this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
381 points (95.0% liked)

World News

47524 readers
2435 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Sanctioning Israel if they dropped a nuke on Iran? Absolutely. I'm not even a democrat but you are living in another world if you think they wouldn't. What realm of insanity are you living in.

Post a nuke being dropped Iran only gains sympathy for standing up for the Palestinians.

Democrat Congress members are idiots who were way behind on what their constituents wanted and had money funneled to them. But there is no way they would be able to support Israel after that and ever be elected again

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They wouldn't even stop supporting Israel when they started committing a modern holocaust, let alone actually sanctioning them.

They were also perfectly happy to support Israel even if it stopped them getting elected.

If Israel nuked Iran, the Democrats would do some performative brow furrowing, call for Israel to show restraint, and send them another billion dollars

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you look at that chart, it even shows partly why. Sympathy for Palestinians didn't hit above 50% of the democratic party till 2024/2025. Which means those members elected were elected in a time of less than 50% support for Palestinians. Also sanctions as being discussed are made by Congress which has not had a Democrat majority since 2009. So there is not way they could have passed any sanctions the Republicans didn't negotiate to agree with. (Which those charts show less than 20% of Republicans having sympathy towards Palestinians at all times since 2001). So it would be career suicide for a Republican to vote for such, as their constituents don't want it.

If it were voted on again now, we would likely see 100% Republican Congress support for Israel and 40% support from Democrat Congress support, which is rediculous... But fairly accurate of how that graph would indicate.

[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, you're just going to keep moving goalposts rather than admit you're wrong.

You did it once and I gave you a pass, but twice is inexcusable.

I'm going to ignore you now. Goodbye.