cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/138601

“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

  • @hark@lemmy.world
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    57 months ago

    I’m surprised biden could call netanyahu anything when his mouth is firmly glued to his ass.

  • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    47 months ago

    What speaks louder?

    Actions or words?

    Fuck Joe Biden and fuck Amerikkka. ✊🏼

  • Captain Aggravated
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    137 months ago

    I saw Biden give a press conference about the hurricane, and as he was walking out the door one of the reporters asked about his communication with Netanyahu, and he said over his shoulder “We didn’t talk about the hurricane.”

        • @Vatowine@lemmy.world
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          17 months ago

          Yeah…the people didn’t care for the felon, the man who says he just gets to say grab em by the pussy, the one who quoted hitler in such as way as to make it CLEAR he read it thoroughly and vibed with it, or if that wasn’t bad enough, being the little bitch boy of that disgusting Russian warmonger. But yes, Biden one liners are a problem /s. I’d grace the average pea with more critical thinking than you.

  • 2ugly2live
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    227 months ago

    A “bad guy!” My word, Mr. President, what next, we’ll stop sending them money? Have some decorum.

  • @forrcaho@lemmy.world
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    327 months ago

    I don’t know how he would ever have expected anything different from Netanyahu. It’s not like this is the first time he failed to show the “restraint” Biden pleaded for (while simultaneously providing him with an unlimited supply of weapons).

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    The logical conclusion in the face of Biden’s other actions such as keeping on sending weapons to Netanyahu and protecting him in the UN, is that this “leak” is a purposeful and carefully crafted bit of PR from Biden’s team.

    By their own track record, Biden and his minions are about as trustworthy as Netanyahu.

      • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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        57 months ago

        Or rank and file dems should grow the courage of their convictions and organize to stop allowing the dem centrists to take the zionist campaign money. Polls show most Americans dont support The zionists colonization and their associated war crimes.

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        -57 months ago

        You must have been living under a rock for months now if you still think Biden is the one running against Trump.

        Further, I wonder what kind of Morals, Ethics and Principles a person must have to think others should stay mute about two-faced hypocrites actively helping the modern Nazis mass-murder children in, not one but TWO countries, lest the electoral chances of that person’s party are weakened.

        One wonders just how many Nazi-support layers away from the actually Nazis does it take to stop being a Nazi? Is the Nazi-supporter still a Nazi? How about those who support and defend Nazi-supporters - are they Nazis?

        • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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          You must have been living under a rock for months now if you still think Biden is the one running against Trump.

          Straw man

          Further, I wonder what kind of Morals, Ethics and Principles a person must have to think others should stay mute about two-faced hypocrites actively helping the modern Nazis mass-murder children in, not one but TWO countries, lest the electoral chances of that person’s party are weakened.

          Low quality analysis and very biased take on what’s going on.

          One wonders just how many Nazi-support layers away from the actually Nazis does it take to stop being a Nazi? Is the Nazi-supporter still a Nazi? How about those who support and defend Nazi-supporters - are they Nazis?

          Implying I’m a Nazi. Rude and not even original. Not interested in engaging.

          • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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            -17 months ago

            Rude and not even original. Not interested in engaging.

            Agreed fuckingkangaroos@, yeah, genocide is one thing, but anything you claim to be “rude” should not be tolerated. Tell that guy GOOD DAY, SIR. Its hard to believe anyone would act so rudely about some run-of-the-mill mass murder. I bet that guy uses his salad fork to eat his dinner too. You were right to run away not engage.

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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            I was going to write that I don’t think you’re a Nazi, just giving yourself excuses to act in ways that taint you with their stink.

            Then I saw this beauty:

            actively helping the modern Nazis mass-murder children in, not one but TWO countries, lest the electoral chances of that person’s party are weakened.

            Low quality analysis and very biased take on what’s going on.

            Already after the Genocide was well underway Biden sent Israel 2000lb bombs, which the US itself does not use because their collateral damage is too large (they flatten entire housing blocks), which have been used by Israel in both Gaza and in residential areas in Lebanon resulting in horrible numbers of civilian casualties, including many children.

            You Sir, have the morals of a Zionist, a modern Nazi.

              • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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                -17 months ago

                Feel free to head to reddit and not look back. The worldnews mods there will make darn sure you dont have to deal with these troublesome opinions that you dont agree with. Let me hold the door open for you so you can go. Have a good day now.

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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            Zionists are Nazis.

            Same propaganda techniques, same violent unrestrained racism, same calous murdering of those of the “wrong” race.

            The only difference is that the “superior race” the Zionists claim to represent is a different one, as is the one they deem untermenschen (or specifically in their words “human animals”).

