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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Trump reversed Biden's economic sanctions on Israeli occupiers in illegal settlement.

Trump reversed Biden's withholding of shipments of 2000 lb bombs.

Trump is now saying instead of a 2 state solution that all Palestinians should be forcibly removed from Gaza, and that the US should own it.

Trump is further declining to assert that no US troops would be involved in the forcible removal of Palestinians from their land.

In what fucking lunatic universe is any of this better for Palestinians?

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

It's two states, but boy, we didn't expect the US to be one of them!

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

the universe where they're not being genocided by people who keep saying that they wish they could stop arming the genocide but won't because of the feels.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Notice how you only care about symbolic gestures and rhetoric, rather than things that actually matter like number of dead and displaced.

It's a good reminder that BlueMAGA liberals don't actually think of Palestine as a real place or Palestinians as real people. You care more about what your politicians say about it than what they do.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No I care that Trump is giving Israel more weapons, more money, open approval for genocide, and now floating US troops doing the genocide directly instead of humanitarian aid and logistics. But you haven't let reality influence so far so I don't expect it to now either.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

No I care that Trump is giving Israel more weapons, more money, open approval for genocide,

Nah, no you don't, as evidenced by the fact that you don't care about the people actually being killed. You only care about the symbolic factor.

floating US troops doing the genocide directly instead of humanitarian aid and logistics.

Yeah, exactly: you care more about what your politicians say than what they do.

But you haven’t let reality influence so far so I don’t expect it to now either.

This is very rich coming from someone who thinks a politicians rhetoric is more real than the actual facts on the ground in Gaza.