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Biden Moves to Lift Restrictions on ALL U.S. Weapons to Israel (www.kenklippenstein.com)

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Biden seeks to "allow for the transfer of all categories of defense articles," his request states

The White House has formally requested the removal of restrictions on all categories of weapons Israel is allowed to access from U.S. weapons stockpiles in the country, as I reported in detail for The Intercept today. So you know I’m not exaggerating, here’s a screenshot of the request:

The request would also remove nearly all other limits on Israel’s ability to access the U.S. weapons stockpiles — permanently —by doing the following:

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Might do that, but there is no fucking way I'm voting for Biden or Trump.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. I voted third party before Trump proved to be insane, and I'll do it again.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking either Mariann Williamson or West

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm the opposite, after reading a few profiles, I'm excited to see what Lars Mapstead has to say. He seems reasonably moderate compared to the rest running for the Libertarian nomination, so maybe he'd be okay. I hope Spike Cohen runs as well.

I'm also interested to see what Marianne Williamson has to say, but I'm not a fan of several of her proposals, though I like a number of them as well. I want to watch her debate so I can get a feel for which proposals she's going to base her campaign around.

I'm not a fan of Cornel West whatsoever, though I'll give him a chance to convince me. I think he'll just steal votes from the Dem nominee (he's running independent, no), which means Trump gets a better shot, but I guess we'll see if that's a thing.

All in all, I'm not liking this year's roundup. But as long as Trump loses, I'm happy.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How fucking dare you think and decide for yourself. The fucking herd is going to eat you alive. You HAVE to fall in line, shut up and vote for whatever democrat is the nominee, it doesn't matter if they're a terrible fucking candidate, they're not a Republican and that's all that matters, right?. They're going to downvote you to death not knowing that downvoting doesn't mean shit on Lemmy. Fucking good for you for having a god damn brain. I honestly have so much respect for people like you who are not sheep.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup, same happened on Reddit as well. It's like me not wanting to vote for the Democrat automatically means I like the Republican. That's stupid.

I really dislike both major parties, and the vote spread in my area is such that it really doesn't matter who I vote for, so I see no point in voting for a candidate I dislike. If Democrats want me to vote for them, they need to improve their policies. It's really that simple.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So who ate the soggy biscuit?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'm pretty sure votes are public, so you can always satisfy that curiosity.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The two of you are circlejerking so only you two know which one ate it.

How would public votes help?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you were talking about the people down voting our comments, which I thought were quite constructive. I didn't care about down votes on Reddit and I certainly don't care here, but it seems strange to only get down votes and pretty much nothing in the way of discussion.

I'm open to voting for good candidates regardless of party, and I thought I made that pretty clear. It's odd to me that's somehow an unpopular opinion.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You do you, I’m not doing this with you, buds.

You didn’t answer my question though.