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§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago

For the First Time Ever There Will be a Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel

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For the First Time Ever There Will be a Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel

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§ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months ago
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Bernie Sanders on Face the Nation, Feb. 19, 2023. Screenshot. By Michael Arria / Mondoweiss Last week Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he had introduced legislation to block a $20 billi…
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    I hope you’re prepared for a lot of “abstain” votes.

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      I’d say fence-sitting this vote is even more an indictment than just a “No” vote personally; it doesn’t take a MENSA candidate to tell whether or not funding a genocidal morass of settlers is morally correct

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        Yeah, saying ‘no comment’ to stopping a thing we’re already doing is just adding a meaningless word after the ‘no’

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      Still tells me everything I need to know. Silence is violence

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        Thats a bit dramatic, its more like silence is complacency in congress

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      Abstaining is pro genocide imo

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      That is a perfectly clear message for me actually.

      It’s about opposing genocide or not. “Do nothing knowing that will cause the genocide to continue” is close enough to “continue the genocide” for me.

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