gaming you're hoping for, I can't speak to that.