Jack Mirkinson: I wrote about one of the most infuriating subplots of the Biden crisis: the insistence that he is a "good man." Please look at the genocide in Gaza and then try to tell me that. www.discourseblog.com/p/please-don...

I wrote about one of the most infuriating subplots of the Biden crisis: the insistence that he is a "good man." Please look at the genocide in Gaza and then try to tell me that. www.discourseblog.com/p/please-don...

Please Don't Try to Tell Me Joe Biden Is a Good Manwww.discourseblog.com It is simply not true.

Not a good man, never ever was one.

he was, and probably still is, a segregationist.

All anti abortion folks are

Ah yes, the quest for absolute goodness. The 2016 Purity Tests are back, baby!

There's going to be a lot of disappointed bots, burners and anonymous accounts on this reply feed once they find out about all of the U.S. President's since... *checks notes* 1948

Why 1948, Jason?

Establishment of the State of Israel.

okay? and the US is obligated to support them no matter what?

Holding this administration singularly responsible while disregarding every previous administration actions (or inactions) all through the lens of an absolute "good" op-ed piece is being intellectually dishonest at best or willfully ignorant of Israeli/Palestinian conflict before October 2023.

I'd cut Carter some slack. But, yes, our foreign policy has generally sucked that long. And why is that? Because American voters punish any kind of more considerate or peaceful approach to foreign policy. As do the media. They just want bad guys to bomb.

I think this is a fair and reasonable assessment.

opposing a genocide is a low bar

it's really telling how so many liberals think opposing genocide is a radical moral position that is just a bridge too far for a reasonable person.

It’s really telling the a right-wing genocide is only being used as political cudgel against the left and center. Did you know Netanyahu is not a liberal?

why is the supposedly liberal candidate supported the right-wing genocide, Thomas?

also, if Trump is pro-Netanyahu, why would the most pro genocidal Zionists (who in the US are mostly Christian) vote for Biden's half measures?

but Biden supposedly is

Tommy really thought he was cooking with that "heh, you know Netanyahu isn't a liberal 😏" line

BECAUSE THE CENTRIST/LIBERAL PRESIDENT IS SUPPORTING IT, IT'S LIKE GIVING MONEY TO THE DAILY STORMER AND SAYING "I'm not a Nazi, I just like independent press"

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jason just fyi you're not doing particularly well at being a good/better person

wait, he was trying?

Not wanting 186,000 people to be blown to smithereens, buried under rubble or burned with white phosphorus is the absolute bare minimum of decency. As far from a purity test as you can get.

You're acting like people are mad at him for shaking hands with Ronald Reagan 40 years ago, instead of for giving weapons to fascists murdering entire families right now today

On top of the genocide, I'm also mad about the crime bill, Iraq, Afghanistan, his covid response, his treatment of Cuba, Roe, his love of racists and Republicans, and the worst part: the hypocrisy

There's a lot not to like! But I think regardless of any good or bad past acts, currently enabling genocide jumps out as unacceptable

Ya, I don't know how that's not a red line for people. Ofc they do mental gymnastics to deny a genocide is even happening, but still...

Take 186,000 more purity tests

What exactly are you calling purity here? Do you have any idea how many millions of people Biden has helped murder during his career. Liberals love using body counts to frame leaders as evil, unless it's the guy currently committing genocide who is literally being abused by his family.

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You say that like not supporting genocide is an impossibly high bar. I dunno about you, I do it every day, before I even have coffee. Hell, I could do it standing on my head.

After Bernie scared the pants off his fellow candidates, they all dropped out, endorsed Biden, and then everyone from media to man on the street was saying that Biden was a good man.

He is a good man for many reasons, and supporting Israel's self-defense is one of them. Reasonable people know that self-defense is not genocide. Independent investigators have discredited Hamas' inflated civilian casualty count and reports of famine. Why don't you move on to agegate, already?

Gaza estimates from Lancet: "indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate 186 000 or more" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

Correct, he is not a good man. That has been evident for decades.

Yay moral purity tests in a presidential election, those are always honest and in good faith!

what's the test?

Wait, did moral purity tests go from, he's a bit iffy on certain things to, well, if you don't except genocide, I'm not sure there'll be any candidate good enough.

this is what lesser evil voting inevitably leads to

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I think you’re referencing a broader truth, which is that the job of the US president is to negotiate who dies to pay for US institutional policy, so it’s hard to characterize any president as a good man. But the phrase is not meant to be absolute, it’s meant in the tactical context of his opponent.

He was the Senator from Citibank and that's never changed.

It's a sickness. They are truly in a cult.

Some sanity in all this, thanks.

There is no genocide. Look up the definition. Read the International Law definition. There is no intent to eradicate. Further, Joe is not doing it in any case. He could discard our strategic relationship with Israel. They would continue the atrocities regardless and we would be hurt. Joe is a fine

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