A previous poster has blamed Bernie and AOC for not stopping the genocide in Palestine. They both speak out and vote regularly against it and any aid to Netenyahu, but they are 1 in a body with 99 (Bernie) and 434 (AOC) other people.
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Lol picking the right person doesn't do anything if the system is broken. Principles, on the other hand, are something I can support. Actions tell me who has which principles. Standing up for Palestine against the entire gov is a great indicator of the principles that matter to me.
I'm talking about stopping the wrong person. Vote for the people who do that. Protest those who don't. Again, support protest EVERYWHERE, including at those rallies. But I think the person who can act unilaterally and wants to turn Gaza into a resort for billionaires may be a more important target.
There's nothing you or I can do about trump. What we can do is influence the platform of a party by putting our concerns at the forefront. All of us are, in fact, more important than any individual, and there is a collective morality we all contribute to with our actions or inactions.
They are in agreement with the people, and going against what the institution wants, by voting against the majority. Unfortunately, until we vote in enough people to make them the majority, there are limits to what any one person in congress can do.
If you are talking about at that rally? That was wrong. Protesters should be allowed to protest. That's not the limit, I disagree with both the police and Sanders on that topic.
Again, on the positive side. What would your ideal congressperson do on the floor of the Congress? But there's only one.
It's not about an ideal congress person. We need to find people who can respond to the real pain that people are feeling, in a timely manner, not just when it's convenient. The other side will ride every little fake outrage all the way to the top, but we can't even organize around a genocide...
We can't organize around economic issues that directly threaten personal survival, because some are willing to 'suffer' for some perceived gain. We can't organize around 'sending citizens to torture detention centers you want built in other countries is wrong'. The US has a fundamental brokenness.
He is the head of Israel. Not everyone in Israel may be involved or in agreement. Same as Trump and the US. Do you think that everyone in the US should be considered complicit in what Trump does?
You should really go take a look at israeli society. You are downplaying the genocide by saying it's all netenyahu. Yes, trump is a symptom of deeper societal problems, there's no single individual we can just blame. Do you want it to be simply one person's fault?
This is like saying, we needed to cite all the Germans in Nazi Germany before dealing with what Germany was DOING. We need to stop what is being done. THEN we can work on proper assignment of blame for how it got there.
Again, you can disagree with what happened at the rally. (Not a dude, btw.) But at least equal, if not more, energy toward those who are funding the genocide.
Oh, Netenyahu got in with a lot of support. But what we want to change? That's his own actions. (With that support, but still, he's the one DOING it.) Complicity in genocide and warcrimes for the public can be sorted out once it has been STOPPED, and that can be done by one person.
Complicity in a genocide can actually be stopped even sooner. You just see a genocide and keep calling it out for what it is. Boom, not complicit anymore.
Those who agree with you are. There's more than not being complicit. Calling it out doesn't STOP it. We need to get people in, and support those who are, who will work toward stopping it. And stopping the guy who wants to kill/deport everyone in Gaza and turn it into Vegas.
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Again, on the positive side. What would your ideal congressperson do on the floor of the Congress? But there's only one.