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Fucking everyone wants Trump because he’s so fucking easy to manipulate.

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Iran and China are hesitant on him. Iran because he might be stupid enough to actually start a pointless war that’s in no one’s strategic interests, not even the US; China because he can be bribed, but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him, which makes him unpredictable (and thus makes it difficult to establish any policy that deals with the US as long as he’s in power).

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What can you say? He’s a Salesman, sure he ‘might’ of destabilised the world for a bunch of consecutive paydays, but he made profit!

What a champ! /s

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And obviously all the US’s traditional allies, although it might have been implied they weren’t in the question.

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but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him

Oh so he’s my husband /s

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25 points

Still kind of surprised there hasn’t been a poisoning attempt on him yet because of how much his ego thrives on being buttered up

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Wasn’t that why he loves fast food? It’s easier to target the White House supply chain for a precision poisoning than to try to hit every McDonald’s in a 50km radius and hope to get lucky.

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No he just likes McDonald’s

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They tried but the McDonald’s additives neutralizes the poison

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Have you seen the current genocider tho?

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Surprising absolutely no one except for the staunchest and blindest American Zionists.

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American zionists are overwhelmingly christian and overwhelming support trump.

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Fascist is as fascist does

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Surprising Biden, who went on TV and told the world that he helped do the genocide for Bibi and should be appreciated.

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Like I said, staunchest and blindest American Zionists.

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“He meddled several times during the Clinton administration…

…supported fundraisers in Israel for then-GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election

…in 2020 he was all-out for Trump.”

all that meddling and he has fuck all to show for it lol. hopefully that is a good omen for 2024.

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Fuck all to show for it? Democrats literally can’t tell him “no, stop doing genocide” or they’ll get primaried against “centrists” with twice their cash.

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Centrists support genocide because AIPAC pays to rid them of progressives.

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netanyahu != aipac

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I’m sure the fascist who refuses to leave power has nothing to do with the official bribery arm of the state of Israel.

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Damn, full support for a genocide that is unpopular with their own electorate, and this is the thanks they get? If you’re willing to lose due to principles, at least make them good principles.

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It’s not genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing/stealing land. If all the Palestinians left for some place else, Israel would not pursue them to exterminate them, they’d just steal their land. It’s Palestinian land that Israel is stealing. The Palestinians are just in the way.

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You just described a genocide, like one of the plain text definitions of a genocide. Mass murdering a group of people to steal their land.

Doesn’t matter that you’ve made up a hypothetical fantasy scenario where they aren’t caged in cornered, but have free movement, it’s still a genocide.

Oh, and they aren’t free to leave, they are caged and cornered.

So you’re wrong, and you’re wrong again.

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The Palestinians are not an ethnic group. They are people who live in Palestine, and are from many ethnicities and religious professions. They are being murdered because of where they live, not technically because of their ethnicity. If they all left of their own accord, Israel would not pursue them to murder them. Israel is murdering them to steal their land. Hence not genocide.

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By what definition

Wiki

Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people.[a][2]

Dictionary

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Cambridge dictionary

genocide noun [ C or U ] UK /ˈdʒen.ə.saɪd/ US /ˈdʒen.ə.saɪd/ Add to word list the crime of intentionally destroying part or all of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, by killing people or by other methods:

So by what definition do you add ‘land’.

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With all the good will in the world, my friend, you need to look up the definitions of genocide. Pursuing a population to exterminate then is NOT a prerequisite for genocide.

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what’s the point of this argument even if you’re right? fuck what Israel is actually doing, I don’t care what it’s called. Fuck them

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Lmfao THAT’S GENOCIDE DOPEY

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Out in the real world, Hamas committed genocide on October 7. Israel is in Gaza in an attempt to destroy Hamas and free the hostages that were taken on that day.

“Genocide Joe” is just a meme spread by internet cranks that’s a very tiny minority of voters, insignificant compared to the number of voters that know the difference between a war and a genocide.

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Israel’s “attempt to destroy Hamas” has killed tens of thousands of children. Stop apologising for genocide. You cunt.

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Hamas committed genocide. Y’all are trying to use the bullshit “both sides” strategy on actual genocide to to give cover for the monsters in Hamas. You’re only fooling yourselves with this bullshit, society is rightly ignoring you for your disgusting behavior to get internet points by exploiting the suffering of real people.

If you actually cared about Palestinians you’d be demanding Hamas release the hostages. But you don’t want that to happen because you get sick entertainment from the suffering of Palestinians that Hamas provides to you by continuing with their war crimes. You’re ghouls.

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Damn this guy is pro-genocide wtf

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Hamas committed genocide on October 7. They should be destroyed for that crime. You’re pro-genocide because you want Hamas given a pass for their genocide.

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Buddy I don’t think you know the meaning of genocide if you think Oct 7 was one. Or not happening now

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Haha Hamas did a one day genocide gang /s

fuck off smfh

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They’ve been firing rockets at Israeli population centers for more than a decade. Just because Hamas has shit rockets and Israel has invested billions in protecting their people from them doesn’t mean Hamas hasn’t been trying to kill as many Israelis as they can. And on one day Israel’s defenses against Hamas slipped up and we saw the result.

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Oh look. It’s the inner monologue of every last centrist.

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The IDF killed more Israeli civilians than Hamas did on that day. They do not care about their people when it comes to being hostages.

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That is not known. It is known that the IDF shot at many of their civillians in Hamas captivity either with complete disregard for what they are shooting, or deliberately to avoid them being used as bargaining in hostage dealy.

The exact numbers however are unknown and before there can be an independent investigation, the extent will never be published. I wouldnt be suprised if the IDF and Israeli government have a good idea of the numbers, but they for sure will try to bury them.

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But they continue to suck his dick regardless.

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It’s the sweet ketchup scent in the diaper that keeps them coming back time and time again.

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What the fuck is this and where do I buy one? How do I set it on people? Does it need their scent or does it have a little slot where I can insert someone’s picture and it’ll automatically home in on them?

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The Democrats are only sucking Israel’s dick by proxy. They’re actually just sucking the dick of the military industrial complex, because America is a corporate plutocracy masquerading as a democracy.

Israel’s just a long time benefactor of, and contributor to, the MIC. Their existence = weapons contracts.

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