• oakey66@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This should have been the move on day 10 of the invasion. And a white house insisting on peace negotiations and the release of hostages on both sides. He would have instantly been viewed favorably on this issue and likely wouldn’t have tanked his polling.

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      8 months ago

      He would have instantly been viewed favorably on this issue and likely wouldn’t have tanked his polling.

      1. His polling didn’t tank in tandem with the Gaza genocide.

      2. Most Americans are either in support or ambivalent towards Israel in this conflict.

      3. Every poll I’ve seen asks the most important issue to voters, and it’s always the economy, with the Israel-Palestine conflict coming in near the bottom.

      Israel is committing a genocide, to be clear. The moral thing is to, at minimum, stop supporting their genocide. But that’s not the same as saying that the Palestinian genocide is what brought Biden’s poll numbers down, or that it’s a silver bullet (or even an unambiguous net gain) electorally speaking.

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            8 months ago

            I literally quoted your words right there: “Most Americans are either in support or ambivalent towards Israel in this conflict.” Solid attempt at moving the goalposts though.

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              8 months ago

              Do you… do you NOT know that 22% is less than 78%?

              Or do you think that “Biden is doing just the right amount of help towards Israel” means… support for Palestine?

              The 52-22 you cited was whether Israel’s conduct was too far, not whether they supported Israel or Israeli aid in the conflict - as the other charts clearly demonstrate. But uh, you have fun disproving yourself with your own source.

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                8 months ago

                You literally didn’t read anything I wrote. Your chart is for a different thing than you claimed. You claimed most Americans support or don’t care, I gave you two polls, one where that exact question was asked and it was just flat out untrue (which you ignored completely), and a second one to demonstrate that even in more favorable splits it was only true if you care what Republicans think. You apparently weren’t put off by a direct poll answering the direct question you asked and figured digging into a related question in the poll that at least gave you a shot at sticking to your wrong statement was a totally important thing to do.

                “Do you support the president’s actions” is different than “do you approve of Israel in the conflict” with a whole lot of partisan defaulting and nothing in your wrong statement was about the president or about aid, not to mention “not sure” being an entirely different thing than “I don’t care”. This follow up trying to pretend people who think Israel is “going to far” isn’t the same as not supporting Israel in the conflict is just pathetic. Just fucking accept you were wrong and move on with your life rather than dedicating yourself to these sad follow-ups.

                This could have been a one line “oh, I guess it’s changed from when I last looked”. Or even nothing at all.

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                  8 months ago

                  You have fun in the world where “Do you support Israel’s current offensive” is the same as “Do you support Israel” or “Do you support continued aid to Israel”

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                    8 months ago

                    Holy fuck man, that’s not what you said! I quoted the claim I was correcting, I was very specific, then requoted it so you’d recognize your own words. Jesus the forum brain.