            You can literally replace “Israel” for “Germany” and “Jewish People” for “Arian Race” in some of the speeches coming from the Israeli government to end up with something pretty close to some of the Nazi speeches.

            If you want to be technical about it, Zionists are ethno-Fascists - which is a rarer and far more racist and violent kind of Fascism than the traditional one - like the Nazis but they’re not specifically the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (so, not actually the NAZI party), just a modern version of it with a different set of races they see as ubermenschen and untermenschen (what the Zionists call “the chosen people” and the “human animals”).

            So yeah, a guy like Biden actively supporting these modern Nazis with weapons whilst they commit Genocide is also a Nazi (just like somebody giving the KKK weapons knowing they will be used to kill afro-americans counts as being KKK) and those people doggedly coming out to defend Biden of any and all criticism of his actions in this are tainting themselves with the stink of this modern Nazism (they can hardly claim they’re against the mass murder of children whilst actively protecting one of the key guys in making it possible)

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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            You assume too much.

            I simply have principles and won’t just stand quiet in the face of evildoing, no matter what the excuse.

            As I pointed out multiple times before, the simplest thing is for one man, Joe Biden, to change the way he acts, not for millions to close their eyes and swallow their principles (or for thousands of useful idiots to come out and defend his indefensible actions, making themselves accomplices along with him in the mass murder of children).

            In 10 or 20 years’ time, when the full form of this Holocaust is known, I will know I was always on the right side and you and those like you will be trying to forget how you tainted your hands with the blood of children, protecting Biden from being forced to not help murder them anymore.

            I’ll leave you with a thought: do you think the bombing of residential neighborhoods in Beirut with 2000lb bombs sent from the US (which the US Military refuses to use because the collateral damage is too great) which has killed countless civilians including children, would have happened without the useful idiots and tribalists having spend the last year doggedly defending of Biden allowing him to send ever more and more dangerous weapons to Israel? To you really think the chain of events that has resulted in Israel extending the war to Lebanon would’ve still happened if there was a massive outcry against Joe Biden and the Democrats 6 months ago, well before the election?

            • @Moneo@lemmy.world
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              47 months ago

              Glad to see people with a spine piping up on this website. I’m so fucking tired of the “non voters help Trump win” narrative. It’s so fucking pathetic.

              • @shikitohno@lemm.ee
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                37 months ago

                Eh, non-voters in some states could help Trump win, but it’s hardly a universal thing. My bigger issue with this sort of rhetoric is that criticizing absolutely reprehensible policies advanced by the Democrats does not equal endorsing Trump, as many Zionist shills here like to claim. I want to be able to unreservedly back Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections, but “enables and supports genocide and the massacre of civilian men, women and children,” is one hell of a reservation to make your voters have.

                • @Moneo@lemmy.world
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                  37 months ago

                  Yeah I understand Trump has a better chance of winning if less people vote for Harris. My point is that instead of blaming voters for not wanting to vote for dems people need to blame the dems for not being worth voting for.

              • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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                I’m afraid it doesn’t take much spine to speak up online, especially since I’m an European and hence with little at stake on the US Presidential race.

                (Mind you, I do go beyond words and have a been a member of small Leftwing parties in two of the countries I lived in).

                None the less, thanks for the compliment.

              • @Maeve@midwest.social
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                17 months ago

                It’s mask-off really quickly when those who are kinder and engage when you flatly state you’re not voting Dem, too.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      157 months ago

      Biden and his minions are about as trustworthy as Netanyahu.

      You’re leveraging ‘about as’ pretty heavily here.

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        There is no real different between two kind of shameless liars covering up mass murder of children.

        One might even say Netanyahu is at times less dishonest (if one could measure “honesty” at such infinitesimal levels) because he’s more open about his murderous intentions.

        Biden on the other hand is a full blown hypocrite who claims to want to stop Netanyahu whilst knowingly sending him the very 2000lb bombs used in residential areas in Gaza and Lebanon, a kind which the US Military itself does not use because its collateral damage is too massive.

        They’re both sociopaths, it’s just that while Netanyahu is playing a “strong man” character whilst Biden plays the “powerless to act gentleman”, and many in more modern nations don’t recognized the shameless lying under the latter style as easily as they do under the former.

      • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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        107 months ago

        Because his abysmal approval ratings bring Harris’s down too. Harris has never been good at formulating any statement of her own principles-- even back when she was running for president against Biden, she had no platform, just bromides that polled well. She’s a cardboard cutout.

        • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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          His VP can come out and voice her disagreement with his actions, distancing herself from him and those actions.

          It’s the simplest solution by far.

