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Bernie Sanders to Force Vote on Blocking Bombs for Israel’s Destruction of Gaza (truthout.org)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Grieving Palestinian Americans are demanding an arms embargo from their lawmakers as Israel escalates its genocide.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

And Bernie’s citizenship had been revoked and he is being deported back to…. New York City?

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

will be rejected by %90 of democrats %100 of republicans

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the point is to get names of politicians who have been otherwise trying to avoid publicly taking a position on the public-record.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Should have been president.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (25 children)

I keep wondering why the "Genocide Joe" folk aren't now screeching about "Genocide Donald".

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me help you. No one saying Genocide Bibi. Because they are “public” about their goal. Joe on the other hand, “pretend” about stopping them but at the same time allowing them to commit war crime and blocking all votes in the us.

So yes no need to say Genocide Trump because he doesnt even hide.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

You are putting way too much effort into explaining people being used for ampliganda.

Regardless of who would get elected, weapons would flow into israel.

Saying Genocide Joe felt good. Because it was designed to feel good. Like every piece of ampliganda.

Get over it.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Point me to anyone on Lemmy supporting Trump or denying his role in the genocide and I promise I'll give them an earful. But otherwise it would be like randomly screaming, "MURDERING PUPPIES IS BAD!" like chill, pretty sure we're all on the same page about that. The difference is that there's a bunch of people on here who think murdering puppies is fine if the person doing it has a (D) next to their name.

[–] Muyal@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Either you are blind or don't want to hear it. People have been calling out Trump for this genocide since day one. Heck, there's hundreds of posts doing that right now on Lemmy

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Reminder this is only for offensive weapons. Sanders has no problem sending interceptors to defend the Nazis against any repercussions for their crimes.

And Sanders still refuses to call it a genocide.

And Sanders recently voted to block all funding to the Gazan government and do everything possible to overthrow them.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He did call it ethnic cleansing and a war crime:

https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1905328082170347696

What was the vote on blocking funding to the Gazan government, could not find it online?