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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.worldHow Israel Lost Americans
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    18 hours ago

    If you shout MAGA enough times, I hear it summons a direct connection to the Truth.

    You have no proof, your assertions aren’t backed up by any sort of actual logic.

    There are groups like META who spent MORE than AIPAC in 2025, and congress is still handing them their asses, so clearly just funneling money to congresscritters isn’t sufficient to directly buy them off.



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    21 hours ago

    I want people to stop killing each other. If it means genocide (displacing people) to prevent more genocide (killing people) as a REALISTIC answer, then yes. That’s what I want to see happen.

    Nobody else here giving any real answers other than wishful thinking.

    Do you really believe, that if everyone stopped supporting Israel and they lost all basic ability to hurt anyone, all the groups that are attacking Israel are going to magically stop.

    Do you actually think that’s what would happen?

    If you do, I have a bridge to sell you.


  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.worldHow Israel Lost Americans
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    21 hours ago

    $28 million dollars is a tiny fucking amount of money in terms of lobbying.

    It’s also only about $50,000 per congress member.

    For that same cycle, it was reported that the 117 Senate candidates received about 1.5 million dollars on average, and the entirety of congress races received something like $700 million. So AIPAC was less than 4% of all money.

    Assuming that number is actually amounts given to congress, and not just lobbying or PAC stuff which has separate much higher totals.

    Some individual races were in the 10s of millions.

    Lobbying was a $5 Billion dollar industry in 2025.

    How can you expect to be taken seriously when the amounts they’re spending are so small? How can these people be so completely bought by such tiny amounts? It entirely defies any sort of reason, especially given that both parties support Israel so they would have to spread it over EVERYONE for it to be effective.


  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.worldHow Israel Lost Americans
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    22 hours ago

    That’s funny. There’s no shackles to break off. This isn’t a 40 year bribery scandal, it’s a proxy war. No different than the ones fought in Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, Afghanistan, or elsewhere.

    Israel can’t even “buy” Canadian politicians, there’s no super pacs, there’s no corporate donations, there’s almost no influence here from them.

    Yet the Canadian governments for the last few decades, Conservative AND Liberal, have always supported Israel against Iran. They STILL support Israel, despite it being massively unpopular among their voters and them losing votes over it.

    Because once they become MPs, they get educated on what’s really happening and why it’s important.

    I almost want your side to win sometimes, so that when the inevitable worse situation occurs a new generation can be educated on why violence is sometimes necessary to prevent far worse violence. It was a lesson learned through the sacrifice of tens of millions in the world wars, and yet it has been forgotten by those who fail to learn from history.




  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.worldHow Israel Lost Americans
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    22 hours ago

    Israel does not have support because of bribery, I literally just said that, and you immediately said it was because of payoffs to politicians.

    It’s not about fucking bribery, it’s not about payoffs, it’s ENTIRELY about geopolitics.

    Your way of life only exists because Iran, Russia, China, etc. aren’t in power. If you want to give up your way of life and prefer the way they do things, go ahead and move there. I, along with most other western people, would prefer if those countries fucked right off.







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    1 day ago

    Legally speaking the US didn’t declare war on Afghanistan, Iraq, or even Vietnam.

    You’re being idealistic, the world isn’t that simple and your simple thinking would lead to ruin by people who will take advantage of such a power vacuum that would be created.

    Israel has broad western backing for a reason, and it has nothing to do with funding, bribery, Jews mind controlling people or any such wild theories. It has to do with the realistic understanding that there are countries who should not be allowed to gain power or it will threaten the western way of life. Geopolitics doesn’t give a shit about your feelings.


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    1 day ago

    The US went to war after 9/11 and killed far more people.

    Yet Israel going to war after the massive attack on civilians wasn’t okay?

    I guarantee that if there was another massive attack on American civilians today (by anyone other than an American) they would gladly go after a country again.

    America, you’re currently being hypocrites.


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