• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    I called it that Biden’s support of genocide would cost him the election in late 2023. I was super angry that he wouldn’t just tell Bibi, “fuck you, you’re done.” But he called him an asshole on a hot mic (a little performance for the media) and shit like that. Fuck you, Israel. You knew you were gunning for Trump. Fuck you Biden. You had no self-awareness about the young people on campuses who saw through your bullshit. Fuck you Harris for saying you’d change nothing about the policy.

    We got what we sowed and reaped. We’re fucked and it’s the fault of the people at the top, but also all of us for letting it get this bad. Too much propaganda has brainwashed people to not understand very simple facts. You’ll note that I don’t allow this as an excuse for our collective failure.

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      Too much propaganda has brainwashed people to not understand very simple facts. You’ll note that I don’t allow this as an excuse for our collective failure.

      Yeah. This is the real issue. I’m not trying to excuse Democrats for supporting genocide, but also, the fucked-up state of the American electorate where a politician doing anything other than supporting genocide is this incredibly risky proposition, because an overwhelming majority of the American people think the Palestinians are terrorists and Israel is just defending themselves, that’s the real underlying issue.

      And yes, it’s not going to get any better unless people like us take responsibility for fixing it. The increasing spread and power of propaganda is a massive problem. It already was a bad problem, when it was the evening news telling people that Israel was the good guys, and it’s gotten exponentially worse since then.