The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.

The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.

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    axis of evil and has been. you vote democrat, you vote republican, you vote for genocide. simple as.

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      But you do realize that trump is much much much much worse, right? It’s not just about the genocide, you know.

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        i don’t think he’s much much much much worse, that’s too many muchs- maaaybe much much worse- and that’s neither here or there… genocide IS a reasonable red line and you can’t gaslight me off my solid footing in that regard.

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              Than what was happening under the dems.

              It’s already happening. US contractors on the ground, and Trump OKd ramping up in the West Bank which the dems were also blocking

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                which the dems were also blocking

                Which the dems were what? Israel ramped up operations in the West Bank during the war if you remember that. Also at least 200 thousand Gazans have died my man at least wait until something (and no, Trump saying horrible things doesn’t qualify) happens before you say “worse than what was happening under the dems”.

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                  Blocking. They didn’t ramp them up til the level they’re at now until Trump got in for a reason. Adelson didn’t pay 150m for nothing you twat

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                    Blocking. They didn’t ramp them up til the level they’re at now until Trump got in for a reason.

                    They did, though. What are they doing now rhat they didn’t during the war?

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        To some people the genocide overshadows anything else because… Y’know, it is/was a genocide. Telling those people that “it’s not just about the genocide” is, frankly, barking up the wrong tree.

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      At this point, some people have become walking textbook trolley problems, where to make a choice that makes you moral in one dimension you become a monster in all the others and make everyone worse in the process. But your conscience is safe, thank you for that.

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        it is safe because i didn’t allow myself to reduce supporting genocide to a trolley problem.

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          Reduce? You people spent months reducing all other issues that affect billions of people well into the future like fighting climate change or keeping civil rights or access to healthcare or labour rights or all 900 pages of project 2025 to the one issue where you have no negative leverage either way by voting for president.

          You’re the one dumbing down political debate to a single issue, I just framed it in a way that captures the pattern of hundreds of sterile debates I’ve seen online: you can choose to soil your conscience by collectively choosing to avert disaster or let disaster happen and get nothing in return (probably even worse) for your one cause.

          And the worst part is your vote should not even have been decisive, it should have been easier to get 10% of undecided normies to compensate your reluctant 1%, but they are depoliticized and don’t care if they live in fascism or not anymore.

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            and that’s my prerogative as a voter. are you here to shame me some more? about the genocide i won’t overlook to vote for kamala harris? the same kamala harris who reversed her position on fracking? who wanted to fund nato even harder? you’re gonna tell me she represented a positive position on climate change?? and bath-tub of collard green kamala harris is not doing a damn thing for civil rights, so where are you coming from with this?

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              Eh, I’m venting at this point, as I wrote before, it’s not your even your fault, y’all were probably venting grieving too over months of war crimes, it’s the uninformed normies who don’t care and don’t understand that decided this.

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      Sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil, and you did good in the difference.

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        and sometimes you have a conscience that doesn’t allow you to rationalize away complicity in genocide