Hundreds of Protesters Crash Biden Fundraiser in San Francisco, Demanding a Cease-Fire in Gaza
Hundreds of Protesters Crash Biden Fundraiser in SF, Demanding a Cease-Fire in Gaza | KQED
They know that Trump is Bibi's best friend, right? And electing him will triple-down on the genocide?
They know that, right?
Right, so Biden should get no criticism for supporting genocide because the other guy does it more? Seems democrats can get away with anything by simply not being trump.
they're not saying they would vote for trump, either
that sounds like a good reason to continue petitioning biden. what's the problem
They know that, right?
They're mostly the tiktok generation who can barely read. Critical and logical thinking are pipe dreams.
Gonna be a hard life for them.
All these mental idiots in this thread equating criticism of Biden to supporting Trump are the reason why nothing ever changes.
Bet you its the same people who voted for Biden in the primaries instead of a real leftist/progressive like Bernie Sanders.
If Imran Khan sitting in jail sending messages to his voters via a fake AI version of himself can garner enough votes to defeat the militarily backed opposition in Pakistan, there is no excuse for why democrats can't be at least forced to listen to their constituency instead of running yet another corporate shill and then crying when they lose elections again because said corporate shill actively funded a genocide
Wow get a load of these Trumpist chuds.
How?
In what kind of way is trying to get a president to change his mind on helping to destroy Gaza and its people anything like bringing in a bunch of Young Republicans to stop counting legitimate votes in order to steal an election?
Like, even just on vibes alone.. how?
according to democrats...
if you didn't vote for Joe biden, you were a trumper
you were supposed to hold your nose and vote, then pressure him on policy.
but not now, I guess. wait until he's out of office?
By making it clear that if the Democrats support Genocide they will not get voted for.
You can blame the DNC for this. Stop blaming the victims
"It's a false flag by antifa and the feds" vibe.
He's been trying since the start.
Biden also emphasized his view that "a military operation in Rafah just really cannot proceed without a credible and implementable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than 1 million people that are now sheltering there," the official said, adding that they simply had "nowhere to go."
Biden and his team have also been irritated by Netanyahu’s public rejections of a two-state solution, long a lynchpin of American policy in the region.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/politics/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza/index.html
The Biden administration has placed a particular premium on Israel reducing the number of civilian casualties in its military operations. The U.S. urging seemed to have some effect in recent days, as Israel began to withdraw some troops from northern Gaza and moved to a less-intensive campaign of airstrikes.
Israel has been not just uncooperative, but also openly hostile toward some smaller American requests, such as when Blinken pressed Israel to turn over the tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, which Israel has refused to do.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-netanyahu-israel-palestinians-gaza-fe150c19cdcc4737f4a9e22a695490ed
He circumvented congress to sell Netanyahu weapons to be used for genocide, but trust us, he's slightly miffed.
Biden knows he has the power to stop this. He stopped Netanyahu'a bombing in 2021 with one phone call.
If he isn't getting it stopped it's because he doesn't want it stopped. And that's without even getting into the fact that he's still sending them bombs. You'd think that would be the first thing to stop.
Netty is an authoritarian so he knows squeezing bidens balls on this is a "victory" for himself regardless if Gaza is decimated
Here's my take that no one asked for.
Most of these people do not know about the horrors going on in places like Yemen or Myanmar. And if you tell them about them, they don't suddenly feel a need to rush out and start pressuring others for a cease fire.
To me, this means that most don't personally care about what's going on in Palestine, they've just been told what to feel by social media which has filtered all Israel/Palestine information through a megaphone. These people flitter between one cause after another, never forming their own opinions or taking the time to view things objectively. They just wait for what the internet tells them they should feel and act on it.
Yeah, that's an incredibly shitty and nihilistic take. People only have so much bandwidth, so while yes, there does seem to be public responses to what's based on the news, people are at least having the right reactions to it. Would you rather no one say anything? What would that say about our society and culture as a whole if they were okay with blatant genocide when it was broadcast in front of him?
And here's the thing, we don't really have any ties to Yemen, or Myanmar, but we DO have direct ties to Israel. In fact, if it weren't for the US involvement and the alliance with Israel, they never would have been as advanced and powerful as they are now. The US President has a direct influence to what is going on in Gaza, and if he wished it, he could have immediately put a stop to it. But he didn't. He is putting pressure on them now at least to start minimizing the civilian casualties, but it never would have happened if it wasn't for people protesting like this. These people are some of THE ONLY ONES that are out there and making a direct change, and your minimalizing their efforts and success.
I find it incredibly ironic how you try to paint these people as being ignorant, when you yourself have shown just how ignorant and unabashedly jaded you are at people's attempts to help.
that's a lot of assumptions about what these people are thinking
Lmao the left has been trying to get the government to stop helping the Saudis in Yemen for a decade. And Myanmar was literally headline news.
Do you know about what's going on in Sudan right now?
Ethiopia?
Somalia?
Sri Lanka?
Tao Tao?
The Sahel?
Haiti?
Mozambique?
Democratic Republic of Congo?
Mexico?
Pakistan?
Chad?
If we have to tackle every conflict every time we want to denounce one actor in one conflict; we're going to be here a long time.
Most of these people do not know about the horrors going on in places like Yemen or Myanmar. And if you tell them about them, they don't suddenly feel a need to rush out and start pressuring others for a cease fire.
Countries around the world erupted in protests against Israel and in celebration of the attacks on Oct 7th before Israel even responded.
The answer is quite simple, they hate Jews. The reason those other issues don't elicit a reaponse boils down to no Jews no news
You sure you weren't being racist and promoting israel's Genocide?
Yes, get the orange man elected instead. I'm fairly certain a core platform of the GOP is to stop brown people dying and to stop selling military hardware.
Good old Kremlin propaganda. How is it genocide joe??? Sounds like kgb talking points.
Hello Sen. McCarthy. How's hell this time of the year?
I wouldn't be surprised. But damn does he have to open himself up to criticism like this during an election year? And to defend (checks notes) the world's most obvious induced famine genocide since the Holodomor?
What is his upside here?
Democrats should not be supporting genocide.
They're absolutely right to be upset, and your dismissal of them is both disgusting and completely unsurprising.
How does this always turn into what will Trump or Biden do next year about the Gaza genocide? Forget the election, Biden is president now, people are protesting what he is doing now, there likely wont be a Gaza by the start of the next presidential term. They've been pushed from the north into the southernmost region, and that region is currently being bombed.
Sounds like you'd rather lose to fascists than compromise with leftists and progressives.
Neoliberalism will always rather lose to fascism than compromise with leftism. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
Are you sure you're not going to vote for Trump? People like you have such a strong urge to defend genocide that I'm certain you'd fit in very well with that crowd.
Maybe we should be doing something about the whole genocide thing if we really don't want a fascist to take power in the US. Maybe the blame should be placed on those enabling genocide instead of the people that are protesting against it.
Did they threaten to vote for Trump
Trump's name is not mentioned once in the story, something you might have learned if you had bothered to actually read it.
Edit: Apparently the downvoters haven't bothered either.
San Franciscan here. Trump also pulls protest crowds when people find out that he’s in the area to get money from the tech billionaires. That said, I don’t think he’s been here for quite a while.
The amount of propaganda absorbtion it takes to reflexively 'but Trump' when people are protesting genocide is enough that if you lived in Russia theres a good chance you'd be pro Putin.
Yeah. The idea that the government listens to the citizens is completely unamerican. They should just shut up and vote blue no matter who.
They should just shut up and vote blue no matter who.
...and if they don't, then they support Russia. /s
Okay, Boomer.
Old yet gold
Direct action is super based.