Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts.

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
    2811·
    8 months ago

    If people took half of the energy they spend shaming people for not adhering to the two-party system and turned it to pressuring Biden to be a better candidate he’d have switched positions by now

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      36·
      8 months ago

      biden has been a zionist for probably longer than you’ve been alive

      you’re not going to push him left. ever.

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      285·
      8 months ago

      I doubt it. Biden doesn’t give a hoot about what his voting base thinks or wants because they’re going to mindlessly vote for him no matter how many genocides he does

      • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        Disagree, if the centrists, liberals, and Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd worked him over half as hard at they work over us there’d be no reason not to give in.

        • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Except for the main reason of “all of Biden’s donors would leave him.” Neoliberal democracy has nothing to do with voters, it has everything to do with fundraisers. If Biden loses his fundraisers to someone else, the voters will follow, because that money will buy the propaganda to move them. This is how neoliberal democracy works. To think otherwise is idealist; it has never worked that way and it never will work that way under the current system.

          • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            A chunk of the funders hedge their bets though, right?

            And what organization that has spent potentially MILLIONS of dollars at this point is just going to walk away from their investment instead of allowing their pet capital critter a bit of slack on the leash to give some crumbs to the unwashed masses to quiet us down?

    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
      211·
      8 months ago

      But how do you pressure him into being a better candidate when the only threat you have against him, i.e. voting him out, is held hostage by the fact that if you do vote him out an even more extreme radical will get in power?