post malone ergo propter malone: it really looked like we might have a shot at a non-Bibi Israel for most of Biden’s annihilation pre-10/7 and also post-10/7 for that matter

I think he’s done a really good job as President, far exceeding my expectations in progressive directions

I feel like the main political divide on this website is between “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him” and “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich against Donald Trump” very few people are actually huge fans of the guy

on domestic policy he’s been much much better than I expected but Gaza is a pretty overwhelming negative

I don’t think 10/7 was his fault and subsequent events are normally bad predicated on that rather than especially bad.

Gaza is bad but there was no scenario that starts with “Hamas comes over the border, murders a thousand people, and takes hundreds of hostages” that wasn’t going to be very bad.

I think his Israel/Palestine policy before 10/7 was a serious miscalculation that blew up in his face, but the alternative was a costly, tiresome fight with Netanyahu that would do little to prevent something like 10/7 from happening, & would have made him look like a jerk for antagonizing Israel

it really looked like we might have a shot at a non-Bibi Israel for most of Biden’s annihilation pre-10/7 and also post-10/7 for that matter

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