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'It is time for this war to end,' Harris tells Netanyahu; 'I will not be silent' on Palestinian suffering (www.cnbc.com)

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'It is time for this war to end,' Harris tells Netanyahu; 'I will not be silent' on Palestinian suffering

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This. I say this every time and somehow it doesn't help, nobody gets it. Politics, any politics, is walking tightropes. Even dictators have to walk certain tightropes to not get toppled within minutes. Democracies are so much worse (and thus better, in the end) when it comes to tightropes everywhere

[–] BlorpTheHagraven@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, this "tightrope walk" gives politicians a free pass to lie to voters about what they intend to do once they're in office? How is that fair? No one is able to make an informed decision that way.

How can deceiving citizens possibly improve the quality of leadership in any country, democratic or otherwise? It's called manipulation and that's what you do when you don't want the other party to have a choice in the matter. It's what you do when you want to seize control.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying that that's unfortunately how politics works