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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25627002

By Yasmine El-Sabawi in Washington
Published date: 5 February 2025 02:09 GMT

"On Tuesday, at a stunning joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump announced the US will be taking over and running Gaza, potentially for the foreseeable future.

“Everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent,” Trump told reporters after a three-hour meeting with Netanyahu. "

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[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 64 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

the geniuses who said "im not voting for Harris because of Palestine" must be feeling really smart right now

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

They still blame it on Biden and Harris.
One argument I see a lot is that it's somehow Kamala's fault by not trying hard enough to win their votes.

[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They will tell you that this result was inevitable and to look at the positive side of things (what ever this may be). Which is easy to do or say since they are not Palestinians

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Which means their protest votes were meaningless. So it's a weird excuse that they're making.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, their protest votes were not meaningless

They actively put trump in the whitehouse.

The American electoral system gives a voter the choice of potentially improving things (Dem) or actively making things worse (Rep). Given FPTP and the heavy use of propaganda, all other options (spoiling, abstaining, third party voting) equate to a republican vote, there is no other reality.

If an American did not vote Democrat in the election that just passed, they voted for complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the gutting of human rights in the USA—they didn't even try to hide what they were going to do this time. There is zero excuse.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Sorry, to clarify, I mean they were meaningless in terms of doing anything about stopping any genocide.

And now we can add more genocide in the U.S. to what is going on in Palestine.

[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

Well in some twisted way. They might get a free out of open air jail card and start a new life somewhere else. So it was beneficiary for them after all.

Well, those who were payed to got their pay and don't care, and those dumb enough to fall for their logic and regurgitate it will just pick up on whatever The Next Big argument being regurgitated is. Something something this only server to support my argument something something was needed to show how flawed the system was something something.