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  • Biden did not bypass Congress in the sense that Congress would have in any way blocked it, just slightly increased the speed that it happened. What was sold in that deal (anti tank missiles) are not being used in Palestine but are a deterrent for Israel against Iran escalating due to isreals deplorable genocide. The headlines make it seem like anti personal weapons to be used in their genocide but that's not what those are but no one ever thinks about any nuance at all or (gasp) reads the articles.

  • It's further ahead in the US but coming elsewhere. Even in parliamentary countries fascism is coming back although since they are not first past the post not as pronounced. As long as the internet is around and there's no repurcissions for belonging to those groups they will be around.

  • We did but facism will never go away. Before they slunk away but now fascists can connect with each other online. Instead of it being a few people that happen to meet up and connect now they can seek each other out. It's the same reason that racism has made such a dramatic resurgence. It will literally require eternal vigilance.

  • If the US completely cut off aid to Israel it would make 0 difference. We should cut them off foreign aid since they don't need it, as they are definitely a rich country, but they have tons of money and even if they didn't the current leadership in Israel would spend whatever they had. I don't think that anything short of a hostile invasion will get Israel to stop but I'd love to be wrong.

    With that being said Congress - not the president - allocates this money. Look at how many votes Bernie's bill to attempt to put restrictions on that aid got, neither party is going to do more than agitate people online about it.

  • I don't think that's true, there's plenty of disagreement over Biden policies. It's when people try to play the both sides card, lumping Biden and Trump as both being senile or blaming the situation in Palestine on Biden that gets people riled up especially when people try to use those arguments to convince people to not vote.

  • I think that it is more informative to look at statewide elections instead of assembly. Gerrymandering depressed turnout and in some heavily gerrymandered districts Republicans were running unnopossed. Looking at statewide elections instead with the new maps democrats will get 46% of seats with roughly 50% of the vote.

  • They have constantly capitulated to extremists in their party. If even a single Republican wants to shut something down now they do since...reasons? Appearance of party unity means more than anything to them.