• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.

    Of course, you could argue that Vance - as a powerful member of the US Senate - is participating in the genocide while Walz - a governor of a midwestern state with no meaningful role in foreign policy - isn’t. Equally true, but meaningless.

    The problem Harris has isn’t that Trump gets innocence-by-default by being out of office for four years. Its that she’s doggedly clinging to the “both sides” framing of the Israeli genocide and scaring off Arab-American voters as a consequence. It doesn’t matter whether Harris is better or worse than Trump when the baseline of US policy is the mass slaughter of your friends and family.

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      4 hours ago

      It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.

      Harris is in an office that is entirely powerless (yes, she casts a vote in the event of a Senate tie, but no bill funding Israel has come down to that). She and Trump have nothing to do with the (current) Palestinian genocide.

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        1 hour ago

        Harris is in an office that is entirely powerless

        Harris has enormous amounts of power by simply having access to the President’s phone 24/7. That’s before you get into how much authority she’s been delegated by a man whose brains are leaking out of his ears.