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I’m pretty sure the youth is more receptive to not funding genocide with tax dollars than you make it out to seem

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They aren’t though. See the complaints about the economy. The youth vote is very vocal, but they don’t have the money to make up for lost donations from the Pro-Israel PAC.

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It’s this mentality that will give the US another Trump presidency. If you are worried about losing money from a Pro-Israel PAC because you won’t stop aiding an active genocide, you aren’t fit to make decisions for a major country. Not aiding genocide is kinda important. And yes, the economy sucks for students and the working class. That’s why they don’t want to send bombs (with their tax dollars) to Israel, when the people here need the funding more.

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I’m sorry you find political facts inconvenient.

Here’s what the students and pro-Palestinian movements are up against:

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

There simply is no equivalent on the other side, so instead we get:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/pro-israel-money-progressives-congress-challenges

and:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/aipac-pro-israel-lobby-group-us-elections

The students can barely live, they can’t afford to contribute at this level.

So, yeah, despite all of Israel’s bad behavior, going back decades now, US support will continue going to them, because politicians can’t afford otherwise.

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They aren’t though. See the complaints about the economy.

We should keep supporting genocide because gaslighting the poor hasn’t worked?

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Supporting Biden isn’t supporting genocide, that’s a false argument.

Biden is supporting Israel because that’s where the PAC money is and poor college students can’t make up that difference.

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