• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Because stopping terrorists attacking ships from all over the world is a bad thing he’s done?

    Like I hate the guy, but this is probably one of the few instances of the broken clock being right.

    • donuts@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      I don’t really get it, what’s even to “hate” about Biden in the first place?

      People trash on him for ending the war in Afghanistan, because I guess we’re all supposed to act surprised that the Taliban just walked right back in and took power even though that’s what every expert was saying was going to happen even before the war started. Last time I checked, we all wanted the forever wars in Iraq and Afganistan to end.

      Republicans trash him for giving arms and spending money on Ukraine, even though they’re the victim of Russian imperialist aggression.

      People trashed on him for not calling for a ceasefire on Hamas, until he did call for it and it happened, after which people trashed on him because the war just started back up because neither Hamas nor Netenyahu were willing or able to back off. Biden didn’t start the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor was he the first or only US President to arm Israel (who are one of our only allies in the area), nor did he move the pieces that initiated this round of post-Oct 7th fighting, so it’s frankly the world’s biggest stretch to blame him for it.

      And so now people want to trash on him for bombing the Houtis, who are terrorists who have been openly pirating ships on key global trade routes, and who have been warned multiple times that they would face retaliation if there were to continue doing it. We basically told these Houti morons “fuck around and find out” and now they’re finding out so we all have to pretend to have bleeding hearts for him.

      “Hating” Biden while the very real specter of Trump looms over the 2024 election is just nonsense to me.