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Project 2025 laid it all out in black and white. I do not understand all these fuckers whining about getting what they voted for.
Well, to be kinder to them; their options were watch their family die, or a final hail Mary and maybe Trump can do something. He did seem to be pretty against the wars in the middle east, according to media. Which I know was deception. So, I dont fault them. I fault Harris for not just saying, "Yes. I will end Israel funding and end the war in Gaza." She could have just done that and swept the win. But dems wanted to play party politics.
So, the people who are waking up every day to find a new family member dead, should not be faulted. The party that abandoned them should.
And lastly, put yourself in their shoes. You have two candidates. One says that what Israel is doing isn't great, but isn't bad and we should just keep rocking on. The other guy is the devil, but he's saying that he'll save your family. It's hard to think when you're in those situations.
Like most things, life is hard. It's gray and nuanced and contradictory at times. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. We have no real control over elections anyway, because not enough people vote. Better to just read on the porch with a cup of coffee and watch the bombs drop wondering when it'll end.
In his first term, Trump moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognized it as captial of Israel, with a lot of issues. Whoever thougt that he would be better for Gaza than Harris lied to themselves
Trumps friendship with Bibi is well documented
You’re getting downvoted but I don’t think you’re wrong so I’ll take some of your downvotes.
I’m not from the Middle East, but I have a close friend who is and has family in Lebanon. His experience has been what you’ve described.
Here’s an alternative perspective on that alternative perspective.
Their Hail Mary as you described it relied on a known factor of persecution of immigrants of all types, the LGBTQ+ community, the entirety of anyone who is (or is perceived to be) a “leftist”, and women as a whole.
So, they were willing to sell out all those people to be thrown in known horrors that were only going to ratchet up even further for their Hail Mary.
Sure it’s a Sophie’s Choice situation maybe I guess but also. Fuck em.
They gambled with the future of so many people. Including their own.
Don’t worry I still blame the base of American voters who we all know are the ride or die’s for this bullshit but there’s enough blame to go around to look at those margins that pushed it past the tipping point.
Yeah, I “get it”.
But, as someone who’s in a few of those above categories it’s not something I’ll soon be forgiving nor forgetting.
So, you're angry at them for being willing to throw the people who were willing to throw them under the bus under the bus?