          Not doing so and instead having the party loyalists go around raging at any who criticize Biden’s complicity in Genocide, is not the simplest solution.

          And yet here we are, with the tribalists piling up on any criticism online instead of Kamala Harris simply voicing her disagreement with Biden’s policies.

          One wonders why exactly the chosen option is not the simplest and most likely to lead to a Trump defeat.

          • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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            -17 months ago

            Lol. All this is performance anyway. If Harris voiced her disagreement with Biden, the right wing media would have a field day with how disorganized the Dems are and how they can’t be trusted to lead.

            • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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              17 months ago

              The “right wing media” (what I would call the far-right media here in Europe) will say pretty anything quite independently of it being true or not. They’ve relentlessly been making shit up about Democrats and will keep on doing so.

              The people who believe the “right wing media” are never going to vote for Kamala because they already believe a massive pile of unbelievable bollocks about her.

              “The right wing media will say” isn’t quite the powerful argument that you think it is for the future POTUS to keep her association with an unrepentant Genocide enabler and supporter.

            • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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              Living in fear of right wing bullying is not productive. We can either cower or we can kick them in the face or ridicule them when they go low. The dems do far too much cowering the past few decades. Americans love a good snappy comeback, and so far all we have doing it is old coach Waltz.

    • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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      07 months ago

      And than he sent them billions in bombs?

      It saves reporters time to just paste that info about more bomb shipoments to Israel into the “signature” part of the newsstory word processor and have the computer just tack it on at the end of every single story. Increasingly these news stories can write themselves. What a time to be alive.

  • @Yewb@lemmy.world
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    87 months ago

    So an interesting thing about the Israeli military, they empower all levels of the command chain to make decisions to complete the mission.

    It leads to this interesting situations where top leader can claim complete ignorance and the mission was completed.

    Look up the big brain little brain stuff.

    • @MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network
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      157 months ago

      That’s standard in Western militaries. It means units aren’t paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.

    • @BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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      57 months ago

      I’m interested to know what country you come from where this isn’t standard? Do you find that that lack of flexibility is culturally just in the military there or present in your countries government and corporate cultures as well?

      • @MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network
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        It’s been well reported on that Russia doesn’t work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.

  • @SecretSauces@lemmy.world
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    207 months ago

    I am firmly of the opinion that there is SOMETHING Israel has over the US that is probably super classified and super damning. Why else would BOTH parties, in one of, if not THE most influencial voting season in our country, agree on supporting Israel?

    For how much the Republicans stand with Israel (and how many actually don’t care about genocide since pretty much every Neo-Nazi is Republican), it should be the BIGGEST soft-ball issue to run on for Dems to oppose, being the party of “the rights of the people”. But they have the presidency and continue supplying weapons to them for their war engine. No matter how many words are said, actions speak louder.

    • @Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      207 months ago

      They are the US intelligence operation in the middle east. They are an attack dog for the things the US finds important, meaning they agree with us on economic operations, and will go to war to protect it. Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. These are all just countries who are willing to actively work in the economic interests of the US as it benefits them. This allows the US access to their intel, to put military facilities in their countries, to use new weapons systems through their conflicts. They protect the standing of the petrodollar.

      The US doesn’t give a shit if a tiny, powerless, economically insignificant population, or a thousand, get wiped out. Preserving US domination is more important to the US government, and states like Israel will kill anyone in pursuit of that status quo. The only people they would need to have black mail on are government actors who aren’t willing to support them, there are not a majority of those, yet.

        • @Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, you have to have access to top secret documentation, and make that public, before you get in trouble with the government in the US, by talking about their actions. While a serious issue, it’s not very comparable to simply talking about something that happened, out in the open, that has video, and photo, evidence of it circulating all around the world, getting you in serious trouble with the government. We can even openly talk about what was on those documents, without being swept away by the federal government, now that it is public.

          This is just another person who has sided with one evil, and will always whataboutism for them.

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      You’re absolutely right.

      It’s religion. The Jews are in Israel. The Jews are the “chosen people”. Religion is retarded and it MAKES people retarded. That’s what they’ve got. Every American moron who is overtly Bible thumping or not is a vote in jeopardy if anybody says boo against Israel.

      Religion was great when it was driving human progress around AD 1000, now it’s a fucking anchor slowly drowning us all.

      Prayer does not empirically improve conditions of people who are sick. The most xtian countries in the world are the worst off by basically every metric. And yet, this brain cancer survives. Luckily we have flax_vert to convert us all or make us want to jump off our local bridge.

  • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1587 months ago

    “But we’ll still give him whatever he wants. That AIPAC there frightens me”

    • @normalexit@lemmy.world
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      AIPAC and Citizens United are actually frightening.

      https://abcnews.go.com/538/pro-israel-groups-spent-big-oust-squad-members/story?id=113675889

      https://apnews.com/article/cori-bush-aipac-house-race-missouri-568c1a84974b8ba176a8d27a8375de42

      They are able to change the outcome of races with seemingly unlimited money. A spend of 8.4 million in a Missouri primary is absurd, and likely is a drop in the bucket of what is spent influencing the presidential race.

      I don’t think there is a way to fix this either, since the people that should be writing laws to prevent it are the ones benefiting the most.

      I imagine this is also happening in Republican primaries, so one can’t just vote differently to address the root cause. Both republicans and Democrats seem to be tripping over each other to prove what a friend they are to Israel. It’s really weird and stressful to be a US citizen right now.

        • @normalexit@lemmy.world
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          187 months ago

          In a roundabout, totally legal way, yes they are. Technically it is a US organization that wants to strengthen US ties with Israel, so it’s totally not foreign influence /s

          • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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            17 months ago

            The last person to push AIPAC to be registered as a foriegn lobbyist group was Kennedy. He was murdered shortly afterwards. Unfortunate coincidence.

      • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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        167 months ago

        It’s really weird and stressful to be a US citizen right now.

        I can’t even begin to express how stressed I’ve been over this.

        Anyone that has the misfortune of recognizing they’ve been encountering my comments of pure exasperation lately will attest to that…

        I’m generally a pessimistic person, but I truly believe Trump is going to win this and the heritage foundation is going to be able to implement their plan to solidify control of the government.

          • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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            37 months ago

            Its pretty damn sad that we are being told to enthusiastically settle for the, “nothing will fundamentally change” candidate, in the face of obvious genocide and war crimes. But its hard to argue with the idea that a dem centrist beats a gop candidate. I wonder if that will ever change, or are we now permanently stuck voting for 5% better than fascism in every election.

          • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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            37 months ago

            We definitely need to keep hope, but unfortunately the way polls have worked out it’s like +4 is actually -2 when the real results come in.

            There was an article I read the other day about polling accuracy and they essentially said even just one week out polls are generally only 60% accurate. While I’d love to believe that gives more room for Harris, I think the more realistic scenario is that people are ashamed to admit they’re voting for Trump so he’s just showing lower support in polling than really exists. :(

      • @sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
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        77 months ago

        I hope someday Americans realize that its not scary muslims that are America’s enemy, its the zionists, and it always has been since partition.

        • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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          I mean that’s simply because Muslims don’t have an effect on America’s policies or population for the most part. Any Abrahamic religion is problematic.

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        I remember an Malaysian ex-Prime Minister was denounced by George W. Bush for saying that the Jews are ruling the world by proxy. Saying it’s the Jews is definitely extreme, but with these organizations and what we’re seeing playing out politically, it’s hard to say there’s no truth in what that PM said.

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            I agree with that, and I don’t think what I said alleges that all Jews are Zionists. Mahatir is labelled an antisemite and openly critical of Israel. He claims to have Jewish friends however. Now I don’t agree with this old fart on a lot of things, and I definitely condemn the fact that he’s using the word “Jews” when criticizing Israel and Zionism. But when you have wealthy Jewish organizations actively lobbying for Zionism in one if not the most powerful nation on Earth to continue facilitating the horrors that we see playing out in the Middle East with no intention or desire of stopping, even when their own people are dying in the process, I find it hard to disagree that these Zionsists aren’t in control of the world to some extent.

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        This is very important info.

        I find here on Lemmy folks don’t often consider these types of second order consequences.

        It’s very ugly but it has to be considered.

        • @Paddzr@lemmy.world
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          -67 months ago

          Lemmy? Pick any platform. It’s full of “experts” shouting into the void for years now. It’s sickening how these people have the same rights to vote. (/A obviously)

          Your common folk knows Jack shit about their own politics and even less so about global ones. It’s good to hold people accountable but this? This is just madness. There is zero nuance and only goes from one extreme to other. Yes we all want zero civilian deaths, full tolerance, equal rights and for police to be better. But are there any real solutions out here? Ofc not. Just another cave dweller parroting same arguments they read somewhere. Critical thinking is a thing of the past. And it’s sad as I haven’t got an answer either.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      Literally…

      This comment didn’t happen yesterday, it was months ago. And Biden still hasn’t changed.

      And it still hasn’t stopped Bibi from pushing for trump

      There is literally no benefit for loyalty to a facist government, the second you’re not 100% with them you’re 100% against them. It’s the same way trump acts