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IDK "majority." I think there is a certain population that likes the Democrats and also likes Israel; I just think they get their news from TV or newspapers which give them a terribly slanted perspective. I so think that in addition to them, that somewhere in the 71% of people who oppose Biden's support for Israel that you'll probably find quite a few Democratic primary voters (and that almost everyone you'll find on Lemmy has learned enough about Israel at this point that they know what a crime it is to support them.)
180,000 people were on the streets immediately when the war started, people have burned themselves to death in protest, Democratic congressional staffers say the phones don't stop ringing at any point during the day, 100,000 people in Michigan alone voted "uncommitted" in the primary... and you're confused about the lack of outrage?
Just sort of assuming for no reason that there's zero overlap between anyone who voted for Biden and anyone in that grouping, and then angrily asking the question, WHY IS THERE NO OVERLAP WHY DON'T THEY CARE?
I don't know what I'm expecting I guess. I'm so angry with Biden but at the end of the day I already knew he's not really trying to support me. Sure he'll throw my demographic a bone here and there to get some easy votes but that's about it. My anger is purely that a politician I never wanted is doing something awful that I don't support. That's a regular experience.
I'm trying to imagine what it's like to be very much against shipping weapons to Israel and have voted for the guy in the primaries who went around congress to ship weapons to Israel. I'd be asking myself questions like "Did I vote for someone who supports genocide when there were better options?" and "Is our democracy even functional?" Of course I can't know with absolute certainty what someone is or isn't asking themselves in their heads. But I would suspect those kinds of questions would elicit strong words or actions.
And also granted, there have been a lot of both. But I gotta be honest, the people I'm seeing on television do not look like the demographics who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries. Do they to you?
As a complete aside:
Then what the fuck are you so mad at me for? That sounds pretty close to the speculation I shared with you and set you off.
I don't understand why you decided to be such a dick in this conversation.
I'm not angry at you or anything like that. I'm being super hostile partly just because I can be a dick in general, but also because it seems like you're being dishonest. If I've read it wrong then I apologize, but the type of thing you're saying just doesn't make sense to me.
It's just not that complex. I'll speak for myself: I didn't vote for Biden in the primary. I sort of expected him to be the exact type of establishment criminal that his background as a rich white guy who's worked in Washington all his life would suggest. Then he started doing good things for the working class and on climate change and I was surprised about it and for the first time decided he might be a good thing (instead of just not the end of the world like Trump would be). Then he started being okay with Israel slaughtering brown people and I stopped supporting him nearly as wholeheartedly -- like yes, he's returning to type as a war criminal like most US leaders; it's still better to vote for him instead of Trump, but also we should be working to build organizations that can replace him with something much much better. I don't think he started the war in Gaza, but he's certainly not doing the Palestinians any favors by enabling Netanyahu to do more or less whatever he wants.
I don't get where you arrived at this burning desire to decide that there are American Democrats who want to see Palestinians getting slaughtered in the streets by the thousands. I think population A hates it and opposes Biden on it, to this on-the-news-all-the-time-because-the-campus-or-the-person-is-on-fire extent, because he's enabling it. (While, maybe, still acknowledging that he's 10 times better than Trump by any standard.) I think another population B gets their news from establishment sources that don't really tell them that that's happening, that tell them that Israel is defending themselves from a terrorist attack and fighting a conventional war against armed opponents. I don't think that's what's happening, but I think they think that's what's happening, because the news is lying to them. And so they're okay with it. I don't think there's some population C that is both Democratic voters and understands what's going on and wants Israel to be doing what they're doing.
That's it. It's not complicated. It's not like some thing where you have to move the goalposts around in this convoluted manner to construct a person who voted for Biden in the primary because they want to murder Palestinians and they had a premonition that Hamas would attack Israel and Netanyahu would decide to start murdering the whole country and Biden loves all of that happening and so that's why they voted for Biden. The whole thing is cockamamie.
If I've misunderstood anything about what you're claiming happened then feel free to enlighten me. But you kept saying that people on Lemmy are okay with killing Palestinians, which I absolutely know isn't true, and the whole thing about the primary that you're saying now instead, makes so little sense that it's hard for me to take it seriously as a thing you actually believe. Sorry. If I'm a dick to you (which, maybe I shouldn't be), that is why.
Okay let me be absolutely clear here, I know full well that Lemmy and even Reddit leans farther left. I'm not gonna argue with you that I gave you that impression. I'm just going to say here and now, I don't think the majority of Lemmy are in support of sending weapons to Israel. Hell I can hardly find anyone who admits to voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 primaries on here.
There are some and I set about finding those examples and even shared a few with you. If they exist here of all places then I speculate (I'm not trying to make some scientific claim here) there are a good number of them.
Dude why are you so hell bent on the 2020 primaries?
Yeah probably so, I can agree with that. Looks to me like about 38% of Democrats support Israel more than Palestine. To me it's absolutely crazy that it's that high, but I think (for no particular reason) that that's a product of how bad the news coverage is, and how much it goes out of its way to present the situation with this criminally pro-Israel spin.
I think if they fully understood the situation they'd be on Team Palestine and the big changes lately have been mostly due to them understanding it more and more, as the "war" continues and what's happening gets more and more obvious and harder to justify, so there's this new narrative being presented that wasn't in the mainstream news before. But I have no real reason for thinking that, it's just my guesswork about what's going on. It'd be interesting to find a poll that was analyzing how people understand the situation and what they think is going on, not just asking about the final bottom-line answer they're coming up with.
Why aren't you? Would you like to be able to vote for a better candidate than Biden in the presidential general election? I would. That requires examining what happened in the primaries to figure out what can be changed.
What a fascinatingly straightforward, natural, and organic train of logic.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
I am.
I had just reached the conclusion that maybe it was hasty to decide you're a troll. IDK, it's hard to tell these things over the internet.
Deciding whether or not to vote for Joe Biden should be based on analyzing what he's done in the time he's in office. Going back 4 years before he was in power, trying to get in the heads of the people that were voting for him even though there's no possible way to do that, and then trying to draw a conclusion from that that would inform in any way the decision about what to do in this general election, is totally bizarre bordering on unhinged. I think you are doing it on purpose to distract from the straight concept of "what will Biden probably do, what will Trump probably do, and which one do I want" (the answer to which is pretty clear after like 5-10 seconds of thought... which is why I suspect you're trying so hard not to analyze in those terms, because to you the "right answer" is not-Biden.)
Hope you're being paid well, at least. It can't be a super fun job.
Dude what the fuck is wrong with you? Do you have brain damage? You completely misunderstood my comment, assumed the worst and went right back to accusing me of being a troll.
Your reading comprehension is absolute trash and which would be fine except you have zero self awareness of it and just talk trash immediately.
Be better. But in the mean time go fuck yourself. Jesus Christ what a miserable person you are.
Yeah, I sure jumped to conclusions here. I didn't even talk to you at length and hear you out and explain what I was thinking, or give you a chance to respond. Must just suck as a person, I guess.