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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Wake up, dude. Young people are mad about your policy on Israel. It’s not gonna end.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

He doesn't care, he knows that we're left without another choice, and he's enjoying the AIPAC money too much

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He has been a Zionist for his entire life, I don't think he needs a bribe to make bad decisions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

He doesn't need one but I'm sure he appreciates it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but are those young people really going to go vote Trump? Unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's more likely that they don't vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's true. Then we risk the orange dictator winning the election and the end of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Biden should get to work in fulfilling his constituents demands, then.

You don’t get to use authoritarianism and then claim your opponent is the authoritarian. Terrible things are happening under Biden, but I should make the terrible things keep happening because if I don’t the terrible things will get worse? Americans are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Young people are divided on Israel/Gaza.

Asked whether or not they sympathize with various groups involved in the war, we found that majorities of young Americans hold sympathy for the Israeli (52% sympathize) and the Palestinian people (56% sympathize), while they have far less sympathy for their governments (29% sympathize with the Israeli government; 32% with the Palestinian government). Seventeen percent (17%) expressed sympathy toward Hamas; for those who were presented with the information in a split sample that Hamas was an Islamist militant group, sympathy dipped to 13%.

When young Americans are asked whether or not they believe Israel's response so far to the October 7 attack by Hamas has been justified, a plurality indicates that they don't know (45%). About a fifth (21%) report that Israel's response was justified with 32% believing it was not justified.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@Truth_Hurts

An apparent bug in my instance prevents me from seeing some comments, but I saw yours via the "context" button on replies. Fuck your hive mind shit. Children are being murdered. That has nothing to do with anything other than children being murdered. Suck my ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's the second icon beneath a comment if you look at your replies (on my instance, but I think the layout is standardized). I need it for about half of replies to make sense. Looks like this (for my instance):

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don’t have that on voyager but it sounds good to have

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if your intention was to prove their point, but you did.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The point is that some young people are mad about Biden's policy, some likely support it, but the biggest group isn't even paying attention.

Politically, that's grounds for maintaining the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’d be careful with relying on poll cross tabs on issues of morality. The sample size is usually too small to tell right from wrong.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure, but if Biden is guided by his moral code instead of politics then he has even less reason to care if young people are mad at him.