• henchmannumber3@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      It was an amendment that was never going to pass, not a bill. It’s important to know and recognize the difference. An amendment is useless if it doesn’t get added to the bill and voting for or against an amendment is different than voting for or against the bill.

      It’s like arguing over what goes in a shopping cart at a store where you’re not going to buy anything anyway.

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          5 days ago

          You’re misusing the term straw man. A straw man is when you’re arguing against something someone else has not asserted, pretending that it’s actually what they said. You have actually said she has voted to fund genocide when she actually voted against said funding and spoken out directly against genocide. You have intentionally chosen to ignore her actual actions and her words that contradict the narrative you’re pushing. You are pushing a straw man, ironically enough.

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                5 days ago

                Providing any aid to Israel as they carry out a genocide with U.S. support is completely unacceptable. This is even more true of military aid of any kind. Any funds that go to Israel assist this brutal genocide. Any support for Israel legitimizes its eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people. The fact that Representative Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges that Israel is carrying out this genocide makes her support for military aid all the more disappointing and incongruous.