“I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza”
Uh, wtf is this title?
See also https://lemmy.ml/post/33371684 for context
Members of the SPD explain their reasons for voting for war credits, 1914, colorised
These posts really make the blueAnon contingent of Lemmy come out in full force.
Gaza is being starved to death and genocidal american supremacists think there is nuance
Title and text do not match.
They match fully.
The idea that defensive weapons don’t expand your ability to kill is so obviously false. It’s disrespectful to expect people not to realize that.
The world has understand MAD for almost a century. Someone who feels safe from reprisal is more likely to engage in violence. Someone who knows they could be harmed in a fight is less likely to start one.
Fuck AOC, she’s not stupid, she knows this. She just literally doesn’t care about Israel committing genocide. Nazi enabler.
Jacobin, 2021: As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”
A nuanced position aimed at reducing civilian casualties regardless of where they live and their ethnicity?
/s of course.
Seriously, tankies can fuck right off until they gain enough understanding about how the nuanced details of this impact how a defensive IADS system operates.
Do you support sending interceptors to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust so it can ward off those evil British bombs?
Wut
okay… so why not vote for the amendment to cut off Iron Dome? or is her “worry” that with Iron Dome cut off in the bill, more of the House will vote to continue the bill which still includes munitions flow - to which she is against?
i’m being very charitable to her, but that seems to be what she’s arguing?
My charitable take: Her worry is that in the event of Iron Dome funding being cut off, Israel would run a massive propaganda campaign blaming AOC specifically for every death in Israel.
However, If she truly believes what she says, I think she’s being very naive. The Iron Dome allows Israel to confidently bomb its neighbors without having to worry about consequences. No one is attacking Israel out of the blue (yes, that includes October 7th). Event the recent “war” with Iran was started by Israel.
The best defensive measures that Israel could take:
- Stop its apartheid and give every citizen equal rights
- Stop committing terror in the region (i.e. blowing up entire apartment buildings to kill one target, murdering all of the top scientists in a given country in their sleep, blowing up pagers of innocent doctors and surgeons in other countries, etc.)
- Surrender its current and former leadership to the ICC and allow them to face trial for their war crimes
Why would Israel only blame her specifically and not MTG and the others? Even as a charitable take it requires her to be some sort of lone warrior who is a bit unwilling to become a political martyr and yet this couldn’t be further from reality.
If anything wouldn’t that also be very good for her record e.g “Yes I single handendly voted against the genocide bill(s), yes I’m different, vote against me if you dare.” Isn’t that the whole point? Nah the point here is her complete cowardice to take an independent or even anti-dem stance.
Also goes without saying she continues to show lack of political instincts, now more than ever in July 2025 if you tell the average American “oh no the Iron Dome was cut off and some setter died” most people are likely to respond with “yeah, good. So anyway about [insert ICE or cost of living here issue here]”
She’s openly admitting she supports sending weapons to Israel so Israel can continue to commit genocide. Nothing less.
She’s openly admitting she supports sending weapons to Israel so Israel can continue to commit genocide
she voted no on the full bill which included that
I don’t see a problem here. She’s not gonna say that Israel should be eradicated. There is no mAsK oFf happening here; the position is “end war, everyone stay in their borders”.
Explain why Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib voted differently. What’s their position, do you think?
Congressional bills are never single-item so I dont know what’s in it that benefits AOC’s constituency. The tweet is about an amendment so I have to assume it isnt the Send Weapons To Israel Bill; but I’ll admit that I dont know what the rest of it is about.
This isn’t about the whole bill, she voted against a specific amendment to the bill that would remove military aid to Israel.
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How does that help end the war?
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Why did those other members of the Squad vote for the amendment?
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How does that help her constituents who now mostly oppose sending military aid to Israel?
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She is voting to send $500million in American taxpayer dollars for weapons to Israel
How do you figure this when everything in that tweet says the exact opposite? Do you have a record of her voting for it?
Do you seriously think none of the funding sent will be used to continue committing genocide?
Like the comment RIGHT ABOVE YOURS IS “see, when countries do a genocide, they split all their weapons into two big piles labeled “Genocide” and “Not genocide”. The latter pile is cool and we should still be adding to it but we just got to stop the genocide pile from getting bigger”
If this is your actual thought process you are the person that is talking about and you should seriously think really fucking hard about that.
Just to clarify: I despise all Abrahamic theocracies and firmly believe that Israel and the entire ME should be turned to glass to prove once and for all that their fucking god doesnt exist and that they should either become civilized humans or be slaughtered, Cuisinearted and used as fertilizer…so you’re not gonna browbeat me into submission on this.
There are multiple possibilities for her motivation but I don’t believe one of them is MASK OFF SURPRISE I AM A ZIONIST!!
I despise all Abrahamic theocracies and firmly believe that Israel and the entire ME should be turned to glass to prove once and for all that their fucking god doesnt exist
I despise you and would like you to be turned into glass and not exist you genocidal Nazi freak.
I fucking despise these types of people myself, they either want to turn my entire region to glass or subjugate us all. I hope he himself chokes on glass.
Edit: he got instance banned
Yeah I pinged the admins of their instance and said if they didn’t ban them I would make sure every instance I have any pull with would defederate them.
Jesus, real mask off hours.
No she admits that she voted to send weapons to Israel in this very tweet.
Vote is here.
“I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza”
lolwut?
Interesting debate in that thread
A lot of cope going on. Interesting too because most other platforms like Bluesky and Twitter fully realize what is going on and call AOC out.
I am not allowed on those platforms because I tell everyone to arm up against the goddamn Nazis
You just said you wanted to turn the ME into glass shut the fuck up you fucking Nazi piece of shit.
Twitter doesn’t really ban anyone for anything anymore these days. Bluesky is libbed up but even they know what’s up.
AOC is to the right of Marjorie on commiting genocide.
of course, they’re all equally genocidal and this was just MTG’s turn to pretend not to be.
Not only that but it sounds like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are both (strategically) agreeing on supporting MTG on the question of Palestinian genocide.
Strange bedfellows, as they say. I don’t blame them though.
“The iron dome is a defense system”
DEFENSE FROM WHO
She says the exact opposite in this very post.
No she pretends to say the exact opposite. My title is completely accurate.
“I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza”
lolwut?
see, when countries do a genocide, they split all their weapons into two big piles labeled “Genocide” and “Not genocide”. The latter pile is cool and we should still be adding to it but we just got to stop the genocide pile from getting bigger
To her (very small credit) at least she calls it genocide.
How long did it take her though?
It’s probably better to deny that Israel is committing genocide when she votes to send them weapons.
You don’t make tweets like this when you’re on the right aide of history.
