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Senate:

Unanimous Support

House:

207 Republicans and 202 Democrats voted Yea

2 Republicans voted No, 0 Democrats

11 from both parties abstained

• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h104

WTF happened to resisting Trump's fascist agenda? This is blatant controlled opposition

Biden gave zero genuine pressure to end the genocide. Instead of implementing a weapons embargo, he sent tens of billions worth of weapons used to prolong the genocide.

One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

From the MEMO article:

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support: “God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.” His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

Even the proposal to ethnically cleanse the entire population of Gaza, or 'empty Gaza of palesinians,' by removing them to neighboring countries, was first proposed by the Biden admin behind closed doors

The diplomat said Egypt rejected similar proposals from the Biden administration and European countries early in the war, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. The earlier proposals were broached privately, while Trump announced his plan at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-egypt-trump-displacement-bc1c43f80655190824a5de4eb1d310cc

History & influence of the Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025

The Liberalism to Fascism Pipeline (Neoliberalism Explained)

Economic Update: Fascism

Why Trump is a fascist and a brief history of fascism

Good thing I'm posting direct evidence, not opinions.

And yeah, no shit. Biden is a committed Christian Zionist.

It's ridiculous. The sources directly address what they claim, yet instead of actually reading them, they just complain and deflect. It's so clear they don't actually give a shit about the humanity of the situation, it's just team sports.

When someone takes the time to show me with sources that I've been misinformed on a subject, I take a serious look into the material. I look for other sources to cross reference. If it holds up to scrutiny, I change my opinion, even if it's just nuance. There's no shame in changing one's mind in light of new evidence, everyone is susceptible to misinformation. Choosing to be willfully ignorant on the other hand, is just sad

So sorry sources offend you

/s

Yeah, I have sources from articles, documentaries, books by historians, and more. I back up my arguments. The hasbara doesn't change, it's the same shitty arguments that weaponize ignorance every damn time.

I've had plenty of actual discourse. There are plenty of trolls I don't bother with when they ignore the source material. For those that are genuinely inquisitive and interested in learn more, I have no issue going into more detail.

It's been going on far longer than just the first Trump admin. Each administration has set the stage for the next to continue enabling the Zionist project, some more than others but all nonetheless.

Why America Supports Israel Part 1, Part 2

He didn't, see the first link after the spoiler that has detailed accounts by human rights organizations and genocide scholars on how it has been an ongoing genocide well under Biden's term. Optics is not action.

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support: “God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.” His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

• https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250429-biden-never-pressured-israel-for-ceasefire-as-israeli-officials-boast-of-exploiting-us-support/

One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

Here Are 34 Polls That Show A Ceasefire & Weapons Embargo Help Kamala Win

Kamala Would Have Won With A Weapons Embargo

Let's not pretend that Trump's plan to forcibly remove all Palestinians from Gaza isn't a revival of the same plan put forth by Biden behind closed doors.

The diplomat said Egypt rejected similar proposals from the Biden administration and European countries early in the war, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. The earlier proposals were broached privately, while Trump announced his plan at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-egypt-trump-displacement-bc1c43f80655190824a5de4eb1d310cc

The only obligation the US has, under the Leahy Law and International Law, is to cease weapons transfers to Israel for violating human rights and perpetrating crimes against humanity.

Biden is a self proclaimed Zionist, he absolutely supported this genocide, both materially, diplomatically, and ideologically.

• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/

That's the problem when they focus on the aesthetics and 'optics' over the truth.

The evidence is overwhelming and has been for well over a year, from reports by international human rights organizations to polls on support for the weapon embargo

https://blowback.show/ also provides all the sources used, can be found on any podcast service. It's done by two great journalists and they also interview people who have direct experience with the conflict, such as independent journalists who were on-the-ground

Anarcho-capitalism is such an oxymoron too, capitalism is inherently an unjust hierarchy

Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid. This is alsonin the context of Israel assassinating and imprisoning more moderate leadership of Palestinians, intentionally leaving only hardliners so they can justify to the western world their ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.

Hamas 1988 Charter and Revised 2017 Charter

The 1988 Charter, which is certainly unreasonable in its fundamentalism with Sharia Law and is antisemitic, does not call for the extermination of all Jewish People nor all Israelis. Hamas wants an end to Israel as an Apartheid State, not an extermination of all Israelis. Under Ahmed Yassin in the 1990's, truces were offered in exchange for Israeli to withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank to the 1967 borders. The 2017 Revised charter explicitly accepts a Two-State Solution of the 1967 Borders. Check Article 7 and 13 of the 1988 Charter to see yourself, compare it to Article 20 and 24-26 in the revised charter.

The slogan From the River to the Sea is about Palestinian liberation that started in the 60s by the PLO for a democratic secular state, not Genocide. The Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad in 1966 maybe, but he's not Palestinian.

History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012

Fathi Hamad's comments were indeed antisemitic and an incitement to genocide. Which he also walked back and was condemned, not supported, by Palestinians and Hamas.

Hamas had a whole conference about what they would do after their victory against Israel.

