We have a lot of nightmare scenarios in the future: Trump wins, Trump loses and we get insurrection part II, Biden wins and we don’t take the house and keep the Senate, and we have at least 2 more years of gridlock while our lives continue to get shittier, etc etc.

The true tragedy is that there isn’t even a good outcome in the mix. Biden wins and Democrats take Congress. Fine, will they fix the courts? Fix student loans? Will they even try for universal healthcare? Universal Basic Income? Anything even close to meeting the moment?

So depressing.

Anyway, vote Biden so at least we don’t wind up in a fascist dictatorship.

Well, there’s a lot of red tape when you’re indicting a member of the royal family / German Shepard.

Israel’s right-wing government is becoming anti-democratic, and their position on settlements is antagonistic.

But Hamas is pro-genocide, happily murders Jewish children, and use their own children as meat shields.

It bothers me that people equate these two.

They aren’t the same.

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House Democrats support his ouster because ANY Republican Speaker is going to face the same problems with the MAGAts, and maybe the next Speaker will occasionally side with the moderate instead of capitulating with the alt-right every time McCarthy did.

Also, chaos in the House is better than the right-wing doing all the evil shit they do when they are working as a team.

Democrats have zero incentive to help them out of this mess.

If course, if even a HANDFUL of Republicans were willing to reach across the aisle, they could form a coalition with the Democrats, find a moderate Republican speaker and pass all kinds of moderate legislation that must even get through the Senate.

I’m not sure what the terrorists hope to accomplish here, but unless it’s suicide by Israeli airstrike, they’re going to be disappointed.

That headline makes it sound like both sides are doing this. That’s just simply untrue.

Democrats impeached Trump twice for high crimes that they could clearly articulate, and for which there was abundant evidence in the public record. There was even limited bipartisan support for both of these.

Republicans are the only ones who are weaponizing baseless impeachments.

Israel has demolished a lot of homes, most because they were being used by terrorists to make bombs.

Some for other reasons. We’d have to look at a case by case basis to see what you’re referring to.

If you’re saying that Israel just rolled in to for the purpose of making life miserable, and knocked down a house, I’d be really curious about who is making that claim and what evidence they are citing.

Not at all. Israel’s offers of peace have been objectively the most generous terms in history.

Oh well, if one guy disagrees, the historical record must be wrong!

I am against the settlements. Dick move.

But I’m against Palestinians blowing up school busses more.

Sure… In the same way that cops don’t necessarily have to be racist to be part of a system that is unquestionably racist.

Plenty of people who aren’t anti-Jewish don’t give a second thought to the fact that they spend about 10000% more energy publicly criticizing Israel than they do any of Israel’s neighbors who oppress women horrifically, murder LGBTQ people, and are unabashedly pro-genocide.

They also criticize Israel for civilian collateral damage without acknowledging that Israeli’s steps to minimize those deaths are the most advanced in history, and that they easily outperform even the United States in minimizing casualties during military operations.

So, no… You don’t have to be anti-Jewish to be anti Israel, but when you criticize the only Jewish state for things that you give inarguably worse nations a pass for… Your absolutely feeding into an anti-Jewish system.

He’s pretending that he doesn’t know that “antisemitic” is a word that has been used exclusively to mean anti-Jewish for … What 50 years? More?

They’ve offered these people peaceful coexistance and self-governance for more than half a century.

Palestinians have walked away from every peace talk and turned to terrorism.

The only ones with power to change the dynamic are the Palestinians.

Hamas quite famously and openly uses their own people as human shields. They launch rocket attacks from hospitals and school buildings to give Israel the choice between retaliating by striking those places, or just sitting there and letting their own civilians die.

And when you get mad at Israel for the times they do retaliate, you’re 100 percent playing into the hands of the terrorists. The WHOLE reason they use this tactic is because YOUR reaction to it is their goal.

That’s exactly what they are doing.

They hold Israel to an invented standard that they apply to no other nation.

There was a brief, shining moment after 9/11 when the entire world was united against terrorism. But the critics of Israel were so determined to frame Israel as the bad guys that they invented a meaningless phrase “state terrorism” which just meant “anything that Israel does”. And they pretended that that was the moral equal to the actual terrorism of the Palestinians, deliberately targeting children and other innocents.

Israel builds a fence to keep out suicide bombers. They scream “apartheid!”

Israel bulldozes a vacated house that was used as a terrorist bomb-making factory. They scream “genocide!”

The problem with Israel’s critics is that since they damn Israel for any and every action, they have made their voices utterly useless.

You think giving notice DOESN’T make it okay?

Israel has found a way of destroying terrorists headquarters without injuring the civilians that Hamas is using as human shields.

In the history of the WORLD has any country every bent over backwards this much?

And you guys wonder why both Republicans and Democrats overwhelming ignore your criticisms? It’s because your position isn’t a serious one.

The anti-Israel don’t care that Israel is bending over backwards to minimize human suffering while fighting a decades long war against people who are deliberately trying to kill their children.

Remember how upset they are when Israel does something 100 percent defensive, like build a security fence to keep out an endless stream of suicide bombers?

This isn’t good-faith criticism.

These people hate Israel for this that they works be applauding other countries for. And we all know why.