• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    that tweet from aoc makes it clear that she values the lives of isrealis over gazans since she ignores the facts that 1) these weapons are going to the idf who doesn’t make a distinction between defensive and offensive where gazans are concerned and 2) the idf had re-appropriated weaponry from one use to the other.

    also: nice deflection in ignoring her vote on the definition of antisemitism w a tweet showing a half truth.

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      2 hours ago

      Do you actually know what the iron dome is? Hint: it’s not a weapon.

      Coincidentally, given that you’re ignoring everything else about the proposal redirecting funding, and especially the dark money that’s also funding the person that created the proposal, do you know who just happens to be in the process of building a competitor to the iron dome? And who also would be receiving that redirected money through the government contracts one of his companies has with U.S. immigration customs enforcement? The same company that is providing Israel with the AI being used to carry out genocide.

      And yeah I do think it was a shitty thing for AOC to vote in favor of a definition that gives Israel too much protection, but it’s more than a bit of a stretch to call that greenlighting genocide, especially given what you’re criticizing her for not supporting.

      Pointing out the truth behind her not voting to stop funding going into the iron dome, given that the funding would be directed back to Palantir isn’t a deflection. It’s just the reality of what’s beneath the surface of the bullshit that you’re apparently falling for.

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        59 minutes ago

        the weapons that were earmarked for the iron dome were used against the gazans and the iranians. it doesn’t matter what their stated purpose is like it doesn’t matter if you give full or partial political cover for genociders like aoc is doing; you’re still helping genociders.

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          38 minutes ago

          The iron dome is a fucking dome that keeps weapons fired from outside of Israel from entering Israel.

          It really doesn’t matter how you try to rationalize it. The funding would have gone back into the company that has enabled genocide to happen.

          You’re supporting something that was meant to redirect money to Peter Thiel, but disguised as somehow being helpful for Palestine because it was taking money from the Israeli defense shield that Peter Thiel is in the process of copying.

          It’s a fucking scheme. More money for Thiel/Palantir means more money for the campaign contributions and/or the investments of the hypocrites in congress (MTG, Massie, Kahnna, probably many more) that do his bidding by peddling this bullshit. AOC may be guilty of indirectly helping Israel avoid deserved criticism, but every time you fall for this dumb shit you’re being sold, you’re directly helping Peter Theil continue to enable the fucking genocide to happen. And since he continues to be so successful, it’s not stopping with Israel and Gaza. It’s spreading around the fucking globe like a disease. Congratulations 👏

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            1 minute ago

            i agree that the money is either going back; one way or another; to either the military industrial complex or silicon valley and aoc is guilty of more than indirectly helping isreal avoid criticism.

            also: it is indeed spreading throughout the world and people like aoc are helping to make it happen under some (hopefully misguided) attempts to help genociders & capitalists do it.

            two things can be true at the same time.