Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza.

Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.

  • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    1 day ago

    Huh, from my perspective, I’m anti-genocide and anti-fascism. On the other hand, you opted to support a platform of “allow the state of America to worsen and deepen further into the pit of authoritarianism so that people die and eventually revolt”, which is de facto supporting genocide and fascism.

    I guess we both think that the ends justify the means. The difference is that my means is… voting for the least bad candidate so the least amount of people are harmed… and yours is… not voting so the maximum amount of people are harmed.

    Cope :)

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      You supported a pro-genocide candidate, and through some extraordinary mental gymnastics you think that makes you anti genocide.

      If you didn’t demand the candidate change their policy in genocide, you are neither anti genocide or supportive of the candidate, since there was no way for the candidate to win supporting a genocide. They had to change their policy to win the election.

      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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        24 hours ago

        I’ll remind you that your plan was to intentionally allow as much harm as possible.

        Actually, now that I think about it, whenever your plan leads to something, that isn’t just allowing and condoning… yeah man, you intentionally CAUSED as much harm as possible. Alex Pretti. Renée Good. Blood directly on your hands. :)

        Edit: more names whose deaths you directly caused by not voting, encouraging not voting, not primarying, etc Tens of thousands of Palestinians Unnamed Honduran Man Felix Bauckholt Rubin Ray Martinez Elena Catarina Morales-Chan Enrique Juan Tizol Macario (14 years old) Unnamed man near San Diego Unnamed man near Rio Grande City James Alanis Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez Unnamed Equadorian woman Unnamed Mexican man Silverio Villegas González Yahir David Martinez Axel Everado Iquic-Sequen Manuel Mateo Lopez Jose Castro-Rivera Bartolo Baltazar Baltazar Epifanio Molina Bravo

        Bask in the direct consequences of your inaction.