Hama's is differentiating between Zionist settlers, who are a threat, and Jewish people who want to live in peace, who of course aren't a threat. 16 is certainly not acceptable. While the sentiment for wanting reparations for the decades of destruction by Zionism's settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide is completely understandable, that's of course the wrong way to go about it.

Nor would Hamas have the final say for what to do once the apartheid is dismantled. They've already agreed to become part of a unitary government that includes all factions that represent Palestinians.

You're also using MEMRI, which is owned and run by Israeli ex-intelligence.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), officially the Middle East Media and Research Institute, is an American non-profit press monitoring organization co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997.

Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature, aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes. It has also been accused of selectively focusing on the views of Islamic extremists while de-emphasizing or ignoring mainstream opinions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

how would you describe Rogan's behaviour and the fact that this particular act had zero impact on Rogan's popularity?

It's absolutely concerning. Rogan, aware or not, is promoting fasist propaganda and revisionism.

The alt-right influence online has played, and continues to, normalize this kind of fascism for many people in the US. The systematic erosion of the education system in America, not just higher but all the way to elementary, has played a major role in this. Not for Joe, that may be the WWE lol, but certainly for the audience. The atomization of people also play a big role IMO. People have far fewer friends and groups IRL nowadays. I think that is absolutely making parasocial relationships, like with podcasters (or any other online personality) far more common than it would be otherwise.

I would always defend the US as a force for good in the democratic world (albeit a very flawed one) and highlight that compared to other major powers (russia, china), the US has been involved in a very good outcomes (post WW2 Germany/Japan, Polands and the Baltic nations after the breakup of the USSR).

As an American who used to think that until I learned about the unabridged history of US domestic and foreign policy, the US has absolutely not been a force for good. In many, many cases, far from it.

Knowing Better has many well made videos on the domestic side, including company towns, neoslavery, and the Indian removal.

The US Doesn't Meddle in Foreign Affairs

America's worldwide empire is made up of military bases, & how it became that way

Every Place America Has Bombed (and why)

United States involvement in regime change

In addition to the history of propping up fascist dictators for the benefit of US corporate business, the US has also backed and materially support multiple genocides

East Timor, Korea, Bangladesh, and Indonesia are the ones I know of. In addition to, of course, the ongoing genocide of Palestine.

There is of course also the war crimes the US has committed against the populations of Afghanistan, Cuba, Korea, Iraq, and Cambodia. Among many others

But Rogan's behaviour is an example of degeneracy. True degeneracy. Not degenerate as a random insult or say the term "degenerate gambler", but the actual term like in the dictionary. A regressive, undesirable behaviour that is an affront to the development of human society. And this is perhaps the largest media personality in the US.

This has nothing to do with degeneracy. Outside of STEM, this term has no real use. 'Social Degeneracy' goes back to scientific racism and eugenics and has been used historically to dehumanize.

Rogan, and practically every other alt-right podcaster, are reactionary and conservative. They are pro capitalism. Even when they acknowledge the material harms that people face, since they can't rightfully recognize that capitalist exploitation is the root cause, they instead scapegoat minority groups such as immigrants, lgbt+, and pro-palestinian protesters.

Israel is the one preventing the hostages from returning, and a permanent ceasefire to take place.

Adi Callai has written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

There's always been much more support for mass legalization over mass deportation. Too bad no one ran on that.

The more people see the brutal, inhumane, and violent reality of deportation, the more support for this shit will drop

Reminder that Douglas Murray is a committed conservative who is very supportive of fascism, as long as it has the 'right' victims. So much so that he's gotten an award by Isaac Herzog in 2024.

Murray has been a supporter of Israel's military response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas. He spent around 6 months in Israel, visiting Gaza twice, and writing in defense of Israel's actions.

Murray said "conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition." and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop." Murray's former coworker at the Centre for Social Cohesion, James Brandon, interpreted this speech as calling for the collective punishment of Muslims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Murray_%28author%29

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The destruction of Israel is routinely demanded, which would mean death and displacement for half the world’s Jews.

This is not true. Zero of the resistance groups, Hamas or otherwise, have ever had the goal of eradicating all Israelis. They are anti-colonialst resistance movements fighting for their humanity and sovereignty, not genocidal movements like Zionism. They exist due to Israel's unbelievably violent ethnic cleansing of local populations, which are justified and celebrated by Israelis because of the ethnosupremacy baked into Zionism.

The destruction of Israel means the end of Israel as a Settler Colonialist Ethnostate, of the Occupation, of the Apartheid, of the Genocide. It means the creation of a new State where Palestinians have equal rights to Israelis. Palestinians are not inherently primitive and antisemitic, which is the underlying sentiment baked into that idea equating the two. Zionism is an inherently Supremacist ideology and dehumanizes Palestinians in order to justify the Ethnic Cleansing and Settler Colonialism.

That entire argument is based on a false premise and is completely at odds with the history as I pointed out earlier. It ignores the reality of Partition, the nakba, sabra and shatila, the deliberate plans of ethnic cleansing and settlements, the creation of the PLO, Hamas, and other resistance groups as a reaction to the fascist violence of Zionism, the apartheid, and the details of the peace process including the Oslo Accords where Israel has wielded to continue ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism for decades.