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On Wednesday, the US Senate will hold a vote on whether to approve the Pentagon’s request to send another $20bn in armaments to Israel, after a year in which the Biden administration has supplied billions of dollars of arms used in Israel's devastating war on Gaza.

Among the weapons to be approved are 120mm tank rounds, high explosive mortar rounds, F-15IA fighter aircraft, and joint direct attack munitions, known as JDAMs, which are precision systems for otherwise indiscriminate or "dumb" bombs.

Separate resolutions are being brought forward for each weapon type, including its cost to US taxpayers. However, together, the initiative is known as the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs).

As a result of intensive lobbying from pro-Israel groups like Aipac and the Democratic Majority For Israel, no arms transfer to Israel has been blocked.

The resolutions likely to gain the highest levels of support are expected to involve the tank rounds, which have been responsible for killing hundreds of civilians in northern Gaza in particular, and the JDAMs, which caused the death of well-known figures such as Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon, and six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City.

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[–] aesthelete -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Why the fuck are you still blaming voters?

Because that's who chooses the leaders.

I vote in primaries; a lot of you online progressives aren't there voting with me. I voted for Katie Porter for senator in California, but the managerial class that actually shows up to vote wanted Schiff and so they got him.

EDIT: I find it hilarious that people advocating against showing up to vote in every other case always show up to downvote my comments.

[–] givesomefucks 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because that’s who chooses the leaders.

LMAO

Good one bub.

Until we get dirty money out of at least the primaries and an actually non biased DNC, it's not voters deciding.

It's donors who flood primaries to ensure they don't need to worry about who wins a general.

For fucks sake, NH didn't even get a presidential primary this year, because they keep voting more progressive than the DNC wants.

How the actual fuck is trump their fault?

My state votes so late that the DNC calls the primary months before we vote... How am I supposed to have an effect?

If you want to blame primary voters, blame the handful the DNC allows to vote first (or at all) before they call it over.

But it would make a hell of a lot more sense to blame the DNC for all the rat fuckering they do.

[–] aesthelete -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until we get dirty money out of at least the primaries and an actually non biased DNC, it’s not voters deciding.

You aren't getting "dirty money" out of politics from your couch or by making a post about it on Lemmy.

I show up to vote progressive during party primaries and you and yours leave me lonely at the polls. In some states, such as my state of California, we have jungle primaries. The "DNC" certainly didn't force the general contest for CA senator to be Schiff versus a Republican...the voters did.

Everyone talks a big game online about how popular leftism is, but I have yet to see it where it actually counts: at the fucking polls.

[–] givesomefucks 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh...

This is one of those things where you're replying to a lot of my comments at once wanting to have the same argument in multiple places at the same time...

Most people will just ignore you or block you once they realize what's happening.

Sometimes you just have to wait for someone to reply.

Hope that helps you in the future.

[–] aesthelete -3 points 2 days ago

What are you even talking about?

Enjoy trying to get money out of politics through magic.