The rule of law, like the international law saying “don’t commit genocide”? That one? You’re going to uphold that one, right?
“The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld.”
People that are peacefully assembling and making their voices heard are being corralled up, either being arrested, or being forced to disperse. So violation #1.
We then had armed Israeli supporters come and start bashing heads of unarmed Palestinian supporters. Violation #2.
But to be clear, Biden is not condemning the above violations, he’s directing his comments at the Palestinian protesters.
Reporter: “Mr President, has the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?”
Biden: “No.”
Biden’s speech begins at the 37:30 mark: https://www.youtube.com/live/AXLjdZbwutY
I think this covers both sides and still sides 100% with the protesters
Milquetoast Biden Strikes Again!
It’s becoming harder and harder to not become an accelerationist.
Accelerationists are either completely selfish fucking idiots or fascists with enough sense to rebrand.
The best means I’ve found of fighting against that impulse is remembering what the Internet was like for me in early 2017 - completely demented Hillary supporters all over the place blaming everyone and everything besides their godawful candidate for what had just happened
The moderate Democratic party members who could and should learn a lesson from seeing their crappy candidate and crappy ideology lose a totally winnable election will not learn a damn thing (actually, they’ll probably double down even harder on all their idiotic crap and try to run like Michael Bloomberg or Joe Manchin or someone even worse), and everything will only get worse for the people we care about
