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Democrats vote down resolution calling for arms embargo on Israel, recognizing Palestinian state

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Democrats vote down resolution calling for arms embargo on Israel, recognizing Palestinian state

www.timesofisrael.com /liveblog_entry/democrats-vote-down-resolution-calling-for-arms-embargo-on-israel-recognizing-palestinian-state/

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Fucking shameful.
- Captured Congress, doesn’t matter which side when it comes to Israel.
  
  Sad but true. Democrats are slightly better, but not much.

"Forming a task force" man, go fuck yourself. Do these assholes even know what's going on over there?
Fucking dicks
- Dems since the 1970s: "We need a two state solution"
  Palestinians: "We're applying for statehood"
  Dems: "No"
  
  By "two state" we meant "Israel and Israel".
- 10 years from now the task force report comes out. "It was a genocide somebody should have stopped it. Let's form a new task force to figure out who was at fault."
  
  The trusty 4 stage strategy.
- The cartoonish evil is a feature, not a bug. The dems have held massive control over who's in power for decades. I don't care anymore if it's evil or stupid to field candidates guaranteed to turn the population right, it leads to the same outcome. They gain enough from having a big persecutin', government-controlling daddy like Trump that it doesn't matter, they have zero intention to change.
  "Oh noes, we can't do all the things you poors and empathetic humans want, don't you know Trump is in charge?" (Something Hakeem Jefferies has basically said, referencing the American people making a "mandate" for Trumpism.)
- oh they're well aware but like the majority of first world nations, heaven forbid you upset Israel. Just look at the UK. you get arrested for even mentioning or wearing a t shirt with the P and/or G word.

So our choices are Nazi's or genocidal maniacs. Fuck the DNC.
- No they're both genocidal maniacs, one also dabbles on the homefront.

What kind of a messed up headline is that?
- Serious question, what is wrong with the headline? The article is only 4 paragraphs long and the headline basically sums what is written in the article. Id get it if you thought the article itself was shitty but I stared at the headline long enough without seeing anything wrong so I gotta ask, what am I missing?
  
  The headline reads as if by voting against the embargo, they were recognizing a Palestinian state. Of course, with a bit of general knowledge about the situation, it should be clear that that is not the correct reading.
  
  A headline is supposed to convey a simple straight forward summary of the article, without any question or confusion about the content.
  This headline is anything but straight forward .... it can mean multiple things to multiple different groups of people ... and the writer and news agency can feign ignorance and call it all a misunderstanding if anyone reading it questions the headline.
  A sign of a bad news agency or an unreliable source is when they produce headlines that beg more questions about the presentation, journalist, writer, or news agency than the actual article they shared.
  
  The main problem with the headline is: which Democrats where? Which country? Is this an important bill with grave consequences or an opinion poll?

The only time Democrats and Republicans in congress can put aside differences is when it's to support Israel or fuck over progressive candidates.
- As though democrats do anything else.
- as if they are the same, uniparty.

Do you guys think Jeffrey Epstein was the first or the only guy using videos of United States politicians engaging in pedophelia to blackmail them for Israel?
Do you think Tom Artiom Alexandrovich knew Epstein, or his associates/handlers in Israel?

This is why people say during elections that it doesn't matter which partythey vote for
- It made it easier for the Nazis to walk in the front door.
  
  I think the point is that there's Nazis and there's flamboyant Nazis. Aye is pronounced the same on both sides of the aisle, as evidence by their voting records.
  
  There's bipartisan support to keep arming fascists. The nazis are calling from inside the house.

To the surprise of no one.

What about republicans? How did they vote?
- Exactly the same as the Democrats. Uniparty strikes again!
- Given that it was an internal DNC vote... they didn't

Democrats will negotiate with anyone except the victims of a genocide.
- Not true. They will negotiate with anyone wealthy, powerful, and who donate to them like the AIPAC. It just so happens that the victims of genocide tend to not fall into that group.

Oh, so now they can stop things. I see.

I wonder if they sung the fight song while doing this...

I'm sure this is somehow Trump's fault /s

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