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We wasted months not giving them aid to build this pier...
It cost 320 million dollars, and lasted a fucking week.
And Palestinians are still starving to death.
I legitimately don't know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.
With the shit Biden openly says, it's hard to believe there's not worse shit he's managing not to say. If not, isn't saying whatever horrible pro genocide shit that pops into your head one of the reasons trump is bad?
trump is obviously worse, but running a campaign on that makes a genocide ok won't get a Dem in office.
If the purpose was to bring aid to the Palestinians, they'd just open the border crossing.
Rather, everything we see is consistent trying to create the appearance of doing something to help, but making sure you don't actually affect the famine.
That's the most we get these days. With pretty much any topic.
At most we get some breadcrumbs for optics right before elections, but never any real work towards real solutions.
It's why not paying attention and just voting "blue no matter who" should never be a plan except for one election in a blue moon where something crazy just happened.
This is Trump's 3rd election now, if the DNC can't find a good candidate that can beat Trump and give Dem voters what we want, then we need new people running the DNC.
If the DNC won't change, we need a whole ass new party.
Going along with this bullshit isn't helping anyone.
The absence of evil isn't good. It's just the absence of evil.
We need politicians actually willing to do good things. Hell, it's not even "absence of evil" the good guys are funding genocides these days.
It's just "slightly less evil".
I'm voting blue no matter who because I am paying attention to Republicans trying to burn the country to the ground. I'll take half assed non-improvement over malicious self destruction, thanks.
May your self righteousness sit easy with your soul, while the right clicks each ratchet of the Overton window.
Voting ‘blue no matter who’ empowers that action - both with and without of your party.
Then you're just incentivizing Dems to keep the status quo and never actually change anything for the better. This also ensures the Republican party will still exist forever since they're the only alternative for someone who wants to vote but not for Democrats.
Hell if they don't just tell Biden what he needs to do to win. They must be collecting data that tells them how wildly unpopular Biden's actions are among the people they need to vote.
Congress voted in favor of munitions aid. The State Department reported inconclusive evidence of war crime. It would be unprecedented for Biden to alter existing contracts without support from one of these branches, and would likely be challenged in the Judiciary Branch in the form of an impeachment hearing for bad faith or personal agenda.
We pay tens of trillions of dollars annually for the most informed State Department in the world. POTUS doesn’t decide based on information outside of our own intelligence, not news, the UN, the ICC, or the ICJ. Biden needs to pressure Blinken for a more thorough investigation, including the most recent “accidents” in civilian occupied areas, to provide a concrete platform for amendment or withdrawal of support.
TL;DR: POTUS doesn’t make decisions on international affairs based on polls.
The money wasn't wasted, it went directly where it was intended for. The pockets of multi billionaire defense contractors.
It was either that or colossally incompetent.
Given that it had to go through several rounds of approval before being announced and every independent expert pointed out that it would be much less effective in itself than delivering aid by truck while doing nothing to keep the IDF from controlling it, that's highly unlikely, though.
It's a very transparent PR stunt that they almost certainly knew wouldn't make a dent in the deliberately induced starvation.