I don't know how to convey that the president of the United States is not going to formally endorse the right to break the law in the name of a good cause & *you do not want a president who endorses lawbreaking*
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There is in fact a candidate running in part on “breaking the law in the name of a cause I support is good”, which may factor into some of the tacit support he’s getting here
You *absolutely* want one that endorses proportionality though. And one that treats bloodshed—foreign and domestic—with appropriate gravity... How’s he doing on those?
That’s true, but Gaza is where civilians are being killed most rapidly at this time, with complicity of funds & weapons by the USA. The President, with a stoke of a pen, can do a lot more than he currently is to make abundantly clear how unacceptable the IDFs violence toward Gazan civilians is.
Yeah, the phrase that everyone quotes is great, but it was the opening sentence, “There is only conservatism” that really grabbed my attention. That, in combination with the bind and protect stuff crystallized for me in moments how I’ve felt for decades but couldn’t express succinctly.
I do think my liberalism is what Wilhoit imagines an alternative to conservatism could be, but I also think my liberalism is poorly represented in even our best & most liberal governments
as with the broader Gaza issue, while we’d like him to be on the right side, the actual standard we’re holding him to is that he not go out of his way to support and enable the wrong side, and he hasn’t met it
nobody ever expected Biden and Pelosi to chant “from the river to the sea.” they did expect them not to smear those who called for a ceasefire in late October agents of Hamas and Russia. That wasn’t an unreasonable ask
The president is currently breaking the law but you don't care about that. You just want to attack the left because you are upset that they have convictions.
If you think this is an attack on the left you have badly misread me. My point is that the left should not hope for the well-wishes of the president when doing direct action that breaks the law. That does not in the least mean the left should not be doing direct action or should not break the law
would add that the protests on college campuses are not the main event, which you would not know from looking at either the times’ or the post’s homepages today. the war is not being conducted for the purpose of protests.
Not only are they happening in America, the most important & special country, but they can be covered without expense by walking down the street (which makes the *lack* of coverage for CUNY feel more objectionable, somehow)
All he has to do is say "everybody settle down and cut the malarkey" and college administrators would get the message to de-escalate. Instead they get the opposite message.
That's the core issue: it's not about student protests, it's not about police violence, it's that until the war ends, people are going to stay outraged.
Biden has helped devise a ceasefire, but Hamas hasn't agreed to it, & Netanyahu swears he won't agree to it. We should act accordingly.
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Democrats united to fight the guy who would, exponentially harder than they ever fought trump
I was asking him to protect the right of the people to peaceably assemble: a right flagrantly and illegally violated by police gangs.
The bare minimum is doing something to stop Israel
If he can’t be more forceful against genocide we are all fucked come election time
He will have no one to blame but himself
Biden has helped devise a ceasefire, but Hamas hasn't agreed to it, & Netanyahu swears he won't agree to it. We should act accordingly.
Biden needs to cut aid or sanction Israel and force their hand right now
at the very least make a strong statement about what Israel is doing being unacceptable and stop blocking international resolutions