The president used the term to describe Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan who crossed the border into the U.S. and has been charged with the murder of Laken Riley.
Here’s me saying that Biden should stop sending the Israelis aid, because that’s accessory to mass murder.
Have you ever called it the genocide it is?
The very first sentence in your link is a standard “Biden is the most [thing Biden emphatically isn’t] ever!” statement, and you want to talk about propaganda and talking points.
Moving of goalposts! Okay, I didn’t have that one on the card, that’s new.
The answer is yes:
Here’s me saying “yes, I think Biden’s complicit to a certain extent in the genocide going on in Gaza.”
Here’s me saying “if you don’t like Biden enabling genocide by not reversing US foreign policy (which, again, I don’t either)”
What’s the new goal posts? My guess is that you’ll read the context for those statements, and say that because I also wrote loads of stuff in them that doesn’t fit your narrative (e.g. the fact, that you objected to, that Biden’s done more anti-Israel stuff than the criminally low bar that is every other US president), they don’t count.
Ah, picking one little element and ignoring the rest of the message completely! I need one more for a bad-faith bingo.
However I will tell you that the one piece you picked out also doesn’t hold up. Citation:
The two countries signed strategic military agreements and Washington began stockpiling weapons in Israel officially assigned to US forces but which could quickly be handed to the Israelis.
There were tensions. Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 was done without US approval and prompted Reagan to suspend some weapons shipments. The US administration also soured on Israeli’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
But Washington continued to protect Israel at the UN, including vetoing a Soviet move in the security council to impose an arms embargo. Still, the Reagan administration shocked Israel by talking to Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation, a terrorist group in Israeli eyes.
Pausing weapons shipments had nothing to do with murder in Palestine; it was because they attacked Iraq and we liked Iraq back then. Reagan, of all people, was just as supportive of the slaughter of brown people in Palestine as he was of it in many other places. And even besides the reasons why he might have been briefly upset with Israel for non-Palestine reasons, he didn’t place sanctions on any Israelis, he didn’t meet pointedly with Begin’s political opponents, and he sure as shit didn’t land the US military in Palestine.
I’m not trying to say that Biden doing those things somehow undoes $10 billion worth of weapons and money to support Israel’s ongoing slaughter. I’m simply saying that it’s factually true that the tiny steps Biden is taking are more than any other US leader in the long line of neoliberals has decided to do.
Pausing weapons shipments had nothing to do with murder in Palestine; it was because they attacked Iraq and we liked Iraq back then. Reagan, of all people, was just as supportive of the slaughter of brown people in Palestine as he was of it in many other places. And even besides the reasons why he might have been briefly upset with Israel for non-Palestine reasons, he didn’t place sanctions any Israelis, he didn’t meet pointedly with Begin’s political opponents, and he sure as shit didn’t land the US military in Palestine.
So he was willing to cut off Israel and they weren’t even committing genocide at the time? Why is Biden sticking with them when they are?
I notice we’ve fully moved away from the question of “am I open to criticism of Biden” without comment, and smoothly transitioned to disagreeing on some other topic without acknowledging the abandonment of the first topic. That’s another common propaganda tactic; by clever selection of what parts of the message someone responds to or not, they’re able to transition to a new topic without ever having acknowledged that now that we’ve analyzed the question a little, they were clearly completely fucking wrong about the original topic of discussion. This can be done any number of times, for any number of arguments that don’t really hold up when challenged, in order to continue a hostile exchange that doesn’t really go anywhere but still creates an overall impression of factual parity between the two viewpoints.
I regret to inform you that I’ve got a bingo now, so we’ll have to close it here. I feel pretty comfortable with what I’ve laid out as far as Biden’s record vs. Reagan’s and all that, but if you don’t feel the same way, I think you’re gonna have to cope with that feeling all on your own.
Have you ever called it the genocide it is?
The very first sentence in your link is a standard “Biden is the most [thing Biden emphatically isn’t] ever!” statement, and you want to talk about propaganda and talking points.
Moving of goalposts! Okay, I didn’t have that one on the card, that’s new.
The answer is yes:
Here’s me saying “yes, I think Biden’s complicit to a certain extent in the genocide going on in Gaza.”
Here’s me saying “if you don’t like Biden enabling genocide by not reversing US foreign policy (which, again, I don’t either)”
What’s the new goal posts? My guess is that you’ll read the context for those statements, and say that because I also wrote loads of stuff in them that doesn’t fit your narrative (e.g. the fact, that you objected to, that Biden’s done more anti-Israel stuff than the criminally low bar that is every other US president), they don’t count.
Yes, that’s the bullshit line. Even Reagan was willing to cut Israel off. I hope Biden moves to the left of Reagan and stops supporting genocide.
Ah, picking one little element and ignoring the rest of the message completely! I need one more for a bad-faith bingo.
However I will tell you that the one piece you picked out also doesn’t hold up. Citation:
Pausing weapons shipments had nothing to do with murder in Palestine; it was because they attacked Iraq and we liked Iraq back then. Reagan, of all people, was just as supportive of the slaughter of brown people in Palestine as he was of it in many other places. And even besides the reasons why he might have been briefly upset with Israel for non-Palestine reasons, he didn’t place sanctions on any Israelis, he didn’t meet pointedly with Begin’s political opponents, and he sure as shit didn’t land the US military in Palestine.
I’m not trying to say that Biden doing those things somehow undoes $10 billion worth of weapons and money to support Israel’s ongoing slaughter. I’m simply saying that it’s factually true that the tiny steps Biden is taking are more than any other US leader in the long line of neoliberals has decided to do.
So he was willing to cut off Israel and they weren’t even committing genocide at the time? Why is Biden sticking with them when they are?
I notice we’ve fully moved away from the question of “am I open to criticism of Biden” without comment, and smoothly transitioned to disagreeing on some other topic without acknowledging the abandonment of the first topic. That’s another common propaganda tactic; by clever selection of what parts of the message someone responds to or not, they’re able to transition to a new topic without ever having acknowledged that now that we’ve analyzed the question a little, they were clearly completely fucking wrong about the original topic of discussion. This can be done any number of times, for any number of arguments that don’t really hold up when challenged, in order to continue a hostile exchange that doesn’t really go anywhere but still creates an overall impression of factual parity between the two viewpoints.
I regret to inform you that I’ve got a bingo now, so we’ll have to close it here. I feel pretty comfortable with what I’ve laid out as far as Biden’s record vs. Reagan’s and all that, but if you don’t feel the same way, I think you’re gonna have to cope with that feeling all on your own.