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      He needed the State Department to find that in their report that justified the pause. Either he’s allowing Blinken to provide an inconclusive report or he simply trusts him too much. Either way, that’s what he’s missing to take a firm stand.

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        Glad to see someone understand how this works.

        Normal presidents don’t determine what they say or their policy based off mainstream news, let alone sources liable to call it a genocide like TikTok.

        They get it from State Department and other executive branch briefings, and if those departments don’t classify it as one, then the president won’t either.

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          Meanwhile the same people are critical of Biden being tough on China, who has been committing genocide according to the UN since 1951.

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    The arrest warrant isn’t for genocide. It isn’t mentioned at all. It’s about mass killing and using starvation as a weapon of war. Joe and his team obviously knew that before issuing the statement, so this must be intentional misrepresentation. So if anyone is under the impression that the US is just a neutral and unbiased third party; here’s a clear cut example of them lying to support the Netanyahu government.

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      I doubt anyone ever thought the Us was unbiased in Israel-Palestine.

      One of the first the americans started blaming for 9/11 before it was revealed to be Al-Qaeda was Palestine.

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        Let me put it another way: There are lots of people who believe that the US and co are at least fair on this issue. It’s worth assuming that for every narrative and impression given by the media there will be people who accept them.

        So I think there’s a lot of utility in putting yourself in that frame of mind and then thinking: ’ If I believed this, what would make me question it? ’

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    He knows he’d be next if they were successful at this. This election situation makes me want to fucking throw up on a daily basis. Fuck you biden for making me vote for a genocidal piece of shit like you, and triple fuck the maga retards for making me vote for anyone but an actual fascist cuck. I hate this place

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    Curious who the last US president who meaningfully criticized Israel would have been. If I had to guess Biden is bound by defense treaties and other formal agreements, both public and covert, and has to walk a fine line in how he talks about this and other geopolitical matters.

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      Yes, this is accurate. Trump, however, showed us that you could just ignore the law and make your own rules with blackjack and hookers, and the worst thing that’ll happen is some stern finger wagging. If there was ever a time to do that, stopping a genocide is it.

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      LBJ was responsible for covering up USS Liberty

      And Kennedy was supposedly killed for opposing things like toppling nations such as Cuba.

      So I would assume Kennedy as he would likely have been much more critical of their actions and would have made the incident very public.

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    Incumbent losing elections speedrun (New World Record)