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The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be "pulling out every stop" to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.

"Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough," the US President said, noting "hundreds of trucks" should be entering the enclave.

Biden said the US is "going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses".

He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an "immediate ceasefire" that would allow additional aid in.

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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 49 points 9 months ago

You know that you can vote for someone AND be critical of their future, past and/or present decisions right?

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

You're right, but there are a lot of people (that I've seen, at least) who are willing to abstain from voting over Biden's handling of this.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Then that is their democratic choice. And it's Bidens loss for not listening to his voters.

Don't blame the voters for using their votes

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We're not. We're blaming them for being fucking idiots who will vote in a literal dictator because they're mad at Biden. Someone who will do far more damage to and destroy hundreds of millions of lives in the US and the rest of the world.

30,000 deaths in another country is nothing compared to US deaths little orange is responsible for when you only consider his one choice to fuck over pandemic response at the beginning of the pandemic. Dude has the deaths of millions on his hands already.

Anyone, any human being alive, that would vote for him is a fucking idiot that needs to give their head a bashing

I love that you used the phrase democratic choice to describe it too. A+

[-] marxistsynths19@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

America’s path to fascism doesn’t begin and end with Trump. Forcing people to vote for someone they do not morally support is fascist. The last time he was president the world didn’t end. Millions of peoples lives in the United States are already horrible and the US regardless of who is president , democrat or republican, murder people all over the world. This narrow minded take of how the world works is part of the problem not the people abstaining from voting for Biden.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 4 points 9 months ago

Okay, sure, but voting on a single issue is what fucking morons do.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And children without a lot of life experiences to understand. Imagine coming of age in the last decade. This is their "normal". Its awful and terrifying.. exactly what all the people working to divide and and destroy democracy around the world have been working for.

As much as I'm angry at their ignorance, it's also really fucking sad.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

No. It is not, this is a scary and extremist perspective and I'm sorry you feel like that. The media in America and the propagandist dismantling democracy have done so much damage.

So many bots, so many promoters of disjunction. It's overwhelming.

You're being asked to make a choice between eating a gross vegetable and a the barrel of a shotgun and you're arguing for the shotgun.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

First you say "were not" and then in the next sentence you say "we do". Good one.

Best part about a democracy is that everyone gets to vote.

Worst part is that everyone gets to vote.

This is how it works. Just because you're afraid of being on the losing side doesn't mean anything has changed.

And before you start yapping on. I'm not American. We don't work on a 2 party system. I'm just saying what everyone else can see looking in.

You can't support democracy ONLY when your side gets what they want.

[-] fellstone@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

People who are able to vote and specifically choose not to should absolutely be blamed. Voting third party is perfectly reasonable, but you have no right to complain about the state of politics and deserve to be ridiculed if you make the conscious decision not to vote even though you are fully able to.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

It's the unalienable right of every US citizen to say whatever dumbass shit they want. I'm still gonna call them a dumbass for saying dumbass shit though.

[-] machinin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's the trolley problem. It is much more difficult for people to be an active part of genocide by voting for Biden than simply not voting and allowing a worse outcome to happen if Trump becomes president..

[-] nurple@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Seems like they missed the lesson of the trolley problem, then.

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Perhaps we should work to make sure no one is on the tracks instead of pulling the lever?

[-] nurple@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We should do whatever we can to keep people off of the tracks in the future. But that’s not mutually exclusive with pulling the lever right now, since the trolley is already heading towards people.

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

It’s an easy decision to make if you aren’t the one tied to the tracks. Palestinian Americans are losing their families and flipping that lever will neither bring them back nor make the situation better. Not only that, but flipping the lever without any real change of action from the DNC just means they can just trust their base to overlook genocide again and again in perpetuity as long as republicans remain the worse choice (which will be always).

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml -2 points 9 months ago

Maybe read up on what the trolley problem (together with its variations) is about then.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not abstaining. I'm voting for Jill Stein.

Jill's currently polling at 5%. If the Green Party could get 5%, we'd qualify for millions of dollars in federal grant money, which would go a long way towards helping us fight the corrupt two-party system.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly, I demand better of him and I will probably vote for him. I really wonder though how someone that's a Muslim or Palestinian can stomach voting for him. His policies around Israel are pretty much identical to what Trump would do which is a big deal for a lot of people. He's basically saying "Forget that I let Israel murder and starve to death your loved ones, I've been pretty good when it comes to monopolies right?!?".

I'll vote for him because he's the better of two options, however, he has blood on his hands and that may just lose him a second term.

[-] ThePrestige@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] RalphFurley@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

Tell that to the terminally online edgelord jimmy Dore "left" crowd

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