Itās still a stupid idea. Taking the runoff from a mountain and pumping it thousands of miles is more expensive than getting water from natural aquifers locally. Heck, even building a local desalination plant and turning saltwater from the cityās coast is cheaper than this giant pipeline idea. Thereās a reason NYC doesnāt need to build a pipe all the way from Niagara Falls.
Trump on Saturday argued it was ātoo lateā to have another presidential debate because Americans have begun casting their ballots in the 2024 election.
He has no clue when the election is and is looking for an excuse to say no. Iām sure a staffer told him this idea.
Is the DNC actually trying to woo Stein voters? They could shift swing states into Blue States, but for some reason they think bashing her will get her voters?
Has the DNC learned nothing from 2016?
Not everyone who opposes Bidenās policies on Gaza is a Russian plant. We know third parties are not viable, but we also want to pressure Democrats. This isnāt hard, and you thinking this is all Russian conspiracy and that you wanna curse out your political allies is a Feinstein-level of out-of-touch rambling. Peace.
All that talk and you still missed the point. Youāre trying to tell me that a liberal version of Genocide is somehow better than a Republican version of genocide and that I should try to enthusiastically make one happen.
Why do you think itās so hard for others to pull the lever for Harris despite that? Harris is part of an administration that helped kill family members of my neighbors. If you canāt see why this makes it hard, I canāt help you.
āA philosophy problem that has existed for thousands of years can be easily solved by me!ā
That tells me all I need to know about you.
Exactly. We know how bad Trump is, but Biden in his disastrous āhug Netanyahuā policy went out of his way to not just ignore pro-Palestinian voices but actively insult them. He said āI have zero trust of Palestiniansā and publicly supported the invasion of Al Shifa hospital despite the ridiculous and debunked claim that there was a 3 story underground Hamas base beneath it. He overrode his advisors and removed pro-Palestine language in all his October and November speeches. He met with Israeli victims but never met a single Palestinian one and even had his tour bus detour around towns in Michigan that had too many Arab-Americans. He claimed he was looking for peace but vetoed ceasefire attempts and bashed Palestinians in general. (He later privately told people he meant to bash Hamas and shouldnāt have use the words interchangeably, but never apologized).
Itās one thing to hold your nose and vote for Biden, but itās quite another to vote for him when heās so unapologetically anti-Palestinian. And his attempt to get Arab-Americans to vote for him when he helped kill their relatives is to ignore them and say āTrump would be worse.ā Thatās not a winning strategy and he wants to claim he both needs our votes to win but also that we arenāt politically relevant.
I hope Biden retires in shame and that Harris does better. She already had been meeting with Palestinian-American families when Biden refused to be seen with one.
So youāre saying I should still vote for infanticide? I donāt want that kind of blood on my hands. Thatās the issue in the Trolley Problem.
Nobody is claiming that and youāre attacking a strawman.
The problem is we donāt want to reward politicians for their bad behavior ābecause Trump is worseā or get blood on our own hands by voting for someone who will continue the same deadly failed policies. Have you ever heard of the Trolley Problem? Itās not as straightforward as you think.
Yes you can cherry pick examples of punctuated conflict incidents over thousands of years in any community but youāre still misrepresenting it; there was no state of war and the communities got along for thousands of years. They both saw themselves as the same community. Even your own links demonstrate this; youāre pointing to the equivalent of hate crimes and ignoring the fact that both Jews and Arabs were citizens and worked together. Like I said, go and ask historians because they would also tell you that youāre wrong.
Arabs have been attacking Jewish people for literally thousands of years in that region.
False and propaganda. The reality is that Arabs and Jews coexisted in Jerusalem for thousands of years, its only recently within the last century that there was any great animosity. The āGolden Age of Judaismā happened under Arab rule, as they were protected and flourished compared to being driven out of the rest of Europe during their dark ages. Thatās where scholars like Maimonides came from.
Iām not going to waste time debunking every facet of your false narrative. If you genuinely want to learn about it ask any history professor; because youāre telling solely the Zionist narrative despite its historical inaccuracies.
And there you go, going back to the mindless false narrative.
Israel went to war against neighboring countries because those countries were upset by the active ethnic cleansing that Israel was engaging in. Ever heard of Deir Yassin massacre and Ben Gurionās orders to the military to evict all Arabs from the cities? And yet Israel still takes their frustrations over the war out on Palestinians who didnāt take part in it.
Your clinging to false ahistorical narratives in no way helps your argument. Like I said, youāre hopeless since you canāt seem to learn from history and instead look for excuses.
This fight wasnāt inevitable, the Israeli extremists made it happen; killing Rabin and rejecting multiple peace deals for the last 30 years. Netanyahu and Likud wanted this fight.
No, and youāre making a helluva lot of assumptions.
Roughly 1/3 of the deaths on October 7 were of soldiers. Many of the rest were friendly fire. Israel claims that such a ratio of civilian deaths is āacceptableā in wartime. The Israeli government frequently claims that there are no civilians in Gaza, and many Palestinians say the same about Israelis. Whatās galling is that Israelis have been pushing these excuses for violence for years and are outraged that theyāre now being used against them.
If you canāt see the parallels then youāre hopeless. For the record, itās unacceptable that either side is doing this.
The October 7th attack was seen as a retaliation for a wave of settler attacks all summer on multiple Palestinian towns and the invasion of Al Aqsa. It doesnāt necessarily mean support for Hamas. Same way Israelis may support bombing Gaza but not necessarily supporting Netanyahu.
Oh, thatās fair game according to him? I have a good story! It involves a couch.
Thatās not necessarily love for Palestinians, itās more like anger against the Israeli far right.
How is he still nearly tied with all of his idiocy on display?
Itās merely a necessity if we are to save any of the Palestinian people.
History is littered with people who made that claim. There were Jews who thought that cooperating with Nazis would save some of their community. Black Americans who thought that working with Jim Crow politicians would make a net benefit. Itās wrong, youāre wrong, and Palestinians will tell you theyāve tried this and failed. Abbas offered to go to war against Hamas and did so, in the hopes that Israel would advance his two state solution. They abandoned him and all Palestinians are worse off for the attempt.
Itās the faucet he read about on truth social, which means itās real. There was even a picture of the faucet, and we all know those canāt be faked. /s