Biden's Cruel & Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
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The speech that referred to Palestinian suffering was a journey into a universe of political guile from a president who had just approved sending $20 billion more weapons to Israel, writes Norman Solomon. By Norman Solomon Common Dreams An observation from George Orwell —

The speech that referred to Palestinian suffering was a journey into a universe of political guile from a president who had just approved sending $20 billion more weapons to Israel, writes Norman Solomon.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    4 months ago

    The left: Why won’t Biden call for a ceasefire??

    Biden: I call for a ceasefire

    The left: So cruel and Orwellian!!

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
      81·
      4 months ago

      The left is demanding a ceasefire and yes hope that it comes to pass but JFC the man armed Israel for 10 months of genocide so excuse me for still being pissed at the piece of shit.

      • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        4 months ago

        OK but if you’re going to be pissed at him after he calls for a ceasefire then why ask him to call for a ceasefire?

        • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
          33·
          4 months ago

          Because of fucking ethics. You’ve got to be a troll.

          I’m going to be pissed at a driver, known for hitting pedestrians, when he stops this one time because we yelled at him loud enough to hear. Seriously how callus are you? Fuck that guy.

          • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            4 months ago

            Would you also say that stopping this one time is “cruel” given his bad driving record? If it’s cruel, why did you yell for the driver to do it?

            If you want someone to call for a ceasefire, then it’s a good thing when they do it. Even when you don’t like the person who calls for it.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 months ago

    And so, working inside the paradigm that Orwell described, Biden exerts control over the present, strives to control narratives about the past, and seeks to make it all seem normal, prefiguring the future.

    this has been true for a while and there’s no clearer evidence than social media. biden has over 50+ well documented years of fucking over vulnerable people of all stripes that’s freely and easily available via a 30 second google search, but social media; reddit and lemmy.world in particular; see him as a “good guy” simply because trump is worse.

    he was literally too conservative to be voted for president when he tried in the 80’s and it never ceases to blow my mind that the overton window has shifted so far to the right that he’s now considered liberal despite never evolving on his politics.