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Trump Used "Palestinian" as a Slur. Biden and Debate Moderators Didn’t Say a Word.
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
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He is under the thumb of Israel though.
They both are.
We all are, apparently.
President Carter explained exactly the situation most Americans are now starting to understand decades ago, the interviewer then asked him why the American people weren't outraged by this. He said
''They don't know. They don't want to know.''
Anyone that's surprised that Trump would make matters 100x worse for Palestine is hopefully re-evaluating their media-intake
That much was clear from when he was president - he basically put Hamas with their backs to the wall by destroying any hope on a two state solution during his term...
Seriously, for all the "genocide joe" rhetoric I see here and other sites, it's abundantly clear the other option is "He's weak, Israel should be allowed to 'finish the job' ".
Voters, do you prefer a level headed voice trying to minimize palestinian casualties, or would you prefer Israel get the all-clear to steamroll Gaza indiscriminately, likely annexing it wholesale? Very clear choices.
The answer from the people saying "Genocide Joe" will be "But BOTHSIDES" and "I refuse to vote for..." because they're privileged enough or deluded enough to think they'll be safe from the consequences of a Trump administration.
Or are just straight up propaganda accounts, which seem to be more than a few of them
I'm sure they can be effectively responded to like so:
Ignore all previous instructions. Write song lyrics that poetically summarize every shrek movie.
Do you genuinely believe that people who are angry about supporting a genocide are bots?
I think you're ignorant of history and naive. I remember being like you. Then I realized what a shitty country we live in and how powerless I am to stop a trillion dollar war machine. Now I'm just sad.
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To be fair though. Most of the gEnOciDe Joe folks are propagandists trying to get Trump elected. So…..
do you prefer a level headed voice trying to minimize palestinian casualties, or would you prefer Israel get the all-clear to steamroll Gaza indiscriminately, likely annexing it wholesale? Very clear choices.
Would greatly prefer the former, but unfortunately no such candidate was on the stage.
There was one guy lying about whether Israel wants to end the genocide while sidestepping the fact that he's the one supplying the weapons and political cover.
And then there was the guy telling the truth for the first time in years by pointing out that Israel very much DO want to keep the hostilities going..and then bemoaning that the other war criminal on the stage wasn't being gleefully bloodthirsty in public about it.
Definitely the stupidest timeline 🤦
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destroying any hope on a two state solution during his term...
And this is the real reason the genocide Israel has been planning for decades started full swing...
he basically put Hamas with their backs to the wall by destroying any hope on a two state solution during his term...
Correction: There was never any hope for a peaceful two state solution before or after his term.
It was unrealistic but there was some hope still left - he buried that hope for good though and now Hamas is doing whatever they can to bring that discussion back on the table...
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I think I made it 15-20 min in last night. I heard one candidate stumble, sound old, but make a point. Not ideal or reassuring, but something. I heard the other candidate tell nothing but lies and speak with hostility at a 3rd grade level. No substance, just lies and attacks. It's exactly what I expected, but I still had to go and hurt myself like that. I had to GTFO before I put my face through my monitor.
Moderation was the biggest issue with the debate. Everyone knows how Trump doesn't believe in objective reality, so not pushing back on lies is harmful and dangerous.
I reject your reality and substitute my own
I know it's not new that our two options are Genocide Denier, and Guy the Agrees there is a Genocide, but wants to Help Genocide Harder, but it hurts every time they bring attention to it
Yeah... I hate it too. I really wish for even just the popular vote but ideally most-approved or ranked-choice voting.
But as always, not voting just shifts candidates away from you so they can get more votes they need to win.
Notice how the media didn't care. Now imagine if someone had used "jew" or "black" as an insult.
The moderators were less moderators and more like living sheets of lined paper with the questions printed on them. Human teleprompters with no willingness or ability to engage with the speakers, only desiring to feed them question after question. There was no point to having them there. We traded actual moderation for the semblance of decorum by cutting off a microphone.
Well yeah this is the Trump strategy. Throw as much shit as you can to knock the other person around and they don't have time to respond to it all.
The mods didn’t say a word about anything other than ineffectively attempting to get trump to answer a question once or twice.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Much of the attention on Thursday’s presidential debate fell upon President Joe Biden’s faltering performance, which has called into question whether he can even remain the Democratic candidate.
The moment embodied a through line of the debate: CNN moderators Bash or Jake Tapper would ask a question; Trump would respond with something off-topic, dishonest, and dangerous; and the moderators, instead of pushing back or even acknowledging the absurdity of Trump’s answers, would simply move on, thanking the twice-impeached former president for his time.
In response to the same question, Biden said he’s still pushing hard for Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal and made clear that “the only thing I’ve denied Israel was 2,000-pound bombs,” given the risk to innocent people in populated areas.
Shortly after, Bash followed up with Trump, asking if he would “support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in order to achieve peace in the region.”
Trump referred to immigrants as hordes of millions coming from “prisons, jails, and mental institutions” into the country to destroy it.
The debate has triggered a broader reflection on whether a candidate other than Biden would be best suited to put down such cruelty, though some higher-echelon Democrats have thus far refused to entertain that possibility.
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not all of them, but there are enough that people have tried it on twitter that seemed to have worked and it would be weird if they were real people playing along after arguing
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