• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    “If you’re saying I voted for military funding, you are lying,” she wrote. “Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn’t make you part of the ‘left.’ If you believe neo-Nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them.”

    She did though, right?

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      10 hours ago

      Like, the most devils advocate I can be for her vote is that she’s arguing that we shouldn’t take away their shield, we should take away their spear.

      To which… I still don’t see the logic. Because if you can block with one hand you’re free to stab with the other. If all you have is stabby implements, you got no way to deal with when they stab back.

      They’d be forced to be less aggressive, which they seem intent to be.

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        The best explanation I heard was that any funding at all, even if it’s for a “defensive” weapon, is still funding that makes doing their genocide easier.

        Another good take I heard is something along the lines of “they have healthcare and we don’t, they can fund their fucking iron dome themselves”.

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          They’re not entitled to billions of dollars of our money every year. Especially when they continually treat Palestinians the way they do.

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        I’m tired of giving them fucking ANYTHING. They routinely brutalize a people they keep stateless. It would be bad enough not putting diplomatic pressure on them to try to stop let alone give them billions of our tax dollars every year.

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      10 hours ago

      She also throws Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Al Green under the bus to make this stupid rant.

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        12 hours ago

        If it’s purely defensive weapon then why don’t they sell them to Russia, Iran or North Korea?

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          9 hours ago

          Or better yet, and more to the point, if they’re just defensive, why aren’t we giving the Gazans and iron dome system to shoot down any Israeli aircraft that cross into their skies? The Gazans have just as much right to armed self defense as the Israelis do.