As Joseph Biden’s US presidency comes to an end, many on social media this week are saying that his legacy boils down to one thing: his active role in Israel’s fifteen-month war on Gaza, which has been widely defined as a “genocide” by human rights organisations, international bodies and scholars.
Biden’s last day as president, on 19 January, is also the first day of the planned Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that was reportedly pushed to the finish line by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, though both Biden and Trump took credit for the deal.
This has raised more significant criticism of Biden’s role in Israel’s bombing campaign on Gaza, with the US providing $17.9bn in military aid since 7 October 2023 after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel and the subsequent war.
His unfaltering support for Israel led to the infamous nickname given by pro-Palestinians and social media users: “Genocide Joe”.
i would be VERY upset with myself right now if i had voted for kamala harris on the pretext that the biden administration was the best option to stop the genocide as well as voting to protect lgbtqia from the likes of project 2025 since the public can now see the same tired excuse of an individual dissenter blocking everything recycled again for not enacting the equal rights amendment that could defend us against project 2025 and trump succeeded in stopping the genocide in a few days were biden couldn’t in a year and half.
i know that these two facts fall on deaf ears for most democrats based on my interactions with them on lemmy; so i behooves us and the democrats who didn’t overlook a genocide to figure out a way to get those who considered the genocide to be “no big deal” or simply “single issue voting” to be brought back to table.
we’ll continue our descent into fascism without these people and i wish i know how we could bring them back to the table when they double down like republicans and refuse to admit that these two the reasons why they voted democrat was proven false in the last week or so.
They were the best option. The ceasefire only happened because Trump sold them the West Bank for $100m
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-837566
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-offers-deals-to-smotrich--ben-gvir-to-secure-cease
Adelson is trumps largest donor, and wants to annex the West Bank. Trump also appointed an ambassador that says the West Bank shouldn’t exist. This is all very public. They done it in the open. What reality are you living in?
Were you somewhere unaware that this was always the ultimate end goal from our ruling class?
Let’s just consider them a lost cause, and not expect anything significantly good for economic, foreign or even cultural policy from these rabid dogs. The Democrats will only scold us, if not aid the Republicans with fucking us over.
they outnumber all of the leftists and democrat dissenters combined; they’re needed if we want to stop fascism from getting worse.
mind you, not all of them, just enough to counter the republicans who have fully embraced facism.
gotta stop the whole money in politcs thing first seeing that it fuels the fascism and then eliminate fptp/electoral college but democrats candidates seem uninterested in these prospects.
I feels unrealistic; but I think we have to remember that this system is unsustainable wo massive interventions from a welfare state; the dark money fueling the electoral system is also fueling the system’s demise and we’ll be here left to collect the pieces to rebuild.