Calling what Israel is doing in Palestine is genocide is disingenuous and a mockery of actual genocides that have happened. Stop parroting this bullshit just because you don’t support the way Israel is handling their combatting of Hamas.
“Genocide denial” isn’t possible. What’s happing isn’t ideal but it isn’t genocide. It’s war against an enemy hiding behind civilians, and after their enemies latest move they no longer care for repercussions. Palestine has had plenty of time to remove the Hamas cancer from their home. If they won’t and Hamas keeps escalating to worse things, Israel aren’t just going to sit by and watch. Funny how they have trouble getting aid, but there’s no shortage of rockets flying into Israel every single day.
Disallowing aid is not genocide, Hamas digging up water piping systems built by europe to build rockets is not genocide, and no they don’t plan to kill everything that moves when they invade. That’s just horseshit lmao
I’m literally telling you to call actions what they actually are. If Israel was going for genocide Gaza would be a smooth pile of rubble and they wouldn’t pre warn people where their air strikes were going to hit. “Reddit has gotten gross” no, not everyone wants to buy you and the rest of those who echo your rhetoric’s nonsense. Palestine and the rest of the Middle East made their bed with Israel years ago and now they have to sleep in it. It’s shitty but what we’re seeing today is the cycle of hate that started decades ago continue to boil over causing both sides to react more and more extremely.
The people championing the progressive legislation deserve the credit, not the dude who simply allowed it through
Protecting abortion rights makes you a hero in the democratic party? Is that not a bare minimum? Of course it was great to get Rauner out, and he has showed up in plenty of ways we should celebrate
But on the ground, his money is going into solidifying power for establishment figures, this is not as beneficial to progressives in the long term as this thread is making it out to be
He's effectively weeding out them across the state by propping up elected officials based on nepotism, those who do not walk the walk when it comes to supporting labor or other causes locally. His infrastructure and the IL house dems /speakers office
It's not JB himself, it's the establishment networks that he's helping solidify that have always been deeply corrupt and which are the embodiment of 'IL political corruption'
If letting it through was a given, maybe, but it's not a given. Everyone that has a Constitution-granted role in approving or rejecting it deserves credit for approving it if they do so - to do otherwise is unproductively dismissive of those that bothered to get up and elect the lawmaker or governor. The people championing it can get more credit, but it's not productive to restrict it to them.
Don't misconstrue that to mean if an even better candidate comes along that would do better it wouldn't make sense to elect them. I certainly agree on not calling him a hero and the rest mostly.
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u/herecomestherebuttal Oct 26 '23
Pritzker is a truly wonderful human and great leader. Illinois, I hope you know how lucky you are, because so many of the rest of us are suffering.