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I don't dispute your numbers. But Israel has been in a non-stop battle against terrorists who use their own people as human shields. So I put the civilian death toll squarely where it belongs: at the feet of the terrorists.

I've seen ZERO evidence that Israel has ever as a matter of policy targeted innocent civilians. In the contrary, I've seen Israel go out of it's way to send text messages to civilians to give them time to evacuate. I've seen they drop lead weights on rooftops as a warning to the people inside you get out before actual missiles come.

I've never heard of any other nation doing that. Never. They are knowingly letting terrorists escape because it spares civilian lives.

I have no idea who Israel is targeting, but if history is any guide, it is Hamas terrorists.

And Hamas terrorists make it a POLICY to hide among civilians.

For now, I'm giving Israel the benefit of the doubt because they have very much earned it.

Sure. And Netanyahu is a right-wing asshole. But he isn't a terrorist.

You see the difference?

Any organization that calls Israel "apartheid" is comically biased.

Israel is the only country in the region where a lesbian Muslim woman can vote, get an education and hold elected office.

Claiming it's apartheid is like claiming the US was apartheid when occupying Iraq because we didn't allow Iraqis to be citizens of the US.

Words have meanings, and the accusation is demonstrably absurd.

I wouldn't put a lot of stock in how the United Nations describes anything to do with Israel. Their bias is of the charts.

Remember, this is an organization that officially denounced Israel for human rights violations 20 times in one year, and for every other nation on Earth, with all the modern slavery, sex trafficking, genial mutilation, honor killings, murder of LGBTQ, marriage and rape of 7-yr-girls, denying basic education to women, forcing women to fully cover their bodies, mass incarcerations, etc,etc... For all the rest of the world, 6 denouncements.

So yeah, the UN is not a serious organization when it comes to Israel.

Palestinians knew who they were when they elected them.

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.

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.

Between voice cloning, gpt-4, and social media, the technology exists TODAY for scammers to call you at 4am with the voice and intimate knowledge of a loved-one, and tell you that they need you to send them money for an emergency.

You thought old people were easy to scam before? We're about to enter a golden age of manipulation.

You're not missing anything. This is a politically stupid move.

AOC pulls the party to the left with her rhetoric, and then lends her support to strengthen the party as a whole.

In this political environment, when the opposition is literally a fascist cult, it's great that she's being a team player.

Also when she eventually does run for president, she won't have alienated the party.

She has handled it perfectly.

No... Don't you see?

No matter how centrist or moderate democratic candidate is, the Republicans call them communist, socialist pedophiles.

They've painted themselves into a corner. We could nominate a full-on Marxist flag-burner, and they would have nothing left to say about them that they didn't already say about Obama and Biden.