Great, virtue signalling is so important at this time of crisis. It's not like we have real issues to deal with.
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This ain't virtue signalling...
Republicans legit support Israel for three reasons:
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A fringe Christian belief that for Armageddon the Jewish people need to control Israel and start the first battle.
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They want to conflate religion and ethnicity like Israel, and use the existence of Israel as rationale for America being a "Christian nation".
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They really hate Muslims.
- Spending billions to destabilize the Middle East is a core part of their identity
Bro... 412 voted yes, meaning like 90% of Democrats also support Israel's apartheid state and terrorism. Granted, most of them probably only approve due to military industrial complex ~~bribes~~ "donations", but that's only microscopically better than religious fundamentalism or fascism.
Well apparently this resolution doesn't say much more than that israel can defend itself against terrorism, and that Hamas shouldn't commit terrorism.
Of course there's a message between the lines but in itself there isn't much wrong with it
And don't forget there's an existential convergence for the US as well, having completely genocided the natives off their land, it would be quite hypocritical for them to condemn others for the light version of it
Heyyy someone read the article. :-)
They might be different domestically but when it comes to foreign policy the US only has the bomb brown people party
This
3b. They are addicted to the dopamine hits they get from bombing brown people.
Funny how Republicans play hardball with Ukraine but by contrast give a blank check to Israel. How quickly their concerns about debt and a path to victory faded away lmao.
Republicans and democrats coming together to commit genocide
All 412 of them are absolute monsters. We are cultivating such a grotesque, hypocritical, and self-destructive culture in the US.
There’s 433. Are 19 of them okay in your opinion?
Edit: I literally forgot how many voted to approve before I commented
Last numbers I heard on the news are that something like 5700 civilians died in Gaza following Israel’s air strikes.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The House approved a resolution backing Israel and condemning Hamas on Wednesday, the first piece of legislation to clear the lower chamber in more than three weeks because of the extended Speaker stalemate.
The first bill that I’m gonna bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel,” Johnson said in the House chamber after winning the gavel.
“We’re going to show not only Israel, but the entire world, that the barbarism of Hamas that we have all seen play out on our television screens and wretched and wrong, and we’re gonna stand for the food in that conflict,” he added.
Last week, the White House unveiled a roughly $100 billion supplemental request that includes funds for Israel, Ukraine, U.S. border security and allies in the Indo-Pacific region.
Biden has pledged U.S. support to Israel in its declaration of war against Hamas, and made note of his supplemental request in a statement following Johnson’s election as Speaker.
), Al Green (Texas), Summer Lee (Pa.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Delia Ramirez (Ill.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).
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